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2 • The Red and Black • Friday. May 25. 1990
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m UNIVERSITY
Measles cases climb to 43, 126 still need shots. The
number of measles cases at the University climbed to 43 Thursday as
University officials reported 99.5 percent compliance with the state
board of health’s mandatory vaccination order. Only 126 students and
employees still must report to Gilbert Health Center’s vaccination
clinic to receive an inoculation, prove immunity to the virus or receive
a medical or religious exemption from the vaccination. Health
Services Director Jacquelyn Kinder expects measles cases to continue
for about a week. Thursday’s cases push the two-week waiting period
for those who received exemptions to June 7.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Court upholds random drug testing.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the use of random
drug screening for state prison employees, saying the state’s interest
in maintaining security outweighed personal privacy rights.
However, the state’s highest appeals court also held that any such
policy must be set by the state Board of Corrections and not by an
individual warden. The state "has a compelling interest in ensuring
that all persons in the employ of prisons are of uncompromised
integrity,” the court said in a decision written by Chief Justice Harold
G. Clarke.
SAVANNAH (AP): Judge calls IRS search a ‘disgrace.’
U S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield sharply reprimanded Internal
Revenue Service agents for their conduct during a search, calling it
an “absolute disgrace” and an “unwarranted intrusion.” The search
May 10 at Stout’s Kwik Way lasted four to five hours. Edenfield had
authorized it after IRS agent Sharilyn Heyward told him the store’s
owner, Brenda Stout, was switching bank accounts in an effort to
conceal assets and avoid $10,940 owed in taxes. The judge, who later
voided the search warrant, said in court Wednesday that he may hold
Heyward in contempt of court for abusing his order. Testimony
showed Heyward, accompanied by six revenue agents, searched the
store and seized money belonging to an employee and money collected
from the sale of novelty clowns by a private citizen. Agents also seized
beer, emptied coins from game machines and a pool table, and
emptied the drawers of two cash registers, Edenfield said.
LEXINGTON (AP): Measles epidemic spreads.
Oglethorpe County’s 1,700 public school children are being required
to have inoculations after discovery of two suspected cases of red
measles. School Superintendent Thomas Harris said the two cases
were reported Wednesday, one at the county’s elementary school and
one at the middle school. The inoculation requirement will affect
students in the elementary, middle and high schools, Thomas said.
Thomas said health officials have given no indication that the two
local cases are related to a measles outbreak at the University of
Georgia, though Oglethorpe County borders on Clarke County.
ATLANTA (AP): Pro-choice league endorses Young.
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young won the endorsement
Thursday of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, a pro-choice
group, in his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Kerri
Milam, executive director of the 2,200-member group, said other
candidates with pro-choice views seemed to be late-comers to that
philosophy, while Young had a history of supporting abortion rights.
A prepared statement distributed during the event said that as
mayor, Young played a “critical role in ensuring safe access to health
clinics throughout Atlanta.”
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Iowa Investigation reopened. The
Navy on Thursday reopened its investigation into the battleship Iowa
^plosion and ordered a halt to the firing of 16-inch guns aboard all
Bttleships after the “unexplained ignition” of bags of powder during
testing. The testing was undertaken after last year’s explosion aboard
the Iowa, in which 47 sailors died. As a result of the new explosion —
in which no one was injured — Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett
III has ordered that the investigation into the Iowa explosion be
reopened, the Navy said. The Navy said the testing was related to the
April 19, 1989, explosion aboard the USS Iowa and was considered
“follow-up testing which the Navy has been doing periodically as new
theories were brought forward.”
WASHINGTON (AP): Bush vetos Amtrak subsidy.
President Bush on Thursday vetoed a bill authorizing $2 billion in
spending by Amtrak, complaining that its expansion of federal
regulation over railroad acquisitions “represents a step backward for
the entire rail industry.” Bush took issue with a provision that would
require the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve the
acquisition of railroads by non-railroad companies. “This requirement
is an unwarranted regulatory roadblock to the financial restructuring
of the railroad industry,” Bush told Congress in a veto message.
Amtrak spokesman Clifford Black said the veto would have no effect
on daily train operations because the railroad is working with money
that Congress already had appropriated for 1989-1992.
■ WORLD
M0NS, Belgium (AP): NATO relaxes ground forces.
Under a new plan to relax response times in war, NATO’s combat
planes will remain at full alert but some front-line troops will have
twice as long to react to an attack, the NATO military commander
said Thursday. U.S. Gen. John R. Galvin, the supreme allied
commander in Europe, said the response times of air and ground
forces in Western Europe could be eased even more with additional
cuts in Red Army troops in Eastern Europe. The Defense Department
attributed the action to the diminished military threat from the
Soviet-led Warsaw Pact and the increased warning time of a full-scale
Soviet attack.
TOKYO (AP): Japan apologizes for Korean occupation.
In Japan’s clearest effort to grapple with its militaristic past,
Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu on Thursday
acknowledged the suffering that Japanese colonial rule inflicted on
Koreans. The apology come 45 years after a defeated Japan
relinquished its control of the Korean peninsula. In a palace banquet
for visiting South Korean President Roh Tae-woo, Akihito went
beyond a previous imperial statement and said he felt the “deepest
regret” for the pain Japan’s colonial rule caused the Korean people.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• Europhoria, the European
student association, will meet
today at 5 p.m. at the Episcopal
Center, 980 S. Lumpkin Street.
The public is invited.
• The Public Relations Student
Society of America will meet
tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tate
Student Center in the Reception
Hall.
• The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People will meet Monday, May
28 at 7 p.m. at the Tate Student
Center in Room 137. Officer
elections will be held. The public
is invited.
Announcements
• Don Rubin and Kathryn
Greene of the University Speech
Communication Department will
speak today at 12:10 p.m. at the
Tate Student Center in Room
140. The topic is “Attitudes
Toward Changing 'Sexist’
Language.” The public is invited.
• UGAZINE is accepting
applications for fall quarter staff.
Applications are available at the
Magazine Club bulletin board on
the second floor of the journalism
building and are due Monday,
May 28.
• The History Department needs
guides for a tour of homes
Saturday, June 9 from 4 to 8 p.m.
For more information, call 542-
2053.
Items for VGA 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 are printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Six soloists play a variety of music
Univ. orchestra holds annual concerto
By STEPHANIE-4.EA SMITH
Staff Writer
Music swelled in the halls of the
fine arts building Thursday night
I as the University Symphony Or-
i chestra performed its annual con
certo.
Six music majors were selected
as soloists for the performance. Au
ditions were open to junior, senior
| and graduate music majors.
A variety of music and instru
ments were represented in the con-
! cert, orchestra conductor Thomas
Joiner said.
Each soloist performed a
movement of a concerto accompa
nied by the orchestra.
Two pianists, an oboist, clar
inetist, bassoonist and flutist were
selected to perform solo pieces.
Any instrumental or vocal major
can try out for the competition.
Winners can only play one year to
allow for others to participate, said
Sandra Wade, a junior music edu
cation mqjor and solo clarinetist in
the concert.
“It was a tough competition,”
said Joiner of the 30 students who
auditioned in the preliminary
stage of the selection process.
The heads of each area in perfor
mance, including strings, wood
wind and brass instruments,
formed the selection committee.
‘There are no quotas,” he said of
the selection committee’s choice of
instrumentalists.
The soloists selected their indi
vidual pieces. The program in
cluded diverse selections, including
those from the Baroque, Classical
and Romantic periods, Wade said.
Joiner said, ‘The soloists have
been working all year for this per
formance.”
However, the orchestra has only
been preparing for the last six
weeks for this particular concert,
and only rehearsed with the solo
ists three times.
The auditions were held at the
end of winter quarter.
Lynn Elliot, a junior music edu
cation major and solo pianist in the
concerto, said she selected her
music for the performance a long
time ago when she first played a
simplified version of Edvard
Grieg’s A-minor Concerto in
middle school.
T knew then I wanted to play it
again,” she said.
Wade said she selected her
music, a fast-paced movement
from Carl Maria von Weber’s clar
inet concerto, over last summer
and has been practicing it since fall
quarter.
Michael Norman, a junior music
therapy mtyor and solo bassonist,
said he’s been preparing since fall
quarter. He chose a contemporary
concerto because “the piece is fun
to play with the orchestra.”
‘This is a highlight of my music
career at Georgia,” he said.
The orchestra played two works
by itself.
Joiner said the final piece, ‘The
Pines of Rome” by Ottorino Res
pighi, was his personal selection
for the program.
Clarke Co. to honor its veterans today
The county will honor its war
veterans today with a downtown
parade and the dedication of the
Athens-Clarke County Area Vet
erans Memorial Plaza.
The memorial is located on
Washington Street next to the
Clarke County courthouse.
Designed by Brian Kent, a 1984
| graduate of the University’s School
of Envionmental Design, the struc-
Waddell
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
An Athens man who shot a Uni
versity student in the neck and
hand was sentenced Wednesday to
serve 15 years of a 20-year term in
state prison.
Felix Watson, 20, of 28 Broad
Acres, a public housing project on
West Broad Street, was found
guilty of aggravated assault in the
Feb. 5 shooting of Jeffery Davis, a
junior anthropology major.
Scott Berry, an investigator with
the Clarke County District Attor-
I ne/s office, said Watson will be
transferred to state prison as soon
as there is room. Berry currently is
in Clarke County Jail.
“It may take a long time,” he
i said. “There’s no telling.”
ture honors veterans of World War
I, World War II, and the Korean
and Vietnam Wars, said Charlie
Smith of the Athens Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Four black arches divide the me
morial into separate areas, each
one dedicated to veterans of one of
the wars, Lt. Phil Candreva of the
Navy Supply Corps School said.
Two gingko trees planted at one
On the night of the shooting,
Davis was driving to the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity house at 11 p.m.
with David Dullard, a history
major, in the passenger seat. The
incident occurred as they were
traveling east on Waddell Street
about 100 yards from the graduate
student parking lot at the corner of
Waddell Street and Florida
Avenue.
Davis had just turned onto Wad
dell Street from Newton Street and
was driving east toward Hull
Street when he observed three
people, two males and one female,
blocking his path.
Davis swerved to the left to
avoid the three people when
someone kicked the side of his car.
He said he normally would have
continued driving, but because he’d
end of the plaza are structured to
grow together to form a natural
arch that will be a dedication to
peace, Candreva said.
The parade starts at 3:30 p.m. at
the corner of Hancock and Foundry
streets. Grand marshalls will in
clude six local veterans, three from
World War I and one from each of
the other three wars. The Univer
sity Air Force and Army ROTC
programs will each march a group
just had work done on the car, he
backed up.
Davis said Watson was “ranting
and raving” as he pulled a small-
caliber pistol from his coat and
fired through an open window.
Dullard ducked, and Davis put up
a hand to shield himself.
The bullet went through Davis’
hand and grazed his neck and
shoulder, fracturing bones and sev
ering nerves in his hand.
Watson was arrested Feb. 13 by
Athens police and charged with ag
gravated assault. He was tried
Monday in Clarke County Superior
Court by Judge James Barrow.
The incident occurred between
the Parkview Homes housing pro
ject and the Athens Housing Au
thority office. Police have said
students shouldn’t worry about en-
in the parade.
Dedication ceremonies on the
steps of the courthouse will follow
the parade.
The memorial cost approxi
mately $240,000, Candreva said.
Private citizens contributed almost
half of the money. Clarke County
donated the rest of the funds and
the land for the memorial.
— Peggy McGoff
Felix Watson was
found guilty of
aggravated assault in
the Feb. 5 shooting of
Jeffery Davis, a Junior
anthropology major.
countering similar violent crimes
near Parkview Homes, which is
sandwiched between fraternity
houses and residence halls.
Neither Dullard nor Davis, who
isn’t enrolled at the University this
quarter, could be reached for com
ment.
Street gunman sentenced to 15 years in prison
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