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■ UNIVERSITY
Revised poll will survey faculty opinion of semesters.
As the debate over the University's conversion to a semester system
rages on, the American Association of University Professors will poll
the faculty on a newly revised outline of the proposed semester plan.
The survey is unlike a poll conducted earlier this quarter in that it
specifies the proposed plan is for a 14-week semester and calls for a
study of faculty workloads. Faculty workloads have been the center of
attention as polling and conversion discussions began early this year.
Ed Davis, a math education professor involved with conducting the
new survey, said the poll will be sent only to the approximate 1,150
faculty who receive 25 percent of their salaries from University
teaching budgets This excludes librarians, administrators and
student service personnel, who would be largely unaffected by a
conversion. The results will be available next week.
Fire Safety Director wins award for dramatic video.
University Fire Safety Director Frank Edwards received an award
from the National Safety Council for a 20-minute video he produced
to educate college students about fire safety in residence halls.
Edwards wrote the original script for the video, which was paid for by
a $20,000 grant and is now shown on 400 campuses in 47 states and
five Canadian provinces. The video dramatizes a fire in a residence
hall room, staged in a house used by the Clarke County Fire
Department for training, Edwards said. Students from the
University’s drama department acted in the video.
New Foreign Student Affairs president sets goals.
Richard Reiff University director of international services and
programs, was recently elected president of the National Association
for Foreign Student Affairs. ReifT said he wanted to increase
international exchange spending because the number of American
students that study abroad is very small compared to foreign
students that come here. Some of Reiffs goals for the association
include promoting study in third world countries and encouraging an
increase in the number of minority professionals in the field as well as
the number who study abroad. He said he would also like to
internationalize college campuses by increasing the visibility,
awareness and importance of international experiences. During
Reiffs 18 years as University international services director, the
number of international students has almost tripled to more than
1,200 and the number of University students studying abroad has
trpled in the past five years.
Academic Affairs associate VP receives career award.
Ivery Clifton, associate vice president for Academic Affairs, was
recently honored by the American Agricultural Economics
Association for accomplishments during his 20-year professional
career. Cliflon said honorees are chosen for professional
accomplishments, research, teaching, leadership and contributions to
AAEA. Cliflon has served as chairman of several AAEA national
sessions, vice president of the Southern Agricultural Economics
Association, assistant dean of the University’s College of Agriculture
and interim head of the division of agricultural economics. He also
conducted research on national resource economics, nonpoint source
pollution and farm real estate market analysis. Cliflon was an
agricultural economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and
Tennessee Valley Authority before joining the University’s faculty in
1976.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Number of prisoner escapes drop.
Changes in inmate classification and security contributed to a 74
percent drop in the number of escapes from Georgia’s prisons in the
fast decade, despite record high numbers of inmates. In 1980, 377 of
the state’s 12,188 inmates fled, compared to 98 escapees in a system
of 20,751 in 1989, according to Lanson Newsome, the Department of
Corrections’ deputy commissioner for facilities. In 1988, the state
graded facilities by security level and began assigning those inmates
with high escape risks to the more secure prisons, Newsome said.
Officials also separated the aggressive from the passive inmates and
more closely reviewed criminal profiles before assigning inmates to
work details. Since 1982, Georgia has also attempted to replace older
dormitory-style prisons with more secure prisons suited for
maximum security inmates.
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Clean Air Act Is expensive.
Southeastern electric companies are preparing to raise rates in order
to comply with air pollution legislation passed by the House and
Senate. Southern Co. spokesman Tripp Cagle said his company’s
preliminary estimate for complying with the acid rain provisions of
the House version of the Clean Air Act, passed last week, is $15.4
billion over 23 years — about three-fourths of the company’s total
assets. He said Southern accountants have estimated that
systemwide compliance costs under the House bill will peak in 2001
at $1.1 billion. And that, he said, is equivalent to a one-year, 9 percent
rate increase. Cagle said the estimated cost for the Southern Co.
system to comply with the Senate bill is $14 billion, with a peak year
cost of $957 million in 2000, equivalent to an 8.1 percent rate increase
in one year.
■ WORLD
LONDON (AP): Loch Ness monster is a moneymaker.
The fabled Loch Ness monster, afTectionally known as “Nessie,” is
worth $42 million in annual tourist revenues to Scotland, a published
report said Monday. Half a million tourists visit the Highlands lake
each year in hopes of seeing the creature, although there is no
scientific proof it exists, said The Times of London. It quoted Mackay
Consultants of Inverness as saying the monster myth is also good for
about 2,500 tourist-industry jobs. “We were amazed by the results of
our research, which certainly puts the monster forward as one of the
main attractions of Scotland,” said a director of the firm, Tony
Mackay.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Red and Black will hold a
new writer recruitment meeting
tonight at 7 at the journalism
building in the Dean’s
Conference Room Anyone
interested in applying for the
summer and fall staff is invited.
• The UGA Pre-Veterinary Club
will meet tonight at 7:30 at the
Veterinary School in the
Microbiology auditorium.
Elections will be held.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet
Wednesday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m.
at the Ecology auditorium. The
public is invited.
Lectures/Seminars
• A seminar titled "Coping with
Mental Illness* will be held
Wednesday, May 30 at 12:10
p.m. at the Tate Student Center
in Room 143. The public is
invited. No preregistration is
necessary.
• Bruce Cole will speak
Wednesday, May 30 at 3 p.m. at
the Visual Arts Building in Room
117. His topic is "Making
Renaissance Art.” The public is
invited. *
• Alex Williams, Presbyterian
Campus Minister, will speak
Wednesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. at
the Presbyterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin Street. His topic is
“Memorial Day: What Can We
Say?” The public is invited.
Homecoming 1990
• Applications for Ms.
Homecoming 1990 are available
at the Tate Student Center
information desk and are due
June 1. For more information,
contact the All Campus
Homecoming Committee at 542-
1700.
• The All Campus Homecoming
Committee is looking for local
bands to play for Homecoming
Week at tne Tate Student Center
plaza. For more information,
contact the ACHC at 542-1700.
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 are printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
Citizens for a Unified Government
Group wants to raise UGA awareness
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Citizens for a Unified Govern
ment, an organization for the con
solidation of city and county
governments, is working to in
crease student involvement in its
crusade for unification.
Jim Childs, a student member
and a senior accounting major, said
he’s trying to get students involved
with the project because they’re af
fected by government. He said that
until recently he’d noticed “apathy
towards politics” among students.
However, the University tennis
team member said student aware
ness is on the rise. “People are
saying, ‘Wow, I can really make a
difference.’
“Everybody needs to be aware of
it, and have an opinion. Being in
volved in politics can make a differ
ence. It will make everything a
little more fair.” Childs said.
He said he’s also concerned with
developing businesses. At present,
young businesses must apply for
two business licenses. By com
bining forces between city and
county, this would be eliminated.
Other areas like Columbus,
Nashville, and Jacksonville al
ready have combined city and
county forces and have found
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Citizens for a Unified Govern
ment has been working since Sep
tember to increase public
awareness about unification.
House Bill 1904, a 120-page
charter, was presented to the U.S.
Department of Justice last fall. It
requests a single government with
one chief elected officer and a 10-
member commission. It’s still being
reviewed, said Pat Allen, president
of the organization.
‘The obvious question is When
are we going to have a refer
endum?’ * he said. Members of the
organization had planned on a
June referendum, Dut Allen an
nounced at a meeting Thursday
that conflicts, such as the up
coming primaries, have slowed the
process.
The Justice Department’s cal
endar runs on a 60-day period. ‘We
need to think about a September
time frame. That could be a bles
sing,” Allen said.
For the time being, the com
mittee plans to go out and continue
working with the public. In the
past, they’ve walked door to door
and talked with Athens residents,
held open meetings and mailed out
surveys — anything to deliberate
feedback.
‘The process is underway. We
want to keep this before the people.
We’d like tor them to ask ques
tions,” said J.W. Fanning, chair of
the Citizens for Unified Govern
ment. Allen said the unified gov
ernment would work “to equalize
water bills, so all residents in the
county would pay one rate ”
By consolidating forces between
city and county police departments
inefficiencies would be enisled out.
“Why do we need five police depart
ments?” Allen said.
He said people living on the city-
/county line have great difficulty
concurring a response from police
when they're in need of assistance
because there is confusion as to
whose jurisdiction calls come from.
He realizes the need for services
such as the University police and
state police, however.
Citizens for Unified
Government works to
inform the public about
unification.
Allen said the organization is
planning to get the public involved,
and asking Childs to be on the com
mittee is one way of doing this.
“Most of the University campus is
in the same district. Students as a
body would have a great influ
ence,” he said.
“It’s going to take time. We are
looking to do a lot of educational
things " This means teaching the
public about who the/re voting for,
and what they’re entitled to as a
citizen of Athens.
■ CORRECTION
An article Friday contained incorrect information. Felix Watson is
in the Clarke County Jail. Scott Berry is an investigator with the
Clarke County District Attorney's Office.
It is the policy of The Red and Black to correct errors of fact
that appear in its news columns.
ALPHA CHI OMEGA FUN RUN/WALK
WHAT:
A 5K race and
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WHERE:
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FEE:
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(includes TShirt)
WHEN:
June 2,1990
8:30 am.
PRIZES:
Door pr.zes and trophy to first
male and female finishers.
Refreshments provided.
WHY:
To raise money for
Cystic Fibrosis
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