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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 115
UGA responds to SEA suggestions
By DAVID TWIDDY
Contributing Writer
Reflecting University President
Charles Knapp’s desire for a more envi
ronmentally Bound University, the Office
of Business and Finance recently re
turned an item-by-item response to the
environmental audit conducted by Stu
dents for Environmental Awareness.
The audit, conducted primarily in Feb
ruary, consisted of student volunteers
evaluating areas of the University that
affect the environment. Their findings
were given to David Coker, executive as
sistant to Knapp, on March 14.
The University’s response to the audit
was put together with the cooperation of
the areas most closely affected by the
audit, said Allan Barber, vice president
for Business and Finance.
“I think the audit was constructive and
served a good purpose,” Barber said.
‘There is an awareness and consensus
that the environment must be helped."
As a whole, the response agrees with
most of SEA’s proposals and includes
many changes, said Ali Jones, SEA secre
tary of education.
“Almost everyone I spoke to, especially
Dr. Coker and Dr. Barber, was cooper
ative and seemed willing to better the
University with regard to the environ
ment,” Jones said.
The only item to which the University
didn’t respond is the possibility of consid
ering product boycotts, such as tropical
hardwoods from rainforests.
Barber said he doubts the University
stands on the proper legal ground to af
fect a boycott and prefers the practice of
simply avoiding products that are proven
to be harmful to the environment.
The implementation of many of these
proposals is already underway, Jones
said, and SEA plans to set up a meeting
with the University to work out a comple
tion timetable for the other items.
Barber said most of the actions in the
response are either in the process of being
initiated or are already on-going pro
grams.
The response briefly addresses each
section of tne audit:
• Solid Waste
The University plans to expand its pre
sent recycling program and nas repaired
the wetlands damaged by a fire at the
School of Forest Resources.
• Hazardous Waste
To reduce the problems encountered
with the disposal of hazardous wastes,
the University will encourage recycling
hazardous chemicals, studying biodegra
dable or less-harmful substitutes for the
chemicals, and implementing microscale
laboratory practices.
This involves setting experiments on a
smaller scale to reduce the amount of
chemicals used and waste produced.
• Radioactive Waste
The Public Safety Division will en
courage the training of more individuals
on the proper disposal and handling of ra
dioactive materials.
• Medical Wastes
The University will seek a larger stafT
to inspect handling of medical wastes,
and it will review safety practices re
garding medical incinerators.
• Pesticides
SEA had no recommendations for this
area other than to continue current prac
tices.
• Air Quality
A main point SEA addressed is the
need for the University to switch to coge
neration. This is the use of gas-fired
steam turbines to create energy and then
the re-use of the steam for heating and
cooling. Beside creating less pollution
through the deletion of coal-use, the recy
cling of energy produced for heating will
save the University money.
Barber said the measure is being acti
vely supported by the University, in
cluding the proposed purchase of a 10-to-
12 megawatt turbine, but is having
trouble at the state level with financing.
The University also plans to develop
policies regarding incinerator operations;
to consider the possibility of consolidating
University incinerators; and to create a
file for the Public Safety Division re
cording incinerator information.
The University balked at the sugges
tion to consolidate fume hood outlets,
which are devices for removing harmful
vapors from laboratories. The response
read that it would be difficult to renovate
in older buildings and that it would be un
safe to mix incompatible chemicals in the
outlets.
Regarding chlorofluorocarbons, the
University agreed to continue CFC
training and has bought a recycling
pump, a device that removes Freon from
refrigeration units under repair without
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Powerlifting comrades
Lev Sokolov, vice president of the Soviet Weight
Lifters Federation, works out Tuesday at Athens'
Downtown Athletic Club. Sokolov and other Soviet
powerlifters are preparing for the Natural Athlete
Strength Association competition on June 1 — 3 in
Atlanta.
They’ve also been part of NASA's “Just Say
No" anti-drug campaign. They've used perfor
mances at Six Rags and Stone Mountain to pro
mote "natural health" message, which they soom
will take to Dekalb County schools.
Chip Smith, owner of the Downtown Athletic
Club, and Atlantan Glenn Crocker are hosting the
team.
Vendors face
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
University police arrested two Baldwin Street ven
dors Friday on charges of possession of marijuana
with intent to distribute after an undercover officer
sporting tye-dyed garb and carrying marked money
was sold a quarter ounce of marijuana, police said.
“(The vendors) were selling beads and stuff on
Baldwin Street and it turned out they were selling
more than just beads,” University police Sgt. Richard
Goodson said.
Police received an anonymous tip that the crystal
jewelery and bead vendors, Gerald and Candy Lowe,
who can be seen selling their wares nearly every day
in front of Park Hall, were also selling drugs, he said.
About 2 p.m. a female undercover officer ap
proached the vendors and made small talk, Goodson
said. Gerald Lowe then told the officer he had some
“Arkansas buds” for sale.
The officer gave him $40 in marked bills in ex
change for a quarter ounce of marijuana and $10
change. Detectives then arrested both vendors.
They were taken to Clarke County Jail and held
until Monday, said Gerald Lowe. They were each re
leased on $5,000 bonds.
Possession of marijuana with the intent to dis
tribute is a felony offense that carries a penalty of not
less than five years and not more than 30 years in jail,
Goodson said.
The case goes to court June 12, Gerald Lowe said.
The Lowes were on Baldwin Street selling jewelry
again Tuesday and tell a different story of what hap
pened Friday .They said the arrest was unfounded and
that police acted improperly while arresting them.
drug charges
‘They got me with nothing, man — nothing,”
Gerald Lowe said. “I’m sitting here and this hippy
dude comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, man, you wanna
buy some leaf?’ ”
Lowe said he refused and the man left. Then offi
cers arrested him and his wife. Lowe said he wouldn’t
jeopardize his business just to sell $30 worth of mari
juana.
“I’m not going to lie to you, man,” he said. “Every
once in a while if someone hands me a joint 111 smoke
it — just because I’ve got migraine headaches. But I
won’t buy it and I won’t sell it.
“I told them, ‘you can test my blood — you can give
me all the blood tests you want, but you won’t find any
beer, no cigarettes, no crack, just a hit of pot or two.’
I’m clean, man."
Lowe also said police badly bruised his wife’s arm
while arresting her. Police took one of his dogs that is
always with him to the pound, he said, but gave his
nine-and-a-half-week old puppy to a couple selling
jewelry beside the Lowes.
Police told the couple to take care of the dog until
the Lowes got back.
He hasn’t been able to find the couple or the dog
since.
He said his wife was arrested for no reason and that
$200 to $280 in cash was confiscated by police.
Goodson said, “(The case) is well documented. We
don’t want to comment on each individual accusation.
We don’t like to get involved with arguing in the
media. We have confidence in the case and that police
acted correctly.”
Police Chief Chuck Horton said, “I’d like to thank
the (anonymous caller) personally. We don’t get that
many — I wish we had more.
Negotiators struggling in hours before US-Soviet summit
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Lagging
U.S.-Soviet talks to cut troops and
tanks in Europe got a pre-summit
boost Tuesday but a half-dozen
tough strategic weapons issues re
mained unsettled as negotiators
pressed against a fast-approaching
deadline.
The talks, held for a third day
under tight secrecy at the State
Department, focused on the two
main arms control areas — U.S.
and Soviet conventional forces in
Europe and the two superpowers’
arsenals of globe-girdling nuclear
missiles, bombers and submarines.
Two days before opening his
summit with Mikhail S. Gorba
chev, President Bush met with
leaders of the Pentagon, State De
partment and CIA for an update on
deep economic and political trou
bles in the Soviet Union.
The only non-summit appoint
ment on Bush’s schedule was the
presentation of diplomatic creden
tials from new ambassadors, in
cluding Aleksandr Bessmertnykh
of the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev, meanwhile, arrived
in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit and
talks with Canadian Prime Min
ister Brian Mulroney. “This is a
time of dramatic change in the
world,” the Soviet president said
after escorting his wife, Raisa,
from their Ilyushin 62 aircraft.
The Soviet leader, appearing
tired after a long flight, expressed
hope for “a new level of cooper
ation.”
Commenting on political devel
opments back home, Gorbachev
told reporters he was “somewhat
concerned” by Boris N. Yeltsin’s
victory over Gorbachev’s own can
didate in parliamentary elections
for the presidency of Russia. But
he also said Yeltsin had had to “ad
just his position quite seriously
over the past few days and has ad
justed to the better.
On Capitol Hill in Washington,
Senate Republican leader Bob Dole
said Gorbachev was in a much
weaker position than when he last
visited. 2Fa years ago.
“Bush has 1,000 points of light,
and Gorbachev has 1,000 prob
lems," Dole said, alluding to short
ages of consumer goods, ethnic
unrest and Yeltsin’s political as
cent. “Well be watching closely,”
Dole quipped. “If Gorbachev brings
more than two bags, he may be
staying.”
Gorbachev will arrive in Wash
ington Wednesday evening and
begin three days of talks on
Thursday.
Thousands of demonstrators al
ready are on hand, ready to ex
press anger over Soviet coercion of
Lithuania and to voice demands for
causes ranging from a Palestinian
homeland and democracy in
Vietnam to a unified Korea and a
cure for AIDS.
Security forces were bet*fed up to
keep control.
“No days off and extended
shifts,” said Maj. Carl Holmberg of
the U.S. Park Police. The number
of security agents was kept secret,
but Soviet spokesman Vladimir
Ustimenko said, “It will be a big
bunch of people with big guns."
Meigs awards given
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Five professors, representing
four colleges, havo been awarded
the University’s top teaching
honor, the Josiah Miegs Award.
The winners, judged on their
ability to stimulate students, ded
ication to teaching and contribu
tions to the quality of education,
each will receive a $5,000 perma
nent salary increase and a $1,000
discretionary fund for depart
mental use.
This year’s recipients are:
• Wayne Crowell, a veterinary
pathology professor, who has been
the leader in the development of a
self-teaching method for animal
disease study. Crowell, who also
received the award in 1983, has
compiled thousands of slides that
are available to researchers and
veterinary students through the
International Veterinary Pa
thology Slide Bank.
• Larry Hatfield, a math educa
tion professor, has worked in areas
ranging from the introduction of
computer technology in the class
room to reforming school math cur
ricula. He has been working with a
$5 million project that is restruc
turing math and science instruc
tion in Walton and Greene
counties.
• Sharon Price, a home eco
nomics professor, began working at
the University in 1974 and has
since received the Outstanding
Teacher Award in the College of
Home Economics. She has consis
tently received evaluations
ranking her in the top five percent
of all home economics faculty. Price
also has been published extensi
vely, including the textbook, “Di
vorce: A Major Life Transition.”
• David Shaffer, a psychology
professor, founded the University’s
developmental psychology pro
gram. The first edition of his 1979
text, “Social and Personality De
velopment,” prompted the creation
■of more than 200 undergraduate
courses on the topic in the United
States.
• Susette Talarico, a political
science professor, has written
course material ranging from text
books to student handbooks. She
received the Sandy Beaver Tea
ching Award from the Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences in
1986, the some year she received
her first Miegs Award.
William Prokasy, University
vice president for Academic Af
fairs, said, “This year’s Miegs
Award recipients, as have past
winners, have exhibited a remark
able breadth of scholarship
through their instruction.
“We are all indebted to them as
models of what quality instruction
can be.”
■ HEADLINER
Problems greet new minority services director
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Just as the racially-motivated incidents
which targeted an Asian resident of Myers
Hall and black residents in Creswell Hall
came to light early this month, the new di
rector of the Department of Minority Services
and Programs took charge.
Leslie Bates, who came to the University
from a position as assistant dean of students
at Eastern Michigan University, said he was
surprised by the great amount of attention
given to skin color on this campus.
“Everything is so black and white here," he
said.
Incidents involving racial slurs such as
those which occurred this month are common,
Bates said. Media attention brought on by oc
currences like the nationally publicized inci
dent at Emory University has blown other
incidents out of proportion.
‘The average Joe or Jill really is pissed off
that these things happen. They just don’t
know what to do about them,” he said.
Students who are angered by racially moti
vated incidents should speak out against
them, Bates said, or the students may become
port of the problem.
The role of Minority Services and Programs
in such incidents should be to help the
Housing Department develop systems for
dealing with them, he said.
'This isn’t going to become the catch-all of
fice,” he said. “We will work in concert with
other offices.”
Bates said responsibilities of the depart
ment will be to work on specific projects which
don’t fit in anywhere else, such as Black His
tory Month, as well as to work closely with
other departments.
He said he is particularly interested in edu
cating incoming freshmen on campus diver
sity and why they should appreciate
differences.
The department will help train student
guides for this summer’s freshman orienta
tion. Plans are for the department to play a
larger role in next summer’s orientation
The department also will hold a multi-cul
tural program during the first week of fall
quarter.
By winter quarter, Bates said he wants the
department to have a referral service in which
students can register information about them
selves.
The service would make it easier for black
students to take advantage of opportunities in
student organizations and jobs.
The direction of the African-American Cul
tural Center, which is an appendage of the de
partment, also will be charted by Bates.
Located on the fourth floor of Memorial
Hall, the center will include one room with
permanent or semi-permanent displays and
three other multi-purpose roomB.
A disadvantage for Ihe center and the de
partment is their location at the top of 82
steps in a building with no elevator, Bates
said. He said he would like to form a com-
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from Eastern Michigan University.
mittee including high-level administration to
plan the development of the center.
Betty White, dean of students at EMU, said
Bates was highly successful in the roles he
played there, which included work in minority
affairs and Greek Life.
“He’s very direct in his approach to projects.
He charts a path and develops a game plan for
where he wants to go,” she said.