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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday. June 28. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Program receives grant for education training. The
University Affiliated Program has received a $250,000 grant to train
future leaders in areas of special education, motor skill development,
and child and family development. “The project will teach a new
generation of interventionist* about family issues and provide
information to administrators about developing programs which
enlist family members in intervention efforts," said Zolinda
Stoneman, professor of child and family development. Co-directors of
the project are Stoneman Cynthia Vail, an assistant professor of
special education, and Michael Horvat, associate professor of physical
education
Business student wins NBC fellowship.Feiicia Demse
Henderson, a business administration miyor and publications
director f or the Graduate Business Association, is among 11 students
nationwide to receive a prestigious 1990 NBC National Fellowship for
outstanding minontes Henderson will be awarded a full scholarship,
a stipend and a tour of NBC headq jarters in New York. The
scholarship will fund her education while she seeks her master’s
degree in business administration. Henderson earned a bachelor’s
degree at University of California at Los Angeles in 1984. Gerald
Horton, a business professor, said the candidates have to be
nominated by the faculty and show an outstanding academic record.
■ STATE
STATESBORO (AP): GSC professor sues school. An
assistant professor at Georgia Southern College is suing the school
and state officials for sex discrimination, contending she is paid less
than males who perform similar duties Delores G Ramsey filed the
suit in Bulloch County Superior Court, asking for a raise and for back
wages and benefits “at a rate she would have earned had no
discrimination existed " Ms. Ramsey has worked at the school since
1963 and is now an assistant professor in the School of Health and
Professional Studies.
■ NATION
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP): Bush’s ban not enough.
Environmentalists praised President Bush’s moratorium on offshore
drilling but said it doesn’t go far enough. An industry group called it a
mistake, and Democrats accused the White House of playing
politics.“If the president really wants to protect the California coast,
he should make it permanent, not make it look as though he’s just
delaying oil drilling off our coast until after the 1990 governor’s race
and his own re-election campaign in 1992,” Lt. Gov Leo McCarthy, a
Democrat, said Tuesday. Bush suspended until at least the year 2000
new leases for drilling off* much ot California, Oregon, Washington,
southern Florida and New England.
NEW YORK (AP): Trump put on allowance by bankers.
Bankers rescued Donald Trump with a $65 million bailout, but the
master of the Art of the Deal paid a humbling price, giving up some
control over his empire and putting himself on a $450,000 monthly
allowance.The deal reached Tuesday is designed to help the once
seemingly invincible Trump out of a cash crunch that could have
brought down his empire. A clearly relieved Trump said in an
interview Tuesday that he’s happy with the outcome and confirmed
that the agreement limits his household andpersonal spending to
$450,000 a month for the rest of this year. ‘There are certain
restrictions," he said. “I can live with them "Negotiations with his
bankers yielded a new five-year commitment that will spread out
payment on more than $2 billion in loans over the term of the pact.
WASHINGTON (AP): Affirmative action scores victory.
The Supreme Court said Wednesday the federal government may
favor minorities in awarding broadcast licenses, a surprising victory
for affirmative action from a court that has recently trimmed racial
preferences.The justices, voting 5-4, ruled that Federal
Communications Commission policies designed to bring diversity to
the nation’s airwaves do not violate the right* of white people.
■ WORLD
HONG KONG (AP): Pro-democracy prisoner released.
China has released from prison a key adviser to Zhao Ziyang, who
was ousted as Communist Party chief for supporting some goals of
last year's crushed pro-democracy movement, a newspaper reported
today Bao Tong had been private secretary to the former party chief
as well as heading a party think tank on reform. The English-
language South China Morning Post said he was released from
maximum security Qincheng prison last month and is under house
arrest in Beijing.The newspaper, quoting unidentified sources in
Beijing, said an investigation of Bao’s activity during last year’s
protests yielded no incriminating information.The paper claimed the
failure to press charges against Bao was a setback for hard-liner
Premier Li Peng. The report said authorities have yet to decide what
to do with Bao.
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP): United Europe moving ahead.
Plans for political union of a dozen West European countries have
moved ahead, but it’s still unclear what the final product will look
like. Leaders of the European Community wrapped up a two-day
summit on Tuesday by agreeing to open a special conference on Dec.
14 to sketch in the details. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
is confident she has scotched grandiose plans for sonic kind of federal
Europe.' I think we have won on that,” she told reporters.Irish Prime
Minister Charles Haughey, host of the summit, said the leaders
wanted to have “a new, closer, much more integrated political
relationship.”
UGA TODAY
Services
• The University’s Tutorial
Services will provide help to
students this summer. Hours are
Monday through Thursday from
9 15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call for
more information or to schedule
on appointment.
Exhibitions
• The East Hancock Gallery at
425 E. Hancock Ave. is featuring
a working studio with Paul
Bendzunas, glassblower, and Pat
and Carter McCaffrey, potters.
The studio offers a continuous
exhibit of local artists and is open
Tuesday and Saturday
mornings
• “Colors of the Sun" at the Loef
Gallery at Park Plata Building
will feature local artists
presenting their art works until
Oct. 1. The exhibit
includeswatercolors, oils, mints,
ceramics, sculptures, jewelry,
fabric designs and stained glass.
• Jean Flanigen’s watercolors
recalling her time spent in
Frnace ns a WAC dring World
War II will be on display until
Saturday at the First American
Bank at 300 College Ave.
• “Works of Warhol," a display of
silkscreen prints by 20th century
pop artist Andy Warhol from
1974 to 1987, will be featured at
the Georgia Museum of Art until
Sunday.
• Recent works made wth
handmade paper by Nancy
Carter will be featured at Aurum
Studios at 125 E. Clayton St.
until Saturday.
• “Est," drawings by Michael
Hutcinson will be on display at
The Crystal Garden at 165 E.
Clayton St. until Saturday.
Film
• The Resource Center in the
Education Materials Center will
present the film, “How to Speak
With Confidence" by Bert Decker
today at 10:40 a.m. in Room 421
of Aderhold Hall For more
information call 542-0729.
Items for UGA Today mutt 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.
Students with
‘wildlife’
in danger
Robert Menn/The Red and Blach
Rogers covering new ground
Country music celebrity Kenny Rogers, with his wife Mary-Ann, recently broke ground for the new
Athens homeless shelter. The shelter is to be located at 620 Barber St.
Pesticides muting Ga. birds’ songs
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
Staff Writer
The sweet music of several south
Georgia songbird species has been
cut short by the use of pesticides,
according to a University study.
Kathleen Patnode, a graduate
student in forest resources, studied
effects of pesticides on brown
thrashers, mockingbirds, cardinals
and mourning doves nesting near
l pecan groves in the southwestern
Georgia county of Calhoun near L-
eary, Ga.
Other species are affected by
j pesticides, but these birds were se-
| lected because they were nesting in
large enough numbers to study.
The study, conducted during the
past two years, indicates that the
reproduction rate of the songbirds
decreased in 1989, a year of normal
rainfall, compared with the repro
duction rate during the drought
year of 1988.
During a year with normal rain
fall, farmers spray pecan groves as
often as once a week with pesti
cides to control insect populations.
‘There’s no set schedule for the
use of insecticides," said James
Hadden, Cooperative Extension
plant pathologist at Tifton Rural
Development Center. “It varies
with each grove.”
Donald White, adjunct associate
professor of forest resources and a
research zoologist, said, “All of
these pesticides are Environ
mental Protection Agency regis
tered and legal. It’s hard to
pinpoint exactly which one of these
pesticides is causing the problem
because the farmers mix various
pesticides."
An earlier study by White of bob-
white quail in the area pinpointed
disulfoton, a pesticide used to con
trol aphids in pecan groves.
“Disull'oton was used once in two
years, and it’s highly toxic,” White
said.
Young birds nesting next to the
groves are exposed to the pesti
cides by eating contaminated in
sects or by inhaling the spray when
it drifts near their nests. Some
times the adult birds are sprayed
directly while searching for food.
The effects of the pesticides are
monitored by checking the
amounts of certain enzymes in the
brains of the birds. These enzymes
are responsible for transmitting
nerve responses, and if they are in
hibited by pesticides it can lead to
paralysis or death, White said.
“None of these pesticides are
under the gun by the EPA like car-
bofuran is," White said.
The EPA is studying carbofuran,
a pesticide used in the rice fields of
Texas which has been linked to
wildlife deaths.
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
Students are supposed to liv<
the wild life — not live with wildlife
— but some aren’t cooperating.
Some students think it’s cool t<
keep wild animals — deer, racoons
squirrels — for a while. But like all
house guests, wild animals car
cause problems.
Gib Johnston, Georgia Depart
ment of Natural Resources infor
mation program manager, said,
“It’s a big deal or macho to enter
tain your friends with wild ani
mals, but these people are asking
for serious trouble."
It’s not only against the law to
remove these animals from their
habitats, it’s usually deadly for the
animals and unhealthy for people
who share their homes with these
wild roommates.
Two people in Georgia have been
gored to death by “pet" deer,
according to DNR reports.
“Deer may seem cute at first,”
Johnston said. “But when they get
a healthy rack (horns) on them and
their hormones are boiling over
during mating season, they can be
terrible animals."
The DNR also reports numerous
bites and scratches requiring med
ical attention and some requiring
rabies shots.
In addition, animals often carry
parasites or diseases which can be
transmitted to humans.
Pete Schrantz, a naturalist for
the Athens parks, said he doesn’t
have a count of how many students
take wild animals for pets. But he
knows it happens here.
“I hear about it a lot,” he said. “It
does happen at universities. It
sounds good while you’re at school
to say you have these pets. Then
you get ready to leave, and it cre
ates a problem - usually for the an
imal.”
Johnston said mo6t people don’t
know enough about the animals to
keep them healthy. Malnutrition
or disease are likely to result due to
improper care.
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