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2 • The Reo and Black • Thursday. July 19. 1990
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■ UNIVERSITY
University professors contribute to book. Three
University professors have contributed a chapter on how preschool
children’s talking relates to classroom conversation and early literacy
to a bock designed to help teachers improve classroom discussions.
Perspectives on Talking and Learning” is the third volume in the
“Forum Ser.es" published by the National Council of Teachers of
English In their chapter, *rlay Talk, School Talk," Donald Rubin,
An then y PtoHegr.m and Lee Gal da, professors in the College of
Education, suggest that preschool teachers construct interest centers
:n the classroom by putting out materials used for play and discussing
oossible make-believe themes, then leaving *We have found that
adult presence actually inhibits children's fantasy and language use,"
Galda said.
Art professor's work on display in Atlanta, a University
art professor's work is being displayed as part of the National Black
Arts Festival in Atlanta. The work of Stefame Jackson, an associate
professor m the Visual Arts Department, is in the National Juried
Exhibition of Contemporary African-American Art. The exhibition,
displayed a: Clark Univenitv and Georgia State University,
concentrates on themes of African ancestry and African-Amencan
life. Jackson said she is taking the summer off to concentrate on her
work.
Food Services wins national awards. University Food
Services has been awarded two national grand prizes distinguishing
the department as possibly the best collegiate meal service in the
nation. Food Services Head Mike F.oyd said this was the only time in
more than 20 years that the same university program has been
awarded two grand prizes in one year. The awards won by the
University were for the best standard menu and the best special
event — Russian Night. Over the last four years the food service
program has won 12 national awards. Floyd said, “1 thought the
chances of winning the two awards were good, but I was shocked
when we won both awards ”
Burglars strike two Athens businesses. Two popular
Athens nightspots were robbed last week, one by armed men,
according to Athens police reports. Late Thursday after closing, two
men entered Steverino’s with a handgun and took an undetermined
amount of cash from the owner and employees who were closing,
according to police reports and Steverino’s employees. T. K. Hart/s
was also burglarized twice last week. Sometime between closing
Saturday and Monday morning, someone entered the bar and stole
liquor, beer and change from the video games. Monday afternoon, the
bar was hit again for a small amount of money, according to police
reports. Hilda Spratlin, assistant public information officer with the
Athens Police Department, said both incidents are still under
investigation.
■ STATE
Suit asks S2.5IVI for shooting by deputy, savannah
AP) — A man who was wounded by a Chatham County sheriffs
deputy in May has filed a suit seeking $2.5 million in damages,
claiming he was brutally beaten and then shot without
justification.Darien Hill and his mother, Rebecca Hill, filed the suit in
Chatham County State Court against Sgt. Jimmy Cutchens. They
also sued Sheriff Walter Mitchell Jr., alleging that he failed to take
prompt disciplinary action against Cutchens.Hill, 26, was shot once
in the back during a scuffle with Cutchens at Hill’s apartment May
10. The officer was attempting to serve a warrant on Hill’s brother,
Robert Hill, when Darien Hill intervened, police said.
Owen complains about Fulton Co. infield. Atlanta <ap>
— Spike Owen of the Montreal Expos says the infield at Atlanta-
Fulton County Stadium, home of tne National League’s Atlanta
Braves, is the worst in the major leagues.It’s so bed, in fact, that
there’s dirt painted green in spots where the grass is missing.'Tt’s by
far the worst, anywhere,” said Owen, a shortstop who also played
with the Boston Red Sox in the American League and knows the
playing surfaces of both leagues.“Cleveland is bad. Everyone will tell
you that. But this stuff is in a league by itself,” he said. “You’d think
someone here would take a little more pride in it.’Brandon Koehnke,
the Atlanta Braves’ head groundskeeper and the league’s youngest at
27, admits the field probably is at its worst.‘Tt’s not one thing, it’s a
combination of things," he said.
■ NATION
Raffle car makes a u-turn, mahopac, N Y (AP) - in the
What-Goes-Around-Comes-Around Department, enter the case of
Charles DeFranco.The Mahopac automobile dealer provided a 1990
Lincoln Town Car for a Fire Department raffle. Then he entered the
raffle. Saturday, he won the car. DeFranco, who had sold the car to
the department at a reduced price, said he’s never won anything
before. But he wasn’t entirely startled by this win: He had bought 200
raffle tickets. A bemused Fire Chief Thomas Tornatore turned over
the keys to DeFranco, who drove off in the $30,000 car. The dealer
said he will resell the car — and make a donation to the Fire
Department in the New York City suburb.
■ WORLD
Spokesman reacts strongly to Bush plans. Moscow
(AP) — A government spokesman reacted strongly Wednesday to
Bush administration plans to open a dialogue with Communist Party
opponents, telling U.S. officials not to offer opponents
“encouragement or assistance." The warning came amid new
defections from the ruling party: seven prominent Soviet
parliamentarians announced that they were following the lead of
reformers such as Boris N. Yeltsin, who quit the party last
week.Secretary of State James A. Baker III said Monday he thought
it would be appropriate for the Bush administration to “touch base”
with the Soviet opposition as it has with the opposition in other
countries in Eastern Europe.
Hundreds of thousands flee in quake area, baguio,
Philippines (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes
Wednesday after four strong aftershocks shook the earthquake-
devastated north. The death toll from the quake reached 376 as more
bodies were discovered. Many people bitterly complained that rescue
efforts were poorly organized and ineffective.“People are losing hope,
simply because they haven’t received any assistance from the
national government,” said Ronnie del Moro of the GMA television
network, reporting from the town of Agoo in La Union province. In La
Union and Tarlac provinces, thousands of people slept in cars and in
their yards because of damage to their homes and fears of another
quake. Huge fissures of up to half-a-mile cut highways throughout
the area.
UGA TODAY
Colloquium
• Thomaa Slater of the
University’s religion department
will discuss “Eclecticism: The
Philosophy of Hellenism" on July
25 at 3:30 p.m. in Room 205C of
Peabody Hall.
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.
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Master of the true line
brings art to museum
By DOUGLAS WOOD
Staff Writer
The Georgia Museum of Art will
host an exhibition of 46 pen and
ink line drawings by New York
artast and physician Mark Podwal
Podwal has been the primary
artist for author Elie W’iesel, a sur
vivor of the Holocaust and author
of books on its horrors. Podwal’s
work, which concentrates on
Jewish themes, has been featured
on the editorial page of the New
York Times. He also has illustrated
five books of his own.
Bill Eiland, public information
specialist at the museum, said the
exhibition is a “chance for our audi
ence to see pen and ink drawings ”
Podwal uses his art to address so
cial and political issues, he said.
Patricia Phagan, curator of
prints and drawings at the mu
seum, said, "Podwal’s precise and
meticulous line serves him well in
his critiques of issues related to
Jewish history and contemporary
life.”
This exhibition, titled “Ink and
Inkling, Mark Podwal: Master of
the True Line,’ was brought to the
University as part of the museum’s
regular program schedule.
Mount Holyoke College Art Mu
seum developed the exhibition,
which is accompanied by an illus
trated catalog and essay written by
writer Cynthia Ozick. Ozick called
Podwal a ‘living oxymoron, scien
tist and dreamer both ”
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■ JUDICIAL REPORT
Tne Office of Judicial Programs handed down the fol
lowing judgments last week:
• One student charged with academic dishonesty was
found guilty and suspended from the University for fall
quarter.
• One student was found not guilty of academic dis
honesty.
• One student, found guilty of possession of mari
juana, was sentenced to 25 hours of community service
and will be forced to take a drug evaluation to determine if
he has a drug problem.
The following complaints were filed with the Judiciary
last week:
• Three students were charged with alcohol-related
damage to property. All charges resulted from one incident.
Federal privacy laws governing information released by
the University allow only three sets of facts to be disclosed
about an individual involved in disciplinary proceedings:
charges filed, the verdict and sentence. The University
can’t release any circumstance which would identify
anyone involved.
— Dan Pool
Depression-era Georgia
subject of children’s books
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
When Robert Burch decided to
take a course in writing children’s
literature, he thought he would get
the writing urge out of his system.
Thirty-five years and 19 books
later, it's still there.
“I really just drifted into
writing,” Burch said. ‘The idea of
taking a course for amusement ap
pealed to me."
Burch is a native Georgian and
winner of the 1986 Children’s Lit
erature Association’s Phoenix
Award. His books — ‘Tyler, Wilken
and Skee" and “Skinnv" — are the
first two children’s books to be pub
lished by the University of Georgia
Press.
Originally published by Viking
Press in the 1960s, the books were
reissued Tuesday as part of the
Brown Thrasher series, a collection
of out-of-print books by Southern
writers.
Like many of Burch’s works,
these books portray children’s lives
in Depression-era Georgia.
“I don’t want to preach,” he said
in a telephone interview from his
Fayette County home. “But many
of my books do have a main idea of
material wealth not being impor
tant."
Nancy Grayson Holmes, Burch’s
Many of my books
do have a main idea of
material wealth not
being important.’
— Robert Burch
author
editor, said he deals with situa
tions in a realistic way.
“He doesn’t manufacture happy
endings," she said.
“Skinny," winner of the 1969
Georgia Children’s Book Award, is
the story of an orphan who lives at
a hotel for one summer while
waiting to go to an orphanage.
‘Tyler, Wilken and Skee" are
three brothers who are also best
friends. The book covers a year in
their lives as they turn chores into
games and get overalls instead of
toys for Christmas.
Burch, an alumnus of the Uni
versity, studied creative writing in
1955 while working for an adver
tising agency in New York City.
His first book — “The Traveling
Bird” — was published in 1959,
and in 1963 he became a full-time
writer. He currently is working on
another children’s book.
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