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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, August 2, 1990
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■ UNIVERSITY
Shipp to appear on “Rapid Fire." Columnist Bill Shipp will
be the guest on the student-run television show “Rapid Fire" Friday
and Saturday. Executive Producer David Herndon said Shipp will
discuss the Aug. 7 elections, unification and the exclusion of blacks
from country clubs. The show will air on WNGM Channel 34 Friday
at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 and 7 p.m. Charles Bullock, a
University political science professor, and Larry Blount, a law school
professor and vice chairman of Citizens for a United Government, will
also appear on the show.
Horses donated to College of Agriculture. Charlton
Quarterhoraes has donated about 90 horses to the College of
Agriculture’s animal science department. The horses will be used for
teaching and research, said Gary L. Heusner, animal science
professor. The type of research aone on the horses will depend upon
their age, he said.
■ STATE
America's oldest veteran dies at 106. ATHENS - George
E. Echols was a native Athenian and was known as America’s oldest
war veteran before his death last Thursday at age 106. Echols was
bom in Athens on Nov. 2, 1883, and served in France during World
War I. He could have been buried with full honors in Arlington
National Cemetery, but chose to be buried in Athens in Hunter’s
Cemetery.
Upson County struck by Lyme Disease, thomaston
(AP) — Nobody’s sure why Upson County reported more than 50
confirmed cases of Lyme disease in 1989, which state health officials
say is apparently the highest number of any Georgia county. But
county environmental health specialist Larry Chambers is trying to
find out why there’s such a high rate of the tick-borne illness, which
took its name from Lyme, Conn., where an outbreak occurred in 1976.
One theory is that Upson, like many counties in Georgia’s lower
Piedmont region, has a large deer population. The more deer, the
more ticks. And the black-legged tick, more commonly known as the
deer tick, appears to be the Southeast’s main carrier of the bacteria
that cause Lyme disease, experts said.
Attorneys say proceedings should be open to public.
JONESBORO (AP) — Juvenile Court proceedings for three teen
agers accused of firebombing the Clayton County NAACP office
should be open to the public, attorneys for news organizations said.
“Given the public interest and concern in this case, such access is
essential to ensuring that the facts and circumstances of the charges
and the state’s treatment of the juveniles are fully and accurately
reported," James Demetiy, an attorney for The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, argued Tuesday. The newspaper was joined by the
Clayton News-Daily and WAGA-TV in requesting that the
proceedings be open. Attorneys for the juveniles argued that the
community interest did not outweigh the interests of the juveniles. •
Clayton County Juvenile Court Judge Martha Glaze will decide the
issue.
Augusta National closer to accepting blacks, augusta
(AP) — Spurred by the controversy surrounding the PGA
tournament, the private golf club where the Masters tournament is
held each year has moved up its timetable for inviting its first black
member. Tournament chairman Hord Hardin said the Augusta
National Golf Club, which is open from mid-October through May for
members and guests, expects to invite its first black member by the
club’s fall opening. He had said Saturday the club hoped to invite a
black this year. "I’m sure we will invite a black fellow in the next
month or so,” Hardin said Tuesday. “We would like to express
ourselves as wanting to have minority members." The move comes
after the president of Birmingham’s Shoal Creek and black leaders
called a news conference Tuesday to announce a resolution to a
controversy over the all-white club which is hosting the PGA
championship.
MARTA gets thumbs down from many in Gwinnett.
LILBURN (AP) — Former Gov. George Busbee is among those
supporting extension of Atlanta’s rapid rail line into Gwinnett
County, but opponents want MARTA to stay out. About equal
numbers of people spoke for each side at a pubic hearing on the
matter Tuesday night. County officials have scheduled a November
referendum on a $681 million plan for a 10.8-mile extension of the
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s rail line to Gwinnett
Place mall. Wearing “Ban MARTA” stickers, opponents said the
referendum will shoot down the plan.
Teen arrested for desecrating gravestone.
LAWRENCEVILLE (AP) — Police arrested a teen-ager and charged
him with desecrating a gravestone at a Baptist church cemetery
where nearly 50 markers were damaged. Johnny William Collier Jr.,
17, of Buford was charged Tuesday with one count of causing criminal
damage to property-second degree, which is a felony. He was being
held in lieu of $3,050 bond at the Gwinnett County Jail Tuesday
night. Police said they are looking for another person. Collier was
charged with damaging one of 45 markers at the Sugar Hill Baptist
Church cemetery last weekend.
■ WORLD
Trinidad militants agree to surrender, free hostages.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Moslem militants who held 40
hostages including top government officials for five days surrendered
Wednesday and began freeing their captives, a government
spokesman and state radio said. Hostages started leaving the
government television station at midday and boarding an army bus,
state radio said. The live broadcast said 14 of the 25 hostages in the
building had been freed by 2:05 p.m. Government spokesman Gregory
Shaw said the freeing of the hostages in the Caribbean nation was
“going to be slow.” The hostages were seized Friday in an armed
assault on Parliament and the state television station, which are
about a mile apart in Port-of-Spain, the capital of the former British
colony.
Ga. doctor's AIDS research stirs Mexico. Mexico city
(AP) — A Georgia doctor’s research in Mexico on a blood heat
treatment for AIDS is stirring controversy in some medical circles.
Dr. Kenneth Alonso, the physician who recently performed the first
two experiments with whole body blood heat treatment for AIDS
patients at Atlanta Hospital, is in Mexico City to research and teach
the experimental method. Federico Chavez Peon, director of the
Mexican government’s National Council for AIDS Prevention and
Control, announced Tuesday that Mexico would not be used as a
“guinea pig* for the research. But Dr. Beatriz Ramirez,
representative of the independent Mexican Foundation for AIDS
Control, said her organization’s members are very interested in
learning about the research Alonso is conducting in Mexico.
UGA TODAY
Meeting
• UGA Habitat for Humanity
will meet tonight at 8:30 p.m. in
Room 141 of the Tate Student
Center. Everyone is welcome.
Field Trip
• The Athens Sierra Club will
sponsor a wetlands training
session and field trip Saturday
from 10 a m. to 4 p.m. The
training workshop, to be held at
the Clarke County Board of
Education Annex, will cover
basic wetlands ecology and
identification and the politics of
wetlands protection in Georgia.
After lunch, the group will visit
area wetlands. For more
information, call Phil Cafaro at
353-2732.
Exhibitions
The Clarke County School
District’s Biennial Art
Exhibition, “Athens: The Past Is
Ever Present,” will go on display
at the Georgia Museum of Art
Saturday and will remain on
exhibit until Sept. 16. The
exhibition features more than
100 works of art by students in
grades K-12 from the district’s 15
schools.
Items for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed
Local auto vandalism rate in high gear
Howard Fora/The Red and Black
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
On her way to class Monday
morning, Latrelle Cooper noticed
that the rear window of her 1984
Toyota Tercel had been shattered.
“My first thought about the
shattered window was anger, van
dalism,” Cooper said. “That
thought lasted throughout the
weekend. I just had to deal with it.”
Cooper’s car wasn’t the only one
hit by vandals or burglars last
weekend. Eleven other cars were
criminally tampered with, making
it the worst three-day period this
month. But last month’s tally —
around 85 cars — isn’t unusual.
Many of the cars weren’t actu
ally robbed. Often, cars are vandal
ized or entered but nothing is
stolen.
Several car windows were shat
tered by BB guns, according to po
lice reports.
Lt. Lisa Boone with the Univer
sity Crime Prevention Unit said
entered autos, like bicycle theft, is
cyclical, with a large concentration
over a brief period and then falling
off rapidly.
“We watch for it and sometimes
we catch somebody, and it drops off
for a while,” she said.
Sgt. Richard Good son, also with
the University police, said the
same people usually don’t break
into just one car.
The people who do break into
cars tend to be repeat offenders,”
he said. “We catch a lot, but there’s
no way to know how many they’ve
already broken into.”
Car thefts might be related to
the drug problem and people
needing quick money, Goodson
said. In addition, juveniles are
learning about the ease of robbing
parked cars, possibly passing along
secrets on the playgrounds.
Hilda Spratlin of the Athens Po
lice Department said, There’s no
way to pinpoint when or where a
car is going be entered. There’s
even been cars robbed on Broad
Street."
Although some criminals have
advanced systems for picking the
locks of cars, most either break the
window or pry the door open with a
screwdriver, Goodson said.
They have no qualms about
heaving a brick through a
window," he said. “If they want in
bad enough, they’ll find a way to
get in.”
Parking in a well-lighted place
and keeping valuables out of sight
are the two most important ways to
prevent your car from being
robbed.
Boone said it’s hard to tell how
much alarms help since there’s no
way to tell what nas set one off.
Of entered autos the University
police investigated last year, 8 per
cent of the Btolen items were recov
ered.
Police are hampered in re
turning stolen items to owners be
cause the items often aren’t clearly
marked, Goodson said.
'There is a chance to get stolen
property back with recorded infor
mation, not that great a chance,
but better than it would be other
wise," he said.
Goodson suggests recording
model numbers and serial num
bers or putting identification on
items. Engravers to mark items
can be used at the University Po
lice Department.
Groups push for FDA
to regulate food labels
By J. LEIGH BURRELL
Staff Writer
The “lite” salad dressing you
pour on your leafy greens may be
light in name only.
There are no restrictions on
which foods can be called ‘lite,”
said Connie Crawley, a nutrition
and health specialist with Univer
sity Extension. The term can refer
to color, taste or salt content.
Such vague claims may soon be
eliminated by the Food and Drug
Administration. For the first time
since 1973, the FDA is considering
several food labeling changes. The
FDA should have the changes
made by 1992, Crawley said.
Changes may include requiring
products that “claim something
about nutrition” to have labels,
Crawley said.
Current label formats have come
under scrutiny by consumer groups
and health specialists claiming the
average consumer doesn’t under
stand the information on food la
bels. Suggestions for labeling
improvement include charts and
bar graphs for easier reading.
Recent research shows that
“people are reading labels for nu
trition education,” Crawley said.
“But they’re not understanding
what they’re reading.”
Required listing of cholesterol
and saturated fat should be ap
proved within three months,
Crawley said.
Other changes being considered
are standardized portion servings
and ensured truthful health
claims, she said.
U.S. Sen. Wyche Fowler (D-At-
lanta) supported an addition to the
1990 farm bill, which has passed
the Senate, that would establish
national regulations on organic
food labeling. Currently, states set
their own standards.
The proposed regulations would
require crops called organic to
come from land that has been
chemical-free for three years, said
Ben Yarbrough, a Fowler aide in
Washington, D.C.
Sen. Fowler said, This organic
labeling program will provide con
sumers nationwide witn the oppor
tunity to purchase food that has
been grown without the use of
man-made chemicals.”
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■ JUDICIAL REPORT
The Office of Judicial Programs handed down one
judgment last week from a case that had been previously
pending:
• One student was found guilty of disorderly conduct
with extenuating circumstances, which made his sentence
harsher than usual. He was expelled from University
housing permanently and suspended from the University
for two quarters.
• A case of academic dishonesty heard earlier this
quarter is still pending, with a decision expected later this
week.
The Student Judiciary has postponed hearing many
spring quarter cases until students return in the fall.
The following complaints were filed with the Judiciary
last week:
• Two students were charged with excessive noise in a
residence hall. Both charges stem 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.
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