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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Sociology and art department heads named. Gary Alan
Fine, sociology professor at the University of Minnesota, and Evan
Firestone, art and design chairman at Iowa State, will be joining the
University this year as department heads in sociology and art.
Getting them here was a year-long process of interviewing and
negotiation. “It’s like getting married,” said John Kozak, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences. “It’s a really big career move." Fine and
Firestone are both authors of books based in their fields, and have
been noted for their outstanding abilities. Kozak said the men
underwent intense and exhausting interviews with him and faculty
members, and were chosen out of three prospective candidates in
each department.
Pou delays retirement for one year. Emily Pou, dean of the
College of Family and Consumer Sciences for 19 years, has postponed
her planned retirement for a year because her replacement hasn’t
been found. Pou said she was “pleased to do it” and hopes she can get
some projects completed in spite of budget cuts. William Prokasy, vice
president for Academic Affairs, said the University will reinstitute a
search for her replacement.
Salmonella linked to tomatoes Raw tomatoes may be the
cause of a salmonella outbreak that has infected more than 100
people in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, health
officials said. Investigators believe the tomatoes came from a single
farm or distributor, where they may have been fertilized with
contaminated manure. Tomatoes linked to the outbreak came from
restaurants and grocery stores. Johnny Gay, University Extension
plant pathologist, said that raw tomatoes aren’t a health risk as long
as they’re washed thoroughly.
An’s job considered by grievance committee. The job of
Dr. An Quoc Nguyen, a Vietnamese worker in the Department of
Radiology and Anatomy, is now under consideration by a University
wide grievance committee, afler a closed hearing was held
Wednesday to determine if he spoke English well enough to work in
University laboratories. Although An does not lecture, his job was
terminated in July by his superiors who said he couldn’t speak
English well enough. He won a reprieve and was allowed to keep his
position and to be represented by an attorney at the hearing. David
Sweat, An’s attorney, said he expected a decision to be reached in
several weeks.
■ STATE
Man dies after having blood heated to kill AIDS.
ATLANTA (AP) — The third AIDS patient to undergo an
experimental treatment in which the blood is heated died in Mexico
City, 18 hours after the procedure, his doctor reported Tuesday. One
patient, Atlanta waiter Carl Crawford, who underwent the
controversial treatment in May, claims he was cured of AIDS. Doctors
said the second patient, a Chicago man named Tony, has shown little
improvement. The procedure was performed by Dr. Kenneth Alonso,
one of two Atlanta doctors who is testing the blood-heating treatment,
known as hyperthermia, in AIDS patients. Alonso said he agreed to
take the New York man’s case as a favor to the man’s doctor in New
York, even though the 48-year-old patient was virtually near death.
The New York doctor announced the death.
■ NATION
Lawyers group reverses abortion rights stand.
CHICAGO (AP) — A deeply divided American Bar Association on
Wednesday rescinded its 6-month-old endorsement of abortion rights.
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates voted 200-188 to repeal
a resolution that the nationwide lawy ers’ group had adopted in
February by a more than two-to-one margin. Repeal proponents said
Wednesday’s about face returned the organization to a neutral
position on the explosive issue. But abortion rights forces said the
fight was far from over. “Nobody here has the illusion we’re going to
put our tails between our legs and go home," said Estelle Rogers of
Washington, D.C., who opposed the repeal. Anthony R. Palermo of
Rochester, N.Y., who led the repeal drive, said a continuing feud over
abortion rights could hurt the ABA’s reputation.
Scientists isolate marijuana target in brain, new YORK
(AP) — Scientists say they have isolated and cloned a “button” that
marijuana pushes in the brain to produce its effects, an advance that
may lead to new pain-killers and other medications. Marijuana’s
main active ingredient attaches itself to the protein structure on the
surface of brain cells, triggering alterations in mood and thinking,
researchers said. The new work suggests that the brain contains
some natural substance that resembles the marijuana ingredient,
called a cannabinoid, scientists said. The work is presented in
Thursday’s issue of the British journal Nature by scientists from the
National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md.
Louisville player sues coach, louisville, Ky. (AP) - a
player who suffered a heat stroke during preseason football drills last
year has sued Louisville coach Howard Schnellenberger, charging
him with negligence. The suit was filed by Tom Sedam, who was a
freshman recruit from Troy, Ohio, and now lives with a sister in
Loganville, Ga. It claims that on or about Aug. 11, 1989,
Schnellenberger “negligently and carelessly failed to properly
supervise ... and furnish all necessary supplies and materials,
including sufficient amounts of water, so as to cause plaintiff to be
injured when he collapsed from a heat stroke.” The suit, filed Tuesday
in Jefferson Circuit Court, seeks unspecified damages. Sedam, who
signed a full scholarship with Louisville in February 1989, was listed
on a freshman player cnart as 6-5 and 266 pounds.
Pete Rose arrives at federal prison. Marion, hi. (AP) —
Former Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose arrived at a federal work
camp Wednesday to begin serving a five-month sentence for tax
evasion, prison officials said. Baseball’s career hit leader surrendered
himself at the prison about 1 p.m., according to a statement released
by warden John Clark. Rose said he did not want to talk to reporters,
and Clark’s statement said the prison will respect his request for
privacy. Rose, 49, was facing a FYiday deadline to enter the minimum
security Federal Prison Camp. He was convicted on two counts of
filing false income tax returns for failing to report more than
$350,000 in income from gambling, autograph signing and baseball
memorabilia sales. He delayed reporting to prison while he recovered
from knee surgery he underwent July 20, the same day he was
sentenced by U.S. Distict Judge S. Arthur Spiegel.
■ WORLD
Swiss hostage in Lebanon freed. Damascus, Syria (AP) -
A Swiss Red Cross worker who had been held hostage in Lebanon for
10 months was freed Wednesday, Syrian and Red Cross officials said.
It was the first release of a Western hostage in more than three
months. Reporters were summoned to the Foreign Ministry in
Damascus for the imminent handover of the hostage to Swiss
officials. The hostage’s name was not released in Damascus. But Red
Cross officials in Geneva, who also confirmed the hostage release,
identified him as Emanuel Christen, 33, who was kidnapped Oct. 6
along with fellow Red Cross worker Elio Erriquez, 24. A Syrian
official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the hostage had
been handed over to Syrian officials.
UGA TODAY
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friends are invited.
Items for UGA Ttxlay must be
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Include specific meeting location,
speaker’s title and topic, and a
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Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened.
• The Northeast chapter of The
Compassionate Friends will
meet Monday at Holy Cross
Lutheran Church at 7:30 p.m.
Andrea Dye, emergency room
patient coordinator at Athens
Regional Medical Center, will
lead a discussion on how ER
personnel can help bereaved
parents. Compassionate FYiends
is a self-help group to aid parents
who have lost a child. All
BIO SCIENCE
From page 2
calling ESS.
‘They would come over here
every time we colled them, but
they were at a loss, too,” Martin
said.
After periodic exposure to the
odor, the four people working in
the labs suffered unexplained
health problems.
“I had really bad insomnia,
which I attributed to stress,”
Martin said.
Martin and other workers in the
lab also experienced fatigue, abdo
minal pains, back pains and
nausea.
“I’m never nauseated,” Bohl
said. “Certain mornings I would
come in and smell that, and I
would want to throw up.”
Finally in May, ESS identified
the chemical as pyridine, an or
ganic chemical solvent used in
some lab experiments. When
Martin received a list of symptoms
for pyridine exposure, insomnia
topped the list.
After an unsuccessful attempt to
repair a faulty pipe enclosure, ESS
advised Physical Plant to replace a
plastic pipe which an outside con
tractor had used to repair a floor
drain on the floor above. Chemicals
were degrading the plastic.
Physical Plant replaced the
plastic pipe with an iron one in
early July, and the odor disap
peared.
But problems continue because
people are still improperly
dumping chemicals into the drain
system in the bio-science complex,
said Shari Travers, a laboratory
safety officer with ESS.
Travers tested air emanating
from a floor drain in the fourth
floor men’s restroom Friday, after
reports of a suspicious odor. The
air tested pyridine positive.
“We try to remind everyone to
flush their drain out with water. If
a trap gets dry, gases will come
bock up the drain,” Travers said.
Mellein said, “Everytime there
is a source (odor) we try to find it.”
When ESS identifies a chemical,
they use detection tubes to test the
levels of the chemical, said Price.
The ESS compares their test re
sults to the Permissable Emission
Levels set by the American Confer
ence of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists, Inc., which sets the in
dustry standard for safe chemical
emission standards.
But, Price said, ESS’s air testing
capabilities are limited. Advanced
air testing machines cost thou
sands of dollars which ESS doesn’t
have.
“We’re constantly frustrated,”
Price said. “We’re limited in what
we can do. We get a very small
amount of funding. You would
think we would be funded a lot
more than we are because of the
amount of research on this
campus.”
The proper handling of chemi
cals in University laboratories is a
process which falls under the lab
safety procedures. Each lab has a
laboratory safety manual compiled
by ESS. But the training of new lab
technicians and graduate Btudents
on the handling of hazardous
materials is handled by each labo
ratory, Price said.
Martin said, “I’m not sure how
well-trained graduate students
and technicians are on disposal.
I’m not sure how well the profes
sors were trained.”
Any violations of the current
handling procedures, or any prob
lems resulting from those viola
tions, are handled by Price and
Travers. But it’s very difficult for
only two people to enforce the
safety rules for over 1,000 Univer
sity labs and experiment stations.
“The problem will probably
never go away until people realize
that wnat they’re pouring down the
drain goes somewhere,” Travers
said.
‘The biology building in general
was designed for teaching only,”
Price said. “At this point, when
they have laboratories in there
they have a problem with the ven
tilation system.”
Proper ventilation is one of the
keys to ensuring the safe handling
of chemical emissions. When ex
periments are performed properly
underneath a vented hood, the
fumes are vented safely out of the
building.
Physical Plant is planning a re
fitting of the ventilation system. A
public notice announcing bids for
the project appeared in last week’s
Athens Observer.
Stolen ATM card
leads to 2 arrests
Two men were arrested early
Wednesday morning as they
tried to use an automated teller
machine card which had been
stolen from a car earlier in the
evening, according to University
police reports.
Officer Tom Ivarie saw two
men acting suspiciously while
trying to use an ATM at the Uni
versity Bookstore at 1:30 a.m.,
according to police.
Sgt. Richard Goodson said one
of the two men acted as a lookout
while the other attempted to use
the card.
After questioning, the two men
admitted to Ivarie that they had
taken the card from a purse they
had stolen from a car in front of
the Flamingo Room restaurant,
510 Baxter St., Goodson said.
Demetrius D. Sims, 20, of 1122
W. Hancock Ave., and Jimmy Lee
Martin, 19, of 40 Broad Acres,
were arrested by the University
police and charged with financial
transaction card theft and giving
false names, according to police
reports.
The pair was turned over to
Athens Police and charged with
entering an automobile,
according to Athens police re
ports.
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