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The Red and Black
Tuesday, September 18, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
New verse for women created in alma mater. The role of
women at the University will now be recognized with a new verse in
the alma mater. The University Alumni Society’s Board of Managers
voted to add the new verse at their summer meeting. The decision
was upheld by University President Charles Knapp this month. The
new verse, which will be placed between the original second and third
verses, was written by 1974 alumna Gail Carter in 1980 as a response
to the omission of women from the alma mater. It reads: “And thy
daughters proudly join thee/Take their rightful place/Side by side into
the future/Equal dreams embrace.” Louis Sohn, Jr., president of the
Alumni Society, said a 13-member task force appointed by Knapp last
year went over detailed information to resolve the issue that has
caused controversy for the last 15 years.
New ROTC commander named. The University’s Army
ROTC program has named Lt. Col. Frank George as its new
commander. George, who has served in the Army for 18 years, is a
graduate of the Citadel and earned a master’s degree in literature
from Indiana University. He served as a professor for three years at
the Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. He succeeds Lt. Col. Roger
Stallings, who received a promotion and is now stationed at Eglin Air
Force Base in Florida. George was named by the U.S. Army’s Cadet’s
Command with the approval of the University officals.
Iron Horse to remain in pasture. The Iron Horse Sculpture
will continue its watch over L. C. Curtis’s farm on Georgia Highway
15, south of Watkinsville. In May, the University Council’s
Committee on Facilities presented a resolution to University
President Charles Knapp to return the sculpture to campus. Knapp,
however, has made the final decision to leave the sculpture where it
is. This decision follows months of controversy regarding the fate of
the Iron Horse, an issue which involved University students as well
as local residents. The 11-foot-tall and 12-foot-long boilerplate steel
sculpture was placed in the Reed Quadrangle on May 24,1954. It was
removed after students adorned it with graffiti and started fires
under it. Jack Curtis, who was a student at the University in 1954,
said the sculpture has a brand new coat of paint and looks beautiful.
“I think it’s fine where it is,” he said.
Handicapped Services changes name. The office of
Handicapped Student Services has changed its name to the Office of
Disability Services, said Diane Shimkets, a counselor in the office.
“The word ‘handicap’ is being used less and less in society,” she said.
‘The students aren’t handicapped. It is the obstacles in the
environment which handicap them.” Shimkets said similar offices at
other universities, including the Georgia Institute of Technology,
have made the same name change.
Georgia Museum article to be published. Bruce Cole, a
visiting distinguished professor of art history at the University of
Georgia, will have his research on a 1990 Georgia Museum of Art
exhibition, “Venetian Paintings of the Renaissance,” published in a
catalog that is due out early in 1991. The Samuel H. Kress
Foundation will fund the publication with a $7,000 grant. Paintings
from the Kress collection were included in the 1990 exhibition. ‘The
catalog will increase the knowledge of the exhibition in both scholars
and the general public,” said Jane Bledsoe, director of the Georgia
Museum of Art. The catalog will provide information concerning
classification, dating and iconography in the works.
■ STATE
Olympic city to be named today. Atlanta (AP) -
Confident yet braced for disappointment, Atlanta learns Tuesday
whether its $7 million effort to land the 1996 Summer Olympics will
produce a lighted torch. Two years of intense lobbying by the Atlanta
Organizing Committee, a mostly volunteer group, comes down to a
vote of the International Olympic Committee, which has convened in
Tokyo and will decide between six finalist cities. The decision is
expected by 7 a.m. EDT Tuesday, with the official announcement
about 45 minutes later. The AOC has set up two huge television
screens at Underground Atlanta for a party scheduled to begin with
entertainment from local musicians at 6 a.m.
■ NATION
Shuttle to lift off Tuesday morning, cape Canaveral,
Fla. (AP) — Hoping its streak of fuel leaks is over, NASA made final
preparations Monday for its fourth attempt to launch Columbia with
an observatory that will expose some of the hottest stars in the
heavens. Columbia was scheduled to lift off at 1:28 a.m. EDT Tuesday
with seven astronauts and the $150 million Astro observatory.
Meteorologists predicted an 80 percent chance of good weather at
launch time. The major hurdle was to come Monday afternoon with
the loading of more than a half-million gallons of liquid hydrogen and
liquid oxygen into Columbia. Two earlier countdowns were halted
during fueling because of leaking hydrogen.‘There’s a bit of
nervousness throughout the entire group, but we’re relaxed and
ready,” said mission scientist Ted Gull. The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration has not launched a shuttle since April, when
Discovery carried the flawed Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
■ WORLD
Hussein faces further embargos, external pressures.
International pressure on Saddam Hussein intensified Monday as
European nations retaliated for raids on diplomatic premises in
occupied Kuwait, and support appeared to grow for the idea of an air
embargo against Iraq. Oil prices jumped Monday, pointing to
pessimism about prospects for a settlement of the 6Fa-week-old
Persian Gulf standoff. Oil futures soared to record levels, above $33 a
barrel, on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In a sign of Iraq’s
growing isolation, the Soviet Union, Baghdad’s longtime patron, said
Monday it would re-establish diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia. The
Saudis infuriated Iraq by agreeing to become the main staging
ground for the deployment of a huge U.S.-led multinational force
after the Aug. 2 Iraqi takeover of Kuwait.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Athens chapter of the
Anorexia Nervosa and
Associated Disorders
organization will meet at 5:15
p.m. at the Family Counseling
Service of Athens, 468 N.
Milledge Ave., Suite 202. Call
Merry Black at 549-7755 for
more information.
• The Pre-Vet club will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 363 of the vet
school building. Anyone
interested in animals or
veterinary medicine is welcome.
• Ad2/Atlanta, an organization
for young professionals in
advertising, public relations,
communications and marketing,
will hold its monthly meeting
tonight at the Colony Square
Hotel in Atlanta. The program,
titled ‘Conducting a Successful
Public Service Campaign,’ begins
at 7.-00 p.m. Call Arye-Onne
Cassels at 263-3038 for more
information.
• The Athens Gay and Lesbian
Association will meet Wednesday
at 7 p.m.in room 213, Memorial
Hall. Call 548-0580 for more
information.
• International Friends holds its
class in conversational English
for foreign students this
Thursday at the Prince Avenue
Baptist Church. Class begins at
9:15 a.m. For more information,
call Pat Hill at 549-5872.
• The Culture of the South
Association will meet Thursday
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 138 of the
Tate Student Center. All
interested are welcome.
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Students sweat it out in overflow dorm space,
crowded living makes for instant roommates
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Like your roommate?
For those in overflow housing, the question
may be, “Do you like your roommatesV
There are 37 women and 71 men in overflow
housing until residence hall spaces open. Four
male halls — Russell, Myers, Milledge and
Reed — and three female halls —Boggs, Church
and Brumby — are accommodating these stu
dents.
Lounges, study rooms and other vacant
spaces have been converted into temporary
living spaces for the extra students, with two to
10 people being placed in each room depending
on its size.
“What we’re doing now is setting up as much
housing as we thought we could,” Housing Di
rector Jim Day said. “We want to help people
out that live on campus, but not leave them in
temporary spaces for long periods of time.”
Room assignments for overflow students
began yesterday, and the 37 women should be
out of the temporary spaces by Wednesday, he
said.
That’s our target,” Day said. “And we think
well get half of the men out.
It'll take another three to four weeks to get
the rest of the men out.”
Before overflow students can begin the tran
sition from lounges to rooms, students with hall
change requests will be handled.
‘What we’re trying to do is give a little
priority to those who applied earlier,” he said.
“Most of them (overflow students) would be Au
gust and September applicants.”
There’s no phone jack, no T.V.
and no mailbox. We don’t even
have an address.
Students in overflow housing pay a base,
non-air conditioned room rate of around $410.
Once they receive permanent housing, they
must pay the difference in cost, which varies
among residence halls.
Day said students are told about their accom
modations — bunk beds and rolling closets —
prior to entering into the temporary situation.
Rent for overflow students isn’t prorated for
the time spent in overflow housing, unless it’s
for an extended period of time, he said
“Refunds would only kick in if the/re past
mid-quarter, and then it’s 20 percent,” Day
^Overflow housing is inevitable in a univer.
sity this size, he said, and there hasn’t been
much negative feedback.
‘The sense I’ve gotten is that most people
seem grateful to be provided an alternative on
campus,” he said.
However, Dave English, a sophomore unde
cided major with seven roommates, finds the
temporary living situation disconcerting.
“I was flabbergasted at the thought of this
many roommates,” he said.
A transfer student from the College of
Western Maryland, English said he applied to
the University last spring. He was notified by
mail of his placement in a temporary facility for
two to three weeks.
However, when English entered Russell Hall
and spoke with personnel, it was a different
SU !‘She said, ‘plan on staying for a while,’ ” he
Sa “We paid $425 for this,” English added.
‘There’s no phone jack, no T.V. and no mailbox.
We don’t even have an address.”
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