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6 « The Red and Black « Friday, September 21. 1990
‘AMIGOS’ share time
Aa community-minded citizens,
University student* and faculty
have become involved in a volun
teer program to provide friendsliip
and support for mentally ill people.
Under the “AMIGO" program,
volunteers spend one hour a week
for at least a year with someone
who has a mental illness.
“Basically, I just have a friend. I
get a completely different perspec
tive of things. It’s not like work."
Lewis Nielson, a music professor
and AMIGO volunteer, said.
Amigo means “friend” in
Spanish.
The volunteers are matched
with clients who share activities of
mutual interests.
Bette Nielson, spokesperson for
the program, said there are cur
rently 10 University student vol
unteers involved in the program.
Cheryl Jones, a senior psy
chology major and AMIGO volun-
Volunteers spend one
hour a week with
someone who has a
mental illness.
teer, said "I spend time with the
client and try to become a role
model. We keep their minds off
problems by becoming a friend.”
The University Ad Club also be
came involved in the program by
designing the AMIGOS logo.
The AMIGOS program, formerly
called Compeer, is an Athens-
based volunteer service sponsored
by the Northeast Georgia Center
Mental Health Services.
— Joanna Horton
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Professor: Peanut oil is desirable fuel source
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Managing Editor
One University professor is
doing more than roasting pea
nuts; he’s using them to proauce
fuel for diesel engines.
Agricultural Engineering As
sociate Professor John Goodrum,
who has been conducting re
search on peanut oil at the Uni
versity for 10 years, said it is
highly desirable as a substitute
for diesel fuel and could supple
ment fuel reserves in the event of
an energy crisis.
“It’s an alternative fuel that
can be used in an emergency,”
Goodrum said. “It’s renewable
and there’s no environmental im
pact.”
Ultimately, Goodrum, who
spends anywhere from $10,000 to
$20,000 per year on the research,
wants to engineer plants that
could be grown cheaply and
would have virtually no environ
mental impact. Presently, peanut
oil costs about $1.75 per gallon.
The University used peanut oil
in two campus buses throughout
the 1981-82 school year, and
Goodrum said he received posi
tive feedback from students, fac
ulty and the media.
He said he would like to see
another demonstration of this
sort on campus once the new
plant is developed, but to do an
other one now would be too ex
pensive.
Rodney Reed, who has been a
bus mechanic at the University
for 21 years, said the buses ran as
efficiently on peanut oil as they
did on diesel fuel.
“It sort of smelled like parched
f iennuts, but it smelled a whole
ot better than dies?! fuel and it
burned clean,” Reed said.
Goodrum said the University
is not the only school to study
such substitutes; the University
of Idaho, Texas A & M Univer
sity, the University of Kansas
and North Dakota State Univer-
sity are also studying the use of
oils such as peanut, sunflower
and kanola.
“We’ve stayed with peanuts be
cause we're pleased with their
chemical behavior. It’s less reac
tive and gives less combustion.
But because of federal allot
ments, its growth is very re
stricted, which would be bad in
an emergency,” he said.
Goodrum said he'd like to alter
the plant’s structure to lower the
oil's viscosity, which is a matter
of plant genetics. In cold weather,
the oil is so thick, it must be
heated for use in many northern
states.
Peanut oil exhaust is consider
ably cleaner than that of diesel.
"Peanut oil still gives exhaust,
but less harmful. It’s not clean
air, but not nearly as bad as
diesel,” Goodrum said.
Diesel engines aren’t govern
ment regulated while gasoline
engines are required to use cat
alytic converters. Vegetable oils
cannot be used in gasoline en
gines because they must have
very volatile fuel to function.
John Ingle, associate vice pres
ident for research, said, “There’s
a lot of interest in vegetable oil
from the nutritional and the in
dustrial side. I guess it takes a
crunch like an oil crisis to get
people to try things.
“But we are moving into the
environmental area in research.
It’s no good waiting until you
hove a crisis and then research to
find answers,” Ingle said.
Goodrum said there’s no real
promise that petroleum oil will
extend into the 21st Century and
his pet concern is that Americans
aren’t preparing for a real crisis.
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