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■ UNIVERSITY
AMIGO Seeks VOlunteerS.Training for the AMIGO program
will be Oct. 6 at the Northeast Georgia center on Hawthorne Avenue
from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The AMIGO program was formerly known
as Compeer. People who complete the training spend at least one
hour a week with their ‘amigo’ — a referred Mental Health client.
Bette Neilson, program director, said the volunteers and their amigo
can do whatever they want together. “People have looked for antique
bottles or walked around campus. One professor took his amigo into a
computer lab for an hour,” she said. For more information contact
Neilson at 542-9739.
Debaters sought for Soviet team. University students who
would like to try out for a spot on the Soviet National Debate Team
may do so starting the first week in October. The debate is tentatively
scheduled for October 23. Edward Panetta, assistant professor of
speech communications and the director of the Debate Union, said
qualified students should be interested and knowlegeable in U.S.-
Soviet relations, government and ethics, intercultural studies and the
Russian language. However, Panetta stressed one does not have to
speak the language. Applications are available at the Tate Center.
They will be screened September 27.
■ STATE
Lobbyists work towards ban of textbook. Atlanta (ap)
— Two Atlanta residents lobbied the Georgia Textbook Advisory
Committee on Monday, urging the members to reject the
“Impressions” reading series for use in the state’s schools. Criticizing
what they said is a disturbing focus on mysticism, ghost stories and
the occult, real estate agent Bill Creel and pro-family activist Nancy
Schaefer said the committee should reject the series. The book is one
of 21 the committee is considering for use in Georgia through 1996.
Janet M. Spalding, director of sales support services for Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich Inc., said the series has drawn enthusiastic
endorsements from schools that are using it. Complaints are
overblown or wrong, she said. Some examples of so-called satanism
that Mrs. Schaefer cited do not even appear in the edition proposed
for Georgia, Mrs. Spalding said.
Enigineer battalion headed to Saudi Arabia. AUGUSTA,
Ga. (AP) — “Operation Desert Shield” continues to grow as the Army
Monday ordered Company C of the 92nd Engineer Battalion at Fort
Gordon to Saudi Arabia, The company is to convoy its equipment,
mostly military construction equipment, to an as-yet-undesignated
port today. Soldiers will not leave the installation until later.“Soldiers
are expected to leave within the next 30 days,” said Henry Holmes,
Fort Gordon’s public information officer. He said information on the
number of soldiers in the company, or their hometowns, was not
available.
■ NATION
Appalachian murder suspect wanted in Florida.
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A man accused in the slayings of two
Appalachian Trail hikers in Pennsylvania is wanted on a murder
charge under another name in Florida, authorities said Monday.
Pennsylvania authorities want David “Casey” Horn extradited to face
charges in the Sept. 13 slayings of two hikers. In Bartow, Fla., Horn is
wanted under the name Paul David Crews on charges of first-degree
murder, robbery and unlawful flight in the July 1986 stabbing death
of a 56-year-old woman, said Bartow Detective Sgt.
Hussein's limousine detained in Detroit, livonia, Mich.
(AP) — Saddam Hussein may have Kuwait, but he doesn’t have his
bomb-proof, $300,000 armored Cadillac limousine. The. black limo,
fitted with tear gas dispensers and bulletproof tires, is being held at a
repair shop in this Detroit suburb on order of the U.S. Customs
Service, agents announced Monday in Chicago. “We have reason to
believe that this car might have been used by Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein,” said Donald Watson, Customs’ assistant commissioner of
enforcement in Chicago. “In any case, he’s not going to get it back.”
The Customs Service said it ordered the car held under authority of
President Bush’s executive order freezing Iraqi assets in the United
States. The government of Iraq bought the car in 1988 from O’Gara-
Hess & Eisenhardt, a maker of armored vehicles in Cincinnati, the
Customs Service said. Customs agents said the car, shipped to
Baghdad in November 1988, is bomb-proof, able to withstand military
rifle blasts, and is equipped with bulletproof tires and tear gas
dispensers. The limo was returned to this country in June for routine
maintenance.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Student Government
Association will meet today at
7:30 p.m. in Room 137 of the Tate
Center.
• The Athens Gay and Lesbian
Association will meet today at 7
p.m. in Room 213 of Memorial
Hall. Everyone is welcome.
• Communiversity will sponsor
an orientation program today at
p.m. in the Georgia Hall, Tate
Center. All students interested
in joining this service
organization are invited to
attend.
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
today at 8 p.m. in Room 138 of
the Tate Center. Mr John
Barrow and Mr. Thomas Stubbs,
both candidates for the Fourth
District commission seat under
the new unified government of
Athens/Clarke County, will
address the group. The public is
invited.
• The UGA chapter of the
National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws will
meet today at 9 p.m. in Room 141
of the Tate Center.
• The Georgia Recruitment
Team will hold a meeting for old
members today at 5 p.m. in Room
141 of the Tate Center.
Colloquium
• The Georgia Recruitment
Team will hold a meeting for old
members today at 5 p.m. in Room
141 of the Tate Center.
• Dr. Alex Williams,
Presbyterian Campus Minister
at UGA, will speak on “Do you
have a cult personality?” today at
7 p.m. at the Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin St. A
• Professor Bertis Downs will
speak on historic preservation,
including a discussion on the
Fire Hall, today at 12:30 p.m. in
Room F of the Law School. Bring
a lunch. This lecture is presented
by the Environmental Law
Association, and everyone is
invited.
• The Humanities Center Lunch-
in-Theory Bag Lunch Discussion
program begins with Professor
Dezso Benedek speaking on the
topic “Myth and Reality in
Austronesian Cultures” at noon
today in Room 261 of Park Hall.
Exhibits
♦ Jane Eberhart’s “Dogs, Dolls,
and Children” is on display at the
Lyndon House Art Center, 293
Hoyt St., through October 8.
Admission is free. Call 357-6076
for more information.
Business Interests
• Pi Sigma Epsilon, a
professional sales and marketing
fraternity, invites all majors
interested to Orientation Night
today at 7 p.m. in Room 304
Caldwell Hall. Current members
are invited to attend at 6:30 p.m.
• Phi Chi Theta, a professional
business fraternity, will continue
its fall rush today, with a
meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Memorial
Park. The meeting is informal.
For more information, call 548-
3834.
• Alpha Kappa Psi, a
professional business fraternity,
will hold its formal rush today
from 7-9 p.m. at 545 S. Milledge
Ave. Professional attire is
requested. All business majors
are welcome. Call 549-6950 for
more details.
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Moving performances
target black students
By MELISSA CRAIG
Campus Correspondent
The Georgia Hall was trans
formed into a small southern
church in the midst of a riveting
service Sunday night during the
presentation of “Explorations: An
Introduction to Afrocentric dance,
drama and song.”
Resounding gospel singing fol
lowed a swaying dance perfor
mance, and excitement caught the
audience, bringing each member
into the fold of participation.
“Now that we’ve brought you
into the church, we’re going to keep
you there,” said Thomas Ellis, ad
viser to the Black Theatrical En
semble.
Lonnie Walls, a senior political
science major, took the stage in the
role of Vernon Johns, a preacher
and early human rights activist.
Walls and Johns asked the
ushers to open the side doors, “So
the policemen outside can hear.”
Then he reenacted a 1948
sermon by Johns, denouncing the
abuse and killings of Alabama
blacks by policemen in the pre-
Civil Rights era.
The audience punctuated their
reverent silence with enthusiastic
shouts of “Amen” and “Preach it,
brother!”
Then a woman in the back stood
up to protest, and every audience
member spun around. As part of
the performance, the woman com
plained while the ushers escorted
her out.
“Black theater is participation,”
said Ellis.
Sponsored by the Black Affairs
Council and the Department of Mi
nority Services and Programs, “Ex
plorations” highlighted three
performing groups — the Black
Theatrical Ensemble, the Pamoja
Dance Ensemble and the Afro-
American Choral Ensemble.
“We wanted to give people a
tease of what it’s going to be like in
one of these organizations,” said
LeConia Jenkins, the program’s
mistress of ceremonies.
Ellis said that several people
signed up afler the performance’s
conclusion.
Ellis chose the sermon, which re
ceived a standing ovation, because
it tends to inspire people to sign up
for the groups, as well as excite the
audience, he said.
The Pamoja and Afro-American
Choral ensembles are offered as
one-hour credit classes in their re
spective departments, while the
Black Theatrical Ensemble is an
independent organization.
Phone service expanded
“We’re sorry. You must first dial
a one or zero, plus area code when
calling this number. Will you
please hang up the phone and try
your call again?”
Sound familiar? It should to
anyone who’s tried to phone At
lanta from Athens without first di
aling area code 404.
That is one of many changes
Southern Bell has made to meet
the needs of growing numbers of
telephone customers.
Now Southern Bell has added to
the confusion: new three-digit ex-
The new exchange
reinforces the need to
dial the area code.
Someone dialing 1-613
and a 7-digit number
could be telephoning
Canada, leading to a
high telephone bill
Tracy Stanbarg/The Red and B<ack
Catchin’ a ride
Inga Stool, a master of education major, waits with her son Jacob
at the bus stop. Jacob loves to ride the bus so much that he
doesn't want to get off at their stop. Many students feel the
same way, but for different reasons.
changes. There are 12 exchanges
for the 147,000 residents in the
Athens area. The newest exchange
in Athens is 613.
The new exchange reinforces the
need to dial the area code.
Someone dialing 1-613 and a 7-
digit number could be telephoning
Canada, leading to a high tele
phone bill for a wrong number.
Last year Southern Bell began
using the area-code recording to
counter incorrectly-dialed long-dis
tance phone numbers — phone
numbers that once could be
reached without the area code.
“We are constantly monitoring
the population (to make more lines
available),” Ron Manson, a
Southern Bell spokesperson, said.
— Johns! Blalock
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