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2 • The Red and Black • Friday, September 28. 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
IsakSOfl to appear on Rapid Fire. Republican gubernatorial
candidate Johnny Isakson will be the featured guest on Channel 34’s
political talk show, Rapid Fire. Isakson will talk about the major
issues of his campaign with a panel moderated by David Herndon,
senior political science major and the show’s executive producer. The
panel is comprised of Larry Blount, a University School of Law
professor and head of the Athena'Clarke County Unification Team;
Charles Bullock, a professor in the University’s political science
department and David Johnston, opinions page editor for The Red
and Black. Isakson will discuss education, crime and drugs. The
program will air Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7
pm.
Designated driver program to continue. The Student
Government Association met Wednesday night and discussed its
continuation of the “I’m Drivin’ Program.” The program, sponsored by
SGA and BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the
Health of University Students), involves bars serving free soft drinks
for students over 21 who choose not to drink. Susie Griffin, a junior
political science major and organizer of the program, said SGA has
had positive responses from the bars in Athens. “We’re hoping people
will become more aware of the project," Griffin said. “We’re thinking
if this saves one life, it’s worth it," she said.
Expanded parking available Saturday. Parking spaces will
be available downtown Saturday at the Clarke County parking deck
for people in search of a space for the home football game. Fans will be
charged a pre-paid rate of $4. Once the deck is full, no cars will be
allowed into the area. Fans planning to park in the deck earlier than
10 a m should pre-pay on Friday. “Well be out there three hours
before the game," Amanda McEntyre, central services secretary said.
Unauthorized parked cars will be towed. McEntyre said they will be
passing out flyers on Prince Avenue Saturday, to inform people about
the parking area.
Game to be shown on pay-per-view. Host Communications
and Jefferson Pilot Teleproductions will broadcast the Oct. 6 Georgia-
Clemson football game live on a pay-per-view basis for cable
subscribers in Georgia and South Carolina. The game, to be held at
Clemson, will also be available on closed-circuit broadcast in the
Coliseum. Admission will $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students
and school-aged children. University Athletic Director Vince Dooley
said more than 3,000 fans were at the Coliseum viewing of the
Georgia-LSU game. ‘We felt it was important to offer the game in
Athens for our fans and students who are now back in school," Dooley
said. Advance tickets will go on sale Monday at the Butts-Mehre
Athletic Building ticket office. Interested cable viewers should
contact their local cable companies.
Student autos robbed. Five students in the Sleepy Creek
apartment complex and one student who lived on Sycamore Drive had
their automobiles broken into Wednesday night. One of the victims,
John Mallady, a senior political science major, said most of the
students found their windows smashed with bricks. The students had
stereos, radar detectors, a handgun, and purses stolen from their
cars, according to police reports. Hilda Spratlin of the Athens Police
Department said, “Since most of the break-ins happened in the same
parking lot during the same time span, it is a safe assumption that it
was the same person or group.” Police don’t have any leads or know
how many people may have been involved with the thefts, Spratlin
said.
■ STATE
Murphy lashes out at Isakson. Atlanta (AP) - House
Speaker Tom Murphy, who has waged a running battle with
Democrat Zell Miller in years past, buried the hatchet long enough
Thursday to take a shot at Miller’s opponent Johnny Isakson for an
ad his campaign ran last week. Isakson’s campaign ad accused Miller
and the Capitol’s “good ole boys" of squandering millions of state tax
dollars on legislative offices while ignoring school needs. The state
spent about $10 million converting a vacant office building on Capitol
Hill into offices for legislators in the mid-1980s. Miller’s campaign
counterclaimed that the ad failed to mention that Isakson hasoffices,
one in the Legislative Office Building and one in the Capitol, or that
he voted for both budget bills which authorized the expenditures. “It’s
a total hypocrisy to vote for it and use it and then say you wouldn’t
have spent the money,” Murphy said. Murphy said that Isakson voted
for both bills in 1984 and 1985.
■ NATION
Alternative news service publishes first edition.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Associated Baptist Press, designed
as an alternative to the Southern Baptist Convention’s news service,
published its first edition Wednesday. The news service was
organized as an alternative to the Baptist Press after the firing of two
editors last July by fundamentalists who now control the executive
board of the 14.8 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. The
board members said Baptist Press reporting was biased against
fundamentalists. One of the fired editors, Dan Martin, is now
working as the interim news director of the Associated Baptist Press.
■ WORLD
Mohawks leave building under surrender plan, oka,
Quebec (AP) — Troops with bayonet-tipped weapons Wednesday
herded Mohawk militants from a building where they were encamped
for nearly a month as part of a surrender plan designed to end a
violent land dispute. An estimated 50 Mohawks had been holed up in
the drug and alcohol treatment center near Oka, about 18 miles west
of Montreal. The withdrawal ended the last major conflict in a series
of clashes that began in July after Mohawks objected to plans to build
a golf course extension on what they say is tribal land. Dozens of
Indians, troops and police have been injured, and one Quebec police
officer killed during the dispute.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Graduate Student
Association will hold a general
meeting to form committees and
elect officers, today at 7 p.m. in
Room 140 of the Tate Center.
Colloquium
• The Women’s Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks presents
Debra K. Groover, Athens area
artist, on “Processing the Dream:
Art and Imagery” today from
12:10-1 p.m. in Room 140 of the
Tate Center.
Announcements
• The Physical Therapy
Association of Georgia will host a
physical therapy clinic for
National Physical Therapy Week
on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 1-4
p.m. in the Belk court of the
Georgia Square Mall.
• The UGA Concert Dance
Company will hold auditions in
modern dance, jazz and ballet at
5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2.
Preregistration will be today and
Monday, Oct. 1 from 3-5 p.m. For
further information call 542-
4432 or 542-4415.
• Local authors Warren Leamon,
Dan McGirt, Richard Rusk and
Phillip Lee Williams will be
honored with a reception at
Waldenbooks, Georgia Square
Mall on Saturday, Sept. 29 from
2-4 p.m. The public is invited.
• The Athens area Opportunity
Industrialization Center will
begin registration next week,
Oct. 1-5, for its English as a
Second Language classes. OIC is
located at 496 Reese St. Call 543-
3311 for more information.
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Marijuana group sets agenda for year
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presents
Friday 9-28
John Berry
Saturday 9-29
Ed Saye & The Genteels
21 SO W. Broad 354-171/
DIAL NOW GUYS ARE WAITING!
FAITH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (PCA)
A young and growing congregation of the Pres
byterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA is
the fastest growing denomination in the U.S.
• UGA College Class Sunday 9:45 a.m. Dr. Henry F. Schaefer
"The Revelation of John"
• Morning Worship Sunday 11:00 a.m. Rev. Terry L. Mercer
The new sanctuary of Faith Presbyterian Church
is located at the intersection of Epps Bridge Rd.
and Mars Hill Rd., one mile south of the
Epps Bridge Rd. exit from the By-Pass
2191 Mars Hill Rd. Watkinsville 769-8315
The letters sIbo may target cor
porations such as Anheiser Busch
hr large tobacco companies which
UGA NORML says lobby hard
ijnst the legalization of mari-
id, “If you drink
mow it’s the Tiing
dethrone those
formed last year,
if the National Pro-
Organyzation, but
iot necessarily
larger group,
ing Wednesday, au-
ibers talked politics
organizers,
concerned that drug-
te Bush administra
tion’s war on drugs could endanger
constitutional freedoms.
“Our Bill of Rights is being de
stroyed by the Bush-leaguers,”
said Ed Tant, a local activist who
occasionally writes for the pro
marijuana magazine High Times.
The Georgia legislature passed a
law last year requiring all em
ployees of the Georgia public school
system to take drug tests. The law
is currently paralyzed due to the
injunction stemming from a court
testing
challenge. 1 t,
“I just don’t see die -sspse in
sinking money in having abilnchof
people pee in a cup — in a test that
can be cheated on easily/’ Sin
gleton said. t St*''*- ./,
“It’s just silly,” he s*u^ because
the costly tests will take away from
already scarce educational funds.
Others asked the ekife how ft
would go about making marijuana
legal. Club organizer Mark Men
denhall said states should follow
the example of Alaska, which al
lows each resident to grow three
marijuana plants.
Allowing individuals to grow the
plants would be more efficient than
turning the task over to commer
cial farmers, said Singleton.
“If you’ve got fields of pot,” he
said, “everybody who drives by
there is going to put the brakes
on.”
In addition to its most popular
use, marijuana — or hemp fibers —
can be used to make strong ropes,
durable cloth, and efficient car
fuel, group members said.
For that reason, Tant said, UGA
NORML’s rallying cry should be,
“Marijuana: Food, fuel, fiber and
fun.”
Aaron Rents
Furniture
YOU ARE INVITED
First Baptist Church of Athens
The College Welcome
and Picnic
Sunday, September 30
9:45 Program by
Doug Berkey
11:00 Worship
12:00 Lunch provided Corner of Hancock & Pulaski
Doug Berkey is a mime, a clown, and an
improvisationalist who has performed
nationally and internationally.
Join us Sunday, September 30.
Pulaski St. 548-1359
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By JOEL GROOVER
Campus Correspondent
UGA NORML, the organization
which promotes the legalization of
marijuana, faced an abnormal at
tendance problem at its first
meeting of the year Wednesday
night.
It was too crowded.
All chairs were taken. People
stood in the back of the room or sat
on the floor.
Craning their necks, a few of the
more than 100 spectators even
stood in the hallway, watching the
meeting through the open door.
“I really wasn’t expecting this
big of a crowd," said Elizabeth
Martin, an organizer for UGA
NORML, which stands for the Na
tional Organization for the Reform
of Marijuana Laws.
The meeting, held on the bottom
floor of the Tate Student Center,
was intended as a planning session,
to set the club’s direction for thtf
year, said club organizer i
omore psychology’ .
gleton.
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• A rally at-
plaza Oct. 24
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• A campaig
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the club’s views;
• Letter-writing
state and local gov _
couraging the reform <
laws and the repeal of anti-drug
laws that endanger civil liberties;
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