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2 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, October 2, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Voter registration continues. Vote 90, a voter registration
drive sponsored by the Student Voter Registration Council, will
continue at the Tate Student Center Plaza today and Wednesday
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sophomore Student Government Association
Sen. Holly Thomas said 169 students registered to vote Monday. “We
did have a very good turnout,” she said. Thomas said they expect
more students to register. Students need a picture ID and proof of
residence to register to vote.
■ STATE
Police wound gunman In grocery store. lithonia(AP) —
A 22-year-old Lithonia man walked through a shopping center
randomly firing a handgun and terrorizing customers and employees
before he was shot by police, officers said. Jonathan Wavne Bennett
was wounded by officers who responded to a call to 911 by a grocery
store clerk early Sunday, said Lt. J.M. Rowell of the DeKalb County
Public Safety Department. No one else was hurt. Bennett was
charged with aggravated assault, burglary and criminal damage to
property. Police said Bennett chased a janitor out of a hair salon at a
shopping center on Covington Highway around 1 a.m., then walked
into an adjacent all-night grocery store, where he opened fire on
customers. The gunman roamed through the grocery for about 10
minutes, firing randomly until two DeKalb police officers arrived.
One of the officers shot Bennett in the stomach when the gunman
pointed his pistol at the officer, Rowell said. The officer who shot
Bennett has been placed on a paid leave-of-absence pending the
investigation of the shooting, and which is standard operating
procedure, police said.
Georgia’s candidates state abortion stand. Atlanta
(AP) — A coalition of pro-choice groups released a political report card
Monday that outlines where candidates for governor and lieutenant
governor stand on abortion. Lt. Gov. Zell Miller, the Democratic
candidate for governor, indicated he supports the right to abortion
but opposes allowing minors to get abortions without parental
consent. Republican nominee Johnny Isakson said he supports the
right to abortion and Georgia’s current abortion laws, but did not
answer any other questions on the survey. Democratic lieutenant
governor candidate Pierre Howard said he favors unrestricted
abortion rights, including use of public funding for abortions and
abortion counseling. Matt Towery, the Republican candidate for
lieutenant governor, did not respond.
■ NATION
National debt ceiling to be raised. Washington iap) -
Congress on Sunday approved President Bush’s request for a
temporary increase in the national debt. The legislation, approved by
voice votes in the House and the Senate, will permit the Treasury to
keep borrowing to cover government expenses through the end of the
week. The Treasury’s current debt limit of $3,195 billion is scheduled
to drop back to $3,123 billion at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Without more
borrowing power, the Treasury could be forced to default on
Thursday, according to Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady. The bill
sent to the president on Sunday night will keep the Treasury at the
higher borrowing level through Friday. Congress is expected to
consider another debt extension then.
Tax increases on horizon. Washington (AP) — President
Bush and key lawmakers avoided a crisis as the new fiscal year
dawned today but they now must convince an election-year Congress
to vote for $134 billion in new taxes and widespread cuts in federal
programs. “It’s a tough sale,” said Rep. Tom Tauke, R-Iowa, one of
many lawmakers troubled by what he was hearing of the package
Sunday. Democrats, too, were expected to swallow hard before
agreeing to raising Medicare premiums while cutting the benefits,
increasing taxes on gasoline, alcohol and cigarettes, and trimming
everything from defense to student loans.And despite a claimed $500
billion in deficit reduction, it would stretch out the goal of a balanced
budget and let the national debt increase another $1 trillion. The $40
billion in deficit reduction for the fiscal year beginning today would
still leave a record annual deficit of $254 billion.
■ WORLD
Germany to unite at midnight, west Berlin (AP) -
Germans on Monday got ready for the nation’s party of the century —
a celebration of unity in Berlin and Germany. When the clock strikes
midnight Tuesday, the two German states will become a single,
sovereign nation, ending more than 45 years of postwar separation.
What started with church-sponsored protests in the gritty East
German industrial city of Leipzig last year has led to the merger
many had considered only a nostalgic dream. The result: an economic-
powerhouse of nearly 78 million people in the heart of Europe.
Hussein requests talks. Toning down his bellicose rhetoric,
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has urged an international dialogue
and mentioned France as a possible partner. But both French and
British officials said they won’t talk until Iraq quits Kuwait.
Moreover, the nations allied against Iraq have pressed on with laying
the groundwork for possible military action. U.S. and Soviet officials
were reported Sunday to be drafting new United Nations resolutions
that would authorize the use of force against Iraq if the U.N.-ordered
economic blockade fails to force Saddam to pull out of Kuwait.
President Bush was to address the U.N. General Assembly in New
York today. Brent Scowcroft, his national security adviser, said
Friday that U.S. officials are considering asking U.N. authorization
for military action.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Black Affairs Council will
hold its general body meeting
today at 7 p.m. in Rloom 407 of
Memorial Hall.
• Delta Epsilon Chi will meet
today at 7 p.m. in Room 601 of
Aderhold Hall for a formal group
photograph.
• The Oxymoron Society, the
new political science club, will
meet today at 7 p.m. in Room 304
of Baldwin Hall. All members, or
anyone interested in becoming a
member, is invited to attend.
• The UGA Pre-Veterinary Club
will meet today at 8 p.m. in Room
363 of the Vet School. Anyone
interested in animals or
veterinary medicine is invited to
attend.
• An organizational meeting of
the UGA Lacrosse Club will be
held today at 9 p.m. in Room 145
of the Tate Center.
Announcements
• The International Association
of Business Communicators will
continue its membership drive
today in the Drewry Room from 9
a.m. to 3 p.m., and Wednesday
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Caldwell
Hall.
• Signup for the P.E. Bnsic
Challenge Program will be today
and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12
p.m., and from 1:30-4 p.m, in
Room 129 of the Women’s P.E.
Building.
• Athens area Opportunity
Industrialization Center is
holding registration Oct. 1-5 for
its English as a Second
Language classes. Classes will
run Oct. 8 through Dec. 19. OIC
is located at 496 Reese St.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art
presents “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” from
Sept. 29 through Nov. 18.
• Jane Eberhart’s “Dogs, Dolls
and Children” is on exhibit at the
Lvndon House Art Center, 293
Hoyt St., through Oct. 8.
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Religion leads to war
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
A religious war has been waged,
and the battlefield is the exposed
walls, sidewalks and buildings of
the University.
Graffiti is the form of combat for
these crusaders who work under
the cover of night and secrecy to
paint their slogans, mottos and
gospels virtually anywhere the
public will read them.
The slogans “Jesus Saves” and
‘Trust Jesus” have been the main
ammunition for the Christian van-
dalists.
These have been altered to read
“Mistrust Jesus” or “Distrust
Jesus” by opposing forces. Several
obscene rebuttals from the anti-
Christian point of view have also
surfaced.
James TenBrook, director of the
Physical Plant, said the University
doesn’t have a large graffiti
problem, but he estimated 50 per
cent of what is there is religiously
oriented.
No official campus organization
has claimed responsibility for the
vandalism and several have con
demned it.
Jay Gemes, a freshman pre-med
major from Campus Crusade for
Christ, said even though the mes
sages might be for Jesus, he was
sure Christ would disapprove of
the methods used.
“It’s not our place to go and van
dalize," Gemes said. '
Richard Rimer, senior ac
counting major and a member of
the Baptist Student Union, said he
also felt it was wrong to deface
property even if it supported a reli
gious principle.
“I believe in freedom of speech,
but I don’t feel it allows you to van
dalize property,” he said.
Non-Christian groups agreed
that it is wrong to put religious
doctrine of any nature on build
ings.
Robert Pellock, president of the
University Objectivist Club, a
group that follows the philosophy
of author Ayn Rand, including
atheism, said “it was pretty silly*
to express religious views through
public vandalism.
“I can see where people get
upset, either way,” he said. There
are more appropriate ways to ex
press yourself than public graffiti."
Sgt. Richard Goooson of the Uni
versity Police Department said
vandalism is a misdemeanor of
fense which could carry up to a $1,-
000 fine and up to one year in jail.
Goodson said it doesn’t make
any difference in the eyes of the
law what the message is; van
dalism is still illegal. In some
cases, he said, the perpetrator will
be sent before the Student Judi
ciary rather than the court system.
“It seems kind of odd breaking
the law to promote religion,” he
said.
TenBrook said Physical Plant
employees always try to remove
graffiti immediately upon re
ceiving a work order and he en
courages faculty to notify the plant
as soon as they see it.
According to TenBrook, graffiti
inspires more graffiti. When one
person leaves a message, somebody
else will come by and respond with
more graffiti.
Religious graffiti: Students’ religious preferences has led
to the defacement of public property.
VOTE ’90 EVENTS
TODAY
10 to 11 a.m. — Jim Lemon
10:45 a.m. — University President Charles Knapp
Bill Crane, office of Secretary of State Max Cleland
11 a.m. - Gwenn O'Looney, Athens city council member, ward 5
11 to 1 p.m. — band Stonewash Tapestry
Noon — Cardee Kilpatrick. Athens dty council member, ward 2
John Barrow, local attorney
12:30 p.m. — Thomas Stubbs, senior political science major
I p.m. — Howard Guest
1:30 p.m. — Danny Daniel, local businessman
1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. — band Fluid Druid
WEDNESDAY:
II a.m.- Noon — Gwen O’Looney, Cardee Kilpatrick, John Barrow
12:30 p.m. — Thomas Stubbs
1 p.m. — Danny Daniel
2 p.m. — band Flve-8
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