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2 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, October 9, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Transfer students pace record enrollment. The University
enrolled 2^,341 students this fall, the largest number in the school’s
history, Dwight Douglas, vice president for Student Affairs, said. The
figure broke last year’s record by 893 students, a growth rate of 3.3
percent. The increase is due to a large number of transfer students
who comprised 830 of the undergraduate total, he said. “The pressure
on transfer enrollment comes from increased freshmen admission
requirements over the past two years," Douglas said. “Students who
could not gain admission to the University of Georgia as freshmen are
transferring here in great numbers after achieving satisfactory
records at other institutions."
Today is registration deadline.The deadline for registering to
vote in the Nov. 6 General Election is today. Dot Barrett, Clarke
County Board of Elections chair, said the Athens Regional Library
will be registering voters until 8:30 p.m. The Board of Elections office
and most other voter registration sites will close at 5 p.m., she said.
Dot Shrivar, of the Tate Center Administrative Office, said her office
will register people from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. A picture ID and proof
of residence, such as a utility bill or checkbook, are required to
register.
■ STATE
Forbes lists Georgia’s richest residents. (AP) — Here are
the Georgia residents on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans for
1990. Each listing includes name, ranking on list, worth in millions,
residence, source of wealth and age. Anne Cox Chambers, 5th (tie),
$2,600, Atlanta, inheritance (Cox Enterprises), 70. Robert Edward
(Ted) Turner III, 48th (tie), $1,300, Roswell, Turner Broadcasting
System, 51. Orville Wayne Rollins, 82nd (tie), $800, Atlanta,
entrepreneur, 78. William Shivers Morris III, 244th (tie) $380,
Augusta, newspapers, 56. Allen Eugene Paulson, 269th (tie) $350,
Savannah, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., 68. Eleanor Francis du
Pont Rust, 269th (tie) $350, Thomasville, inheritance (Du Pont Co.),
83. Jesse Mack Robinson, 366th, $295, Atlanta, banking, 67.
■ NATION
Former President says war likely. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)
— Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday the Persian Gulf
crisis is likely to lead to a war that would not go as easily for the
United States as some predict. Carter, speaking to the American
Magazine Conference being held at a resort, rated the odds of a
peaceful resolution to the conflict over the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
at about 40 percent.“I read these analyses that it’s going to be a very
easy thing,” Carter said of the prospect of ousting Iraq from Kuwait.
‘They talk very glibly about surgical strikes or we can avoid killing
innocent women and children who are suffering under Saddam
Hussein, that we will have the support of the world even if we go in
and attack Saddam without the United Nations auspices.“All these
presumptions are certainly questionable. I disagree with almost all of
them. It is a mistake to underestimate the political and the military
and economic capabilities of Iraq. If they don’t do anything else, they
can destroy a great portion of the Saudi oil Fields. When we start
bombing Arab families, we are going to lose the support, of others we
have in the Arab world.”
Building Named After Slain Judge.BIRMINGHAM, Ala (AP)
— The old federal building in Birmingham, now being renovated, was
named Monday for a slain federal appeals court judge who was
described as a man of reason, courage, and integrity. The Robert S.
Vance Federal Building is diagonally across a street from the new
Hugo Black Federal Building, named for a U.S. Supreme Court
justice from Alabama. Vance and an attorney in Savannah, Robert
Robinson, were killed by mail bombs last December.
Mayor questions powers of Olympic authority. ATLANTA
(AP) — Mayor Maynard Jnckson said Monday he is concerned about
the possibility of “self-dealing” by members of the Metropolitan
Atlanta Olympic Games Authority .Jack son said such dealing is made
possible by a legal provision granting members of the authority to
enter into Olympics-related contracts. “My ear is in the street, and
there is an awful lot of concern on this issue in the community,” the
mayor said at the authority’s first meeting since Atlanta was
awarded the 1996 summer Olympic Games in September. ‘That
legislation passed very, very quietly,” Jackson said. “The city didn’t
know about it. There was no forewarning.” But Authority Chairman
Barry Phillips insisted the measures were not intended to create
ways for authority members to take advantage of their association
with the Olympics.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Public Relations Student
Society of America will meet
informally at Steverino’s tonite
at 7:30. All students interested in
PRSSA are invited to meet the
members and discuss plans for
the upcoming year.
• The Social Work Club will hold
an organizational meeting
tonight in Tucker Hall at 7 p.m.
All social work students are
invited. For more information
call 542-3364.
• The UGA Equestrian Team
will meet tonight at 7 p.m. in
room 319 of the Livestock and
Poultry building.
• The UGA chapter of the
Association for Computing
Machinery will meet at 7 p.m.
today in room 328 of Boyd
Graduate Studies for a tour of
the University’s computing
facilities. The public is invited.
• The UGA chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union
will hold its first meting of the
fall quarter today at 7 p.m. in
room 147 of the Tate Center.
Anyone interested in basic,
personal rights is invited to
attend.
• The UGA Recreation Majors
Club will have a social tonight at
8 p.m. in room 105 of Hardman
Hall. A new student orientation
meeting will precede the social.
Colloquium
• The Humanities Center will
present a lecture by Robert
Heslep, philosophy of education
professor, entitled “Pluralistic
Democracy, Liberalism and
Public Choice.” The lecture, held
today at 4 p.m. in room 261 of
Park Hall, will focus upon the
tension created by cultural
pluralism in a democratic state.
• Lester Langley will present a
Latin American Studies Lecture,
“Mexico and The United States:
Two Countries, One Future” at
3:30 p.m. today in room 142 of
the Tate Center. The public is
invited. For more information
call Lester Langley at the Center
for Latin American Studies, 542-
2497.
Announcements
• The Counseling and Testing
Center will host a seminar on
how to best schedule your time
for study and have time for fun
too today from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in
room 119 of Clark Howell Hall.
No pre-registration is necessary.
• The Rape Crisis Line is holding
volunteer trnining throughout
October beginning today at 7
p.m. No experience is necessary.
Call 542-9475 or 353-1912 for
more information.
• Applications for the Hamilton
McWhorter Prize, a scholarship
awarded to sophomores at the
University, are available at the
Office of Student Financial Aid
and the Tate Center information
desk. For more information
contact the Office of Financial
Aid. Deadline for entry is Nov. 9,
1990.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art
presents “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” from
Sept. 29 through Nov. 18.
• Benny Andrews, a leading
figurative artist in America, will
have varius works on exhibit Oct.
1 - 30 in the Tate Student Center
Gallery. The exhibit is open to
the public free of charge.
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Modular education abounds
Industrial arts uses new teaching technique
Industrial Arts Education:
Undergraduates vs. Graduates
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Stephen MofoeW/The Red and Black
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Robotics isn’t just for Detroit au
tomakers anymore — it’s part of a
new “modular” approach to high
school vocational education es
poused by a small program in the
College of Education.
Modules are specific teaching
units that last about 10 secondary
school classroom sessions.
In a typical high school program,
there are 14 to 22 modules like
communications, laser technology,
broadcasting and computer-aided
drafting, said Industrial Arts Edu
cation (IAE) Instructor Dan Emig.
IAE wants to expand its present
curriculum to a comprehensive
modular one, and the estimates
run about $250,000.
“What we’re doing now is trying
to change over from a traditional
industrial arts program to a
module-based program that tea
ches more theories of technology”
— not just skills, Emig said. “The
traditional industrial arts aren’t
doing what they’re supposed to be
doing in terms of educating a com
puter-literate society.”
Emig isn’t counting on the
money to come from the education
college; instead, IAE has applied
for grants from companies like
Fischer-Technik, a German man
ufacturer of computer-aided ro
botic components.
IAE’s real hope lies in block
grants of up to $200,000, of which
three or four are available nation
wide, said IAE Program Head Ste
phen Matt.
Matt said there’s no IAE budget
set forth — accountability ends
with the college's vocational educa
tion division — just a series of re
quests, denials and receipts to
record IAE’s quest for better equip
ment.
Emig said IAE is trying to boost
its enrollment with higher visi
bility, but “the basic problem is
people don’t know we exist.”
IAE majors are eligible for “crit
ical skills” loans cancelable at a
rate of $2000 for every year spent
teaching in the state, he said. Cur
rently there are 16 unfilled open
ings for the loans.
It isn’t easy attracting Univer
sity students to IAE because “a lot
of people just don’t want to get
their hands dirty,” Matt said.
He said departments like math
education are “finding that you
can’t go in and teach two plus two.”
Emig said, ‘The problem is that
people don’t really understand
what the program is all about.
We’ve lost some of our significance,
and it’s progressively gotten
worse.”
Other schools like business,
journalism and psychology also use
a form of applied learning in their
curricula — the case study.
Other schools also use
a form of applied
learning in their
curricula.
Matt said IAE would reconstruct
its program in a series of “labs,
with each lab composed of mod
ules. Communications would prob
ably be the first lab adopted, with
seven modules involving com
puters, electronics and drafting.
If IAE didn’t succeed within a
year, “I would recommend we close
the undergraduate program,” Matt
said.
Emig said a junior high school
robotics module might begin with
electrical and construction theory
and conclude with students writing
a program to guide an assembly
line or automated warehouse with
proximity indicators and light me
ters, for instance.
An administrative assistant for
the DeKalb County school system
said DeKalb’s budget for industrial
arts materials, computers and
equipment is $258,000.
David Mallett, a graduate IAE
research assistant, said he chose
LAE as a second career after he lost
interest in anthropology.
“I’d ended up feeling a sort of
need for a career that benefited or
helped people in some way,” he
said.
Mallett said all vocational pro
grams don’t need to change. The
one in Wilkes County, for instance,
seems to have found its niche by
producing high quality goods in
wood shop, metal shop and
drafting.
‘They had incredible numbers of
pieces of furniture, metal furniture
— even farm implements,” he said.
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