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* WEEKEND EDITION * FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 16
UGA to host Schultz
Forum includes other secretaries
Statesmen: From left, William Rogers,
Cyrus Vance and Alexander Haig, former
secretaries of state, will hold this year's
annual report at the University Friday with
other former secretaries Dean Rusk,
George Schultz and Edmund Muskie.
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
Former Secretary of State George Schultz will join
five of his contemporaries today for the first time at
the Annual Report of the Secretaries of State.
Schultz, who served under President Reagan from
1982 to 1989, didn’t attend last year’s report because
he had just left office and was resting at his home in
Stanford, Calif., said Cedric Suzman, vice president of
Southern Center for International Studies — the
agency which produces the report.
Suzman said Schultz’ contribution to this, the
eighth annual report titled “U.S. Foreign Policy for a
New World Order,” will be of particular interest be
cause he served most recently and because of his
lengthy tenure.
“And he served when many changes were taking
place in the world,” he said.
Schultz will meet with former Secretaries Dean
Rusk, who served from 1961 to 1969 during the Ken
nedy and Johnson administrations; William Rogers,
who served from 1969 to 1973 during the Nixon ad
ministration and Cyrus Vance, who served from 1977
to 1980 during the Carter administration.
Edmund Muskie, who served from 1980 to 1981
during the Carter administration, will also partici
pate along with Alexander Haig, who served from
1981 to 1982 during the Reagan administration.
Henry Kissinger, who served under Presidents
Nixon and Ford, will not be attending due to a prior
commitment.
This year’s conference is being held at the Univer
sity in honor of Dean Rusk, holder of the Samuel H.
Sibley professorship of International Law.
In an interview Wednesday, Rusk said the different
secretaries are “friends regardless of politics because
of their experience.
"In a given day, 9ome 3,000 cables go out of the
White House,” he said. “And 95 percent of them are bi
partisan,” he said.
He said the secretary of state deals with the op
posing party as much as the party in the White House
The secretaries’ motorcade will be given a police es
cort from Ben Epps Field to the fine arts auditorium
where the conference will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1
p.m.
It will be open to the public but tickets are sold out.
Two large screens for a free closed-circuit television
broadcast have been set up in the Georgia Hall of the
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Council delays action,
students still need PE
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
The University Council tabled
Thursday a Curriculum Com
mittee proposal to eliminate man
datory physical education
requirements.
The council will convene again
Oct. 29. In the meantime, the Exec
utive Committee will further re
view the Curriculum Committee’s
proposal and the Department of
Physical Education’s “Basic Phys
ical Education Proposal.”
The department’s proposal cites
Centers for Disease Control statis
tics that say 67,000 deaths in 1987
were attributable to physical inac
tivity and could have been pre
vented by regular exercise.
The proposal asks that under
graduates show competency in
health and skill-relatea fitness as
opposed to earning credit hours.
Tney may “challenge” the course
by examination, take the class or
opt for a combination of the two.
It’s designed to operate much
the same way as other exemption
programs on campus whereby stu
dents receive resident history
credit by examination without at
tending class.
Wilma Harrington, a graduate
physical education coordinator
who signed the basic PE proposal,
said it wasn’t designed to be a com
promise between factions with an
ft all-or-none" attitude toward the
requirements.
‘That’s not the way we looked at
it," she said. “We wanted to offer
what is most beneficial for the stu
dents.”
Harrington said the decision to
send the matter to the Executive
Committee was “very good.”
States McCarter, Educational
Affairs Committee chair, said the
PE requirements had become
something unquestionable, like
“motherhood and apple pie.”
“I think the question wasn’t
whether it was desirable, but
whether it should be a requirement
for all students,” he said.
Ann Jewett, a physical educa
tion research professor who also
signed the basic PE proposal, said,
“We’re arguing that the require
ment be a requirement of compe
tency and not of credit hours.”
Laura Bourg, Student Govern
ment Association Student Life
chairman, said the SGA plans to
take a 500-student survey like the
500-faculty survey the Executive
Committee used to gauge opinion
on the requirements.
‘The whole University is at
odds, and what it comes down to is
the students don’t want PE,” she
said.
Bourg said the SGA “botched” its
attempt last spring to change the
requirements by offering too many
voting alternatives to the SGA.
“We tried to make it more com
plicated than it was, and it split
the vote,” she said. “We were
trying to find solutions to the
problem before we identified the
problem."
Bourg said the SGA has simpli
fied its approach to problems like
the mandatory requirements since
“coming of age.”
“It’s a result of getting a lot of
the deadwood out of the senate,”
she said.
Vocals by the numbers
Mike Mantione of the band 5/8 belts out tunes at the Tate Student
Center for Homecoming ’90 band week.
Gay rights policy
tabled by Council
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
The University Council voted
Thursday to table an amendment
to the University’s non-discrimina
tion policy to include gay men and
lesbians — a move that left sup
porters of the amendment opti
mistic that it will eventually pass.
The proposed amendment —
which wasn’t supported by Univer
sity President Charles Knapp —
will now be sent to the University
Council Executive Committee for
further study.
Terrance Heath, secretary of the
Athens Gay and Lesbian Associa
tion, said the move to table will
give the amendment-backers more
time to drum up support for the
proposal.
“I’m very pleased because it will
give us more time to work with the
executive committee and time to
study it more,” he said.
The move to send the proposal
back for more study came from
Hugh Ruppersburg, an English
professor and member of the Fac
ulty Conference.
Ruppersburg said the Faculty
Conference, a group of University
Council faculty members, dis
cussed the issue at length at its
last meeting.
Most of the Faculty Conference
members agree with the spirit of
the amendment, Ruppersburg
said, but were held up with the
legal problems it poses to the Uni
versity’s ROTC program.
Knapp and some faculty mem
bers are worried that because the
U.S. Department of Defense can le
gally discriminate against gay men
and lesbians, the ROTC program
would be in conflict with the policy
if it were amended.
“We agreed with the spirit of the
proposal and we didn’t want to see
it die, but we can’t pass a proposal
that may eliminate a program from
campus without studying it,” Rup-
persourg said.
“Some campuses have the
amendments and have managed to
keep ROTC on campus, and we
wanted to find out how they did it.”
But to members of AGLA, the
ROTC issue is almost a minor one.
"ROTC isn’t such a big issue
with us — it’s almost a minor
issue,” AGLA member Keith Sar
gent said. “We’re more interested
in sending a positive statement out
to gay students and teachers.”
Heath said AGLA plans to study
a way to pass the amendment and
manage to keep ROTC on campus.
“We’re not interested in taking
on ROTC, we’re just trying to get
some protection at the University
level for gays and lesbians,” Heath
said. ‘There is a way to handle this
without trying to get ROTC off
campus.”
Knapp said in an interview last
week that he didn’t support an
amendment to the University’s
non-discrimination policy because
of the threat it would pose to ROTC
and campus recruitment by private
businesses. But he said he did sup
port a human relations statement
that would include sexual orienta
tion.
But Sullivan said AGLA would
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Fraternities face
dry rush charges
Two University fraternities
faced Interfratemity Council ju
diciary hearings Wednesday and
Thursday for possible dry rush
violations this quarter, IFC Pres
ident Cale Conley said Thursday.
The two fraternities, Alpha
Tau Omega and another uniden
tified fraternity, were charged
with possessing alcohol in the
presence of pledges, Conley said.
He said an alleged witness
brought the reported violations
before the rush enforcement com
mittee, an IFC subcommittee.
A hearing was held for one of
the accused fraternities
Wednesday, Conley said. The
second fraternity went before the
judicial board Thursday, but the
findings hadn’t been released at
presstime.
The result* will not be made
public until the judges can rule
on both cases and compile their
findings,” he said. “I just can’t
comment on anything right now.”
Greek organizations aren’t al
lowed to have or serve alcohol
during rush, he said.
Ron Binder, adviser to frater
nities, refused to release the
names of the two accused frater
nities and also wouldn’t relate
details surrounding the charges
before the hearings took place.
“I don’t want any fraternity
Ron Binder: Won’t release
fraternity names.
tried on page one of the news
paper,” he said. “I want a fair
trial."
The Red and Black requested
that the IFC judiciary hearing be
open to the public but was denied
access.
IFC Chief Justice James Sor
rells cited bylaws stating that the
member or organization under
investigation could elect to open
or close the hearing.
Alpha Tau Omega President
Rick Sirmans chose to close the
hearing.
— Stacey McIntosh
Methane may be latest ‘sick’ building culprit
Thu is the last article in a three-
part senes on the quality of air in
campus buildings.
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Wnter
The Georgia Natural Gas Co.
will begin testing for methane at
the Biological Sciences Complex
today following the discovery of
four poorly sealed drain pipes that
may be contaminating the air with
toxic gases.
The University’s Environmental
Safety Services is also taking air
samples near the pipes using acti
vated charcoal.
The charcoal will absorb any
toxins in the air, which will then be
removed and analyzed at the Riv-
erbend research lab.
Methane is a colorless, odorless,
flammable gas often present in
sewers and swamps.
One pipe in the ceiling of Room
419 tested positive for pyridine
Wednesday while another one
tested negative.
Pyridine is a toxic, water-sol
uble, flammable solvent that has a
pungent odor.
A third pipe behind a cabinet in
Lab 320A tested pyridine positive
Oct. 4. The fourth pipe located next
door to Room 724 will be tested for
methane today.
“It’s the best evidence we have
so far,” said Warren Safter, assis
tant Public Safety director. "But
we are keeping all possibilities
open.”
Personnel in both 320A and 724
have complained of various health
problems such as insomnia, back
pains, fntigue, scratchy throats
and dizziness over the past eight
months.
Rosemary Woodel, the office
manager in Room 724, said she had
a flushed face, swollen eyes, a tight
chest, a scratchy throat and was
dizzy Wednesday. She hugged the
plumber who found one of the pipes
in a room next door.
Methane displaces oxygen from
the air. Exposure to it can cause
dizziness, fatigue, respiratory diffi
culty and nausea. Pyridine de
presses the central nervous system
and can cause headaches, eye and
sinus irritation and nausea.
Data from an indoor air-quality
survey of 222 people in the bio-sci-
ences complex conducted in Sep
tember showed that 77 people
reported headaches, 59 reported
sinus congestion and 54 reported
eye irritation.
Safter said the data collected
from health questionnaires lead
him to believe problems in the
building have more than one
source. No correlation of symptoms
and locations have been found.
Health problems due to indoor
air quality aren’t uncommon on
campuses across the nation, and
funding for building renovations
are low on the lists of many of
them.
In a recent article in The Chron
icle of Higher Education, Walter
Shaw, executive vice president of
the Association of Physical Plant
Administrators of Universities and
Colleges, said money for building
maintenance is often the firet thing
lost when a school’s budget is cut.
Director James Tenbrook said
the University’s Physical Plant
budget for major repairs and reno
vations was cut in half last year
and some of that money goes for air
qualitv-control projects.
Talk about being in a pickle. Air
quality-control problems are no su-
prise," he said. "We just react and
go over (to the bio-sciences com
plex) and clean and hope we can
find the problem.”
Physical Plant has a $100,000
budget this year for air quality con
trol, Tenbrook said.
Sixty thousand dollars of it is
committed to the problems in the
bio-sciences complex, while the re
maining $40,000 is being used to
renovate the ventilation system in
the Instructional Resources
Center.
“Air auality has really come to
the forefront in the last two years,”
TenBrook said. “Virginia Tech,
Florida Suite, Stanford — all have
had a major problem.”
Ball State University in Indiana
has had problems with air quaility
in its chemistry building, while
Cornell University recently spent
$300,000 addressing air-quality
problems in its museum.
The University of Florida has
spent $4.3 million dollars to alle
viate health problems in its College
of Veterinary Medicine, Environ
mental Safety Director Bill Prop-
erzio said.
The building has had problems
since 1985 and is nearly three-
fourths of the way through a reno
vation project.
Tenbrook said air-quaility con
trol begins with proper tempera
ture control and ventilation.
The chemistry building, Baldwin
Hall, LeConte Hall, the plant sci
ences building, Brooks Hall and
the Academic Building all have va
rious problems with temperature
control and ventilation — but there
is no money available to address
them, he said.
Thad Gordish, director of the in
door air-quality research labo
ratory at Ball State, said studies
he’s seen indicate 20 to 40 percent
of all public access buildings in the
United States cause their inhabit
ant* health problems.