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2 • The Red and Black • Wednesday. October 17, 1990
BRIEFLY
Supply school vital to military effort
■ UNIVERSITY
Block-seating policy to remain the same. There will be no
changes in the block-seating policy at home football games for the
remaining two games this year, University President Charles Knapp
said Tuesday. Knapp said he would still be looking into seating
arrangements for next year in response to a fight that involved about
20 students at the Georgia-Mississippi game Saturday. ‘'We’re always
looking for better ways of doing thingBhe said. Vice President for
Student Affairs Dwight Douglas was asked to submit a report on the
fight to Knapp Tuesday. Knapp said he felt the current policy was
sufficient and he considered the fight an isolated incident.
Alumni House to be dedicated. The University Alumni
House will be dedicated in honor of Frank D. Rose Oct. 19, said David
Muia, director of the Office of Development. Rose died in 1984. The
ceremony, scheduled for noon, will be held in front of the Alumni
House on Rutherford Street, Muia said. While attending the
University, Rose lettered on the 1919 football team and was a
member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. A resident of Valdosta, he
served as mayor from 1944 to 1946. He also served as president of the
Valdosta Daily Times. His contributions to the University’s
Bicentennial Fund Campaign helped in creating an endowment for
future funding of alumni and academic programs.
Law School lecture series begins. John Robertson, a law
professor and bio-ethics expert at the University of Texas School of
Law, will be the keynote speaker for the ‘Cruzan and the Right-to-
Die” Conference, said Nancy Bowen, a spokesperson for the
University School of Law. The conference is part of the law school’s
John A. Sibley Lecture Series. Robertson will give his lecture,
"Cruzan and the Constitutional Status of Proxy Decisions for
Incompetent Patients,” Thursday at 9 a.m. in the law school
auditorium. Cruzan is a Missouri case about whether life-sustaining
treatment should be withheld from incompetent patients, Bowen
said. For a patient to have the right to a proxy decsion, he must have
arranged for another person to make decisions for him before
becoming incompetent. “It’s similar to writing a will,” Bowen said.
National campaign reaches campus. This week is Pi Beta
Phi Sorority’s annual nationwide campaign against the abusive use of
alcohol during the week. The week Oct. 14-20 has been named
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. University Chapter
President, Debbie Walker, said, “More than 15,000 members of the
sorority will participate.” Members will wear buttons with this year’s
theme, “Don’t Surrender to Peer/Beer Pressure.” Pi Beta Phi also will
hang a banner on the front of the sorority’s house in recognition of the
week.
■ STATE
AUGUSTA (AP): Education school loses accreditation.
Augusta College’s School of Education lost its national accreditation
in both its undergraduate and graduate programs. The National
Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education notified the school it
has revoked its accreditation for failing to meet about one-third of
council standards, including five of 18 standards for its
undergraduate program and six of the 18 for its graduate program.
The school failed to measure up in the type of courses it requires
students to take, what is taught and how it is taught; faculty
development; record-keeping; monitoring progress of graduate
students; and lack of administrative leadership. Numerous
weaknesses also were cited in areas in which standards were met.
Loss of accreditation could make it more difficult for graduates to get
jobs in other states that require it. Currently, 19 states require
teachers to have degrees from schools accredited by NCATE.
■ WORLD
DALLAS (AP): Soviet immigration to increase. President
Bush cleared the way Monday for a sharp increase in Soviet
immigration into the United States. In his annual determination of
the refugee ceiling, Bush authorized admission of 131,000 as refugees
into the country during the year ending next Sept. 30. The refugee
total is apart from those who apply for entry as routine immigrants.
The regions with the highest quotas were East Asia with 52 000 and
the Soviet Union with 50,000. The figure for the Soviet Union
represented an 8,000 increase over the previous year. White House
spokesman Roman Fopadiuk said the quota for the rest of Eastern
Europe had declined “because the political landscape had changed
dramatically’ and fewer people are seeking to leave those countries.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The UGA Clean and Beautiful
Committee meets today at 6:30
p.m. in Room 144 of the Tate
Center. Anyone interested is
welcome.
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
today at 8:30 p.m. in Room 141 of
the Tate Center. The featured
speaker will be Salem Affat,
president of the UGA Kuwaiti
Student Union. The public is
invited.
• The Athens Chapter of Women
to the World will meet today at 2
p.m. for an international buffet
at the Presbyterian Center, 1250
S. Lumpkin St. The guest
speaker will be Catherine Vistro,
and the guest vocalist will be
Mrs. Rosario Narumalani.
• The UGA Speech
Communication Association will
meet todny at 6:30 p.m. in Room
145 of the Tate Center.
• The Athens Gay and Lesbian
Association will meet today at 7
p.m. in Room 213 of Memorial
Hall. Call 548-0580 for more
information.
Colloquium
• Dr. Alex Williams,
Presbyterian Campus Minister
at UGA, will speak on The
Heresy of Fundamentalism,"
today at 7 p.m. at the
Presbyterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin St. A social will follow
at 8 p.m.
• The UGA chapter of the Society
of Professional Journalists
presents a program on the
student press beyond the
(former) Iron Curtain, today at 7
m. in Room 412 of the
oumalism Building. Two
student editors from
Czechoslovakia, Vera
Krincvojova and Clara
Pospisilova, will be the guest
speakers.
Announcements
• Comm university will have a
picnic today from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
at Lake Herrick. All volunteers
are invited to attend.
• The Drelaw advising office and
Phi Delta Alpha, the prelaw
fraternity, are sponsoring a Law
School Admission Night from 6-8
p.m. in Room F of the Law
School. Representatives from the
four law schools in Georgia will
discuss their programs. AH
students interested in attending
law school are invited to attend.
• The Hamilton McWhorter
Prize, awarded to a sophomore
for accomplishments during the
freshman year at UGA, has a
deadline for applications of Nov.
9. For information and
applications, contact the Office of
Student Financial Aid or the
Tate Center Information Desk.
• Entry forms for the Third
Annual Classic City Fall Tennis
Championships are due by Oct.
22 at 6 p.m. Entry forms are
available at Bishop Park and
Bulldog Sporting Goods.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art
presents “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
• The Tate Center Gallery
f iresents Benny Andrews,
eading figurative artist in
America, in an exhibit which
runs through Oct. 30.
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By SCOTT McLENDON
Contributing Writer
Although few people are aware
of it, a vital part of the U.S. mili
tary effort is right here in Athens.
The Navy Supply Corps School
is the only Navy school in the
country that trains and prepares
supply officers for the rigors of ac
tive duty.
“We’re the logistics experts,”
said Lt. Philip Candreva. ^We’re
the ones who get it over there.
Without us, the everyday opera
tions of the Navy would be severely
handicapped.”
Supply corps duties include food
service, sales, supply management,
and distribution of money.
Although presented differently,
the NSCS curriculum mirrors
many of the business courses of
fered at the University, Candreva
said. Most deal with management
of inventory and finances.
“In the military, we get paid
once a year, and we have to make it
last through the entire year,” Can
dreva said. “It takes careful bud
geting.”
All the 4,300 supply officers on
active duty are graduates of NSCS,
he said.
“95 percent of our grads go di
rectly to sea where they perform a
variety of duties,” Candreva said.
Tensions in the Persian Gulf
haven’t affected the NSCS so far.
“We’re not feeling any pressure
to turn out more officers as of yet,"
Candreva said.
Mayor Dwain Chambers said
that whether at home or abroad,
the officers and students of the
NSCS do much to enhance Athens’
overall image.
They are worthy emissaries of
the city," Chambers said.
In addition to military causes,
the students and faculty of the
NSCS contribute manpower to va
rious civilian causes, such as the
Red Cross Blood Drive and the
Athens Clean and Beautiful cam-
^The work of the NSCS is greatly
appreciated by the Athens commu
nity, Chambers said.
The NSCS brings in the
brightest young people who give
freely to the community,” he said.
They are a tremendous asset.”
The NSCS campus is located in
the Oglethorpe Historic District,
and at least seven of its buildings
on campus predate the 1920s.
Students doubt fairness of rising cable rates
They’re taking advantage of being the only cable
company in town. They’re jacking up the prices
because they know people will pay it.
Leaza Kalb
junior telecommunications major
By MIKE TERRAZAS
Campus Correspondent
Tele-Communications, Inc. —
Athens’ only cable service — has
raised its standard installation fee
from $35 to $60, according to TCI
area manager Woody Wood.
After running a two-month spe
cial of $20 per hookup, Oct. 5 TCI
began charging the $60 rate on all
first-time connections.
Leaza Kalb, a junior telecommu
nication arts mayor, said, They’re
taking advantage of being the only
cable company in town. They’re
jacking up the prices because they
know people will pay it.”
But Wood said, “$60 is more re
flective of what it really costs us to
do business.”
There are many factors in the
high cost of cable installation, in
cluding office personnel, cable
trucks, the hiring of contractors to
wire an area and inflation, he said.
In a college market such as
Athens — with thousands of people
moving each year — the cable com
pany does countless disconnections
and reconnections, he said. Wood
estimated that of TCI’s 24,000 sub
scribers in Athens, about half of
those turn over each year.
A new attitude toward installa
tion also contributed to the price
increase, he said.
When cable was a new devel
opment, suppliers provided inex
pensive or free hookup in order to
expose customers to the service, he
said. Now people know what cable
is, and it’s time to make some
money.
Craig Roland, marketing di
rector for Wometco Cable of Cobb
County, said a situation called
“chum” is a reason for rising costs.
Chum occurs when a customer has
cable installed and then discon
nected a month later for failing to
pay the bill.
The nationwide average for in
stallation is $49, he said.
Wometco of Cobb County
charges $35 for basic installation,
but Roland said the company often
runs $5 or $10 specials. The com
pany has one competitor in the
county.
Cablevision of Gainesville
charges $40 for installation, up
earlier this year from $30.
Phyllis Currie, Cablevision’s
marketing director, said the com
pany has a competitor in Hall
County, but the areas covered by
the two barely overlap, with Cable-
vision servicing the entire city of
Gainesville.
Roland agreed with Wood in his
explanation of rising installation
costs, which included industry
wide factors. In the past many
companies essentially gave away
cable installations, taking the loss
in hopes of making up the differ
ence in monthly charges, Roland
said.
The market is such that cus
tomers are used to having no in
stallation charges at all,” Roland
said. “Installations are now being
looked at as a profit center.”
Currie said that, on the average,
her company doesn’t begin to make
money on a new customer for 13-14
months.
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