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UNIVERSITY
Drug legalization debate scheduled. Legalization of drugs
will be on the front burner tonight when the College Republicans,
UGA NORML (a chapter of the National Organization for the
Reformation of Marijuana Laws) and the UGA Objectivists Society
meet for a debate at 8 p.m. in Room 137 of the Tate Student Center.
Todd Fantz, vice president of the Objectivists Society, said the society
is built on the philosophy of Ayn Rand, essayist and author of books
like ‘The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged.” Objectivism rests on
three pillars — reason, capitalism and egoism, which means “not
sacrificing yourself to others and not sacrificing others to yourself,”
Fantz said. He said the objectivist stance is that “the government
using coercive force against individuals is immoral.” A question-and-
answer session will follow the debate.
Student Affairs presents program. The office of student
Affairs will hold a program titlea, “Careers in Student Affairs: A
World of Difference,” today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Tate Student
Center Reception Hall. Dan Hallenbeck, associate vice president for
Student Affairs, said the program is part of a week-long national
drive to promote careers in student affairs. Each of the 12 divisions of
Student Affairs will have a representative at a booth to answer
questions and counsel students interested in fields such as career
planning and placement, health services and counseling and testing.
Food poisoning outbreaks at high level
By CLINT BARRENTINE
Campus Correspondent
Americans enjoy a high level of
food safety, but certain harmful
bacteria still cause millions of
cases of food poisoning and thou
sands of deaths each year, a spe
cialist from the Centers for Disease
Control said Tuesday.
Maury Potter, attending a
meeting of agricultural economists
and food scientists at the Univer
sity, said a single strand of the bac
terium salmonella — which has
increased in frequency since the
1960s — causes an estimated two
to four million illnesses a year.
“And it gets worse every year,”
he told an audience of about 50 at
the Georgia Center for Continuing
Education.
An outbreak in a Maine restau
rant in 1982 infected 160 people
and involved over $155,000 in med
ical expenses and lost wages, he
said.
The northeastern United States
has been the focus of salmonella
poisoning attributable to Grade A
eggs, he said. These outbreaks are
part of a larger global epidemic.
Part of the problem is that
“many traditional recipes presume
the contents of an egg are safe,” he
said.
To alleviate the situation, Potter
suggested widespread changes in
American cooking practices and
more use of pasteurized egg prod
ucts.
The dangers from disease-
causing pathogens are com
pounded by long-distance distribu
tion of unprocessed food — like
fruits and raw vegetables — from
underdeveloped countries, he said.
“In other words, you can get
Third World diseases in the com
fort of your own home," he said.
New foods and processes also
cause difficulties, he said. Pack
aging trends like vacuum-packing
and extended refrigerated snelf life
don’t always protect against poi
soning.
Characteristics of consumers
and patterns of food preparation
also can affect food poisoning, he
said.
“In the 1960s, homemakers
spent an average of two hours a
day preparing meals, and I under
stand this is now down to about 20
minutes,” he said.
Food prepared out of the home
sometimes is more likely to cause
bacterial infections, he said.
Changes in population — partic
ularly increases in the number of
people with AIDS — affect food poi
soning cases as well, he said.
Advances in diagnostic microbio
logy will change scientists’ outlook
on food-borne diseases, he said.
“Most of these diseases are char
acterized by things we (eventually)
can identify in the laboratory," he
said.
William Mizelle, a marketing
economist with the Cooperative
Extension Service, attended the
lecture and said he was disturbed
by the apparent frequency of food
poisoning cases.
“It’s frightening to hear all these
things that can go wrong,” he said.
Cowins bound over to appear in superior court. Norman
Cowins’s attorney Edward Tolley waived the right to a preliminary
hearing in Clarke County Magistrate Court Tuesday. Cowins will be
bound over to Judge Joseph Gaines in Clarke County Superior Court,
according to court records. The preliminary hearing is used primarily
as an evidence presentation preview by the district attorney and it’s
not uncommon for these to be skipped, according to court sources. At
the superior court level, cases are presented before a grand jury to
determine if there is enough evidence for a trial to be sought. No date
for the grand jury presentation of the case had been set Tuesday.
Student suspected of racial slurs caught. Main Library
security guards nave caught a student who they feel is responsible for
a string of vulgar racial slurs, a library official said. The student used
permanent markers to write slurs all over the building, said Claire
Colombo, a library administrator. ‘They were on the tables, chairs,
bookshelves, ceiling — everywhere,” she said. The student will face
charges before the Student Judiciary and punishment could range
from counseling to suspension, Roger Lee, Student Affairs counselor,
said. The content of the graffiti will definitely be taken into account
and may affect the student’s punishment, he said. No further details
could be released because of federal laws governing Universities.
NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Compromises sought in budget.
Democrats considered dropping tneir call for a surtax on millionaires
Monday as lawmakers dickered over Medicare cuts and gasoline
taxes in a drive to resolve the yearlong budget standoff by week’s end.
In the face of adamant opposition by President Bush and Republican
senators to a surtax on the rich, Democrats were weighing a GOP
alternative that would limit the deductions millionaires can itemize
on their income taxes. Agreement on this matter would be a major
step toward completion of a $250 billion deficit-reduction pact.
Leaders would like to bring a compromise bill to the House and
Senate floors by midweek.
UNITED NATIONS (AP): U.S. pays $40 million in dues.
The United States has paid $40 million toward its delinquent U.N.
dues of $521.9 million, giving the world body enough cash to keep
operating though November, officials said Mondav.lt reduces U.S.
arrears to $481.9 million — about 80 percent of the arrears owed by
all 159 member nations. The United States began withholding large
portions of its U.N. dues in 1985, under President Reagan, to protest
what it said was the organization’s anti-Western bios, inefficiency
and budget overruns. The administration has proposed a plan for full
funding of annual U.N. dues assessments and a repayment schedule
in which about one-fiflh of the arrears would be paia each year for five
years.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
today at 8 p.m. in Room 138 of
the Tate Center. The featured
speaker will be Dean Rusk,
former secretary of state in the
Kennedy and Johnson
administrations, who will
discuss the crisis in the Gulf. The
public is invited.
• The Georgia Recruitment
Team will meet today at 5 p.m. in
Room 137 of the Tate Center.
The meeting is for old and new
members.
• The Society for Human
Resource Management will meet
today at 7:30 p.m. in Room 143 of
the Tate Center. Joe Drane, the
complex personnel manager for
Wayne Poultry Co., will be the
guest speaker. Professional
attire is requested.
• The Catholic Center will hold a
community prayer service for
peace today at 8 p.m. at the
Catholic Center on Lumpkin
Street, across from the UGA
track.
• The Culture of the South
Association will meet today at
7:30 p.m. in Room 141 of the Tate
Center. Dr. Clyde Nobel,
bandmaster of the 37th Georgia
Volunteer Infantry Band, will
•eak on the music of the
onfederacy and the Civil War
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• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet today at
7:30 p.m. in the Ecology
Auditorium. Everyone is
welcome.
• The Athens Peace Coalition
will meet today at 7 p.m. at the
Athens Regional Library, to
discuss current political issues,
upcoming activities, and to view
the video “Dark Circle."
Colloquium
• Christy Desmet, professor of
English at UGA, will speak for
the Humanities Center Lunch-
in-Theory series on “Identity and
Identification: A Rhetorical
Approach,” today at noon in
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Room 261 Park Hall.
• The Lunch and Learn Series
presents “Finding Ourselves
Through Family,” today 12:10-1
p.m. in Room 144 of the Tate
Center.
• There will be a candidate
forum, with candidates from
Districts Four and Seven, today
from 7-9 p.m. at Barrow
Elementary School, sponsored by
the Greater Five Points
Neighborhood Association.
• Dr. Alex Williams,
Presbyterian Campus Minister
at UGA, will speak on “The
Heresy of Liberalism,” today at 7
p.m. at the Presbyterian Center,
1250 S. Lumpkin St. A social will
follow at 8 p.m.
• The Prelaw Advising Program
is sponsoring a panel discussion,
featuring students currently
enrolled in law school, today at
3:30 p.m. in Room C of the Law
School. All students interested in
attending law school are invited
to attend.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art
presents “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
• A retrospective of “The First 50
Years of tne Peabody Television
and Radio Awards,” will be on
exhibit at the Park Plaza
Building, 320 East Clayton St.
• Viewpoints, an exhibition of
individual and group works by
the clients of the Georgia
Retardation Center, the Hope
Haven School, and the Social
Skills Club of the Mental Helath
Association, will be on display at
the Lyndon House Art Gallery,
293 Hoyt St., through Oct. 2.
Admission is free. Call 357-6076
for more information or to
arrange a tour.
• The Tate Center Gallery
presents Benny Andrews,
leading figurative artist in
America, in an exhibit which
runs through Oct. 30.
The Athens police department is
investigating the theft of a Univer
sity student’s purse Tuesday
morning by an unidentified male,
said Hilda Spratlin, Athens police
public information assistant.
The suspect stole a purse be
longing to Carrie Harvey, a
freshman from Nashville, Ga., at
about 2 a.m., Spratlin said.
Harvev had given him a ride to
Bethel Homes on Hickman Drive.
Bethel Homes is a “high crime
area,” Spratlin said.
Harvey said she picked up two
friends at Steak & Ale Restaurant
on Broad Street and agreed to give
a ride to the suspect, whom her two
friends had met earlier that eve-
ning.
“This was someone her friends
had met, so going on that assump
tion you’d think it would be safe,”
Spratlin said.
When they reached Bethel
Homes, the suspect, known to
The student and some
friends offered the
suspect a ride home
early Tuesday.
Harvey and her friends simply as
J.R., grabbed Harvey’s purse and
ran.
“He was gone before we knew
what happened,” Harvey said.
Spratlin said the value of the
purse and its contents is $875.
Both the purse and the wallet are
Gucci brand. Harvey’s credit cards
were also stolen.
“He took everything I had,"
Harvey said.
— Mike Terrazas
University recycling
effort jeopardized
Some of the recycling bins for
office file paper located in the
hallways or campus buildings are
being contaminated with trash,
Tom Sartain, the University’s re
cycling coordinator, said.
Sartain said he was warned by
American Refuse Systems, the
company which collects the paper
for the University, that if too
much trash is mixed in with the
paper they will have no choice
but to take it to the landfill.
If this were the case, Sartain
said, the University would be
charged an additional hauling
fee, which ranges from $30 to $40
plus a $10 landfill fee.
‘Then we’d be in double jeop-
ordy,” Sartain said, “Because
we’re already paying them to col
lect the pqper."
Sartain said the collection fee
is $3,800 per month.
The bins with the most trash
in them have come from the jour
nalism, military and fine arts
buildings and Park Hall, he said.
John McLeod, co-manager of
American Refuse, said his people
are able to sort through the paper
and pick out the trash, but if it
gets any worse they won’t be able
to.
He said the type of trash, soft
drink cans, fast food containers
and candy wrappers, indicate
that people mistake the bins for
trash cans.
Sartain said he thinks many
students and faculty simply
aren’t aware that the cans are
there for paper only.
The bins were put in place at
the beginning of summer quarter
but the trash problem has in
creased since fall quarter began.
— Patrick Flanigan
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with special guest stars:
WIRE TRAIN
In Concert at the
UGA Coliseum
Sunday, October 28, 1990
8:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale at the
Tate Center Cashier
Tuesday, October 9, 1990
9:00 a.m.
UGA Students $12
Must have I.D. & Fees Paid Card
General Admission $16
General admission tickets
will also be available at
Ticketmaster Southeast Locations