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The Red and Black • Wednesday, October 24, 1990 • 3
No easy answer to
By DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
The antique atmosphere of the
University Chapel surrounded by
ancient Georgia trees set the mood
on a cold rainy October night for a
forum on historical preservation in
Clarke County.
Sponsored by the Athens-Clarke
Heritage Foundation and broad
cast live on WUOG radio, the six
candidates for Chief Elected Of
ficer were asked specific questions
about preservation in Clarke
County.
While the candidates agree that
preserving the past in Clarke
County is important, there was
some disagreement about ex
tending the city’s historic preserva
tion ordinance county-wide.
Libby Morris, executive vice
president of the foundation, said
the ordinance took effect several
years ago and its function is to
allow a process for designating
structures as historical sites in the
city.
A Historic Preservation Com
mission has been set up to investi
gate areas for preservation and
advise the city council on preserva
tion, she said.
E.H. Culpepper, Jim McGown,
Gwen O’Looney and Nathan Wil
liams are in favor of extending the
ordinance county-wide, but George
Bullock and Jim Holland have
other views about the extension.
Bullock said he wouldn’t be in
favor of automatically extending
the ordinance county-wide without
going through due processes. He
said he would appoint someone to
the preservation commission who
was against historic preservation
because serving on the commission
University budget cuts
By ERIC BODWELL
Contributing Writer
A rise in the cost of materials
due to inflation, combined with a 3
percent budget cut, has the Uni
versity libraries in a bind.
“We expect this year that the
prices of journals will increase an
average of around twenty percent,"
Library Director William Potter
said.
’The books are less than that,
but overall probably we’re looking
at 12 to 15 percent increases in li
brary materials.” As a result, the
library has canceled $150,000
worth of periodical titles selected
by the library staff.
John Yelverton, assistant di
rector in charge of the Collection
Development Division, said the pe
riodicals listed were “materials
which perhaps were important at
one time ana are no longer impor
tant to the research of the Univer
sity.”
The list received a generally pos
itive response when sent to Univer
sity faculty members for approval,
Yelverton said.
English department head
Corbun Freer said, “I think it was
handled with good sense." The En
glish department has already ap
proved the cancellation of two
library subscriptions, Freer said.
Yelverton said that, in addition
to cancellations, the library plans
to be very selective about what
materials are to be purchased in
accordance with the new budget
limitations.
This breaks with the prior policy
of purchasing as many good
materials as possible, he said.
preservation issue
The six candidates for CEO all agreed historic
preservation in the community is important. They
didn’t agree on how to resolve differences
between existing city and county ordinances.
might change the person’s mind
about preservation.
Holland said at this time he
would not be in support of a
county-wide extension of the ordi
nance, and he would appoint
someone to the commission based
solely on their ability to do the job.
Morris said appointing someone
to the commission who is not in
favor of preservation would ob
struct the group’s work.
Morris also pointed out that
some people do not realize that
some ot the current ordinances in
the city could remain in effect after
unification even if they are not ac
cepted county-wide.
She said the city would most
likely be called the Urban Services
District.
This area could retain current
city ordinances, like the preserva
tion ordinance, which do not cause
conflicts with county ordinances.
Services provided to the urban dis
trict would not be extended to the
old county, she said.
put libraries in a bind
Like other departments, the li
brary is cutting back on operation
costs. That means hiring fewer stu
dent workers, making fewer phone
calls, photocopying less, pur
chasing fewer supplies and other
general reductions, he said.
Potter said he also is keeping
any vacant staff positions open
longer to regain some of the money
lost from the budget cuts.
Potter doesn’t expect any notice
able problems in the library's
service, he said.
“Some libraries cut back on
hours when they have a budget
crisis," he said. “I don’t see us
doing that.”
Potter has a positive attitude
about the future of the library’s
The library will cut
back on operating
costs.
tight budget situation, he said. The
determining factor will be if the
state has to make any more budget
cuts.
“I think the L T niversity supports
us, and if they have the resources, 1
think they will give us the sup
port," he said. ‘The vice president
and the president are very con
cerned about the library...but if the
state is not giving the University
the money, what can they do?"
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Sounds like a good idea
Michael Huff, a sophomore music major, strums a few tunes on
his guitar outside the Fine Arts building.
Environmental health dept, gaining popularity
SEA: Cool approach
to global warming
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
A University geology professor
said Monday climatologists have
changed earlier predictions for a
world temperature rise of five to
six degrees within the next 100
years, and are now predicting a
rise of three to four degrees Cel
sius.
Professor Philip Suckling and
two other University professors
spoke to about 50 people at a
forum sponsored by Students for
Environmental Awareness in the
ecology auditorium.
The professors were Suckling,
Bruce Haines, a botanist, and
Vem Meentemeyer, a geologist.
The consensus of the three
speakers was that a wider range
of variables must now be ac
counted for when trying to calcu
late global warming trends.
Suckling said the concept of
global warming is based on global
circulation models of Weather
and Climate. Data is fed into the
world’s biggest and fastest com
puters to predict the earth’s cli-
mate on regional and
hemispheric levels. But the
amount of data is constantly in
creasing.
In addition, carbon dioxide has
both positive and negative effects
on the climate. For instance,
Meentemeyer pointed out that
increased carbon dioxide results
in increased pollution which pre
vents ultra-violet rays from
reaching the surface of the earth,
thus slowing the warming
process.
It is added information such as
this which changes the predic
tions, he said.
Meentemeyer said the problem
lies in deduction.
“I can deduce without a doubt
that there will be global
warming,” he said. “But I can’t
deduce where or to what degree it
will begin.”
Tony Abbott, SEA secretary,
said the nature of their dis
cussion wasn’t intended to sound
alarms on the issue, rather it was
to increase awareness of the pos
sibility of global warming.
By MARY KATHRYN TODD
Contributing Writer
Neale Parkinson will graduate
this December, and he isn’t wor
ried about getting a job.
“Even in the doom of recession, I
feel like I can get a job," said the
environmental health science
major.
The business community sings
high praises for the College of Agri
culture’s environmental health sci-
SCALPERS
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Many of the sellers said they
looked forward to working the up
coming Georgia/Florida and
Georgia/Georgia Tech games.
Frank, a seller from Athens who
just started three games ago, said,
“Hell, yeah I’m going to be here for
Tech; I’m going to make some
money."
Frank only sells on Saturdays
during Georgia home games,
“I work in a fast fcx>d restaurant.
As long as there’s a need for a
second monetary income. 111 do it.
If I were to make $20,000 or $30,-
000 a year, I wouldn’t be out here,”
he said.
Robert, Red and Joe were all
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ences department, and Parkinson
finds that encouraging.
‘The school is better known in
nvate industry than on campus,"
e said.
Parkinson is just one of the
many students who have contrib
uted to the growth of the environ
mental health science department.
Dean William Flatt said the de
partment’s enrollment has almost
tripled since 1989, rising from 40 to
112 students. Flatt attributes the
rise to an increase in the public’s
environmental awareness.
The department’s growth has
prompted the University Council’s
Curriculum Committee to discuss
changing the name of the College
of Agriculture to the College of Ag
ricultural and Environmental Sci
ences.
The proposed name change has
gone to the Curriculum Committee
for research, Flatt said. He expects
a decision within a year.
The revamped name would more
accurately reflect the college’s es
tablished curriculum, he said.
Tim Simpson, a June 1990 grad
uate, said he thinks it’s about time
the environmental health sciences
department got a little more recog
nition.
“No one knew about EHS for a
long time,” said Simpson, who now
works for the Environmental Pro
tection Agency ns an environ
mental health scientist. “It should
be changed.”
planning to leave Athens Saturday
and head for Auburn to work the
AuburaFlorida State game that
had an 8 p.m. kick-off.
‘Those tickets will probably be
selling for $150,” Robert said. “See,
my dad’s got a ticket-booking busi
ness in Atlanta. I work off him. But
for the teams not winning you just
go down and pick them up off fans."
“I’ve got about 40 concert tickets
for Poison tonight; I gotta dump
them off on another worker, then
I'm down to Auburn,” he said.
Even though other sellers com
plained of Saturday’s game being a
rough game to work, Robert said
he’d made more than $300 on
ticket sales. He bought and sold 36
tickets.
“Sometimes you win and some
times you lose, but mostly you
win,” he said after his last ticket
was sold.
EXPLOSION
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be more adherence to safety prac
tices.
Mellein recommends more
safety education of students and
instructors, storing chemicals that
aren’t in use separately and fre
quent emptying of waste con
tainers.
Five students were injured in
the explosion. Three required hos
pitalization, but were released the
same day. The explosion caused
only minor damage to the lab.
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