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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, October 25, 1990
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■ UNIVERSITY
Streamwatch organized to protect water resources.
The Northeast Georgia Sierra Club is organizing a Streamwatch
program to help clean up and protect the rivers, streams and
wetlands in northeast Georgia. The club is organizing groups and
individuals to monitor the Oconee River and other local waterways at
its meeting tonight. Volunteers will watch for violations such as lack
of black vinyl barriers around construction areas to prevent runoff
into rivers and pipes that empty waste into streams. Another problem
Streamwatch will monitor is runoff of mud, clay and sand when trees
near river banks are cut down due to developments that are too close
to rivers. Streamwatch will report its findings to a county soil
conservation officer for further investigation. Mark Williams,
president of the Northeast Georgia Sierra Club, said Streamwatch is
a chance for local people to get out themselves and help in their own
backyard. The meeting will be held at the Board of Education Annex,
500 College Ave. at 7:30 p.m.
Business association to meet tonight. The Minority
Students Business Association will meet tonight at 6:30 p.m. in room
141 of the Tate Student Center. MSBA President Brian Gardner, a
senior economics major, said the organization is concerned with
helping students increase their marketability for post graduation
success. “We work with students who major in business, minor in
business or who are interested in business," he said. This meeting
will be the last chance for students to become members. Students can
contact Brian Gardner at 353-6926 for membership information.
■ STATE
HINESVILLE (AP): Commander says crisis to continue.
The commander of Operation Desert Shield says the Middle East
crisis is not likely to end anytime soon and attacking Iraq is not an
option at this time. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf said the crisis has
"all the proportions of a major war.” He added that the United States
is playing a waiting game with Iraa, one that could leave Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein defenseless or could end in a large-scale
war.Until then, he said, an attack by U.S. troops on Iraq is not
feasible. ‘This is a major international crisis,” said Schwarzkopf.
“Why everyone thinks it’s going to resolve itself in two months is
beyond me. ... It is not something we as commanders should go
rushing into." Schwarzkopf formerly commanded the 24th, which is
based at Fort Stewart outside Hinesville.
ATLANTA (AP): Miller brings new ad into duel. Georgia’s
gubernatorial race continued playing out on the state’s television
screens Wednesday as Democrat Zell Miller fired off a new ad in his
battle with Republican Johnny Isakson. With the election less than
two weeks away, both candidates focused their advertising
campaigns on legalizing state lotteries — an issue polls have shown to
be highly popular among Georgia voters. Wednesday, Miller unveiled
a new ad contending that under the distribution system he proposed,
"lottery money goes directly to school children for things they need.
But Isakson has promised local politicians that hell let them control
the lottery money, and decide how it’s spent.”Asked by reporters if the
ad was an effort to block any gains Isakson might make among lottery
supporters, Miller replied, “I worked too long and too hard and took
too many bruises (championing a lottery) ... to let someone
misrepresent my position.”
OXFORD, Miss. (AP): University adds to Dylan legend.
Next up at the University of Mississippi: Mick Jagger performing his
classic nit “Blowin’ In The Wind.” It would only be fair play for the Ole
Miss’ public relations department to give the Rolling Stones lead
singer credit for the Bob Dylan hit after its press release touting
Dylan’s appearance Thursday night at the school. "With numerous
gold records to his credit, Dylan’s most popular recordings include
‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,’ ‘Like a Rolling Stone,’ The Times They
Are A-Changing,’ ‘It Ain’t Me Babe,’ ‘Sgt. Pepper,’ ‘Beggar’s Banquet,’
and ‘Music From the Big Pink,”’ the press release said. Actually, “Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” often regarded as the most
influential album of the rock era, was recorded by the Beatles.
“Beggar’s Banquet,” another recognized classic, is by the Rolling
Stones. And ‘‘Music From the Big Pink” was recorded by The Band. “I
am not a Bob Dylan fan,” said Jan Robertson, director of the school’s
news department. “It looked accurate to me.”
NEW YORK (AP): Superman to wed Lois Lane. The Man
of Steel has a soft spot. Superman, one of America’s oldest but ageless
superheros, is about to make a commitment. Shorn of his powers,
resigned to a normal, mild-mannered life, Superman (in his guise as
Clark Kent) finally succumbs to Lois Lane’s 50-year pursuit and pops
the big question in the Nov. 1 issue of the “Superman” comic book.
Lois, though still unaware that Clark is the Man of Steel, accepts.
"It’s not a gag, not a one-issue trick story,” according to DC Comics.
‘This time, for the first time since the characters were created by
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, it’s for real.” No immediate wedding
date was planned and, naturally, complications loom. “They’ve plnyed
games long enough,” said editor Michael Carlin. ‘This story HAD to
happen.’’Not every proposal becomes a wedding, of course, and when
Superman regains his super powers he must again decide whether to
reveal his secret identity to his betrothed.To be continued, as they
say.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Demosthenian Society
meets today at 7 p.m. in
Demosthenian Hall. Everyone is
invited to attend the debate.
• Circle K International will
meet today at 7 p.m. in Room 139
of the Tate Student Center. The
public is invited.
• The UGA Whitewater Club will
meet today at 9 p.m. at Stegeman
Pool. All level paddlers are
welcome, and no equipment is
necessary to begin. Bring a
swimsuit and towel. For more
information, call 542-1869
(days).
• The Gamma Beta Phi Society
will meet today at 8 p.m. in Room
142 of the Tate Center.
Colloquium
• There will be a candidate
forum for all districts and CEO
candidates today at the Western
Sizzlin’ at 6:30 p.m. This forum is
sponsored by the League of
Women Voters and the American
Association of University
Women.
• The Classic City Toastmasters
is holding a S' ocess/Lendership
workshop on ‘How to Hold
Productive Meetings,” today at
5:30 p.m. at the Council on
Aging, 230 Hull St. This program
is free and open to the public.
• The fourth of 10 videotapes on
the Theology of Christian
Nonviolence, titled ‘The
Church/State Dilemma,” will be
shown today at 7:30 p.m. at the
Presbyterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin St. For more details,
call 549-4552.
Announcements
• The Criminal Justice Studies
Program is sponsoring an open
house for interested students,
today from 4 to 5 p.m. in Room
221 of Baldwin Hall.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art is
showing “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers,”
through Nov. 18.
• A retrospective of “The First 50
Years of the Peabody Television
and Radio Awards" will be on
exhibit at the Park Plaza
Building, 320 East Clayton St.
• The Tate Center gallery is
displaying an exhibit by Benny
Andrews, leading figurative
artist in America, through Oct.
30.
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Include specific meeting location,
speaker’s title and topic, and a
contact person’s day and evening
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Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened
Activist: There’s still hope for Earth
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
The earth is deteriorating before our eyes,
but there still is hope to preserve it, said a
member of Earth First’s Greenfire tour.
Robert Featherstone said a spark of green-
fire, the source that energizes all beings, exists
in all people.
“Even the worst of environmental rapists
still have a spark of greenfire,” he said.
Featherstone and fellow Earth First member
Scotty Johnson spoke to about 100 students in
the North PJ auditorium Tuesday.
Johnson played a variety of ecology-oriented
folk music to accompany a slide show with nar
ration by Featherstone.
The destruction of natural habitats and the
effects of acid rain are two of many problems
created by humans, Featherstone said.
“Once in the Midwest oceans of prairies
waved in the breeze,” he said. “Now they’re
gone.”
“If a grizzly bear in Yellowstone can’t be free,
neither can we,” he said.
Accidents such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill
in Alaska, in which 11 million gallons of oil
were dumped into the ocean, must be avoided,
Featherstone said.
He said the government has done nothing to
alleviate the problems.
“Our government is at war with the environ
ment,” he said.
But individuals involved with organizations
like Earth First are at war with the govern
ment, Featherstone said.
The controversial organization advocates in
dividual responsibility for the environment.
Members have been known to chain themselves
to bulldozers and tie themselves to trees in pro
test.
Earth First has had success with its efforts
‘If a grizzly bear in Yellowstone
can’t be free, neither can we.’
Robert Featherstone,
Earth First
against the government, he said. Bbt many
problems still exist, such as those in Southern
Arizona. The University of Arizona is at
tempting to build an observatory on Mt.
Graham. The mountain is a haven for the
struggling red squirrel.
Featherstone said the squirrel can’t survive
in the already packed ecosystem if construction
continues.
“If you’ve got some time, there’s still a camp
on the mountain,” he said.
Alumni House christened with donor’s name
By PARTICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
When you visit the Alumni
House, on the corner of Smith and
Rutherford Streets, be sure and
take note of its new name.
As a sign of appreciation, the
house was dedicated Friday in the
name of Frank D. Rose, an
alumnus who left his entire estate
to the University when he died in
1984.
Tom Landrum, assistant to the
vice president for development and
University relations, said assets
from the estate will be used to
create an endowment for the Uni-
versty’s Alumni activities and for
general academic support.
Landrum said Rose expressed a
desire for his gift to be used in this
way during the Bicentennial Fund
Campaign.
The funds provided for Alumni
activity will increase the Univer
sity’s ability to expand schol
arships and increase other private
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