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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Southern Bell offers braille statements. Southern Bell now
offers telephone bills in braille for its blind and visually-impaired
Georgia customers, according to a Southern Bell spokesman.
Southern Bell is the first telephone company in the nation to offer the
free service to its customers, spokesman Ron Manson said. 'This is an
extension of our new program to help our handicapped customers," he
said. Southern Bell expects about 200 of Southern Bell’s customers to
request the new bills, which cost about $2 to print and send, Manson
said. Scott McCall, a spokesman for the Center for the Visually
Impaired in Atlanta, said, “Receiving a braille telephone bill will help
visually-impaired customers become more independent and afford
them more privacy.” The Metrolina Association of the Blind in North
Carolina will handle the printing of the braille bills for Southern Bell.
■ STATE
DECATUR (AP): Marta incentive proposed. DeKalb
County Chief Executive Officer Manuel Maloor said Tuesday he
wants to study the possibility of extending Atlanta’s rapid rail system
to Stone Mountain Park in time for the 1996 Olympics. Tn essence,
the Stone Mountain link could greatly enhance MAKTA’s rail service
proposal to Gwinnett ... and will help bring MARTA another step
closer to being a truly regional transportation system,” said Maloof,
who is chairman of the Atlanta Regional Commission. MARTA
officials said trains could continue from Stone Mountain in DeKalb
County to Snellville in Gwinnett County if Gwinnett voters approve
the MARTA proposal on Nov. 6, which involves a percent sales tax
increase.
■ NATION
PROVIDENCE, R.l. (AP): Bartender happy with tip.
Keith Thomlinson is usea to getting pretty decent tips as a bartender
at a restaurant near the Newport beaches, but it took a little luck to
earn a $25,000 gratuity. Russell Clark, a frequent patron at the
Greenhouse Inn and Restaurant just off Newport’s First Beach, left
Thomlinson an instant lottery ticket as a tip Wednesday. When
Thomlinson finally got around to scratching off the numbers on the
instant "Baseball” game, he discovered he had won the $25,000 grand
prize. “I was just shocked,” Thomlinson said Monday. Thomlinson,
42, gave $1,800 to Clark and $5,000 to his parents, Raymond and
Marguerite of Detroit. Clark said he probably would use his $1,800 to
buy more lottery tickets.
WASHINGTON (AP): Non-obscenity pledge dropped.
The National Endowment for the Arts has quietly dropped a
controversial requirement that grant recipients sign a non-obscenity
pledge, now that Congress has voted to scrap explicit restrictions on
the kinds of art eligible for federal subsidies. The pledge, has
spawned three federal lawsuits charging that it violated the
Constitution’s free-speech guarantees. At last count, 16 artists and
arts institutions refused to sign the pledge and forfeited more than
$318,000 in endowment grants last year. Agency officials confirmed
that the pledge had been withdrawn and would not be required as a
condition of receiving grants for the 1991 fiscal year, which began
Oct. 1. They said thev did not know if the pledge covering last year’s
grant recipients would be repealed retroactively.
NEW YORK (AP): Experiment raises hopes. Experimental
injections of immature muscle cells strengthened muscle in three
boys weakened by muscular dystrophy, showing promise for
countering the disabling disease, a study says.Tt’s very exciting
news,” said Peter Law of the University of Tennessee-Memphis.The
treatment strengthened a foot muscle in the first three patients to
enter the study. Results for eight later patients are not available, Law
said. Scientists hope the new technique will let them overcome
progressive muscle weakness and wasting caused by Duchenne
muscular dystrophy, the most common and devastating childhood
form of dystrophy. Law cautioned that the experimental treatment
needs more study before it could be considered for general use.
■ WORLD
PARIS (AP): Vandals mutilate paintings. Vandals slashed
two pop art works by Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist on
display at the International Contemporary Art Fair, organizers of the
exhibition said Monday .The vandals, shouting anti-imperialist
slogans, mutilated the paintings Saturday with knives and dropped
pamphlets before they were arrested.Lichtenstein’s “Reflections on
Senorita,” (1990) estimated at $1 million, and Rosenquist’s “Venturi
Correction,” (1990) estimated at $350,000, were on show at the booth
of the Leo Castelli gallery in New York.Castelli, 83, was shaken by
the incident but said he did not hold anyone responsible.These are
unpredictable things that happen and can’t be prevented,” he was
quoted as saying in Le Figaro.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Young Democrats of
UGA/Clarke County will meet
today at 8 p.m. in Room 138 of
the Tate Student Center. The
featured speaker will be state
Senator Paul Broun. The public
is invited.
• The Speech Communication
Association will meet today at
6:30 p.m. in Room 145 of the Tate
Center.
• The UGA Zoology Club will
meet today at 4:15 p.m. in Room
707-A of the Biological Sciences
Building.
Colloquium
• The Lunch and Learn Series is
holding a “Managing Cultural
Differences” seminar today from
12:10 to 1 p.m. in Room 144 of
the Tate Center.
• Presbyterian Minister Alex
Williams will speak on 'The
Light and Dark Sides of
Halloween” 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 workshop on
“Opportunities for Minorities in
Law,” today at 3:30 p.m. in Room
C of the Law School. All students
interested in attending law
school are invited to attend.
Announcements
• Communiversty volunteers are
invited to bring their little
brothers and sisters to a
Halloween carnival in Georgia
Hall of the Tate Center from 7 to
9 p.m. today. There will also be a
trick-or-treat in Reed
Community from 6 to 7 p.m.
• The Amigos program is holding
a training session on November 3
for volunteers who would like to
participate in the program. The
session will be from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. at 1000 Hawthorne Ave.,
Suite R. Call 542-9739 for more
information.
• The Community Connection is
seeking a volunteer to drive a
four-year-old pre-schooler to and
from school at 8 a.m. and 1:30
.m. Please call Ben Robinson at
53-1313 for more information.
• Sign-ups are now being taken
for the UGA Turkey Trot 5K Run
to be held Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. For
more information, stop by the
recreational sports office, Room
229 Memorial Hall, or call 542-
5060.
• Air and bus packages are still
available for the spring break ski
trip to Steamboat, Colorado. Sign
up at the Tate Center Business
Office, or call 542-5060.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art
presents "Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
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Bush, Congress ignore
War Power Resolution
EDUCATION
From page 1
University alongside experienced
professionals.
The College of Education also
has pledged to modify its programs
in tandem with what happens at
the CPDs. A literacy minor is
planned for 1991 that Taxel hopes
will lead to master’s and doctoral
degrees in literacy.
All but one staff member at
Benton Elementary School in Nich
olson, site of the first CPD, voted to
participate in the program.
They didn’t know exactly what
they wanted to do, but they knew
what they were doing wasn’t
working," Taxel said.
Benton Elementary Principal
Patsy Lentz said her involvement
in the initiative began in May
when her curriculum director
talked to Alvermann about prob
lems they were having. They were
impressed by Alvermann’s ap
proach, which steered clear of
“quick fixes.”
Lentz said Benton is a prime
candidate because of its strong
sense of community — the Nich
olson City Hall, volunteer fire de
partment and a brand-new public
library share Benton’s campus.
“Of course, I put my name in the
pot immediately when I found out
they were looking at Jackson
County,” she said. T hope this will
be the busiest place in Jackson
County.”
At the Benton CPD, student tea
chers will try the new methods de
veloped by the initiative,
benefiting from real-world applica
tion of their skills and the experi
ence of the teachers working there,
he said.
This should help them overcome
the discouragement of the hopeful
young graduate who discovers that
theory and practice often conflict.
After the grant is exhausted io
1996, he said both teachers and
children schooled in the new lit
eracy will be its “change agents,"
performing “inservice” work to
teach the uninitiated.
“It'll be on a classroom-by-class
room, school-by-school, district-by
district basis," he said. “You can’t
legislate that kind of change.”
He recommends having children
read “real books’ in class to stimu
late their extracurricular interest
in reading, a sentiment echoed in
the position paper.
The mechanics of writing should
also be given equal time with the
practice of writing.
“You don’t teach kids writing by
having them spend 90 percent of
their time in a grammar work
book," Taxel said.
Just as the way children are
taught must change, the way
they’re evaluated must include
broader methods, he said. Stan
dardized testing will have to give
up its monopoly on grading perfor
mance.
Schools have come to rely too
heavily on tests as barometers of
achievement instead of as tools in a
larger arsenal, Taxel said.
Another goal at the Benton CPD
is to involve faculty in teaching
parents skills that will help their
children get more out of school, like
reading to them at home.
Valentine, who specializes in
adult literacy, said his field is di
rectly related to the problem of pri
mary and secondary school
education.
“You're dealing with a group of
people who, by definition, haven’t
succeeded in the public schools,” he
said. Tn terms of adult literacy,
we’re losing the war, and we’ll con
tinue to lose the war. When the
1990 census breaks, I think we’re
going to be much worse.”
Valentine said state and local
contributions to adult literacy edu
cation are deplorable and should
raise auestions about its quality.
“If 1 can feed my family for a
dollar a day, there’s going to come
some time when you’re going to ask
me what I’m feeding my family,” he
said.
By KEVIN McQREEVY
Campus Correspondent
President Bush is violating a
law that requires him to notify
Congress when troops are sent into
hostile situations like Saudi
Arabia, said Loch Johnson, a Uni
versity expert on presidential
powers.
Another University expert,
Dean Rusk, disagrees.
Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State
from 1961 to 1969, said the War
Powers Resolution — which re
quires troops to be withdrawn from
the hostile area 60 days after offi
cial notification unless Congress
authorizes continued deployment
— is unconstitutional because “it
denies the president his legislative
powers under Article I (of the U.S.
Constitution).”
Johnson, Regents professor of
political science, said the resolu
tion should be followed; otherwise,
Congress shirks its responsibilities
and the president flouts the law.
“If the resolution is going to be
ignored it should be repealed, be
cause ignoring it makes a mockery
of the law,” Johnson said.
For all practical purposes, Rusk
said, the resolution has been re
pealed because both the president
and Congress ignore it.
More than 200,000 U.S. troops
have been deployed to Saudi
Arabia to deter a possible attack by
Iraqi forces — an additional 100,-
000 will be sent to increase pres
sure on Iraq to withdraw from
Kuwait — but Bush still hasn’t is
sued the formal report which
would start the 60-day clock. And
Congress has done little to pres
sure him to do so.
Johnson said Congress doesn’t
want to be seen as questioning the
president on an action which has
wide public support, especially this
close to elections.
However, both agree that could
change rapidly if shooting breaks j
out. *
“It didn’t take long for the Ko- '
rean War to become Truman’s
war," Rusk said. “We’re in the easy
stage now, with congressional and
public support. But there’s a tough
war ahead."
He said the resolution could un
dermine international support for
the United States by injecting a
fear of inconsistency into U.S. for
eign policy.
“Congress could pass laws which ;
put us in conflict with interna- • *
tional law and could cripple the ! •
U.S. in complying with United Na- • *
tions resolutions," he said.
Johnson said foreign policy;
wouldn’t be endangered by strict ’
adherence to resolution provisions ;
because other nations study our !
government and know the presi-!»
dent has to consult with Congress. !
Further, Congress should re- *.
quire the president to consult with
members of Congress before intro
ducing U.S. troops into potentially
dangerous situations, he said.
“Since 1789," Johnson said, “the
United States has been involved in
260 military interventions, but
we’ve only had five declared wars."
That shows the need for greater
congressional participation in deci
sions of troop deployment, he said.
Rusk referred to the same infor
mation but drew a different conclu
sion: U.S. foreign policy flexibility
and effectiveness would be reduced
if the resolution were strictly fol
lowed.
Johnson disagrees.
“Dictatorships have flexibility,"
Johnson said. “Flexibility is not
what we’re about."
He stressed Congress’s responsi
bility and accountability for de
claring war.
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