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Comptroller to give budget speech. u.s. Comptroller
General Charles Bowsher is scheduled to speak on the national
budget plan today at 4 p.m. in the School of Law auditorium.
Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bowsher oversees
the activities of the General Accounting Office, a non-partisan
auditing agency in the legislative branch. The office is often asked by
Congress to evaluate the effectiveness of federal programs or
proposed legislation. Much of the work of the GAO involves the
Defense Department. However, state and local governments, private
companies and universities which receive federal funding must allow
the GAO to audit their books. The speech is sponsored by the J.M.
Tull School of Accounting, Beta Alpha Psi honorary accounting
fraternity, the Association of Students of Accounting and UGA
Toastmasters.
New Support group established. University students who
have experienced any type of head injury can participate in a support
group beginning today at 6:30 p.m. in Room 160 of the Tate Student
Center. It will be the group’s second meeting, and students are
encouraged to bring family, spouses or close friends. “We will discuss
the academic problems that come up for these students," said
Margaret Totty, a counselor for Disability Services. Eventually the
group will meet every other Thursday at 6:30
Panhellenic gives philanthropic contributions. The
Panhellenic Council’s fall quarter philanthropic contributions total
nearly $2,000, Claudia Shamp, adviser to sororities, said at the
council’s Oct. 30 meeting at the Alpha Delta Pi house. The council
donated $60 to the Pauldo Day Care Center in Athens for a carnival,
she said. It also contributed $500 to the women’s studies program for
student travel to women’s studies conferences. Also, Panhellenic
plans to give $1,000 to Sara Harvey, an Alpha Chi Omega sorority
member who was ir\jured in an automobile accident in spring, Shamp
said. The council also began the Karen Newton scholarship fund witn
a $300 donation. Newton, a University graduate and former
president of Delta Delta Delta sorority, was killed in an automobile
accident recently, she said.
Memorial service scheduled for this evening, a memorial
service will be held tonight for University student Melanie
FVentheway. Frentheway was killed this past weekend when she
slipped off a ledge while on a camping trip near Cochran Falls. The
service will take place at 8.30 p.m. at the Baptist Student Center
chapel, located at 450 S. Lumpkin St. Frentheway was an active
member of the Baptist Student Union for two years, said Beth
Matheny, a campus minister. Matheny said the students of BSU are
organizing the memorial.
Education dean in Savannah for meeting. Alphonse
Buccino, dean of the University’s College of Education, will be in
Savannah today at a meeting of two higher education associations, he
said. The Georgia Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and
the Georgia Association of Teacher Educators will meet at 1:30 p.m.
at the DeSoto Hilton, Buccino said. Buccino will preside over a lecture
by Franklin Shumake titled “An Agenda for Improving Education in
Georgia,’’ he said.
University excavation in Rome topic of speech. Naomi
Norman, an associate classics professor, will speak at 12:10 p.m.
today on the University’s excavation of the Roman circus
(amphitheater) in Carthage. The speech, part of the Center for
Archaeological Sciences seminar, will be held in room 145 of the Tate
Student Center. ‘This will be the last report on our excavation of the
largest circus in the Roman provinces, where chariot raceB were
held,” Norman said. The ffnaings, including 12 tons of pottery, 5,000
coins, 1,000 pieces of bone, and 100 terra cotta figurines, will be
studied at the University for five years before they are returned to
Tunisia, Africa.
Student loses $1.,500 in SC3VTI. University graduate student
M. Maynard lost $1,500 Tuesday to con artists, according to Athens
police reports. The con artists convinced Maynard to contribute her
money in good faith in hopes of receiving a share of a larger sum of
money one of the con artists claimed to nave found, said Hilda
Spratlin, assistant public information officer for the Athens Police
Department. The con artists worked in a pair with a slim black
female in her early 30s claiming to have found the money. A black
male in his early 30s with a slim build and about 5 feet 9 inches tall,
posed as another person putting up money, according to police
reports. Spratlin said this was a common type of flim-flam operation,
but she said there was no way to know if the con artists were local or
if they were just moving through the area. Con artists usually
concentrate on the elderly, but everyone needs to be suspicious of
people offering services or selling anything unusually cheap, she said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The UGA Clean and Beautiful
Committee will meet today at
6:30 p.m. in Room 138 of the Tate
Center. Anyone interested is
welcome. For more infromation,
call 369-0692.
• UGAZINE will meet today at 6
p.m. in Room 415 of Memorial
Hall.
• The Environmental Health
Sciences Club will meet today at
6 p.m. at Steverino’s. All
members are invited.
• The Minority Business
Students Association will meet
today at 6 p.m. in Room 141 of
the Tate Center. Albert Niemi
Jr., dean of the College of
Business Administration, and
Hiawatha Morrow, academic
advisor from Career Planning
and Placement, are the guest
speakers.
• The Christian Science
Organization at UGA will meet
today at 7 p.m. in Room 142 of
the Tate Center. Everyone is
welcome.
• The UGA Toastmasters will
meet today at 5:30 p.m. in Room
204 of Caldwell Hall.
• The Association of Collegiate
Entrepreneurs will meet today at
9 p.m. in Room 145 of the Tate
Center. All majors are invited to
attend.
Colloquium
• Stillpoint Magazine will host a
faculty/student reading today at
6 p.m. in Room 26S of Park Hall.
Featured will be Tony Groomi.
• Barbara Johnaon , Humanities
Center Visiting Lecturer, will
speak on "Mirror Images:
Psychoanalysis and Afro-
American Literature," today at 4
p.m. in Room 265 of Park Hall.
All interested faculty and
students are welcome.
• The Athens Pro Choice League
will present the video “Abortion
Denied," today at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 145 of the Tate Center. All
pro choice people are welcome.
• The fifth in a ten-part video
series on the Theology of
Christian Non-Violence, titled
“Non-Testament Interpretation,"
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 Amigoe 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.
• 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.
• Alpha Gamma Delta is holding
its annual Putt—Putt
Tournament for Juvenile
Diabetes today from 5:30 to 8:30
p.m. at Fairway Fun on Mitchell
Bridge Road. Tickets are $4 and
can be purchased at the house or
at the aoor.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art
presents "Altered Statee: Ten
Georgia Photographers" through
Nov. 18.
Report proposes action in education
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Educators and policymakers
who read the action-oriented re
port of the University’s Literacy
Task Force might feel like they’ve
stepped in front of a speeding loco
motive.
Weighing in at 36 pages, “A
More Literate Georgia: An Agenda
for Action” takes the unsteady
pulse of inequities in the state's
public school systems, diagnoses
them and proposes several overlap
ping treatments.
In part one, Stephen White, as
sistant professor of elementary ed
ucation, cited research indicating
that reading and writing should
begin as soon as children acquire
language.
There is evidence to indicate
that "children who begin school be
hind their peers tend to fall further
and further behind each year,” he
said in the paper.
White advocates involving par
ents of disadvantaged children in
the educational process, a practice
shown to prevent “developmental
delays.”
“Young children need to be given
opportunities to experiment daily
with reading and writing,” he said.
“It is a literacy-rich environment
— and not parents’ education, oc
cupation or socioeconomic level —
that is most highly related to chil-
ANALYSIS
dren’s early reading."
In part two, JoBeth Allen, asso
ciate professor of language educa
tion, called for a re-examination of
remedial education.
“Literacy learners’ need to read
real books and write for mean
ingful purposes every day, she
said. They don't need remedial
work that labels or separates them
from the mainstream.
“Half of all students retained in
public schools drop out; 90 percent
of all students retained more than
one year drop out," Allen said.
She cited reports that children
actually read an average of seven
minutes a day.
‘The right to read books in
Bchool should be inalienable, a
public guarantee to every child in
Georgia,” Allen said.
Elementary children in the state
are also shortchanged by the em
phasis on standardized testing, to
the extent that they spend up to
three weeks a year learning skills
related only to the tests, she said.
In part three, Donna Alver-
mann, professor of reading educa
tion, tackled the problem of
motivating middle and high school
students to be literate.
“Students who have the basic
skills but choose not to use them to
read and write for enjoyment or to
learn other subject matter are no
better off than those who lack the
skills altogether," she said.
She offered evidence that mi
norities who stay in school tend to
narrow the proficiency gaps be
tween themselves and non-minori
ties by the 12th grade.
In part four, Tom Valentine, as
sociate professor of adult educa
tion, said adult illiteracy doesn’t
get the attention it deserves.
He said Georgia’s dropout rate
ranks it 49th of the 50 states, cm
does the percentage of the popula
tion that goes on to college.
Adult literacy educators face a
1/1000 ratio of full-time teachers to
students, intolerable conditions,
scant materials and funding of $2
per person, he said. Often, the
books they use are like the K-12
books that gave them trouble in
the classroom.
Valentine called for expanding
programs through creative recruit
ment strategies, increasing the
ranks of full-time adult literacy ed
ucators and developing curricula
aimed at adults.
“Low-literate adults aren’t way
ward children who have strayed
from our classrooms," he said.
They are full-grown men and
women who face the literacy de
mands of everyday life — demands
often associated with their roles as
parents, workers and citizens."
In part five, Joel Taxel, professor
of language education, nailed home
literacy’s relevance to political and
social equality by reviewing past
attempts to alternately educate
and miseducate the populace.
“During the antebellum period,
for example, there were strict pro
hibitions against teaching slaves to
read, for it was understood that the
knowledge of the ‘word’ would
render the slave ‘unfit’ for a life of
bondage,” he said.
"... When dominant groups have
promoted literacy in this country,
they usually have done so to foster
nationalism and to advance partic
ular worldviews, laws and printed
regulations.”
Research indicates that modern
teaching materials are engines of a
"selective tradition” that down
plays the societal roles of minority
groups like women and blacks,
Taxel said.
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