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■ UNIVERSITY
Wildlife seminar to be held today. Ernest Provost, a forest
resources professor, will direct a fish and wildlife seminar today from
3:30 p.m.to 4:45 p.m. in Room 1*209 of the Forest Resources Building.
Paige Adams, a graduate student in the School of Forest Resources,
will speak on “Organizations Involved in Animal Rights Issues.” The
seminar, designed to explore issues surrounding hunting and
wildlife, will be held every Tuesday during fall quarter, Provost said
at last week’s meeting.
Jury Commission revising jury list. The Clarke County Jury
Commission needs young males in revising the county’s jury list.
Charlie Rowland, a commission member, said the jury box must
match the demography of the county in terms of age, gender and race.
“We specifically need young males," he said. The basis for the
selection is the list of registered voters, but jury membership isn’t
limited to that list. Anyone may be included for jury duty, Rowland
said. To sign up for duty, send full name, address and date of birth to
the July Commission in care of Delores Brooks, Superior Court clerk,
Clarke County Courthouse.
Education expert to speak today. Jurgen Herbst, an expert
on higher education policy, will lecture today at 2 p.m. in the
University's School of Ecology auditorium. A professor of educational
policy studies at the Universtiy of Wisconsin at Madison, Herbst also
authored “And Sadly Teach,” a book about the status of teacher
education in America. George Stanic, a professor in the College of
Education, said, “His talk will focus on higher education, in general
terms, as it is evolving in the 1990s.”
Stun guns: gift idea? Thunder may not be rolling across
campus, but it is beginning to crackle and Mick Rothery is hoping it
continues. Rothery said he has sold about 30 Super Thunders, small
electronic 75,000 volt stun guns, to students since he set up his table
alongside the tie-dye and crystal salesmen on Baldwin Street in early
October. Rothery has sold his powerful defense weapon to 24 females
and six males. He said he will continue selling the weapons most days
until Christmas. He feels the small defense weapons, capable of
temporarily paralyzing would-be attackers, make stunning gift ideas.
Bicycle path poll created. Students for Environmental
Awareness and the Student Government Association are conducting
a student poll on bicycle paths today through Thursday. A table will
be set up at the Tate Student Center from 10-2 p.m. “We’d like
everybody to participate whether you ride a bike or not,” Ali Jones,
SEA director of education, said. ‘The purpose is to gauge student
support.” Jones said that many people can’t find places to park their
bikes on campus. Results of the poll should be ready by next week, she
said. However, if there isn’t much student response, the poll will be
reconducted.
■ STATE
ATALNTA (AP): Isakson airs last-minute attack. Former
Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young rushed to the defense of Democratic
gubernatorial candidate Zell Miller Monday ns Republican Johnny
Isakson aired a last-minute ad questioning Miller’s civil rights
commitment. Isakson’s ad, which began airing over the weekend on
black radio stations, portrays Miller ns a segregationist while
asserting that “Johnny Isakson doesn’t just talk civil rights; he lives
it.” It says at one point that Miller “wants us to think he stands
shoulder-to-shoulder with Andy Young, but we remember what he
said about Andy in the primary and how he’s trying to steal the credit
for the Olympics now.” Young said in a statement distributed by the
Miller campaign that the ad “misrepresents the facts and uses my
name in a way designed to mislead the voters of Georgia.” He said he
•vas formally requesting Isakson to withdraw the ad.
■ NATION
DETROIT (AP): Life sentence fought by first offender.
lonald Harmelin had 672 grams of cocaine in the trunk of his 9-year-
!d Ford when he was arrested by suburban Oak Park police on May
2, 1986. Under Michigan law, that was enough to justify his life
•mtence without parole. The U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to
ear arguments yesterday on whether Michigan’s law requiring such
sentence is cruel and unusual punishment. Under the state’s law,
:*osse8sion of 650 grams or more of cocaine brings a mandatory
ontence of life in prison without parole. Harmelin probably would be
•ut of prison by now if federal officials arrested him. Under federal
law, a first offender possessing 650 grams — almost Wt pounds —
would face a five-to-40-year penalty with possibility of parole.
AMBRIDGE, Pa. (AP): Deer smashes window. A deer
broke through n bank s window and smnshed three others Monday,
apparently mistaking its reflection for a rival, authorities said.It took
police and game wardens about an hour to get the bleeding buck out
of the Mellon Bank branch.“What happened was he broke one window
trying to get in and three others trying to get out,” Police Chief Jack
Lively said. A road crew used shovels to break the rest of the glass,
lined up and drove the buck through the window and into a nearby
forest. The damage was mostly blood stains and glass in the lobby,
bank spokeswoman Norma Buhrman said. Game wardens and police
suspect the buck thought his reflection in the bank’s window was a
rival. Deer are in their mating season and become protective of their
turf.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The UGA Equestrian team will
meet today at 7 p.m. in Room 319
of the Livestock and Poultry
Building.
• There will be an organizational
meeting of the Student League
for Environmental and Animal
Protection today at 8 p.m. in
Fhxim 145 of the Tate Center. For
more information, call 357-1131.
Colloquium
• The UGA Ad Club is
sponsoring a speech by Gary
Mabry, creative director of
Mabry, Sheppard and Company,
today nt 7:30 p.m. in Room 412 of
the Journalism Building.
• Susan Socolow, Emory
University Samuel Candler
Dobbs professor of history, will
speak tor the Latin American
Studies Fall Lecture Series today
at 3:30 p.m. in Room 142 of the
Tate Center. She will speak on
“Free Women of Color in
Eighteenth Century Saint
Domingue: Economic Roles."
• The Counseling and Testing
Center, Room 119 Clark Howell
Hall, is giving a seminar on
stress management, today from
3:30 to 5 p.m.
Announcements
• The Panhellenic Council will
hold a blood drive todny from 12
to 5 p.m. in Georgia Hall of the
Tate Center.
• Communiversity is sponsoring
a roller skating day toaay from
3:30 to 6:30 p.m. nt Skate Around
USA. Cost is 50c per skater. All
Big Brother/Sister and tutoring
volunteers are invited to attend.
• An LSAT practice test for
prelaw students will be given
todny from 6 to 9:30 p.m. nt the
Kaplan Learning Center in the
College Square Building, across
from the arch. The practice test
is free and all students
interested in attending law
school are encouraged to attend.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art is
showing “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
• An exhibition of paintings by
local artist Nancy Reeves will be
on display through Nov. 30 in the
Ecology Gallery, in the Ecology
Building.
Items for UGA Today must be
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days before the date to be printed.
Economic situation in
China due to politics
By RICHARD BAMBARGER
Campus Correspondent
China’s political philosophy has
stifled its economy, and protests
such as the Tiananmen Square
massacre are the result, said Chen
Yi-Zi, former advisor to ousted
Chinese Premier Zi Yang Zhao.
In the 20 years following China’s
Communist Revolution, its devel
oping society stagnated because of
the party's ineffective economic
policy, Chen told about 200 people
in the Tate Student Center’s
Georgia Hall Monday.
During this time, China’s gross
national product was outpaced by
Hong Kong’s, Taiwan’s and Ko
rea’s, Chen said. The gross na
tional product totals for the
Eastern European countries were
less than those of Western Euro
pean countries, but they were still
higher than China’s.
‘This economic stagnation was
caused by the political system,”
Chen said.
Chen, who helped shape China’s
economic policy when Zhao was in
office, escaped the country after he
was blacklisted following the Tia
nanmen Square massacre.
The massacre, he said, was an
unexpected reaction to failed re
forms by the Communist Party in
the past 10 years.
In 1984 large-scale agricultural
reform began, he said.
Agricultural reform was needed
most, Chen said, because about
one-fourth of the peasants didn’t
have enough food or clothing.
Because the peasants didn’t own
the land, they weren’t concerned
about long-term investment, he
said. The peasants spent all their
money as they earned it because
they couldn’t pass on their wealth
or land to descendants.
With the Village Reforms, peas
ants in the same village more than
doubled their income by producing
together.
Chen said city reform was more
difficult because economic and so
cial policy was under strict party
control.
In 1987 protestors began to call
for political reform as the only way
to remedy the economy, he said.
These protestors said that the
market system — and ultimately
democracy — was needed to stabi
lize the economy.
But the party persecuted about
one-fiflh of the population — in
cluding the intellectuals — which
meant that little clear-minded
thinking was used in economic
policy making, Chen said.
‘There is no room for human
rights in a system such as this,” he
said.
Tony Sung, a senior political sci
ence major, said, “I can see how it’s
hard for people to be motivated
when they can’t plan for a future.”
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This program is made possible in part through a grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts through the
Southern Arts Federation, of which the Georgia
Council for the Arts is a member.
This program is presented by The Performance Arts
Division of the University Union
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■ JUDICIAL REPORT
Underage drinkers caught-
Six of the 12 complaints received last week by the OF
fice Of Judicial Programs were for underage possession of
alcohol. Two other complaints were for disorderly conduct
at Sanford Stadium. Another disorderly conduct complaint
was for physical assault. A student was charged for al-„
cohol-related theft. Another student was charged for'.pos-
session of marijuana. The last complaint received was lor
driving under the influence of alcohol.
Two cases will be heard this week by an administrative
officer, both for disorderly conduct related to assault.
From cases heard last week in the Main Court, three
students were found not guilty of disordery conduct. An
other student was found guilty of alcohol-related disorderly
conduct and sentenced with alcohol counseling.
Three cases were heard last week by administrative of
ficers. One student, found guilty of disorderly conduct and
harassment, was sentenced with two quarters suspension,
probated expulsion and alcohol counseling. Another stu
dent was found not guilty of the same charges. The fast
case heard was for charges of disorderly conduct, ha
rassment and damage to property. A student was found
guilty and sentenced with two quarters suspension, restitu
tion and probated expulsion.
Federal privacy laws governing information released by
the University allow only three sets of facts to be disclosed
about an individual involved in disciplinary proceedings:
charges filed, the verdict and sentence. The University
can't release any circumstances which would identify the
person(s) involved.
Five pieces of information regarding organization cases
can be released by the University: the organization’s name,
charges filed, the verdict, sentence and a brief synopsis of
the case.
— Patrick Flanigan
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