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Speakes urges involvement in govt.
■ UNIVERSITY
Firm hired to study health problems. A special committee
appointed to address health problems of employees in the Biological
Sciences Complex finalized a contract with the consulting firm of Air
Quaility Sciences, Inc., Thursday. The Atlanta firm, hired for
$32,000, will examine air samples, Questionnaires and conduct
interviews to determine the cause or the problems, Tom Jackson,
director of Public Information, said. AQS, Inc., is expected to make
recommendations for changes in the building sometime early next
year.
PE survey scheduled for Monday. The Student Government
Association will conduct a Physical Education requirement survey
Monday at the Tate Student Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. SGA
senators have been passing the surveys out in classes. But William
Perry, SGA president pro tern, said SGA wants a diversified group of
student responses. Perry said SGA will also have a banner at the Tate
Center for students to sign. The banner, which will be sent to the
Kuwaiti troops, will be at the Tate Center Monday through Friday
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dos and don’ts for Jacksonville weekend. Students
heading to Jacksonville this weekend may not be thinking about
raping someone they know, but alcohol may change their minds, said
Tiffany Brott of the Student Committee on Acquaintance Rape.
“Seventy-five percent of all acquaintance rapes involve the
consumption of alcohol by one or both parties,” the senior public
relations major said. Planning is the key to avoiding acquaintance
rape. Women should know where they'll be staying before they leave
for Florida and make this clear to their male companions. “You need
to tell the man up front if you have no intention of sleeping with him,”
she said. “It may be embarrassing, but it will keep him from getting
the wrong idea.” An agreement to share a room may be taken to mean
a woman is sexually available. Women should stay with a
trustworthy person for the duration of an outing and avoid being
caught in a secluded area with an unfamiliar person. And they should
know what they want. “When you say ‘no’ — mean it,” Brott said.
‘Your body language should match your verbal language.”
Veteran’s Day Sunday. State offices close Sunday in honor of
Veterans’ Day. Sure, they would be closed on Sunday anyway, but the
proclamation is a tradition in many states, despite the existence of
federal and state holidays for veterans. Gov. Joe Frank Harris made
the proclamation in a formal ceremony at the state Capitol Oct. 24.
“We would still celebrate the holiday, even if the governor didn’t
proclaim it,” said Preston Charles, public relations manager for the
Georgia Department of Veterans Service.
■ NATION
PASADENA, Calif. (AP): Venus once had lava oceans.
The Magellan spacecraft’s pictures of Venus suggest immense
volcanic eruptions once spewed gargantuan floods of lava that may
have deluged more than naif the planet, a NASA scientist said
Wednesday. “It seems to have happened all at once in the past, maybe
400 million years ago” as molten rock erupted from numerous cracks
called vents on the Venusian surface, said geologist Steve Saunders,
Magellan’s chief scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The other
possibility is that a series of somewhat smaller lava floods — each
covering hundreds of thousands of square miles —inundated various
parts of Venus during different times, he added. Saunders said the
possible global-scale flows of molten rock were similar to, but much
larger than, the volcanic catastrophe that formed the Columbia River
basalts 12 million to 20 million years ago. The basalts are huge
solidified lava flows that cover much of the Pacific Northwest east of
the Cascade Range.
WASHINGTON (AP): Barry’s aides asked to resign.
Mayor-elect Sharon Pratt Dixon on Wednesday wasted no time acting
on her pledge to overhaul the District of Columbia government,
urging that all of Mayor Marion Barry’s political aides quit. “I am
going to indicate to the mayor that I would like for him to ask for the
resignations of all the political appointees,” Dixon said in the
aftermath of her landslide victory over Republican nominee Maurice
Turner. The mayor-elect did not elaborate on what type of legislative
action she would seek from the council, but that 13-member panel has
in recent weeks passed bills designed to limit Barry’s spending
authority during his last days in office. Several legislators said they
were worried Barry would reward friends and political cronies with
pay raises and city contracts while he still had the power to do
so.Barry, who was defeated in his bid for a seat on the city council,
said during his concession speech Tuesday that he intended to
cooperate in the transition to the Dixon administration.
WASHINGTON (AP): Drug control director resigns.
William J. Bennett is resigning as the first director of the Office of
National Drug Control Strategy after leading what the White House
called “a turnaround” in the battle against the drug scourge.
Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said President Bush will
formally accept Bennett’s resignation in a ceremony at the White
House on Thursday. Fitzwater denied that the resignation was
prompted by threats to Bennett’s life, saying that Bennett “has lived
with threats of a kind ever since day one of the job.” Bennett leaves
office only two weeks after another senior administration official,
Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, became the first member of Bush’s
cabinet to resign. Bennett, a former secretary of education, became
director the nation’s anti-drug efforts at the beginning of the Bush
administration. He helped to coordinate some 27 departments and
agencies involved in the drug war.
UGA TODAY
Colloquium
• The Women’s Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks presents
“Double Vision: Love and Envy
in the Lais of Marie de France,”
in a talk by Sarah Spence from
the department of comparative
literature, today at 12:10 p.m. in
Room 140 of the Tate Student
Center.
Announcements
• Communiversity will be
collecting items for Project Safe,
a shelter for battered women, in
boxes that will be in the lobbies
of several residence halls and in
Room 158 of the Tate Center
from Nov. 12 through Nov. 16.
Items needed are hairbrushes,
diapers, canned goods, laundry
supplies and the like. Call the
Communiversity office at 542-
3813 for more information.
• Gamma Sigma Sigma, the
national service sorority, will be
holding a canned goods drive in
the Tate Center plaza Nov. 12
through 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
each day. They will be collecting
canned goods and donations for
food to help the needy and
foodshelters this Thanksgiving.
• Hillel will sponsor Shabbat
services today at 6:30 p.m. at the
Congregation Children of Israel.
A covered dish dinner will follow.
For more information, call the
Hillel office at 543-6393.
Upcoming
• The Georgia Israel Network of
University Students will present
Alon Liel, consul general of the
Israeli Consualte in Atlanta, at
the Tote Center Reception Hall
at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12. He
will discuss the current situation
in the Middle East and will field
questions from the audience. A
reception will follow. The event is
free and is open to the public. For
more information, call 543-6393.
• The University of Georgia
School of Music presents the
UGA Wind Ensemble with the
UGA choruses in concert on Nov.
12 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts
Auditorium. Admission is free.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art is
showing “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
• An exhibition of paintings by
local artist Nancy Kevnes will be
on display through Nov. 30 in the
Ecology Gallery, at the Institute
of Ecology.
By MATT MAYBERRY
Contributing Writer
Americans must regain control
over their political process, said
Larry Speakes, chief spokesman
for former President Reagan from
1981 to 1987.
To do that, Americans must
counteract the growing influence of
television and negative advertising
in political campaigns, Speakes
said Wednesday at the Tate Stu
dent Center Georgia Hall.
‘Television has removed politics
from the substantial to the incon
sequential,” Speakes told about
150 audience members. “Negative
advertising threatens to ruin our
political system.”
Negative advertising became so
severe in this year’s gubernatorial
race in Texas that one poll showed
most voters would rather cast their
ballots for none of the above, he
said.
Speakes has developed a very se
rious outlook on what he called the
‘Television Revolution.”
He said this generation will de
cide whether politics will become
good television or good for the
country.
‘The only way to make sure our
political system isn’t corrupt is to
get involved,” he said.
“We cannot go through another
campaign with flag waving and
Willie Horton and expect to find
out how someone will perform in
office.”
Speakes served longer than any
other presidential press secretary
since James Haggerty under
former President Eisenhower. He
is one of only 10 living presidential
press secretaries.
“Being in politics is hazardous
duty,” he said. “I was one screw-up
from being on the street.”
He grew up in Marigold, Missis
sippi. After briefly attending the
University of Mississippi, he held
reporting jobs at weekly newspa
pers in Oxford, Cleveland and Le-
land.
“Growing up in a small Missis
sippi town, I never thought that I’d
see a president, much less work for
one," ne said.
He blamed his second semester
of French for his not graduating
from college.
“After a few weeks of French I
said to myself That’s it. I’m gone,’"
Speakes said.
After working as spokesman for
U.S. Sen. James Eastland (D-
Miss.) and the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Speakes joined the
Nixon staff in 1974. He acted as
press secretary for the Watergate
legal defense.
He has often been put in the dif
ficult position between main
taining the president’s secrets and
keeping the public informed.
“l’ve never had any problem
keeping secrets,” he said.
On the day U.S. forces bombed
Libya, he avoided the press.
“When the press called, I’d go
across the hall to the bathroom,” he
said.
‘Larry Speakes has a
unique perspective into
politics and mass
communications.’
-Loch Johnson
professor,
political science
Speakes served as assistant
press secretary for former Presi
dent Ford and as press secretary
for the presidential campaign of
U.S. Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.).
Loch Johnson, a political science
professor, introduced Speakes.
“Larry Speakes has a unique
perspective into politics and mass
communications,” Johnson said.
“He is a national leader with an
important message.”
Center for East-West trade to receive money
Possibilities for trade deficit reductions
‘Policies and practices
which have been in
place for over 40 years
will have to be re
evaluated.
— Gary Bertsch
co-director
East-West Center
By KERRIN HOWARD
Contributing Writer
The Center for East-West Trade
Policy will use a $90,000 grant to
research whether the United
States should open its doors to
Eastern European countries for
high-technology trade.
The United States withholds
telecommunications equipment,
computers, updated transmissions
of telephonic systems, machine
tools and other high-tech goods,
said Gary Bertsch, co-director of
the East-West Center. These
things could be used for military
purposes.
The countries affected include
Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslo
vakia, Hungary, Poland, Yugo
slavia and the Soviet Union.
Changing government struc
tures in those countries force the
United States to re-examine its
policy, Bertsch said.
“It’s a whole new ballgame,” he
said. “Policies and practices which
have been in place for over 40 years
will have to be re-evaluated
quickly if the United States is
going to stake its claim in the new
markets in the East.”
Martin Hillenbrand, director of
the Center for Global Policy
Studies, said both the East and the
West will benefit financially from
new trade markets.
The United States suffers heavy
deficits in world trade, and new
Eastern markets will reduce the
difference, he said.
“Although it won’t solve all the
problems, it will help reduce the
trade deficit,” Hillenbrand said.
The research grant will examine
the prospects for cooperation be
tween the East and the West, he
said. It also will examine ways to
promote economic and political re
form in Central Europe.
“I would like to see the demo
cratization process continue in
each country,” Hillenbrand said.
‘Trade between the East and the
West may positively contribute to
that process, but it’s clear it won’t
happen overnight.”
In addition, developing econ
omies in the fledgling democracies
will benefit from income generated
by open trade, he said.
Steve Elliott-Gower. the East-
West center’s assistant director,
said the research also will assign
limits to the proliferation of nu
clear, chemical and biological
weapons and missile technology.
It may lead to a new interna
tional export-control organization
with the Soviet Union and Central
European governments, he said.
“All of this involves cooperation
on what we are calling technology
management,” said Elliott-Gower.
“It’s in the West’s strategic inter
ests to support economic and polit
ical reform in Central Europe.
“Western technology can be part
of the reform process, but we need
some sort of guarantee that sensi
tive technologies won’t get in the
wrong hands,” Elliott-Gower said.
Hillenbrand Baid despite the
benefits, psychological adjust
ments haven’t kept pace with polit
ical changes.
‘Tor many people, it’s hard to be
lieve that all the threats are gone,”
he said.
Results from the first year of re
search will be presented at a
workshop in Athens next fall, he
said.
The money, granted by Philadel
phia-based Pew Charitable Trusts,
pays only for the first year of the
four-year project.
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Saturday 8am - 2pm 845 Prince Ave.
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Support group for students interested in exploring issues re
latcd to homosexuality and bisexuality will meetWednesdays
from 3:30- 5:00 pm starting January 9th at the Counseling
and Testing Center in Clark Howell Hall. For further infor
mation, call Maureen Collins or Michelle Gale at 542-3183.
Pregroup interview is required. Services are Confidential.
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