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2 • The Red and Black • Tuesday, November 13, 1990
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Georgia Museum wins awards. The Georgia Museum of Art
has won three awards in the publication design competition of the
Southeastern Museums Conference, according to Museum Director
Jane Bledsoe. ‘This was a major achievement for our museum,” said
publicist Bill Eiland. “It speaks well for the efforts of our staff.” The
museum won a Silver Award for its fall 1989 newsletter, which
included an essay by Professor Hayden Maginnis of McMaster
University in Canada. A second Silver Award was given for the
museum’s new brochure, which is placed in welcome centers around
the state. Finally, the museum won an Honorable Mention award for
the brochure accompanying the exhibition “Old Master Prints from
The Permanent Collection.”
POW/MIA Awareness Week this week. To honor the 2,296
men still missing from the Vietnam War, Arnold Air Society and
Angel Flight are sponsoring POW/MIA awareness week this week.
They will set up a table daily in the Tate Student Center Plaza to
distribute yellow ribbons to honor the men. There will be a petition
asking the Hanoi government to to verify whereabouts of POW/MIAs,
or to send their remains home. Other events include: a 5 p.m. parade
Wednesday; two guest speakers at the College of Pharmacy
auditorium Wednesday at 5:45 p.m.; a candlelight vigil following the
speakers held in the Mary Kahrs Warnell memorial garden. The vigil
will last until the final dedication ceremony at noon Thursday.
Literary paper to appear soon. The first copies of the Literacy
Task Force’s position paper, which offers ways to increase literacy in
the state’s elementary and secondary schools, should roll off the
presses today, said Elinor Ruark, an information specialist in the
College of Education’s materials center. “A More Literate Georgia: An
Agenda for Action” is the first component of the University’s five-year
Education Initiative. Members of the Literacy Faculty, an
interdisciplinary committee connected with the initiative, and other
faculty who expressed an interest in the document will be among the
first to receive the color copies, said JoBeth Allen, associate professor
of language education. University President Charles Knapp and
other administrators will receive copies as well. This week and the
next, the college will mail copies to the state’s newspapers,
congressional representatives, members of the Legislature,
educational agencies and organizations, and regional libraries, Allen
said. The report was stalled by paper supply problems, but
“everything’s moving along fine now,” Ruark said.
Travel abroad fair today. The sixth annual fair for Study, Work
and Travel Abroad will be held today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. said
Leann Schmitz, University Study Abroad adviser. The fair is in
Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center. Representatives from
different groups have tables set up for information regarding the
programs. Athens travel agency representatives attending the fair
will answer questions pertaining to travel arrangements, Schmitz
said. Students who have already participated in the Study Abroad
programs will offer information.
Affirmative action debate tonight. The Honors Program
Student Association and the Student Government Association are co
sponsoring a debate at 8 p.m. today on affirmative action at the Tate
Student Center reception hall. SGA President Heath Garrett said the
debate will consist of an open forum with open discussion. “It’s an
important issue considering Knapp’s emphasis on relations of late,”
he said. Two anti- affirmative action ana two pro- affirmative action
debaters will make up a three-phase forum. The parts will include
federal government hiring, the University and affirmative action and
government control over private industry. Moderator David Herndon,
senior political science major and executive producer of the TV show
Rapid Fire, said the debate will be more of a roundtable discussion.
The event is open to the public.
Baptist Center robbed. Money that was intended to provide for
summer missionary work was stolen from the Baptist Student Union
Thursday night, according to the group’s secretary Rhonda Wood.
After the building was closed, someone broke through a door and stole
$350. The money had been collected earlier that week through a
dinner and auction that the Baptist Student Union held, said group
president Joy Adams, senior psychology major. “The money was going
to go to a good cause,” Adams said. “It’s a real shame it was taken.”
The case is still under investigation, Hilda Spratlin of the Athens
Police Department said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Geography Club will meet
today at 6:30 p.m. in Room 147 of
the Geography-Geology-Speech
Building. Free pizza will be
served.
• The Bulldog Christian
Fellowship will have a prayer
meeting today from 12 to 1 p.m.
in Room 142 of the Tate Student
Center. There will also be bible
study from 9 to 10 p.m. at the
same location.
• The Chinese-American
Students Association will meet
today at 6 p.m. at the Peking
Chinese Restaurant on the
Atlanta Highway. All interested
students are invited.
• The Public Relations Student
Society of America will meet
today at 7:30 p.m. in Room 137 of
the Tate Center. Anyone
interested is welcome.
• The Psychology Club is
meeting today at 6:30 p.m. in
Room 120 of the Psychology
Building to discuss the
Milledgeville trip. If you want to
go, you must attend. For more
information, call 548-6926.
• The Collegiate Delta Epsilon
Chi will meet today at 7 p.m. in
Room 601 of Aderhold Hall.
• The Student League for
Environmental and Animal
Protection will hold an
organizational meeting today
from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room
141 of the Tate Center. Everyone
is welcome.
Announcements
• The Gamma Beta Phi service
organization will play bingo with
the Athens Medical Center
nursing home today from 7 to 8
p.m. All interested members
should meet in the lower level
lobby of the Tate Center at 6:45
p.m. For more information, call
613-6204.
Colloquium
• University Law Professor
Milner Ball, Humanities Center
faculty lecturer, will speak on
“Law and Word” today at 4 p.m.
in Room 261 of Park Hall. Tne
lecture is open to the public.
• The Counseling and Testing
Center, Room 119 Clark Howell
Hall, will present a seminar on
choosing a mcyor, today from
3:30 to 5 p.m. No preregistration
is necessary.
• Ernie Provost, professor of
wildlife biology with the School of
Forest Resources, will present
this week’s forestry seminar
about 'The Economic Aspects of
Hunting” today from 3:30 to 4:45
p.m. in Room 209 of Forestry
Building 1. The public is invited
and enthusiastic discussion is
encouraged.
• There will be a horse seminar,
presented by Pam Liflon and
concerning the dressage horse
industry, today at 7 p.m. in Room
319 of the Livestock-Poultry
Building. All interested are
invited.
• Georgia attorney Robert
Remar will be lecturing on “How
Big Polluters Use ‘Strategic
Lawsuits Against Public
Participation’ and How to Fight
Back” today at 7:30 p.m. at the
UGA Law School Auditorium.
Exhibits
• The Georgia Museum of Art is
showing “Altered States: Ten
Georgia Photographers” through
Nov. 18.
• An exhibition of paintings by
local artist Nancy Revnes will be
on display through Nov. 30 in the
Ecology Gallery, at the Institute
of Ecology .
• The Crealde Arts School
Student Sculpture Exhibition
will be on display in the Main
Gallery of the Visual Arts
Building through Nov. 30.
Watch elderly relatives for drug abuse
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
If you have an elderly parent or
relative, watch when you vacation
at home next week for signs of a
new form of drug abuse taking root
among the nation’s elderly.
This abuse comes not from
taking drugs, but from failing to
take prescribed medication, Denise
Parks, professor of gerontology,
said.
Unexplained memory lapses, in
creased nervousness and fatigue
are all possible indications of older
adults not taking medication as it’s
prescribed, Park said in an inter
view last week.
“Whenever an elderly individual
has a behavioral change or a
sudden illness, it could be a drug
(losing effectiveness),” she said.
An expert in Washington said
many factors contribute to the dif
ficulty older adults have when
taking prescribed medication.
Ray Bullman, associate director
of the National Council of patient
Information and Awareness, said
the rising cost of medication, hard-
to-open containers, vision impair
ment, difficult instructions and
memory lapses can all prevent the
elderly from taking their medicine
each day.
At the University, Park has spe
cifically studied the effect of
memory loss non-adherence to pre
scriptions.
Older adults often have to take
three or more pills a day, Park
said. This makes remembering
which pill to take, and when to
take them more difficult.
In addition, it can be difficult to
understand all the sets of instruc
tions on the pill bottles.
Even if the individual accom
plishes these two tasks, Park said,
there is still the everyday chal
lenge of remembering to take the
medicine and remembering to have
the medicine.
A person may be taking
several medications
unnecessarily.
There is evidence that as you
get older, the cognitive process
changes,” Park said.
Students who are concerned
whether relatives are taking their
medication should check the pre
scriptions, Park said.
They could help their relatives
set up organizational charts by ap-
pyling all the different instructions
to a 24-hour time line.
Medication containers also help,
Park said.
One such container is the seven-
day oraganizer, which has sepa
rate holders for different times of
the day — morning, noon, evening
and bedtime — for each day of the
W ^While this container may appear
cumbersome and inconvenient,
Park’s research shows it has a high
rate of positively affecting adher
ence. „ .
Jeffery Kotzan, diretor of care
and administration at the College
of Pharmacy, said students should
tidk to their relatives’ pharmacists.
Pharmacists are trained to
watch their customers for any ad
verse side-affects to medication.
He said another thing to check is
how many pharmacies an indi
vidual is going to.
In many cases a person may be
taking several medications unnec
essarily. This is because they are
seeing several doctors for different
illnesses, and each doctor might
prescribe one drug that contradicts
another one.
Kotzan said the thing to do is
ask a physician to oversee all the
different prescriptions, and set up
a protocol.
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