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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, November 15, 1990
BRIEFLY Debate focused on affirmative action
■ UNIVERSITY
Lollipop Sale today. Sigma Kappa sorority will be selling
lollipops today at the Tate Student Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The
lollipop sales are part of Sigma Kappa’s philanthropy project to raise
money for Alzheimers Disease research. Julie Bacon, Sigma Kappa
public relations chair, said that the money raised goes into a national
sorority fund. She said that in the past $55,000 was raised to go
towards Alzheimers research. The gourmet lollipops will be 75$ each.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Gingrich sees Senate in future. Rep
Newt Gingricn, R-Ga., said Tuesday he may run for the U.S. Senate if
Democrats try to pry him out of his seat during 1992 redistricting.
Georgia is expected to get an 11th seat in the House of
Representatives, and all existing districts will be realigned to reflect
population growth. “Obviously, the Democrats would like to get me,”
said Gingrich, the only Republican in the Georgia delegation.
“Whether or not they can rig the game so I can’t win in a presidential
election year, well have to wait and see. ... If they went overtime to
gerrymander me, I would simply run for the U.S. Senate. If you can
get known on Atlanta TV you have half the state. It might be a fun
race between someone who voted against the gas taxes and someone
who voted for them.*
■ NATION
WASHINGTON (AP): Drug offenders lose right to drive.
States must suspend the drivers licenses of all convicted drug
offenders or risk losing part of their federal highway funds under
newly approved legislation signed by President Bush. The measure
applies to all states and all illegal drugs, including the 10 states
where possession of small amounts of marijuana has been
decriminalized but is still considered an infraction of the law. The
legislation, included in the transportation appropriations bill for the
current fiscal year, got little attention during the flurry of activity as
Congress rushed to leave town at the end of October. It calls for
withholding 5 percent of federal highway funds starting Oct. 1,1993
from states that fail to impose six-month suspensions on drivers
convicted of a drug oflense. The cut would increase to 10 percent on
Oct. 1, 1995. About half the states now allow suspension of drug
offenders’ licenses, but only a few, such as New Jersey, have
mandated such suspensions.
NEW YORK (AP): Eastern tries to avoid bankruptcy.
Creditors of Eastern Airlines say that it cannot become viable, so they
want to sell whatever assets remain and close the final chapter in the
legacy of the strike-plagued moneylosing airline. In a filing Tuesday
in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the creditors of Miami-based Eastern said
they oppose the airline’s request to get $30 million out of an escrow
account to keep operating through the middle of next month. Eastern
rejected the creditors’ contentions, saying it would present full
arguments in a hearing on Wednesday afternoon.
DALLAS (AP): Vitamin A good for heart. A form of vitamin
A common in carrots and many other fruits and vegetables appears to
substantially reduce the risk of heart trouble in people who already
have coronary artery disease, says a study released Tuesday. The
findings about beta carotene are still considered preliminary, but
raise the possibility that people whose heart arteries are already
clogged may be able to ward off heart attacks and other cardiac
problems by consuming the nutrient. However, Dr. Charles
Hennekens, who directed the study at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston, cautioned that the study will have to be confirmed
by further research before anyone recommends that people eat
carrots to save their hearts. “This is not for the public at this point,
and it’s not even for doctors," he said. “It’s for the researchers.”
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The International Business
Club will meet today at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 140 of the Tate Student
Center. Mr. Morgan Shellcross of
BellSouth International will be
the speaker. Professional attire
is requested.
• Athens Area Habitat for
Humanity will meet today at
7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall
of Green Acres Baptist Church,
2085 Barnett Shoals Road. For
more information, call 543-6239.
• Lumen, the Athens
photography group, will meet
today at 7:30 p.m. at the
photodesign department of the
visual arts building. The
presenters will be Gregory
Garretson and Margo
Rosenbaum.
• The Minority Business
Students Association will have a
general meeting today at 6:30
p.m. in the Tate Center. All
members are encouraged to
attend.
• The Environmental Health
Sciences Club will meet today at
7 p.m. in Room 305 of the dairy
science building. The speaker
will be David Hamilton, public
health educator for DeKalb
County. Anyone interested is
invited to attend.
Now Showing
• The UGA Young
Choreographers Series will be
Nov. 14 through 16 at 8 p.m. in
Room 272 of the P.E. Building. A
variety of dance works by
student choreographers will be
performed. Tickets are $3 and
are available at the Department
of Dance in the P.E. Building.
For more information, call 542-
4415.
Announcements
• Volunteer Connection is a local
organization interested in
matching people who would like
to volunteer time to worthy
causes that need volunteers. If
you would like to be a volunteer,
call Volunteer Connection at
353-1313.
• The 1990-91 edition of the
PANDORA is now on sale for $22
at the cashier’s window in the
Tate Center. Class portraits for
the PANDORA will be taken the
week of Nov.12-16 from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. This is the last chance to
have your picture taken for the
yearbook. Sign up for
appointments at the Tate Center
Information Desk. Walk-ins are
accepted.
• Vanessa Brantley invites
anyone interested to be a
respondent in her thesis
questionnaire survey, today at 4
p.m. in Room 306 of Dawson
Hall.
Colloquium
• The seventh videotape in a 10-
part series on the Theology of
Christian Nonviolence will be
shown today at 7:30 p.m. at the
Presbyterian Center, 1250 S.
Lumpkin St. For more details,
call 549-4552.
• The Culture of the South
Association is hosting William
Kretzschmar, editor-in-chief of
‘The Linguistic Atlas of the
U.S.,” for a talk on the past,
present, and future of Southern
speech and accents, today at 8
p.m. in Room 139 of the Tate
Center.
• The Classic City Toastmasters
is starting a program on “How to
be an Effective Leader,” today at
5:30 p.m. at the Council on
Aging, 230 Hull St. All are
welcome.
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
Galley of the Visual Arts
Building through Nov. 30.
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i By ANGELA HORNSBY
Staff Wnter
The question of whether affirmative action is
an effective tool against discrimination was de
bated by studente on both sides of the issue in
the Tate Student Center reception hall.
The Tuesday night program, "Re-thinking
Affirmative Action,* addressed the policy’s ef
fects on higher education, government hiring
and the business sector. It featured two pro-and
anti-affirmative action debate teams.
David Herndon, a senior political science
major and executive producer of the locally pro
duced “Rapid Fire” TV show, moderated.
Scott Kelly, a first-year law student and anti
affirmative action debater, said it is illogical to
say the policy is not discriminatory.
“Whenever you lower standards to create a
proportion equivalent to the community at
large, you are keeping out others that rightfully
deserve to attend the University," he said.
Pete McBrayer, a sophomore comparative lit
erature and math major and pro-affirmative ac
tion debator, said realizing who is setting the
standards is important.
The SAT is a classic example of white so
ciety and how their standards should be every
body’s,” he said.
John Bowyer, a junior political science rntyor
and anti-affirmative action debator, said it is
blacks, and not whites, who are setting stan
dards.
“At the state and local governments there is
a high representation of minorities,* he said. “If
there’s discrimination, it’s by other minorities,"
he said.
McBrayer said if government was against
quotas, white legislators would not have voted
to pass the Civil Rights Bill of 1990 by a two-
thirds majority.
Bowyer said politicians have made mistakes
before and will continue to in the future.
Michelle Redmond, a junior philosophy
major and pro-affirmative action debator, said
quotas are essential to minorities.
There are two applicants, one white, one
black ” she said. “Who’s going to have a harder
time in the future if they don't get the job?*
Private businesses should be free to decide
whether they want to set quotas, Scott said.
McBrayer said corporations like IBM believe
that diversity is the key to keeping business en-
terprises prospering and growing.
Arlando Dawson, a sophomore English mtyor
and president of the University’s NAACP
chapter, said he was slightly disappointed with
the debate. , .,
“I don’t think they had two good sides that
could argue effectively,” he said.
Chinese unite to form
student organization
By BILL DAVIS
Contnbuting Writer
Neither all-American nor all-
Chinese, American-born Chinese
face confusion and alienation in
joining the mainstream.
Michael Tien, a University grad
uate student in political science, is
doing something about it. Tien is
the president of the University’s
j newly formed Chinese-American
Student Association, CASA for
short.
Tien led the organization’s first
meeting Tuesday night at Peking
Restaurant on Broad Street, but
the fledgling group already has
reached its first obstacle.
“We still don’t have any money,"
Tien said. “We won’t find out
whether or not we will get Univer
sity funding until February. Even
then, if we did get funding, we
wouldn’t actually receive any
money until May."
But they do have a faculty ad
visor — Gloria Shen, an assistant
professor in the comparative litera
ture department.
“Whatever they need to do with
the University, I will assist in,"
Shen said. “I am not real sure what
the rest of my role will be, because
this is my first meeting.”
At the meeting, Tien also intro
duced Cindy Ho, vice president.
Ho, a junior international business
major from Americus, delivered
one of the high points of the
meeting with the announcement,
“We have just received certification
as the first-ever recognized chapter
from CAUCUS.”
CAUCUS, which stands for
Chinese American University Stu
dents of Canada and the United
States, is a Taiwan goverment-
funded program to acquaint over
seas Chinese with their heritage.
Students vote Osborn
fave faculty member
The Panhellenic Council be
stowed its second Faculty
Member of the Year award upon
Keith Osborn Tuesday night with
a reception at the Alpha Omicron
Pi sorority house.
Osborn, a child development
professor who served on the orig
inal planning committees for the
Head Start Program and Sesame
Street, received a plaque for the
award.
He won based on five sorority
nominations — the most anyone
received. Each of the 22 sororities
made one nomination.
“It’s a coincidence to get more
than one (for the same professor),
but five is incredible,” said Annie
Stiers, Panhellenic scholarship
chair. “We knew he must be
somebody special.”
Stiers received rave reviews on
his character and accomplish
ments both in and out of the
classroom.
Sigma Delta Tau’s nomination
stated, “If all the University’s fac
ulty were as genuine and caring
as Dr. Osborn, students would be
more interested in their educa
tion.”
Osborn received a doctoral de
gree in clinical psychology and
began practicing before he real
ized that he wanted to teach. “I
got into my practice and found
out to my horror that I didn’t like
sick people,” he said.
Osborn went back to school for
master’s degree in child devel
opment. He suggests that others
choose careers that make them
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