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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Food Bank seeks donations, volunteers. As the holiday
season approaches, the Athens Area Emergency Food Bank needs
food donations and volunteers. Among the most needed items are
tuna, rice, soup, vegetables, fruits and fruit juices. The food bank
needs volunteers in the office from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays, and
workers also are needed on collection trips to Atlanta. “Our greatest
need is people to work at the upcoming Can-a-thon on Dec. 14," said
volunteer coordinator Ida Ziemke. For more information on either
donations or volunteer work, call 353-8182 or 543-4735.
Literacy colloquium scheduled tonight. As international
Literacy Year draws to a close, the Athens branch of the American
Association of University Women will hear from Margaret Kotliar,
adult programs assistant for the Athens Regional Library, Tuesday at
the Western Sizzlin Steak House on Baxter Street. “I’m going to talk
about the library and literacy in the *908," she said. “That should be a
sort of introduction to get people keyed up.” The library’s adult
literacy program now enjoys a one-to-one student-tutor ratio. Other
programs at the library include English as a second language and a
new one called Reach Out, which will be aimed at senior citizens. “We
have (University) students and faculty who are involved in tutoring,"
Kotliar said. The library offers free and confidential literacy tutoring
for men and women. For dinner reservations, call Jeanette Howell at
769-5148.
Investment program in Atlanta Saturday. The Atlanta
National Association of Investors Corporation will host a program
called “Nuts and Bolts of Investing” Saturday at 1 p.m. at Perimeter
North Inn, 1-285 and Buford Highway, according to NAIC board
member Billy Williams. Admission to the program is $5. Topics such
as stocks, mutual funds, IRAs and others will be discussed. “It would
definitely be a good introduction to investing,” Williams said. The
featured speaker will be Lillian Correa, a broker with the Robinson-
Humphrey investment firm. Members of the Atlanta Council, an
organization made up of representatives of Atlanta-area investment
clubs, will take questions after the program, Williams said. He is the
chairman of the Atlanta Council.
The Red and Black names new editors. The Red and Black
announced Thursday the positions of editor-in-chief, managing editor
and chief advertising representative for Winter quarter. Jennifer
Rampey, a senior journalism major and present managing editor, was
named editor-in-chief. Elizabeth Graddy, a first-year graduate
student in journalism, will be the managing editor. The new
advertising sales representative is junior advertising major Alan
Holcomb. These three positions are selected by The Red and Black
board of directors. Robert Todd, outgoing editor-in-chief and senior
publications management mcyor, said, “I am fully confident that they
all will excel at their new positions. They wouldn’t have been chosen
by the board, and they wouldn’t have worked here as long as they
have if they weren’t fully qualified to do the job.”
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Budget situation looks grim. The Georgia
Legislature’s budget expert weighed in Thursday with the grimmest
assessment yet of the state’s economic condition, saying he sees no
way to avoid government layoffs for the budget year beginning July 1.
Legislative Budget Officer Pete Hackney, briefing members of the
tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said next year’s
Legislature may have to choose whether to “tax or whack (the
budget).” Pressed by reporters later whether that could mean layoff's,
Hackney said, “I certainly hope they can be avoided, but I don’t see
how.” Gov.-elect Zell Miller appeared to raise a similar warning flag
earlier this week as he told reporters one of his most important tasks
as governor would be to “downsize” state government.
■ NATION
LAS VEGAS (AP): Bomb detonated despite protesters.
A British nuclear weapon was detonated Wednesday in spite of four
protesters who infiltrated the remote Nevada Test Site and made
their way to ground zero. The device, with an explosive punch up to
12 times the force of the World War II atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima, was detonated more than two hours behind schedule after
the four were removed by security officers. ‘The controllers are
showing signs of relief that it’s over,” Energy Department spokesman
Jim Boyer said after detonation at 11:17 a.m. ‘They’re obviously glad
that it went, and went without any prolonged delays because of the
infiltrators.” Motion from the blast was felt at Las Vegas City Hall,
about 105 miles away, and atop the city’s highrise hotels. It measured
5.1 on the Richter scale at the National Earthquake Information
Center in Golden, Colo.
■ WORLD
BAGHDAD (AP): ‘Guestage' new word in Iraq-speak.
Saddam Hussein has contributed a new word to the English
language: “guestages,” short for “guest-hostages.” The Iraqi
president’s ministers routinely warn reporters not to refer to the
thousands of Westerners banned from leaving Iraq as hostages. “This
is a very, very bad and dirty word and I’m not going to accept it,” says
Information and Culture Minister Latif Jassim during his news
briefings. After several such warnings, the word “guestages” entered
the lexicon of Iraqispeak. “Are you a hos...” The moment you ask any
of the hundreds of Westerners held in Baghdad hotels, comes the
swift reply: “No, I’m a guestage.” To tell the world that Western news
reports on the conditions of hostages held at strategic sites are wrong,
Iraq’s state-run television has started a new program, “Guest News,"
in which Americans, British, Japanese and Germans are shown
playing pool or giving interviews.
UGA TODAY
Now Showing
• The UGA Young
Choreographers Series ends
today with a program at 8 p.m. in
Room 272 of the P.E. Building.
Tickets are $3 and are available
at the Department of Dance in
the P.E. Building.
Colloquium
• The Women’s Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks presents
a round table discussion and
report on the Fifth Annual
Memphis State Workshop on
Curriculum Integration, with
Bernice Barnett from the
sociology department, Maijanne
Gooze mom the Department of
Germanic and Slavic Languages,
and Gloria Shen from the
comparative literature
department, today at 12:10 p.m.
in Room 140 of the Tate Student
Center.
Upcoming
• The Athens Area Habitat for
Humanity Small Prqjecta Group
will meet on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. in
the Fellowship Hall of the First
Presbyterian Church at 185 E.
Hancock Ave.
• The Athens Area Alzheimer’s
Disease Support Group will hold
irs regular monthly meeting on
Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Campus View Church of
Christ.
• There will be a book signing
Saturday, Nov. 17 from 1-5 p.m.
at Book Warehouse in the
Beech wood Shopping Center.
Warren Leamon, Ray Andrews,
Paul Evens, Ted Slatterback,
Tony Grooms, June Akers Seese,
David Weinstein, and Elton F.
Manzione are among those
scheduled to appear.
Exhibits
• 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 .
• The Crealde Arts School
Student Sculpture Exhibition
will be on display in the Main
Gallery of the Visual Arts
Building through Nov. 30.
Spontaneous group
to host candidates
By AL DIXON and
MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writers
Visions for Athens-Clarke
County, a recently formed commu
nity organization, sponsors a
forum for Countv Commission
runoff candidates Tuesday.
The forum, to be held from 7:30
p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the County
Commissioners public meeting
room in the Clarke County Court
house, will be moderated by Joe
Whorton of the Institute of Com
munity and Area Development.
Alec Little, a member of Visions
and forum organizer, said the
format will differ from that of the
usual political debate.
‘The intent of this forum is to
avoid the usual type of debate in
which candidates are asked ques
tions and usually respond in the
same way,” he said.
Little said topics of interest to
voters will be introduced by
Whorton and the candidates will
be given a chance to freely respond
in a roundtable fashion.
The five topics are the merging
of the city and county govern
ments, land-use planning, environ
ment, historic preservation and
economic development.
This is a grass roots type of
group that just sort of emerged,”
founding member Ethel Chaffin
said. “It really started with three
people talking on the telephone.
The first meeting had nine people
and we told everyone to bring
someone to the next meeting.”
The group holds meetings at va
rious locations ranging from Chaf
fin’s house to local restaurants.
The group has no leader or or-
ganzation and likes it that way,
said Chaffin.
The members all have different
backgrounds and are intereseted in
the quality of life in Athens and
Clarke County.
“I can’t tell you where it’s going
because we really don’t know,” she
said.
Runoff candidates from the 1st,
2nd, 7th and 8th Districts, as well
as Superdistrict 9 will be present
at the forum.
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Lipscomb employee
assaulted, robbed
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
University police still are
looking for two suspects in the as
sault of a Lipscomb Hall student
employee who had her book bag
stolen.
The incident occurred less
than 20 feet from the residence
hall.
Elizabeth Pettersson was on
her way to Lipscomb Monday at
about 10:45 p.m. when she was
approached by a short-haired
young black male of average
build wearing blue jeans. The
man asked her if she could
change a dollar, Pettersson said
Thursday.
“He looked sort of lost and I
felt sorry for him and told him I
didn’t have it but he could go
across the street,” she said.
As she continued toward Lips
comb, the man followed her,
pushed her down and took her
book bag, she said.
Pettersson said she jumped up
to see where he was going, but a
second suspect, also described as
a young black male with short
hair and average build, grabbed
her and threw her against a tree.
She wasn’t injured, but said
the assault makes her nervous
about walking in the area.
University police Sgt. Richard
Good son said it appears the two
suspects waited there with the
intention to commit the crime.
Kim Ellis, Lipscomb Hall resi
dence life coordinator, said this
incident concerns housing au
thorities despite its being the
only security problem of this na
ture that has occurred near the
residence hall.
“I hope people don’t think of
this as a one-of-a-kind incident,”
she said.“People need to take
care when they’re walking.”
Hilda Spratlin, Athens police
spokesperson, said Thursday the
housing projects on Baxter Street
aren’t considered a high crime
area.
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