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2 • Thq Red and Black • Friday, November 30, 1990
BRIEFLY
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): DUI laws may get tougher. Suspending
drunken drivers’ licenses and taking cars from habitual violators are
measures that work in other states and should be implemented in
Georgia, a prosecutor and a top state highway official said
Wednesday. “This is a preventable tragedy that we have not
prevented,” Mickey McGuire, director of the Governor’s Office of
Highway Safety, said at a Metro Atlanta Crime Commission forum.
Since the heyday of the anti-drunken driving campaign in the early
and mid-1980s — when driving under the influence (DUI) arrests
soared and alcohol-related traffic deaths dropped — the trends have
reversed in Georgia. DUI deaths increased by 12 percent from 1983 to
1989, injuries by 47 percent and DUI accidents by 5 percent, McGuire
said. Meanwhile, DUI arrests fell by 50 percent. Suspending the
licenses of those arrested for DUI who fail or refuse a sobriety test has
substantially decreased deaths and injuries in the 29 states that
require it, proponents say. Vehicle confiscation and forfeiture,
designed to punish the repeat DUI offender, would occur afler the
third offense.
ATLANTA (AP): AIDS increasing in women. The Centers
for Disease Control said Thursday that AIDS is increasing steadily
among women and by next year will be one of the nation’s five leading
causes of death in women of childbearing age. Another study,
released in Geneva Thursday by the World Health Organization, said
that a dramatic increase in women with AIDS is expected worldwide
because the number of cases resulting from heterosexual contact is on
the rise. The CDC study was the latest to show that AIDS, though
perceived by many as a male disease, has become a serious health
threat for women. “In 1982 AIDS wasn’t even on the chart. By 1987 it
was eighth leading cause of death among women 15-44, and we
project it to be fifth by 1991,” said Dr. James Curran, director of the
CDC’s AIDS program. Cancer is the No. 1 killer of women in that age
group, according to the CDC.The CDC said in its weekly report that
by the end of the year, AIDS cases among U.S. women will exceed
15,000, about 11 percent of all reported cases.
ATLANTA (AP): Pay raise push unsuccessful, a state
commission Thursday renewed its unsuccessful pitch for pay raises
ranging from 17 percent to about 30 percent for legislators and top
state officials. But the Commission on Compensation conceded that
the proposal, rejected when it was made a year ago, is likely to have
no more success in the upcoming General Assembly session because
of the state’s budget problems. Confirmation of that assessment came
only a few hours later when Gov.-elect Zell Miller told reporters, “I
would suggest they forget it. I think they wasted that meeting.” The
f ilan was never considered by the 1990 Legislature because
awmakers faced re-election campaigns shortly after the close of that
session and a congressional pay raise voted earlier by federal
lawmakers already had touched off a wave of public wrath. The state
since has suffered economic reversals, and the word has gone out
from Miller that the budget pantry will be bare for next year.
■ WORLD
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP): Bulgaria’s premier resigns.
Premier Andrei Lukanov and his government of former Communists
resigned today, bowing to unrelenting pressure from the streets and
the halls of parliament. The Socialist premier, blamed for the Balkan
country’s political and economic anarchy, said union and the
government opposition had made it impossible for his government to
implement its economic reform program. ‘Tor me, it is therefore
pointless to remain at the premier’s post, and ... I resign my office,”
the state BTA news agency quoted him as saying. No replacement
was immediately named for Lukanov, one of the reform-minded
Socialist Party members who helped oust longtime Communist leader
Todor Zhivkov last November. Lukanov, 52, was appointed premier
in early February. Lukanov’s resignation had been expected since he
and otner political leaders struck a deal in talks to end their
stalemate that has prevented the country from tackling its worst
postwar economic crisis. The accord was struck in a meeting called by
President Zhelyu Zhelev, as a nationwide strike entered its fourth
day and streets filled with thousands of people demanding an end to
political turmoil and economic hardship.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP): Atomic weapons banned. Brazil
and Argentina on Wednesday formally banned the production of
nuclear weapons in the two countries. The historic agreement
between the two former rival nations was signed Wednesday by
Presidents Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil and Carlos Menem of
Argentina in the border city of Foz do Iguacu, almost 1,200 miles
south of Brasilia. “We have taken a decisive step to eliminate nuclear
rivalry between the two countries,” Collor said during the signing
ceremony. Menem snid Brazil and Argentina eliminated all
possibility of an arms race in the region and banned the production of
missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The two countries also
prohibited nuclear tests inside their territories, even for peaceful
purposes. Brazil and Argentina are the only countries in Latin
America thnt have perfected the complete nuclear fuel cycle.
UGA TODAY
Announcements
• A program for Russian
Language summer study in the
Soviet Union at the Leningrad
Polytechnic Institute is being
arranged. The program lasts for
4-6 weeks, and elective credit is
available. For more information,
call M Thompson at 542-2458 or
Richard Reitt at 542-1557.
• A support group designed to
discuss, share and problem solve
academic difficulties will be
starting winter quarter for those
students with psychological
disabilities. For more
information, call Pam Hunt at
542-8719
• There will be a pottery sale in
the visual arts building front
foyer today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Volunteer Connection is
seeking volunteers who would
like to offer their time and help
to various holiday spirit
organizations. Please call
Community Connection at 353-
1313 for more information.
• The Office of Disability
Services is sseking students who
would like to be part-time
assistants. If interested, call
Pam Hunt at 542-8719.
• Signups are now being taken in
Room 229 of Memorial Hall
Recreational Sports Office for the
snowskiing trip to Snowshoe,
West Virginia on Feb. 22-24,
1991. $135 includes lodging,
transportation and lifts. The
signup deadline is Friday, Dec. 7
at 4 p.m. Call 542-5060 for more
information.
• The Georgia Museum of Art
will host an open house for its
shop today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
the Museum Shop is celebrating
its first anniversary with spiced
cider, cookies, and special
drawings hourly from 12-4 p.m.
• There will be n book signing,
with authors Phinizy Spalding
and Marty Godbey, on Sunday,
Dec. 9 at the Book Center, 282 E.
Clayton St., from 1-3 p.m.
• The finals of the 1990 Fall
Mock Trial Competition will be
held today at 3:30 p.m. in the
Hatton Lovejoy Auditorium at
the University of Georgia School
of Law. Ms. Lee Ann Butler,
Clarke County Assistant District
Attorney, will serve as presiding
justice. All students and public
are invited to attend.
• The HIV/AIDS Interfaith
Coalition, Athens-University of
Georgia will hold its bi-monthly
meeting on Monday, Dec. 3 at
7;30 p.m. at the Catholic Center,
1344 S. Lumpkin St.
• The Athens Creative Theater
will present “Golliwhoppers”
today, tomorrow and Sunday at
Memorial Park. Performance
time is 7:30 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, and 3 p.m. on Sunday.
For more information or to make
a reservation, call 357-6060.
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.
SGA senator resigns to graduate early
By SANDRA STEPHENS
and GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writers
The Student Government Association is ac
cepting applications to fill a senate seat vacated
when Senior Sen. Apama Deshmukh resigned
at Wednesday night's meeting.
Deshmukh said she’s leaving on good terms.
“There are no harsh feelings,” she said.
Deshmukh resigned because she is grad
uating this quarter. She had planned to grad
uate in March 1991.
Last year nine senators resigned under the
administration of Mark Schisler and Mary
Beth Hartlege. Several of these resignations
were a result of conflict within SGA and dissat
isfaction with the administration. Some, how
ever, were for academic or personal reasons.
“I think SGA has come a long way under the
leadership of Heath Garrett and Ben Calhoun,”
Deshmukh said.
This quarter SGA initiated several suc
cessful projects. It participated in Vote ’90, the
statewide voter registration drive. The Univer
sity registered more voters than any other voter
drive in Georgia with 1007 people registered
last spring and 506 this fall.
SGA also sponsored two candidate forums for
local elections. One between candidates for
chief elected officer and another for the district
races.
Two proposals, physical education require
ments and dead days, were drawn up and sub
mitted to Univesity Council by SGA.
The PE requirement proposal asked the Uni
versity Council to consider reducing the PE re
quirement to three hours.
The dead days proposal recommends that
University professors don’t make any assign
ments or schedule tests and quizzes during the
final three days of class before exams. It also
recommends that professors be allowed to
grade students for attendance and partici
pation during these days.
SGA President Heath Garrett said that the
PE requirment proposal was accepted by the
University Council and will probably be thrown
to a committee. But SGA hasn’t received word
on the dead days proposal, he said.
SGA also is responsible for the second escort
van which is now running on campus, Garrett
said. The escort van program was implemented
in the fall of 1989. A second escort van was
needed because of the large number of students
using the van.
SGA also conducted a survey on bicycle paths
in cooperation with Students for Environ,
mental Awareness.
The response in favor of bike paths was in.
credible, Garrett said. And SGA will probably
create a proposal to submit to University
Council and the new unified government at the
beginning of 1991.
A liaison program between other student or
ganizations was a strong point for the student
government. The program was designed to in-
crease communication between all student or-
ganizations.
Young Democrats, Black Affairs Council
Students for Environmental Awareness and
Students over Traditional Age are just a few of
the campus organizations that are working in
conjunction with SGA. An SGA liaison is also
being sent to to work with the city.
SGA President Pro Tern William Perry said
applications for the vacant senior senator seat
will be available Jan. 7 at the Tate Student
Center information desk and will be due Jan.
21. Interviews will take place the week of Jan.
28 through Feb. 1.
Perry said students must have a 2.25 grade
point average and collect 300 student signa-
tures to qualify.
Witnesses to Police Beating
outside exit of Fat Tuesday's at
Jacksonville Landing at 1:30 a.m.
on Nov. 11 (Sunday) please call
Geoff collect at (904) 335-3989
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Of course, we mean black-eyed peas. And squash
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hambuiger steak with mushroom gravy, barbecue and
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