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2 ♦ The Red and Black » Wednesday, January 9. 1991
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Student Government to meet. The Student Government
Association will meet at 7:30 p.m. on the first floor of the Tate
Student Center. Discussion topics on the agenda include the physical
education requirements proposal, the dead days proposal, Martin
Luther King Jr. Week, Earth Day and the SPACECENTER, a
student atheletic facility. SGA President Heath Garrett said all
students are invited to attend the general body meetings. Students
can speak to the organization about issues and offer suggestions in
the open forum of each meeting. “We need that student input,”
Garrett said.
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Students to link with Soviets. Students
at six American schools will be trying to solve the world’s problems
with students about 4,500 miles away in the Soviet Union tnis spring
under a program directed by a Georgia State University professor.
Students at four Georgia schools will be among those linked by
computer with schools in Moscow and Leningrad as part of the three-
year U.S.-Soviet Global Thinking Project. Jack Hassard, director of
the project and a professor of science education at Georgia State
University in Atlanta, said the project is designed to link students
and teachers from different countries to tackle global problems.
American participants include four Georgia schools —Dunwoody
High School, the Rittredge School in DeKalb County, the High School
in Fulton County, and Chattanooga Valley Middle School in
Flintstone, Ga.
VALDOSTA (AP): Prosecutor calls defendant ‘witch’.
The prosecutor is alleging that murder defendant Roy Whitener was
a practicing witch who bragged that he planned to drink the blood of
the man he is charged with killing. Whitener, 20, of Troupeville is
charged with murder, armed robbery and possession of a firearm
during a crime in connection with the shooting death of W.M. Wood, a
67-year-old Valdosta security guard, last January. His trial opened
Monday in Lowndes County Superior Court. In his opening
statement, prosecutor J. David Miller said the state would dismiss
identical charges against Whitener’s former companion, Jason
Awker, 17, and call Awker as its key witness. He said Awker would
testify that Whitener came to him the night of the Jan. 21, 1990,
shooting, admitted he killed Wood and said he planned drink the
victim’s blood and take his skull for a souvenir. Whitener abandoned
his plans for Wood when he became frightened, the prosecutor said.
"Roy Whitener is not your average person off the street,” Miller told
the jury. “Jason Awker has seen Roy Whitener drink human blood
before.” Whitener’s attorney, William Edwards, told the jury Awker
fingered his client in the shooting out of revenge from an earlier
criminal case. Whitener pleaded guilty to arson charges in a fire at
the home of Awker’s mother, Lee Brundage, but implicated Ms.
Brundage as a conspirator in the blaze.
■ NATION
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.l. (AP): Sentence suspended.
A man was given a five-year suspended sentence for drunken driving
in a 1989 wedding night crash that killed his bride. Raymond A.
Pelchat, 25, of Hopkinton, also was placed on five years’ probation
and ordered to give up his driver’s license for two years.The sentence
was issued last week by Superior Court Judge Dominic Cresto.
Pelchat and Bonnie Dumas Pelchat, 24, were heading home from the
reception shortly after midnight May 14, 1989, when their car
skidded and swerved into an oncoming car. Mrs. Pelchat died three
hours later. Police said Pelchat refused an officer’s request to test his
07911402breath, blood, or urine for alcohol. But a few hours later,
police obtained a warrant allowing them to sample Pelchat’s blood.
Two samples showed him to be intoxicated, police said.
DALLAS (AP): German treasures returned. A collection of
medieval art treasures that an American soldier took out of Germany
at the end of World War II will be returned to a German church under
a settlement announced Monday. In exchange, the soldier’s family
will receive about $1 million. The New York Times reported in its
Tuesday editions. The payment will raise to nearly $2.75 million the
amount the soldier's heirs get for relinquishing the treasures, the
newspaper said. The agreement was reached after an eight-hour
meeting in London between representatives for the soldier’s family
and the Lutheran Church of Quedlinburg, said Steve Rahhal, a
Dallas attorney whose firm represents the church. Two members of
the Interior Ministry of Germany also were present, Rahhal said. The
settlement contained a financial agreement, but attorneys for both
sides refused to discuss the terms. The soldier, Joe T. Meador, diedin
1980, leaving the collection to his brother, Jack Meador, and sister,
Jane Meador Cook.
LOS ANGELES (AP) :0bsessed fan sentenced. An
obsessed fan who stabbed actress Theresa Saldana was sentenced
Tuesday to 2-3 years in prison for sending her threatening letters.
Sentencing came after Miss Saldana pleaded with him to “take me
out of your thoughts.” Arthur Jackson, who has been in prison for
eight years for the attempted murder of Miss Saldana, was unmoved
and read a rambling “declaration of war” if he is sent back to state
prison. He also demanded to be executed.
■ WORLD
MOSCOW (AP): Baltics prepare for bloodshed, officials
in the secessionist Baltics warned their citizens Tuesday to brace for
bloodshed and prepare for civil disobedience against Soviet
paratroopers deployed to enforce the draft. Soviet authorities “are
trying to create a new conflict artificially, and the real reason is not
the draft, but to suppress the independence of the republics,”
Estonian Prime Minister Edgar Savisaar told reporters in Moscow. A
Soviet armored column of 108 vehicles entered Vilnius, the capital of
Lithuania, at 4:35 a.m. and wound past the republic's legislature
before reaching an army barracks, the Lithuanian government said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
A dialogue evening and letter
writing workshop on the Persian
Gulf crisis will be held tonight
from 7-8:45 p.m. at the Athens
Regional Library on West
Dougherty Street. The event is
sponsored by Athens Peace
Coalition, Beyond War, members
of the Jeanette Rankin
Foundation and local churches.
For more information call 769-
9808.
The Society for Human Resource
Management will meet tonight
at 7:30 p.m. in Room 143 of the
Tate Center. The speaker will be
Kayla Drane from Etcon, Inc.
Professional attire requested.
Students for Environmental
Awareness will hold its first
meeting of winter quarter
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the
ecology auditorium. Everyone is
welcome.
The Young Democrats of Clarke
County/University of Georgia
will meet tonight at 8 p.m. in
Room 213 of Memorial Hall. The
public is invited to attend.
The College Republicans will
meet tonight in Room 142 of the
Tate Center at 8:30 p.m. The
public is invited to attend.
Volunteers
Community Connection places
volunteers with organizations in
need of their talents. Volunteer
agencies are numerous and
varied and include Amigos, a
companion program for people
with mental disabilities. For
more information call 353-1313.
Items for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed.
Include specific meeting location,
speaker’s title and topic, and a
contact person’s day and evening
phone number. Items are printed
on a space-available basis.
Because space is limited, long
announcements are shortened
Transfer students’ adjustment is hard
By MARK BIXLER
Campus Correspondant
The nearly 2,000 students who
transferred to the University last
year knew the college experience,
jut weren’t given information spe
cific to Athens and the University,
transfer students said.
‘They didn’t tell us about riding
the buses,” said Erin Baker, a se
nior accounting major who trans
ferred from West Georgia College.
‘You’ve got to figure that out on
your own when you come in as a
transfer student.
For many transfer students,
making the transition to a large
state school can be a headache. The
adjustment, however, usually isn’t
as bad for transfer students as it is
for freshmen.
Roger Bevels, a junior adver
tising major who transferred here
from Georgia Southern University,
said, “A freshman is coming here
from high school, and that’s the big
change. Georgia Southern wasn’t
as big as UGA, but at least I got a
step further than high school.”
Wendel Griffis, a senior finance
major who spent his first year at
Old Dominion Universtiy in Nor
folk, Va., echoed those sentiments.
‘You’re not a freshman, and you
don’t know all the things there are
to know about the University of
Georgia, but still you don’t feel
naive about the college experi
ence,” he said.
Aside from the benefit of having
attended another college, transfer
students face many of the same
problems that incoming freshmen
do. Among the difficulties are feel
ings of lonliness and a general lack
of information.
Griffis pointed out a method for
transfer students to feel more com
fortable in their new setting.
“A great way to meet people in a
school this large is to get involved
in some kind of organization,” he
said. ‘They’re people you feel you
have something in common with.”
Transfer students come to the
University for a number of reasons.
Many are unhappy with smaller
schools and point to the expansive
facilities and great diversity avail
able here. Others are drawn to the
town of Athens.
“My old school was a commuter
school, and you never felt like you
were a part of the campus,” one
transfer student noted. “It just
didn’t have any community feeling
to it whatsoever. But here in
Athens you have a college town,
and it has a distinct college town
feel to it.”
Also, Baker associated the Uni
versity with increased job pros
pects after school. “It’s a bigger
school with a bigger name,” he
said. “And more companies inter
view here.”
Some students were eager to get
away from suitcase colleges, whe
a large percentage of the studen
body goes away on weekend?
Athens, by contrast, is a town tha
often caters to college students
from its many bars and resta
raunts, to its theaters, stores an
clubs.
The majority of transfers com
here from colleges within the state
In fall quarter, about 1,000 stu
dents transferred from various col
leges throughout the state, while
more than 500 came here from out-
of-state schools.
CORRECTION
A story in Tuesday's The Red and Black contained incorrect in
formation. The Biological Sciences Building Is not a new campus
structure.
It is the policy of this newspaper to correct errors of fact that
appear in its news columns. Corrections usually appear on
page 2.
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