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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, January 10, 1991
BRIEFLY
■ STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Propst: 1990 good year despite cuts.
Chancellor H. Dean Propst says "painful” budget cuts in 1990 didn’t
stop the colleges of Georgia’s University System from attracting
record enrollment and national attention. “The budget reductions of
$40.6 million effected in August and December of 1990 were painfully
absorbed throughout the University System,” Propst said Wednesday
in his “State of the System” address. “There can be no question that
the impact of these funding reductions on our operations has been
negative.” But Propst went on to praise the system’s 34 institutions,
which recorded a 32.7 percent enrollment increase last fall to post a
fifth consecutive record enrollment. Propst, speaking before the
monthly meeting of the Board of Regents, which governs the system,
added that the system also attracted more than $300 million in
outside funding in fiscal year 1990. Georgia’s four research
universities — the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State
and the Medical College of Georgia — attracted $281.9 million in such
funding.
AUGUSTA (AP): SRS worker intoxicated on iob. A
Savannah River Site reactor operator was sent home for being under
the influence of alcohol while working in the plant’s L-Reactor control
room, daily log reports show. The incident occurred Oct. 23 while
operators moved the reactors radioactive fuel to other sections of the
reactor vessel, according to the Energy Department documents. The
fuel was being moved to allow employees to place ultrasonic
equipment used to check for cracks in the reactor vessel, said Will
Callicott, spokesman for the site’s contractor, Westinghouse. The
documents or daily logs of the incident said “a certified reactor
operator was relieved of his duties due to suspicion of being under the
influence of alcohol.” Callicott said the employee underwent
treatment and has returned to work in his previous position.
Treatment rnay range from counseling to hospitalization. A second
violation results in termination.
■ NATION
WAUSAU, WIS (AP): Tribes reopen casinos. Wisconsin’s
Indian tribes, frustrated by a deadlock in reaching federally required
gambling pacts, have reopened some casinos in defiance of a federal
judge’s order .The tribes are risking prosecution to force the state back
to the negotiating table in a dispute echoed in several states where
financially pressed tribes see gaming as a good revenue source. The
Wisconsin tribes want an agreement that Las-Vegas style gambling is
legal in Wisconsin. The state insists its laws allow only pari-mutuel
track betting, lotteries and bingo. The Lac du Flambeau, the state’s
largest Chippewa band, quitely reopened its casino two months ago
despite U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb’s ruling last year that
tribes could not offer gambling without a state agreement.
LOS ANGELES (AP): Blackwell's list announced. Rock
star Sinead O’Connor on Wednesday topped Mr. Blackwell’s list of
worst-dressed women. The acerbic fashion critic called her the “bald-
headed banshee of MTV” a “New Age nightmare.” Announcing the
annual list of fashion frumps, Blackwell put New York socialite Ivana
Trump in second place and displayed a picture of her in a $200,000
ball gown he said made her look like “a cross between Brigitte Bardot
and Lassie.” Blackwell, who has stung the rich and famous for 31
years, said he’s concerned about the state of fashion in the 1990s and
the attitude of celebrities toward their images. Others he singled out
for potshots during a news conference at the elegant Blackwell home
in Hancock Park: Glenn Close, Queen Elizabeth II, Julia Roberts,
Carrie Fisher, Kim Basinger, Laura Dern, Kathy Bates and Barbra
Streisand. Blackwell bestowed his Fashion Fiasco of the Year Award
on Debbie Allen, whom he called “a hymn to high-tech horror.”
■ WORLD
GENEVA (AP): Baker sees no Iraqi flexibility. Secretary of
State James A. Baker III and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz met
for more than six hours yesterday in a tense diplomatic effort to avert
war in the Persian Gulf. “Regrettably, I heard nothing today that
suggested to me any Iraqi flexibility whatsoever,” Baker said. He said
the meeting was to “communicate” and seek a political solution. He
said Iraq, if it does not agree to withdraw from Kuwait, could be
choosing a military confrontation in which it would be forcibly
expelled. Baker said he hoped other diplomatic efforts would
persuade Iraq to quit Kuwait. European leaders have expressed a
hope they can talk to Bnghdad before the Jan. 15 deadline. Baker said
Aziz raised anew the demand by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein that
any discussions of a pullout from Kuwait be linked to a broader
discussion of Middle East issues including the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But the secretary of state said he dismissed that argument. “I don’t
think many people belive Iraq invaded Kuwait to help the
Palestinians,” Baker said. As for the next step, Baker raised the
possibility of “seeking the use of the good offices” of the United
Nations secretary general for further diplomacy but ruled out a
personal visit to Bagdhad for a meeting with Snddam.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP): Disaster not geothermal. An
electricity official said Tuesday that a landslide, not a geothermal
explosion, caused 33 denths in remote western Guatemala. ‘The
disaster that occurred (Saturday night) in the town of Zunil was not
caused directly by the geothermal investigation and exploration
works,” said Salvador del Valle, president of the National
Electrification Institute. Local residents had told reporters an
explosion from a geothermal well spewed hot rocks, earth and water
before the landslide buried several homes Saturday night 70 miles
west of this capital.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
The Undergraduate Student
Association for Child & Family
Development, Education, Social
Work and related majors will be
holding an organizational
meeting today at 5:30 p.m. in
Room 216 of Dawson Hall.
Career planning, community
awareness and leadership skills
are opportunities offered through
membership.
University Union’s Ideas and
Issues Division regretfully
announces that the Citizens for a
Free Kuwait lecture on Monday,
January 14, has been cancelled.
However, Students for a Free
Kuwait will have a speaker, Sayf
Abbas, tonight from 6-8:30 p.m.
at the North PJ Auditorium.
The Abenee Foo Kuo Honor
Society will meet tonight from 6-
7:30 p.m. in Room 138 of the Tate
Student Center.
The Bread of Life Campus
Ministry is inviting all UGA
students, faculty and friends to
join them tonight from 7-9 p.m.
in Room 144 of the Tate Center
for a program of Biblical
instruction on prayer as well as a
time to pray for our loved ones
and friends in the Persian Gulf
crisis.
The UGA Whitewater Club will
meet tonight at 9 p.m. at
Stegman pool. Bring a swimsuit
and towel. All levels welcome.
For further information call 542-
1869.
The Georgia Lacrosse team will
meet Thursday at 9 p.m. in room
140 of the Tate Center. All
persons interested in playing
this season should attend this
meeting.
Announcements
Early intervention services for
children birth through two years
who have a diagnosed physical or
mental condition that could
cause a delay in normal
development are available
through the early intervention
specialist on the Developmental
Services Team of the Northeast
Georgia Center. For further
information call Connie Bruce at
404-542-8810.
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.
m JUDICIAL REPORT
Academic dishonesty high
Since the last report on Nov. 6, the University Office of
Judicial Programs has received 14 new complaints, with aca
demic dishonesty making up more than half.
The following complaints were filed:
• nine for academic dishonesty
• three for falsification of records
• one for theft
• one for disorderly conduct
Federal privacy laws governing student-related information
released by the University allow only three sets of facts to be
disclosed about an individual involved in disciplinary pro
ceedings: charges filed, the verdict and sentence. The Uni
versity can't release any circumstances which would identify
the person(s) involved.
Five pieces of information regarding organization cases can
be released by the University: the organization’s name,
charges filed, the verdict, sentence and a brief synopsis of
the case.
—Richard Bambarger
LANDMARK
From page 1
The Internal Revenue Service
informed the trust that in order for
the donations to be tax-deductible,
an easement assuring perpetual
preservation of the property must
be established.
The trust notified the associa
tion of the problems with estab
lishing the easement in a 1986
letter and recommended arrange
ments be made for the trust’s ar
chitect to “visit the property and
evaluate its condition first-hand.”
But Greene said the current
members of the association’s exec
utive board believed the house was
under such an easement until a
trust lawyer informed them of its
status in November.
The house, known officially as
the Ross Crane House, has been
used by SAE since 1916. It was
built in 1842 by Athens architect
Ross Crane, who also designed the
University’s chapel.
Commission Chairman Fran
Thomas said Wednesday the desig
nation should be viewed as an
honor by the fraternity.
‘The SAEs have done a good job
taking care of the house. I see it as
an honor to their stewardship,” she
said.
But Greene said that problems
with the local designation could be
caused by local politics.
If requests to alter the property
are handled by the trust in Wash
ington, he said, “they will make
their decisions based on historic
preservation considerations.” But
local decisions could be based on
complaints by “disgruntled neigh
bors,” he said.
“We don’t have any confidence
that those people will be rea
sonable,” he said.
Greene told the council the asso
ciation spent over $400,000 on the
property during the 1980s.
In their last official meeting be
fore the installation of the new uni
fied government, the council also
approved historic landmark desig
nation for the Hodgson House on
Milledge Avenue, owned by Alpha
Delta Pi sorority and also designed
by Crane.
Other buildings receiving the
designation include: the Phi Mu,
Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha
Gamma Delta sorority houses, the
Wilkins House, Chase Street and
David C. Barrow elementary
schools, and the Georgian Hotel.
Kevin Murphy/The Red and P',ick
Shake your pelvis like Elvis
The Tate Student Center Gallery was transformed into Graceland
Tuesday as "The Traveling Panoramic Encyclopedia of Everything
Elvis" rolled into Athens. The festivities included a cake in the shape
of the King, a wart from his hand and the famous Elvis button jacket.
The exhibit is the idea of a University graduate, artist Joni Mabe. If
you ain’t nothing but a hound dog, you can see the exhibit until Jan.
31. Absolute Elvis fans, juniors Carl Dann and Mary Foughner, pose
as Elvis and Priscilla.
O’LOONEY
From page 1
she said. ‘The black community
doesn’t have to wonder about my
commitment, I have a six-year his
tory of pushing for fair representa
tion and involvement,” O’Looney
said, referring to her tenure on the
city council.
O’Looney will announce her se
lection for county attorney at a uni
fied commission work session
Friday. The commission will take
office Monday at noon.
Outgoing City Council Member
Harry Sims, who lost his bid for a
seat on the new commission, said
O'Looney is
disappointed in the
citizen response to ad
hoc committees so far.
Wednesday he feels good about the
council’s work.
‘They are inheriting a sound
portion of a solid government,"
Sims said of the incoming commis
sion.
The city council “adjourned for
ever” on Tuesday with the unani
mous adoption of a motion by
Council Member Calvin Bridges.
Friday January 11 •
"FIFTIES NIGHT”
A Tribute to ELVIS ... Two ELVIS
Impersonators ... Both excellent
entertainers Plus -
S100 Cash Prize to best dressed
■'50’s" Couple ... Come Join The Furl 1
■ ,>180 W Broad St 35-1 171
TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT!
Visual Arts Presents
(The 4th Annual Student Photo)
Contest
Applications now available in room 153
Tate Student Center
Entries Due Friday, January 18,1991 in room 153.
Cash Prizes Awarded
Ills MS!