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2 • The Red and Black • Friday, November 8. 1991 BRIEFLY ■ UNIVERSITY Gov. Miller stops in Athens. Gov. Zell Miller will be a featured speaker at the 38th annual Pre-Legislative Forum Tuesday at Spank/s Catering at Beechwood at noon. Miller will be joined by U.S. Congressman Charles Hatcher. 'Hie Athens stop is part of a tour of 15 Georgia cities the two are making. “We have heard there will be protests at each of the stops," said Chuck Reece. “They are welcome to come. That’s why it’s called a forum. It’s for everyone to sit down and discuss their differences." Tickets must be purchased by today and are available at the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce for $14. - TAVEL COWAN Assistant professor reports stolen books. Kevin Sims, an as sistant professor of food science and technology, reported the theft of six books valued at $390 from his office last week. Sims, who said he usual ly doesn’t lock his door when he is in the building, didn’t realize that the books were missing until he needed one of them FViday. “They are engi neering books not even used at the University," he said. “I have to de cide if I’m going to replace them or go on without them." Lt. Lisa Boone of the University police said there are no suspects at this time, but the incident is still under investigation. - ROSALYN THOMPSON Renowned professor delivers lecture. Gary Schwartz, proles- sor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles, will deliver the fall quarter’s John A. Sibley Lecture, “The Beginning and End of the Rise of American Tort Law," in the auditorium at the School of Law Monday at 2:30 p.m. Schwartz has written extensively on tort reform, products liability, medical malpractice and other areas of tort law. A spe cial adviser to the American Law Institute Project on Enterprise Responsibility for Personal Injury, he has also served as a consultant to various think tanks and agencies. At 4 p.m., there will be a panel discus sion of the lecture, with law professor Thomas A. Eaton serving as mod erator. The panel includes Michael Wells, the J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University, and law professors from Cornell University, Boston University and the University of South Carolina. “It’s a national ly renowned panel, with some of the top people in the field,” Eaton said. Both the lecture and the discussion are open to the public. - DAVID MON ROE Law School dean reports goods stolen from office. The dean of the University School of Law reported the theft of office supplies and football tickets from his office Monday. Ronald Ellington said he re alized his office had been burglarized when he came into work Tuesday morning. A sterling silver fountain pen and tickets to the Auburn and Florida games were taken from his desk. “I had a sentimental attach ment to one and an interest in the other," he said. University police re ports valued the loss at $316. Ellington also reported change and person al items stolen from two secretaries’ desks. Connie Sampson, assistant University police chief, said no arrests have been made in connection with the incident, which is still under investigation. - ROSALYN THOMP SON University student participates in game show. Bill Megathlin Jr., a University freshman from Savannah, Ga., was recently told to ‘come on down’ on “The Price Is Right’ game show. “I felt elated when they called my name out," Megathlin said. “I hope I didn’t hurt anybody trying to get out to the aisle" Megathlin said that the opportu nity to appear on the show was part of his 19th birthday present from his parents, William and Carol Megathlin. The show, which was taped earlier in September, will be aired today at 11 a.m. on CBS affiliate WAGA Channel 5. Be sure to watch Megathlin, who will be wearing a UGA sweatshirt, try his luck at the “Grocery Game” and other price ad ventures. - PAM MCMICHEN ■ STATE SAVANNAH (AP): Savannah works on ordinance. Organizers of next year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration are working with city officials and bar owners on an ordinance aimed at reducing public drunkenness. Under the proposal, the city would designate a special fes tival area on River Street. To-go beer sales would be limited to 12-ounce cups in that area, and bars would close at 1 a.m. Outdoor sales of beer from carts and windows would be prohibited after midnight. "The object is to restrict the availability and public consumption of alcohol during festival events,” said John Lutz, assistant city revenue director, who helped draft the proposal discussed Wednesday. In the past, tourists and residents have complained about public drunkenness during the annual March 17 celebration, when hundreds of thousands of people pour into the coastal city to watch the St. Patrick’s Day parade and participate in Irish ATLANTA (AP): Three humans die of rabies. Three rare cases of human rabies have occurred in the United States in just three months, but medical investigators say the timing is probably a coinci dence. The national Centers for Disease Control reported Thursday three recent human deaths from rabies: a south Texas woman in August, an Arkansas man later that month and a Georgia woman in October. None had confirmed animal bites, although it’s known the Arkansas man killed a bat that landed on his face. Prior to August, the nation had reported 13 human rabies cases in 11 years. “It’s probably just a coinci dence,” said Dr. Daniel Fishbein, a CDC rabies specialist. “It may mean an increase in rabies in one of the bat populations, but ... from every thing we can tell, there has not been an increase among bats in general.” The Texas case occurred in Starr County, along the southern border with Mexico. That part of Texas is the only place in the United States where rabies is common among domestic animals, Fishbein said. ■ NATION OGDEN, Utah (AP): Polygamist pleads guilty. The purported leader of a polygamist sect has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing four girls under the age of 14. Arvin Shreeve, 61, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of sodomy on a child and two counts of sexual abuse of a child. He was ordered to appear for sentencing on Dec. 23. He entered the pleas in 2nd District Court in exchange for the state agreeing not to file additional charges against him, said his lawyer, Gary Gale. Shreeve was released on condition that he remain at his home and wear an elec tronic ankle bracelet to enable police to track his movements, Gale said. Shreeve could be sentenced to life in prison. Former members of Shreeve’s northern Utah sect have been quoted as saying his 55 to 60 followers believe he is a modern-day prophet. Police on Aug. 2 raided seven of 10 homes in Ogden believed occupied by Shreeve’s followers and took nine children into custody. UGA TODAY Meetings • Student Advocacy and Racial Harmony, two standing commit tees of the Black Affairs Council, invite everyone to a panel discus sion Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the Brumby Hall Rotunda. Announcements • The McWhorter Prize is award ed to students “for general excel lency in scholastic and extracur ricular University activities" dur ing their freshman year. Students who were entering freshmen at the University in 1990-91 are eli gible to apply. Applications are available in the Office of Student Financial Aid and the Tate Student Center Information Booth. The application deadline is today. • The Association for Moral Education sponsors “Democratic Approaches to Social Transformation" through Saturday at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. • The Georgia Environmental Project Fund is concerned with ed ucating Georgia citizens about the environmental hazards in our state. We all need to help. This is your chance to “think globally and act locally." They are having a benefit at The Downstairs Monday featuring The Earthworms and 5- Year Mission. Admission is $3. Items for UGA Today must be sub mitted in writing at least two days before the date to be published. Include specific meeting informa tion - speaker 's title, topic and time, and a contact person's day and evening phone number. Items are printed on a first-come, first- served basis as space permits. Georgia Museum to exhibit de Kooning works n.. aaiiif. • .ar.r.r-1. .M TTa, iiavoi t P G Qrf n fln q vf A . By MIKE ANDREWS Campus Correspondent Thanks to a substantial grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, an exhibition featuring | the artwork of former University professor Elaine de Kooning will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art beginning in the spring. William Eiland, interim di rector of museum, said the NEA grant will pay $35,000 of the cost of the exhibition. Putting together an exhibition of this sort takes around two years of planning, Jane Bledsoe, former GMA director and now curator of the exhibit, was able to do much of the work because of a Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences Fellowship Residency she received. She said de Kooning, who died in 1989 at the age of 79,was known for the vitality of her art. De Kooning’s work is identified as “second generation of abstract ex pressionists,” she said. But Bledsoe said the paintings aren’t totally abstract. “Most of her painting includes imagery, but that imagery was not non-objec tive." Bledsoe said de Kooning was widely known for her artistic criti cism and prolific art career, which included portraiture, sporting event scenes, cave paintings in spired by the prehistoric caves at Lascaux, France, abstractions of Southwestern subjects - inspired during her professorship at the University of New Mexico - and Bacchus figures. “Bacchus was the Greek god of wine," said the museum’s interim director, William Eiland. “This type of impressionism used color and movement to suggest the sort of revelry that would be associated with the god of wine." De Kooning served as Lamar Dodd Professor from 1976-1978 and was the first to fill that posi tion after Dodd himself. “Lamar Dodd founded the University’s art department," Eiland said. “The Lamar Dodd Professorship was established as a token of our appreciation to him. It enables the University to employ an established artist.” That posi- tion is currently filled by Charles Hinman. Dodd himself was favorably im- pressed by de Kooning. “She was a wonderful person. She was very much involved with the faculty and students and was a doggone good painter," said Dodd. The Elaine de Kooning exhibi tion will also travel to museums in Santa Barbara, Calif.; Little Rock, Ark.; Baltimore, Md.; and Lone Island, N.Y. Center offers savvy self-defense classes By AMY LYN MAULDIN Campus Correspondent Despite their good intentions, male self-defense instructors are often insensitive to the needs of their female clients, a co-coordina tor at the Athens Rape Crisis Center said. “I feel very strongly that women should teach (women) self de fense,” said Hilary Ruston. The classes the center offers are taught by three women particular ly adept at self-defense, she said. Lorraine Fuller, a black belt in karate, Carol Moseley, a brown belt, and Nancy Newton, master of Chimera - an art of self-defense - are the instructors. Newton said her method of in struction focuses on self-assertion rather than aggression, a method especially applicable to women. Newton said the first two-hour class is spent teaching women new ways of talking and behaving as sertively. “In these verbal self-defense classes I teach yelling, how to put (Thornton s Pawn Center Need. CASH? 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Assertive body language, she said, includes keeping arms relaxed at your sides, keeping weight evenly balanced and looking directly at the person. “Women who use these tech niques tend not to be targeted by attackers,” said Newton. Susan Belmonte, a senior from Marietta, said she thinks the classes were more effective be cause they were taught by women. “Women are going to know more about other women’s fears than a man would,” she said. She said she thinks classes taught by women will attract more female students than classes* taught by men. Belmonte said the classes help women feel more confident about using their bodies as weapons. “It made us more aware of how people perceive us and made us re alize that we do have a chance of escaping an attack,” she said. The remainder of the two-hour classes teach simple physical tech niques, Ruston said, using the most power with the least com plexity. 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