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■ UNIVERSITY
Honors Day means no class on Wednesday
Undergraduate classes are canceled tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for
Honors Day. During third, fourth and fifth periods, 10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Wednesday, an honors ceremony will be the held at Lake Hemck to rec
ognize First Honor graduates, students in the top 5 percent of their col
leges and award-winning teachers. The speaker will be Hugh Kenner of
the English department. All students and faculty are welcome to attend.
- Theresa Walsh i
m STATE
ATLANTA (AP): Gorbachev urges global citizenship
As former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev exhorted Emory
University graduates to become global citizens Monday, some Soviet im
migrants struggled for a glimpse of their hero. “At home, he is not un
derstood. People were too impatient and he didn’t move fast enough,” said
Irina Tallin, a Ukrainian native who came to Atlanta when Gorbachev’s
policy of glasnost loosened emigration restrictions. “But we know he is a
hero; he thinks about the world.” Ms. Tallin and a dozen other natives of
the former Soviet Union pressed close to the fence surrounding the quad
rangle where Gorbachev addressed 20,000 people, including Emory
graduates, their families and faculty. The immigrants said Gorbachev
has done exactly what he asked Emory graduates to do put aside
egoism and personal goals for world peace and environmental well-being.
Alas, the people of my generation came very late to thinking about
all these issues," Gorbachev said in his speech. “Our energies were
absorbed by the purely political problems we inherited from the past.
Gorbachev’s reforms are credited with ending the Cold War and opening
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. But they also led to his political
demise The world has “evaded a major war,” Gorbachev said, but now
is “sinking into a chaos of conflict, giving full vent to extremism.
MACON (AP): Project to teach children voting habit
A project that aims to increase adult voting by encouraging children to
vote is coming to Bibb County this fall. “Everybody talks about voter ap
athy, but you don’t see much done about it, until now, said Bibb County
Elections Supervisor Bud Fletcher, who will help coordinate the program.
All school children in the county will have a chance to cast a ballot for
president in the same precinct polling places their parents use. “The
votes don’t count, but the learning experience does,” Martha Hunter told
Bibb County school principals recently. Ms. Hunter is a consultant for
Kids Voting U.S.A., a non-profit organization working to create lifetime
voters. Bibb will be one of 11 pilot sites in the country this November.
Private citizens will have to raise money to cover the $41,000 cost.
The idea is for children to turn out and drag their parents with them.
The children won’t be able to vote in their special, separate election
unless their parents are registered and present at the polling place.
The children would have elected the Democratic candidate for governor,
approved an educational funding proposition and passed a Martin
Luther King Jr. state holiday, all the opposite of what the adults did.
■ NATION
TIMBERLINE LODGE (AP): Three Climbers found
Three climbers were found in good condition today after being lost on
Mount Hood for nearly 48 hours. Donald Henry Lacer, 32, of Portland
and Sheri Anderson, 31, and Dean A. Anderson, 33, both of Seattle, were
found shortly before noon. The missing climbers were found at the 6,000-
foot level of the 11,235-foot mountain, searchers said. They had been re
ported missing at about 9,000 feet. They had carried no survival gear or
foul-weather clothing. They apparently found shelter and kept warm un
til rescuers found them on the mountain about 45 miles east of Portland.
More than 100 searchers using snowmobiles and search dogs had been
looking for the missing climbers today. Two H-60 Pave Hawk helicopters
equipped with heat-sensing devices also searched the mountain today.
Winds picks up today, blowing away some of the cloud cover. Cloudy
weather, poor visibility and blizzard-like conditions hampered the search
over the weekend. ‘The winds at the top were just about unbearable,”
searcher Jeff Hunt said Sunday. “When you got down lower, the snow
was so soft you could barely trudge through it.” The three were among
six climbers who reached the 11,235-foot summit Saturday. The group
split up on the way down. More than 70 rescuers began searching the
mountain Saturday afternoon in snow and 60 mph wind.
LOS ANGELES (AP): Did the L.A. police react too late?
William H. Webster, former head of the CIA and FBI, was named today
to head an investigation into whether police were slow to respond to last
week’s riots. Police Chief Daryl F. Gates promised to cooperate with the
probe, to be conducted by an independent commission. Mayor Tom
Bradley requested the independent investigation. “The focus of this in
vestigation is not to lay blame but to move the department ahead,” Police
Commissioner Ann Reiss Lane said. The Police Commission created the
panel to review the Police Department’s handling of the riots. Police were
doing too little to protect businesses during the April 29-May 1 uprising.
UGA TODAY
Announcements
• Book Sale
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor
Society book sale May 11-12 in Le
Conte Hall, 2nd Floor from 8 a.m.
-3 p.m. For more information call
542-2053.
• “Carrot Top"
Variety show at the Tate Student
Center at 8 p.mt For more infor
mation call 542-6396.
• Fall Rush
Fall Soronty Rush sign-ups at the
Tate Student Center Plaza May
12-14 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Information can alos be peiked uup
in the Greek Life Office in Room
216 of Memorial Hall from 9 a.m. -
5 p.m. For more information call
613-0182.
• Hispanic Movie Festival
“El Norte" at the Tate Student
Center Theater. Sponsored by the
Hispanic Student Association. For
information call 542-5773.
• “Jo Mitchell"
Opening Reception at the Tate
Student Center Art Gallery at 6
p.m. For more information call
542-6396.
• Omicron Delta Kappa
Honor society applications are
available at the Tate Student
Center Information Booth.
Deadline is May 15. For more in
formation call 548-5712.
• Operation Care Package
Sigma Gamma Rho Service pro
ject. Donations of trial sized items
for the local homeless center will
be collected May 13 at the Tate
Center Plain from 11 a.m. • 2 p.m.
For more information call 357-
1126.
• Research Awards Banquet
Reception at 6 p.m. and dinner at
7 p.m. at the Athens Count™ Club.
For more information call 542-
3360.
• Rodney King Verdict
Panel Discussion: “Has the Justice
System Lost its Mind?” at 7 p.m.
in the Payne Hall Basement.
Sponsored by Huff-Moriarty
Productions.
• Spring Social
j Sponsored by the Honors Program
' from 7-10 p.m. For more informa
tion call 357-0747.
! • “Taming of the Shrew"
Gainesville Theatre Alliance per
formance through May 16 at the
I Georgia Mountains Center
j Theatre. For more information
call 535-6206.
• The Self
j Franklin College Spring Forum
| 1992 presents “Aporias of the Self"
by James Dowd, sociology, at 4
I p.m. in Room 265 of Park Hall.
I For more information call 542-
| 2140.
Meetings
• Christian Campus
Werner Goldschmidt, a survivor
the Jewish Holocaust, will speak
at 7 p.m. at 1080 S. Milledge Ave.
There will be a free meal before
hand at 6:15 p.m. For more infor
mation call 548-1508.
• Honors Program
Student Council meeting at 4:30
p.m. in the Honors Program
Conference Room, Academic
Building. For more information
call 357-0747.
Meeting at 8 p.m. in Room 140 of
the Tate Student Center. For
more information call 357-2846.
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‘Is that really Wendy's Dave?'
Shutt helps ‘registrar’ changes at UGA
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UGA Registrar Bruce Shutt: Looking forward to changes.
By LORI W1ECHMAN
Staff Writer
Bruce Shutt, the man who
spends every day of registration
calling out the names of students
to get their completed registration
card or rejected yellow slip, is try
ing to make registration easier for
you.
Shutt, who has been registrar at
the University for 13 years, is busy
making plans for the new comput
erized registration system, the pos
sible semester system and the deb
it card system.
“Building new systems is a real
challenge because you are trying to
accomplish a lot of goals and work
ing with mindsets you have to
change is difficult," he said.
“I have a lot of things to do to
keep me active - the registration
system, debit card, semester sys
tem and degree audit,” said Shutt.
“I hope to get all those done before
I retire,” said Shutt, who claims
friends say he looks like Dave
Thomas, the owner of Wendy’s.
Shutt beams as he talks about
the new computerized registration
system, which will allow students
to register with a PC computer and
modem.
“You can register anywhere -
from your dorm room, apartment,
or sorority house, as long as you
have a PC and a modem," he said,
glancing at his computer on the
edge of his desk.
The proposal for the system,
which was sent to the President’s
cabinet over two months ago, was
also looked at by the Student
Government Association.
“SGA didn’t have any problem
with it and we were asked to pro
vide a more definition of the costs,”
he said. “We’re trying to get more
back for the buck.”
Although wanting things to get
approved is one of Shutt’s pet
peeves, he said, after being in
volved in higher education for 35
years, he’s used to waiting.
“It’s frustrating, but I know that
things are not going to be accom
plished easily. Higher education
just takes longer," he said, explain
ing that the University Council
passed a resolution several years
ago for plus/minus grading that is
still being considered by the the
Board of Regents'.
Shutt has been appointed by the
Board of Regents to head a
Semester System subcommittee to
investigate the effects changing the
system will have on the student’s
lives.
“That’s good, but it took 17
months to let that come to the
front so that we can start working
on it,” said Shutt.
The committee will look at
records conversion, the possibility
of losing credits, changing calendar
system, and to send out question
naires to students.
Shutt said that, at the earliest,
the system will be at the
University by fall 1995.
“Eventually, UGA will go to
semester systems, but it will be the
guinea pig,” he said.
During Shutt’s career at the
University, he said he has seen
both the faculty and students
change.
“I saw the University change
dramatically when President
Davidson left," he said. “It had
been pretty pro-administrative, but
when President Knapp came, there
began to be true faculty gover
nance.”
Shutt said he sees the college
scene changing back to when he
went to school in the 1960s.
“The students have a different
appreciation for home and culture.
I see the re-establishment of some
values that were gone in the 70s
and 80s," he said. “It’s like the pen
dulum went pretty far out and now
it’s coming back.
Shutt, who married his high
school sweetheart when he was 19,
said that when he was in college, a
girl had a boyfriend and only had
one boyfriend. “I see that students
are going back to that,” he said.
“Maybe AIDS did it.” Shutt also
said that she saw students in the
1970s and 1980s entering college
without a clue why they came.
“Their moms and dads just told
them to go," he said. “The kids
coming today have an idea of what
they want to do when they finish
their education.”
Wild flowers cheap, but reap much praise
By ROBERT HAAG
Staff Writer
In stark contrast to the black and yellow asphalt plain, a multitude
of wild flowers pierces the uniformity of the new River Road
Commuter Lot.
Physical Plant’s Grounds Department planted wild flowers instead
of grass seed in the parking lot’s islands in an attempt to reduce
maintenance and to beautify the area, Physical Plant director James
TenBrook said.
“There’s so much that is negative. We need some good things,”
TenBrook said.
The wild flowers only need to be mowed once or twice a year com
pared with grass that has to be mowed every 10 days.
The cost to seed the area in wild flowers or grass is about the same
- 5 cents per square foot, said Dexter Adams, the Grounds
Department manager.
“If your planting from seed it’s nearly identical,” Adams said. “If we
just broke even it would be worth it."
Physical Plant has received many phone calls and letters compli
menting the department on the flowers.
“It’s like turning a parking lot into a park,” TenBrook said. “I went
by there on Saturday. The parking lot was empty but there were three
or four cars driving around looking at the flowers.”
Physical Plant has sown 7.5 acres of flowers in the River Road Lot
and 1.5 acres on East Campus Road.
East Campus Road is difficult to mow but it is also heavily trav
eled, Adams said. He said he used the wild flower mix to capitalize on
the rocks and wildness of the roadside.
“Of course we’re learning as we go,” Adams said.
The wild flower mix was specifically designed by Will Corey, a re
searcher at the University’s Extension Service in Griffin.
The combination of flowers, containing 12 different species, was de
veloped by Corley under a grant by Georgia’s Department of
Transportation.
Corley said the seeds chosen for this particular mix were selected
from over 80 species of wild flowers. The combination works well in
Georgia based on color, blooming season and compatibility.
The flowers have various growing seasons, so some flowers will be
in bloom during spring, summer and fall.
The flowers are not only pretty but need less maintenance than
grass. The plots need little or no maintenance during the growing sea
son but need to be cut in the late fall and again just before spring.
Reduced mowing will ease some of the stress caused by reduced
Physical Plant staff, Adams said.
TenBrook said the budget cuts involving the University cut deeply
into the Physical Plant’s staff, reducing it by 23 percent.
“Where we felt it the most, is in our custodial services area,"
TenBrook said.
He said 85 percent of the attrition came from areas of custodial,
grounds, and general help.
Even though the hiring freeze has been lifted Physical Plant is go
ing to be very cautious about hiring employees to fill spaces lift open
by attrition. TenBrook said he was planning to hire the rest.
“If it looks good, like we’re out of the woods, we’ll go into phase
two,” TenBrook said.
■ CORRECTION
A graphic In Monday's edition of The Red and Black contained a
misstatement. Film director John Waters will speak at the Tate
Theater May, 15 at 7:30 p.m. about his film career. This program is
sponsored by University Union and the funds will not go to AIDS
Athens.
A photograph in Monday's edition of The Red and Black was
misidentified. The photograph was of Joseph Lowery not of Egbert
Ennulat.
An article in the May 1 edition of The Red and Black contained a
misstatement. DNA is not a protein.
It is the policy ot this newspaper to clarity errors of fact that appear in its
news columns. Clarifications usually appear on page 2.
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