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The Red and Black • Tuesday. May 12. 1992 » S
All of biochemistry will be together again
The new Life Sciences Building will be a year old in June
By KAREN PRIEST
Contributing Writer
It’» large, it’s new, and it’»
shaped like a molecule.
It is the new Life Sciences
Building on the University's
South Campus.
Completed in June of last year,
the new addition compliments the
contemporary style of architec
ture that dominates south cam
pus.
The complex was opened in
June of 1991 and is now home to
the genetics and biochemistry de
partments.
It is located behind the
Ecology Building and across the
street from Aderhold Hall.
The building has been fantas
tic,* H.D. Peck, Jr., head of the
biochemistry department, said.
Although some areas for his de
partment are not finished, he said
he is not worried.
“Our teaching space is not fin
ished yet but it’s being complet
ed," Peck said.
The biochemistry department
was previously spread out over 10
buildings on campus. Peck said
grouping the different sections to
gether would be a vast improve
ment.
Prom the outside, the Life
Sciences Building looks like an of
fice building.
However, the inside resembles
a hospital more than it does an
academic building, even down to
the institutional green paint on
the walls and the metal guards on
the corners.
The building has square tow
ers. Each pod contains six floors
with four labs on the exterior of
each floor - for a total of 80 labs.
The interior of the pods holds
storage areas, refrigerating units,
darkrooms, elevators and fire ex
its.
David Lunde, director of cam
pus planning for the University,
said planning began for the com
plex in 1984 and competitive bids
were taken in 1987. A bid from
Blount Brothers Corporation for
$27,780,000 was accepted by the
board and construction began im
mediately.
Completion of the building
took three years and 10 months at
a total cost of $30,234,641. Lunde
scud efficiency was a major con
cern when the building was de
signed.
The ratio of assignable space
to non-assignable space is very
high for this type of building be
cause of the double-loaded corri
dors and the square shape of each
tower," Lunde said.
In order to keep the mammoth
complex within budget, three ar
eas were not completed.
Some teaching spaces, a fer
mentation plant and the growth
rooms were left unfinished.
But they are now under a sep
arate contract for completion,
Lunde said. He said he hopes
these areas will be completed
soon.
“We are a little behind sched
ule," Lunde said.
“So I would think the first of
June."
Ka« Nab**/ The Rad and Black
The new UGA Life Sciences Building: It cost $30.2 million and it will soon house all of the biochemistry department.
Student Government voter registration drive goes to Atlanta
By CATHLEEN EQAN
Staff Writer
The University’s quarterly Voter Registration drives, which are
sponsored by the Student Government Association, are being used as
a model by other state universities.
SGA president, John Bradberry along with director of voter regis
tration and senior senator, William Perry were invited to the State
Capitol in Atlanta in an effort to inform others about the University’s
high voter registration success rate.
Since the spring of 1990, SGA has registered more than 3,000 stu
dents making them eligible to vote in local, state and national elec
tions.
Perry said the age bracket from 18 to 24 is the state’s lowest voting
group and that is because authorities don’t know how to approach
these ages.
They’re at a loss on how to target the 18 to 24 group," he said.
They asked us to speak on how we’ve been so successful.”
Perry said that SGA approaches registering as a celebration of the
right to vote.
“We have bands, free food and registration tables all to stress visi
bility," he said. They seemed to like that idea."
Bradberry commended SGA for its efforts, but said more work and
resources are needed to draw in more students into the voting process.
“A problem is that we register to vote at the Tate Center but we
can’t vote there," he said. “Max Cleland said that was a logical (re
quest) and that his office would help us get a polling site there."
Bradberry said another problem stems from plans which separate
the University into two voting districts.
“(The legislation) has diluted the student voting power by dividing
us into two districts so we can’t make a larger impact on one single
race," he said. “If they didn’t gerrymander the Athens government, the
students would definitely have more say.”
Perry said the first step toward progress is getting the country’s
youth to register and becoming more politically involved.
“We’re starting to get in the generation where our legislators were
the ones who participated in the civil rights movement and Vietnam,"
Perry said.
“And they probably find us apathetic because we’re supposed to be
the movers and the shakers but some of us are not even registered to
vote," he said.
Political Science Professor Loch Johnson said that while the
University deserves to be lauded for their high registration figures, the
unregistered group of college students need to be pressured into par
ticipating.
“It may take a lot of convincing from local authorities,” he said. “I
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think (student government) should talk it up more by maybe shaming
those who don’t participate. It may take nothing more than peer in
fluence.”
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