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2 • The Red and Black • Thursday, October 1, 1992
BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Minority Assistant program changes name to
‘Continuing Legacy African Student Success’
Botany and genetics receive $1.4 million grant
University faculty members in the botany and genetics departments
have acquired a $1.4 million grant to help students with further re
search in their fields. Botany professor Susan Wessler said the funding
was provided by three agencies, the National Science Foundation, U.S. j
Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy. “The grant
is tor the training of all students," Wessler said. “It’s for graduate stu
dent stipends, where students are paid like a fellowship, it’s also sup
port for post doctorals and undergraduates." The departments will re
ceive $250,000 a year for five years and an additional $113,000 for
equipment. Wessler said $77,000 of the additional money is funded by
the University through matching funds. - Cathleen Egan
Students can help with search for missing woman
Students at the University have been asked to help find Dail
Dinwiddie, a former student who has been missing since last Thursday.
Dinwiddie, 23, attended the University in 1988 during her sophomore
year, but returned to Randolph-Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg,
Va., to finish her degree in art history. She was last seen around 2 a.m.
at a nightclub called Jungle Jim’s in her hometown of Columbia, S.C.
Dinwiddie is 5 feet tall and weighs 98 pounds. She has brown e>es and
dirty blonde hair. Arlington Cox, a family friend, said that Dinwiddie
would never get into a car with a stranger. Cox emphasized it would be
easy for someone to take Dinwiddie because she was so tiny. Anyone
with information is asked to call 1-800-843-5678. - Theresa Walsh
WU art professor lectures on Michelangelo’s works
William Wallace, a professor at Washington University who has writ
ten extensively on Michelangelo’s works, will speak on “Instruction and I
Originality in Michelangelo’s Drawing" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Room
116 of the Visual Arts Building. A reception will be held for him at the
museum beginning at 6:30 p.m. This lecture is the second in a fall se
ries presented by the Georgia Museum of Art. The lecture will be held '
in conjunction with the exhibit “Artists and Artisans of Florence: Works
from the Horne Museum," which includes works by Michelangelo.
This exhibit, on a four-city tour, will be on view until Nov. 22 at the
Georgia Museum. -David Monroe
Philippine Culture Awareness Day to be held Oct. 3
Philippine Culture Awareness Day will be held Oct. 3 at the Clarke
Central High School Auditorium. The festivities are co-sponsored by the
University’s Filipino Student Association and the Filipino-American
Association of Northeast Georgia and will promote Filipino history,
food, singing and dancing. The day’s events include half-hour sessions
on Filipino history, current events, personality traits and values, folk
lore and the Filipino language. Registration begins at 9 a.m. Janet
Sandor, assistant director of International Programs and Services, will j
deliver a welcoming address at 10 a.m., followed by the half-hour ses
sions. At noon, a Filipino-style lunch will be served as part of the pro
gram and at 1 p.m. a variety show will take place. Throughout the day,
participants can view and purchase handicrafts. Mary Anne Alabanza,
a faculty member of Environmental Design, said, “I hope that through
the Cultural Awareness Day that people will be more accepting of dif
ferent cultures, and the Filipino culture is a great place to start.”
Tickets are $6 and should be purchased by 5 p.m. today from members j
of the Filipino Student Association. For more information, call 542-
7480. - Danielle De Lucia
U NATION
Greenwich, Conn. (AP): Kirk Douglas speaks his mind
Actor Kirk Douglas jumped into the family values debate by taking
pokes at Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown during a promotional appear
ance for his new book. “First, Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown as if
a television character were a real person. Then, of course, Murphy
Brown attacked Dan Quayle as if he were a real person,” Douglas said
during an appearance Tuesday at a movie theater.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Christian Science J
Organization will meet today at 6
p.m. in Tate Center Room 141. All
are welcome. For more informa
tion, call Jim Whitehead at 542- .
1922.
• Phi Kappa Literary Society will !
meet today at 7:30 p.m. in the Phi j
Kappa Hall. All guests are wel
come to join in an evening of hot ]
debate, oratory and creative WTit- j
ing. For more information, call
613-8528.
• The Student Committee On
Acquaintance Rape (S.C.O.AR.) is
holding an open meeting today at
7 p.m. in the Georgian Area Office
(Myers Hall basement). All return
ing members please be there at 6
p.m. Come meet us and find out
what we are all about! For more in
formation, call Adena Hecht at
548-2318.
• The Psychology Club will have
its first meeting of the year today
at 4 p.m. in the Psychology
Building Room 120. All are wel
come.
• The UGA Objectivist Society will
meet today at 8 p.m. at 359 S. Pope
St. #5 to view “The Simpsons."
Discussion will follow. For direc
tions, call Todd Fantz at 543-6630.
• The Criminal Justice Society will
meet today at 6 p.m. in Tate
Center Room 139. For more infor
mation, call 542-7079.
• The Center For Latin American
Students will meet today at 1:15
p.m. for “Hispanics at UGA" in
Tate Center Room 142. All are wel
come. For more information, call
Lester Langley at 542-2497.
• The Women’s Studies Program
will have an open house today from
5 to 6:30 p.m. at the WSP Offices, i
Main Library room 230H. All are
welcome.
• UGA Racquetball Club will have
a season opening meeting today at
7 p.m. in Memorial Hali Room 213.
For more information, call Taylor
McDaniel at 357-1448.
The Finance Club will hold its
first meeting of the year today at 7
p.jn. at Rocky’s Pizzaria. All busi
ness majors are welcome to attend.
• The UGA Libertarians wall hold
an organizational meeting today at
1 p.m. in Tate Center Room 139. I
For more information, call John
Cochran at 548-6271.
• The Andre Marrou / Nancy Lord
Election Committee will meet to
day at 8 p.m. in Tate Center Room
139. For more information, call
John Cochran at 548-6271.
• The Oconee Audubon Society
will meet today at 6:45 p.m. in the
Institute of Ecology Seminar
Room. “All About Hummingbirds,”
by Billy “Woody Duck” and Brenda
Dunbar will be presented at 7:30
p.m. All are welcome. For more in
formation, call Mark Komoroski at
| 542-3410.
! • UGA Budokai will have
■ Karatedo and Aikido classes today
j at 8:30 p.m. in Stegman Hall
i Martial Arts room with Instructor
Wayne Van Horne. All are wel
come. For more information, call
542-7428.
• UGA Rugby will meet and prac
tice today at 5 p.m. at the
Intramural Fields. For more infor
mation, call Rec. Sports at 542-
5060.
• The UGA Karate Club will meet
today at 6 p.m. for specifically Tae
Kwon Do in Stegman Hall Martial
Arts Room. For more information,
call 549-0083.
Announcements
• The Criminal Justice Society will
have coffee and doughnuts for stu
dents and faculty today at 8:30
a.m. in 302 Baldwin Hall. For
more information, call 542-7079.
• The Athens-Clarke Co. Dept, of
Arts & Environmental Education
continues “Old-Time Week" today
from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Athens
Regional Library.
Upcoming
• The Women’s Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks will have
“Women and Human Rights in
Latin America* on Friday from
12:10 to 1 p.m. in Tate Center
Room 137. For more information,
call 542-2846.
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By ALLEN WILBANKS
Contributing Writer
The University is welcoming
back a record number of students
this fall, and it is also welcoming
C.L.A.S.S.
Continuing Legacy African-
American Student Success, isn’t
exactly a new program, but
rather a new name for the al
ready existing Minority Assistant
campaign, started in 1984.
The Minority Assistant pro
gram was originally set up to
help all minorities cope with the
adjustments of going to a univer
sity with an overwhelming popu
lation of whites, said Joi Bostic,
residence education consultant at
the University. She said she feels
that the title ‘Minority Assistant’
was somewhat misleading, since
13 out of 13 representatives were
black.
“We (University Housing)
needed to become more effective
and systematic in identifying the
program," Bostic said.
In March of this year, the
name was officially changed to
reflect and better serve its con
stituents.
Bostic said she feels that the
program has been a huge success
and would encourage the
University to further its efforts to
not only attract, but to keep
young blacks in college.
Lance Young, the C.L.A.S.S.
advocate, or C.A. for the Myers
Community, said he likes his job
and welcomes the new name.
Young said he feels his position is
crucial in keeping blacks,
especially freshmen and
sophomores, at the University.
According to University
Housing statistics, for spring
quarter 1992, 75.3 percent of the
population living in the dorms
were white, while 18.9 percent
were black.
Young said he feels this num
ber could be increased, especially
in the Georgian area, which in
cludes Oglethorpe House,
Lipscomb and Reed halls, among
others.
‘I would like to see an increase
in the number of blacks in this
area," Young said.
Young helps approximately 30
black students deal with being a
minority in a predominately
white school.
“Many of the blacks that I
serve come from rural Georgia
where they are in the majority, it
is hard stepping into a class of 80
people and you are the only
black,” Young said.
Young pointed out that to
most people at the University,
‘Many of the blacks
that I serve come
from rural Georgia
where they are the
majority, it is hard
stepping into a class
of 80 people and you
are the only black,’
- Lance Young
C.L.A.S.S. advocate
this would be like going to a pre
dominately black college and see
ing nothing but blacks during
class changes.
C.L.A.S.S. advocates spend at
least two nights a week with the
students of their community, and
use two hours of that time
getting to know everyone
personally.
“My job is to just be here, to
listen and be a friend to someone
going through a big change,"
Young said.
Richard Martin, C.A. for the
Lipscomb Community, said that
the C.L.A.S.S. program was initi
ated to “promote racial harmony
between all races.”
Martin said he finds very few
cases of racial conflict in his resi
dence hall, Lipscomb.
He attributes that to the
Minority Assistant program and
its successor C.L.A.S.S.
Camille Hinton, C.A. for
Creswell Hall, stressed that “we
are not a group here to discrimi
nate.”
She said any and all functions
sponsored by the program are
open to everyone, regardless of
race.
Such was the case last week
when Hinton and George
Crawley, Creswell’s other C.A.,
threw a lip-sync party called
“Puttin’ On Da Hits.”
“It was a big party," Hinton
said, with over 150 people of all
races attending. “We’re here to
accept and embrace diversity on
this campus.”
The C.L.A.S.S. functions are
primarily sponsored by the stu
dents themselves through dona
tion drives, according to Bostic.
University Housing
Demographics
Spring Quarter 1992
White
75.3%
African American
18.9%
Asian
4.4%
Hispanic
1.2%
Native American
.2%
According to University Housing
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