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■ UNIVERSITY
Former NEA chairman speaks about future of the arts
John Frohnmayer, former chairman of the National Endowment for the
Arts, will lecture on “The Future Of The Arte" today at 7:30 p.m. in
Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center. An avid First Amendment
supporter, Frohnmayer was NEA chairman during the controversies
surrounding the works of artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Andr6
Cevano. “We’re hoping hell talk about the future of the NEA, the arts
and their funding, and how the current presidential election will affect
these things," said David Mendoza, program adviser for University
Union. "He’s always been a strong advocate for the arts as an integral
part of a person’s education * - Steve H. Hall
Students can vote in mock presidential election today
The University’s Demosthenian Society is conducting its own presiden
tial election for only University students. The mock presidential polls
will be open from 9:45 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. today. Voting booths are lo
cated at the Main Library, in front of the journalism building and the
Biology-Sciences building. Scott Wells, chair of the Demosthenian’s pro
grams committee and supervisor of the mock election, said the purpose
of the polling, which is held every four years, is to see who the student
body is leaning toward in the presidential race and how they stand on
the issues. The ballots will include a choice between the four presiden
tial candidates as well as a space for write-in votes. The tickets will ad
ditionally include the question of whether Georgia should adopt a lot
tery. Wells said the organization is a non-partisan debating society
which endorses no candidate. - Cathleen Egan
Race relations authority lectures on history writing
William S. McFeely will deliver the fall President’s Lecture today at 4
p.m. in the Tate Center’s Reception Hall. In his lecture, titled
“Americans Out of Africa, Americans Out of Europe: A Search for a
New Vocabulary," he will discuss the writing of history. McFeely, a not
ed authority on race relations in America and University history profes
sor, won the 1982 Pulitzer Prise for the biography, “Grant: A
Biography." His 1991 book, “Frederick Douglass," won the Lincoln
Prize. The President's Lecture Series was created in 1990 by University
President Charles Knapp to give the students, faculty and the Athens
community an opportunity to hear presentations by eminent university
faculty members. The lecture is open to the public. - Danielle De Lucia
Questions about women and AIDS will be answered
AIDS Athens and Athens Area Now are sponsoring a lecture on
“Women and AIDS" today at 7 p.m. in the Tate Center Reception Hall.
Alecia Culver, the administrative director of the AIDS Hotline for
Women, will discuss issues such as AIDS and African-American wom
en, lack of research on AZTs effect on women, women as care givers,
the effects of AIDS on women’s bodies and problems such as social se
curity and assistance. Questions regarding transmission of AIDS be
tween heterosexual, lesbian and bisexual women will be answered. The
AIDS Hotline for Women is based in the Feminist Women’s Health
Center in Atlanta. Kedron Parker, the Education Chair for AIDS
Athens, said The CDC estimates that 48 percent of women who die in
fected with HIV are never diagnosed with AIDS, so it is really impor
tant to us to investigate why women are falling through the cracks.
Alecia Culvert is an exciting, articulate speaker who will help bring
this problem into focus." - Danielle De Lucia
■ STATE
Atlanta (AP): Braves receive a “Grand Slam Salute"
Atlanta will stage a “Grand Slam Salute” to the Braves Tuesday at
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Broadcasters Skip Caray, Pete Van
Wieren, Don Sutton and Joe Simpson will be the hosts of the 4 p.m.
event. Tickets are $1, with proceeds to go to the Braves Foundation for
Youth Sports Development. Organizers decided not to have a parade —
in part because huge crowds overwhelmed police and transportation
last year when the team received a hero’s welcome from the city.
Atlanta (AP): Kellogg and Tony the Tiger honor Braves
Kellogg USA announced Sunday it will introduce special cereal pack
ages to celebrate the Atlanta Braves’ 1992 National League champi
onship. The Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes package features Tony the Tiger
in a Braves uniform standing inside a baseball stadium congratulating
the team. The special packages will be available in stores this week
while supplies last, Kellogg officials said.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Math Club will meet today
at 7 p.m. in Boyd Grad. Studies
room 304 for speaker Stephen
Bullock.
• Collegiate 4-H will meet today
at 7:30 p.m. in Tate Center room
142. The Leadership Resource
Team will present the program.
All are welcome.
• The Bread of Life Campus
Ministry will meet today at 8 p.m.
at their new ofBce, 269 Jackson
Street, across from the Loft Art
Supply Store. The topic of study
will be, “Jesus Christ, the only
way to God." All are welcome.
• The Political Science Club will
meet today at 7:30 p.m. in
Baldwin Hall room 304 for speak
er Charles Bullock. All are wel
come. For more information, call
369-8694.
• UGA Rugby will have a meeting
and practice today at 5 p.m. at
the Intramural Fields. For more
information, call Rec. Sports at
542- 5060.
• UGA Cycling Team will have
team practice today and
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., meet at
Snelling Dining Hall. All are wel
come. For more information, call
Todd at 354-0142.
• UGA Karate Club will meet to
day from 6 to 8 p.m. in Stegman
Hall Martial Arts room for specifi
cally Tae Kwon Do. For more in
formation, call 549-0083.
Announcements
• There will be a seminar enti
tled, “The Law School Application
Process," today at 3:30 p.m. in the
Law School room G. For more in
formation, call 542-1412.
• UGA Hillel will have the
monthly Twenty-Something Social
for all Jewish students twenty or
older today at 9 p.m. at the Hillel
House, 1155 S. Milledge Ave. For
more information, call Hillel at
543- 6393.
• Delta Delta Delta will have
Jail-n-Bail *92, “You Get Out
With a Little Help From Your
Friends," today from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. on the front lawn of
Memorial Hall to benefit the
American Cancer Society. All are
welcome. For more information,
call a Tri-Delta representative at
543-2748.
• Asian Cultural Awareness
Week will have a cultural display
booth today at the Tate Plaza
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All are
welcome.
Upcoming
• The American Red Cross will
have a blood drive on Wednesday
from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in
Memorial Hall. For more informa
tion, call 546-0681.
• The Lunch and Learn Series
presents, “Body Language: How It
Works For Us," on Wednesday at
12:10 p.m. in Tate Center room
145. All are welcome.
• Professor Eva Toth, visiting
professor to the Dept, of
Comparative Literature, will give
a lecture in Spanish entitled, “El
mundo hispanico visto desde
Hungria," on Wednesday at 4:30
p.m. in Meigs Hall room 101. All
are welcome.
• The McWhorter Prize is award
ed to students "for general excel
lency in scholastic and extracur
ricular University activities" dur
ing their freshman year.
Applications are now available for
students who were freshmen at
UGA during 1991-92 in the Office
of Student Financial Aid and the
Tate Center Information Booth.
The deadline is Oct. 30.
• Sign-ups are being taken for
GORFs Brockenridge Ski Trip
(Dec. 12-18) at the Tate Center
Business Office Monday through
Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Deadline for sign-ups is
November 2. For more informa
tion, call GORP at 542-5060 or
the Tate Center Business Office
at 542-8514.
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Nov. 3 ballot deals with more than lottery
By ROB SHAPARD
Staff Writer
In addition to Governor Zell
Miller’s controversial proposal for
a Georgia lottery, the Nov. 3 ballot
contains seven other constitution
al amendments the state’s voters
must consider.
The proposed amendments deal
with issues ranging from educa
tion to health care. They will ap
pear at the bottom of the ballot,
numbered one through eight, with
boxes for a simple yes or no vote.
The second amendment on tho
ballot proposes a uniform method
for selecting local school superin
tendents and boards of education.
Currently the method varies
among school districts throughout
the state. In some districts, such
as Athens-Clarke county, boards
of education are appointed and su
perintendents elected. In others,
the reverse is true.
This amendment would require
all school systems to have an
elected board of education and a
superintendent appointed by this
board by January 1,1994.
Amendment Three would au
thorize the General Assembly to
direct state funds to the Indigent
Care Trust Fund, which was cre
ated by a previous constitutional
amendment. The amendment is
required to meet new federal
Medicaid guidelines and enable
the Trust Fund to continue receiv
ing federal matching funds, said
Mickey Montevideo, director of
Ag Hill
By JOHN FORD
Contributing Writer
The Ag Hill representative
council gives all students on
South Campus a voice, not just
those in the College of
Agriculture and Environmental
Sciences.
Laurie Hester, a senior from
Tifton and secretary of Ag Hill,
said, “It’s kind of like the student
government for South Campus.”
The organization is a repre
sentative council of about 30
members from several South
Campus clubs, including Block
and Bridle, Forestry, Student
Home Economics Association and
Alpha Gamma Rho. Each club
may elect one of its members to
the council for a term of one year.
public relations for the Athens
Regional Medical Center.
Montevideo said Athens-Clarke
County received approximately
$1.9 million from the Fund in
1991 for services such as a pedi
atric clinic and school health pro
grams.
The fourth amendment would
add regional or multijurisdictional
programs for solid waste recycling
and disposal to the list of pro
grams to which the state may fend
funds. In other words, cities,
counties and other local authori
ties would be rewarded for cooper
ating on solid waste programs
with loans from state-sponsored
bonds, said Cynthia Thomson re
search director for the state Office
of Legislative Counsel.
“If counties and cities will go
about this in a collective fashion
and do some long-range planning,
they can use general obligations
bonds," Thomson said.
The fifth amendment on the
ballot would establish a
Transportation Trust Fund de
rived from any future increase in
taxes on motor or aviation fuel. If
the General Assembly were to
raise the tax on gas above 7 1/2
cents per gallon, or increase taxes
on the sale of aviation fuel, the
state would use the tax revenues
strictly for transportation projects
such as rail lines, airports, high
ways, ports and waterways, and
bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
“The amendment goes beyond
the bridge and road definition
Because students on the coun
cil come from various clubs, Ag
Hill becomes a diversified panel
for issues relating to agriculture.
Ag Hill allows students of all dif
ferent majors and backgrounds to
form a unified group that repre
sents South Campus at the
University, said Hope Garrett,
senior from La Grange and presi
dent of the club.
Bill Leverett, a junior from
Forsyth and vice president of Ag
Hill, said, “It gives South
Campus a voice, because a lot of
times we feel like we’re over
looked by the University."
Leverett said he disagrees
with the idea that all agriculture
students are farmers, estimating
about 5 percent of graduates go
into production farming.
that the state has historically
used for transportation funds,"
Thomson said.
She also said the amendment
might spur the state to raise fuel
taxes with projects such as a sec
ond Atlanta airport and rail ser
vice from Atlanta to Savannah in
mind.
Sen. Paul Broun of Athens
agreed the amendment might pro
vide such an incentive to raise
fuel taxes, and mentioned a rail
way from Athens to Atlanta as an
other project possibly supported
by the Trust Fund.
“The amendment expands the
definition of what the DOT
[Department of Transportation]
can do, and use the money for,"
Broun said. “It also expands the
areas for which the state can get
federal funds."
But we are many, many years
away from rail service anywhere
except in the big metro areas.”
Amendment Six would autho
rize the state to regulate manufac
turers and dealers of heavy equip
ment, farm equipment and motor
vehicles, to protect franchises and
consumers from unfair business
practices and methods of competi
tion.
“It’s a consumer protection
measure,” said Sen. Terrell Starr
of Forest Park, who sponsored the
amendment. "It would serve to
prevent fraud and unfair business
practices and methods of competi
tion. This doesn’t mean legisla
tion will follow, but it can.”
“People have the wrong atti
tude about agriculture today,” he
said. “They think we’re all still
farmers growing a crop and car
rying it to market."
Established in 1941, one of Ag
Hill’s main goals has always been
to provide a student center for
South Campus. After 51 years,
that goal is close to becoming a
reality. The council is currently
raising money to renovate and
convert the red barn on College
Station Road at Lake Herrick
into the long awaited student
center, complete with a banquet
room, office space, and housing
for student clubs.
Of course, changes for the red
bam won’t come cheap, so Ag Hill
members must raise the neces
sary funding.
Starr gave the example of a hy
pothetical foreign manufacturer
with a heavy equipment dealer
ship in Athens to describe the ef
fect of the amendment. The man
ufacturer could be prevented by
state regulations from raising
prices and taking away dealer
compensation to force the local
dealer out of business and open a
direct dealership of his own, Starr
said.
“The manufacturer might de
cide to put the squeeze on the
dealer and leave him and the con
sumer high and dry," Starr said.
Amendment Seven would allow
the state to establish a property-
tax classification for heavy-duty
motor vehicles such as equipment
for road and building construction,
owned by nonresidents but operat
ed in Georgia.
“It was designed to have own
ers of construction equipment op
erating in Georgia with headquar
ters in another state, to pay their
fair share of property taxes,"
Senator Broun said.
The amendment is an effort to
“retaliate” against the government
in Alabama which has a similar
rovision for taxes on Georgia
usinesses, Thomson said.
The eighth amendment would
refine the procedure for repealing
local constitutional amendments
which were prohibited by the new
Georgia constitution of 1983,
Thomson said. The proposal adds
a requirement for a local referen
dum to the existing procedure.
“Our goal for next year is to
raise $5,000 for the red barn so
that we can do our part to help
upcoming students and help our
selves as alumni someday,”
Garrett said.
She said funding is raised
through several activities, includ
ing softball and golf tournaments,
a silent auction and the South
Campus Student Week.
Donations are also accepted from
clubs, the state agriculture indus
try and alumni from the College
of Agriculture and
Environmental Sciences.
Ag Hill is not a national orga
nization, but one unique to the
University Garrett said.
Meetings are held every other
Thursday night at 7 p.m. in
Conner Hall.
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