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a * The Red and Black » Thursday, Oct. 29.1992
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■ UNIVERSITY
Fallon gives Sibley Lecture on rights and powers
Harvard law professor Richard Fallon will give the 79th Sibley Lecture,
“Individual Rights and Governmental Powers" today at 10:30 a.m. A
panel discussion will follow at 1:30 p.m. Both events are free, open to
the public, and will be held at the law school auditorium. Fallon earned
a law degree from Yale University, a bachelor's degree from Oxford
University with first class honors, and is a Rhodes Scholar. Paul Kurtz,
associate dean of the law school, said Professor Fallon’s thesis address
es the interrelationship between governmental powers and constitution
al rights. “We cannot think about rights without simultaneously think
ing about the powers we want the government to have," Kurtz said.
“Rights are interconnected with and sometimes subordinate to govern
mental powers." - Emily Mitchell
Crazy wedding stories author will sign books today
Margaret Bigger will be signing her new book of stories and cartoons,
“There’s No Such Thing as a Perfect Wedding," at the University book
store today from noon until 2 p.m. Bigger said her humorous book is a
collection of 209 disastrous and hilarious, but true wedding stories
written for brides, their mothers and other people who take weddings
too seriously. She said it includes a story about a University student
who ended up drunk, in a boxcar and in Kansas on his wedding day. In
addition to signing her book, Bigger will be collecting more crazy wed
ding stories for the sequel. “I’m counting on hearing a lot of cute, little
wedding stories from the students," Bigger said. Any students who
would like to contribute their own wedding stories but cannot attend,
may bring them by the bookstore before noon today. Bigger will be fea
tured as the “wedding disaster expert" on the Sally Jesse Raphael show
Nov. 3. - Emily Mitchell
German piano professor to perform and teach classes
German pianist Andr£ Marchand, professor of piano at the Stuttgart
State Conservatory since 1985, will perform at 8 p.m. today at the
University Chapel. His program includes Beethoven’s “Sonata in C
Minor," Schumann’s “Camavale," and Brahms’ “Sonata in F Minor."
Marchand will also be teaching piano students in master classes in the
chapel Friday from 11:05 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. and from 2:20 to 3:10 p.m.,
and these classes will be open to the public. Music professor Richard
Zimdars coordinated Marcnand’s visit, which is sponsored by the
Goethe Institute of Atlanta, Lufthansa Airlines and the School of
Music. “We studied together in Germany in 1969 and 1970, so he’s an
old classmate of mine, and I was the impetus to bring him here,"
Zimdars said. - David Monroe
■ NATION
Boston (AP): World to end during Georgia-Florida weekend
The end of the world is drawing near, according to a national religious
movement that predicts the final reckoning will occur by Saturday.
“Some people don’t believe," said Lee Ihn-Kyung, spokeswoman for the
Taberah World Mission, whose 16-year-old leader, Bang-ik Ha, is said
to have received a revelation that Jesus would come this month for
Judgment Day. “But many people believe. It’s all up to them how much
their minds are closed to God.” The group believes the “saved" will be
swooped to heaven in the so-called rapture; all others will be left be
hind for seven years of tribulation, at which time human history will
end. The end of the world is being announced in advertisements in The
New York Times and in brochures tucked under the wipers of parked
cars in mqjor cities. At least three groups are behind all the publicity:
the Taberah World Mission in Skokie, 111., the Maranantha Mission in
Los Angeles and the Mission for the Coming Days in Derry, N.H. Some
advertisements also have been sponsored by the Korean-based Coming
of Christ Mission. All are affiliates of the Korean Mission for the
Coming Days Church, according to the Watchman Fellowship, a
Christian cult-monitoring group. South Korean authorities last month
arrested Lee Jan-rim, a leader of the movement, charging him with
swindling his followers of up to $4 million.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The UGA Cycling Team will
meet today at 8 p.m. at Frijoleros
downtown. For more information,
call Todd at 354-0142.
• Phi Kappa Literary Society will
meet today at 7:30 p.m. at the
Phi Kappa Hall. All guests are
welcome. For more information,
call 613-8528.
• The Christian Science
Organization will meet today at 6
p.m. in Tate Center room 144. All
are welcome. For more informa
tion, call Jim Whitehead at 542-
1922.
• The Environmental Health
Science Club will meet today at 7
p.m. in Conner Hall room 104 to
find out about work study abroad
programs. All are welcome. For
more information, call David
Johnson at 208-0473.
• UGA Rugby will have a meeting I
and practice today at 5 p.m. at
the Intramural Fields. For more
information, call Rec. Sports at
542-5060.
• UGA Karate Club will meet to
day from 6-8 p.m. in Stegman
Hall Martial Arts room for specifi
cally Tae Kwon Do. For more in
formation, call 549-0083.
Announcements
• Women students are invited to
attend a self-defense class taught
by the Campus Police today at 7
p.m. in Tate Center room 142.
• Still point will have the 2nd
Annual Halloween Hootenanny,
student poetry and prose reading,
today at 8 p.m. in Park Hall room
145. All are welcome. For more
information, call 742-2245.
• The Department of Physics and
Astronomy will have a reception
for Physics and Astronomy majors
and all interested undergraduates
today from 4-5 p.m. in the confer
ence room of the Physics
Building. For more information,
call Tim Heil at 542-6016.
• Students for Steve Smith will
have a campaign rally today at 6
p.m. in the parking lot near
Blockbuster Video on Gaines
School Rd. For more information,
call Alex at 613-7315.
• The Academic Success Series
presents “Learning Styles" today
from 4-5:30 p.m. in Tate Center
room 143. For more information,
call 542-5436.
• The Center for Latin American
Studies Fall 1992 Lecture Series
will have Ted Gragson, Asst. Prof,
of Anthropology, speaking on
“Growing Up In Mexico" today at
1:15 p.m. in Tate Center room
142. All are welcome. For more
information, call 542-2497.
• Professor Leon Kass, a
Humanities Center visiting lec
turer from the University of
Chicago, will speak on *The Truth
About Life: The Permanent
Limitations of Biology" today at 4
p.m. in Park Hall room 265. All
are welcome.
• The Women's Studies Program
will have an open house today
from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Main
Library room 230H. All are invit
ed to drop by for conversation and
refreshments.
Upcoming
• SGA deadline for applications
for a Minority Affairs Chairman
are today by 5 p.m. and inter
views will be on Friday from 9-11
a.m. and from 2:30-5 p.m. For
more information, call 542-8584.
• 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 Friday.
• Sign-ups are being taken for
GORPs Breckenridge Ski Trip
(Dec. 12-18) at the Tate Center
Business Office Monday through
Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Deadline for
sign-ups is Monday, Nov. 2. For
more information, call GORP at
542-5060.
• The Women's Studies Program
Brown Bag Lunch Talks presents
Karen Maschke, Dept, of Political
Science, speaking on “Regulating
the Pregnant Body" on Friday at
12:10 p.m. in Memorial Hall room
213. For more information, call
542-2846.
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Natural gas will fuel University vehicles
By ALLEN BOWIE I j j] ifi j i
Staff Writer J It I I . .
Bill Fox, (r) head of the University’s automotive center, and a worker, show
off a truck rigged to run on natural gas.
A portion of the University’s automotive
fleet will convert to natural gas fuel early
next year as part of a pilot program designed
to reduce harmful vehicle emissions.
Advocates say natural gas is the alterna
tive fuel of the future because it burns clean
er, produces less environmental hazards,
costs less than gasoline and can significantly
decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil.
The one-year, trial program will convert 10
vans and trucks of the 760 vehicles in the
University fleet to natural gas vehicles (NGV)
by using a commercially available conversion
kit by January.
The kit, which resembles a scuba-diving
tank, holds 3,000 pounds per square inch
(PSI) of compressed natural gas - the equiva
lent of seven gallons of gasoline - and
mounts in the back bed of the vehicle. The
kit is connected to the vehicle’s operating sys
tem and automatically switches back to regu
lar gasoline when the level of natural gas in
the tank drops below 250 pounds PSI.
Costing about $2,000 each, conversion kits
will be purchased for ten vehicles that serve
the University’s Physical Plant.
Bid specifications for the conversion kits
were signed two weeks ago by the Physical
Plant’s procurement office and administrators
said they expect that a bidder will be selected
by late November.
“Our target is to be underway with all ten
vehicles switched to natural gas by January
1," said James TenBrook, director at the
Physical Plant.
TenBrook said he is converting the
University’s automotive fleet because the
change is environmentally a good idea. But
economically, he said, the switch will not be a
money maker.
“There will be a seven year payoff when ac
counting for the difference between the price
of gasoline and natural gas,” he said adding
that ordinarily a good economical plan would
payoff in four to five years.
Fuel for an NGV costs an average of 45 to
75 cents for an equivalent gallon of gasoline,
which results in a 30 to 65 percent savings,
Georgia Natural Gas reported. However, Bill
Fox, head of the University’s automotive
center, said because of the small numbers of
vehicles being converted, the pilot program
would garner only minimal fuel savings.
“The vehicles will only have to be refueled
once every two weeks," Fox said. With a sev
en gallon tank and the ability to get 20 miles
to the gallon, he said, the vehicles will be
able to travel 140 miles before requiring more
fuel.
Nationally, NGV’s are being incorporated
into private and public fleets including
Savannah and Atlanta.
The University will be the third school in
the country to convert part of its automotive
fleet. Arizona State University and the
University of West Virginia in Morgantown
both made the switch in the last two years.
Fox said this trend is partly due to the in
creased efficiency of NGV’s and their good en
vironmental performance.
“Regular gasoline engines run more effi
ciently at a hot temperature range, which is
seldomly reached by University vehicles due
to their short cruising distances around cam
pus," Fox said. “Engines operating on gaso
line usually fail to reach the optimal operat
ing temperature." This factor doesn't allow
the catalytic converter to get hot enough to
catalyze pollution emitted from the vehicle’s
tailpipe, he said.
“You get a lot of unburned and half-
burned fuel due to the low heat,” Fox said,
“that’s why soot is partly emitted into the air.
Instead of catalyzing the fuel, it’s pushing
more out of the tailpipe.”
“With natural gas you’ll get a more com
plete burn because natural gas gets hotter
faster and you don’t have all this exhaust
coming out the tailpipe, and what little you
do, the catalytic converter will get most of it."
All University vehicles refuel and receive
maintenance at the automotive station, locat
ed on River Bend Road. When the conversion
kits are intact, the station will incorporate a
separate fueling area, hooked into the present
fueling pipeline, which will fill two vehicles at
one time during the night and take four to
five hours to completely refuel.
However, through an incentive offered by
Atlanta Gas Light Company, the University
could be granted a faster fueling station if the
pilot program expands, which would allow the
larger fleet to be refueled faster, at the same
rate as regular gasoline refueling.
The trip can be a fright every year
Students travel to Ga./Fla. despite obstacles
By ERIK BRAUN
Contributing Writer
As usual, tickets to the
Georgia/Florida game, held
Halloween weekend in
Jacksonville, are in heavy de
mand.
Many students were unable to
acquire tickets to “The World’s
Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party"
through the lottery, but said they
aren’t concerned.
“I really don’t care," said Chris
Moulthrop, a junior from
Marietta, although he did finally
gamer two of the much sought-af
ter tickets.
The drive from Athens to
Jacksonville often dampens stu
dents’ desire to attend the game.
It takes anywhere from six to sev
en hours, and can be dangerous,
since many of the students travel
along unfamiliar routes.
“I’ll go, but it’s kind of a long
drive," Moulthrop said.
“I’d rather go to Buckhead. I
could scalp — that’s profitable,
but still not worth the eight-hour
drive," he said.
Outside of Baxley, in South
Georgia, Jeremy Grenade, a first
year graduate student, said one of
his Jacksonville drives included a
frightening encounter with a semi
truck.
“It was dark and raining,"
Grenade said. “All of a sudden we
see these headlights coming to
wards us in our lane. I had to
swerve really hard to get out of
his way. After that we decided to
spend the night in a motel. I
don’t see the point in going
again.”
A total of 39,579 tickets are al
lotted for the University, out of
which come the tickets set aside
for students. Florida receives the
same number of tickets.
While some students may be
apathetic about the game, some
who were unable to get one of the
4,890 tickets reserved for Georgia
students, are still quite interested
in going.
“I don’t want to graduate with
out ever having gone," said
Ashley Jordan, a senior from
Albany.
Many students are enticed
more by the partying than the
game.
Jason Weil, a junior from
Savannah, doesn’t intend to
make the trek to Jacksonville this
year, but does want to go one
year.
“I’m not very interested in the
game, but it would be exciting to
go down once and see what the
hoopla’s about," he said.
“Everybody should go."
Hollis McCall, a senior from
Savannah, has been to the
Georgia/Florida game four times,
but will not go this year.
“Of all the students who go,
maybe a tenth go for the game,"
he said. “Lots of drinking is an
understatement."
McCall recalled the expense in
volved in going to the game.
"If you bring your own
cigarettes and alcohol, you'll save
a gargantuan amount of money,
but it’s still expensive,” he said.
He said speeding tickets were
a substantial expense for the trip.
“This Georgia state trooper
pulled me to the side of the road.
I was at the head of a convoy of
five cars," he said.
“He ran up to me, told me to
stay put, and then he pulled the
other four cars to the side of the
road. He gave tickets to us all."
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