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Life Skills Week helps encourage responsible drinking
Every year over 430 million gallons of alcoholic beverages are con
sumed by college students, and to encourage responsible drinking sev
eral University groups will host the annual National Collegiate Life
Skills Week March 1-5. The program, sponsored by BACCHUS, GAM
MA and the University Health Service, will include a natural high
board Monday on the second floor of the Tate Center. Students will be
asked to write down things they do for fun that does not involve drink
ing. Throughout the week the program sponsors will serve non-alcoholic
drinks and distribute information on alcohol abuse and how to drink
responsibly. “(We) hope to get out information about alcohol awareness
so people will know how to responsibly manage their drinking,” said
Johanna Wolfe, president of BACCHUS. - Stephen Tullis
SGA sponsors petition drive against tax on mixed drinks
The fight against a liquor tax proposed by the Athens Clarke-County
Commission continues today as the Student Government Association
launches a two-day petition drive to garner student opposition to the
tax. The proposal, if passed by the commission, would place a 3 percent
per drink tax on mixed drinks. SGA adopted a resolution Feb. 24 con
demning the proposal, calling it “a tax that is directed at and falls most
heavily against students.” The petition dfive >yill be held today and
r Tuesdayfrom 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Students can sijgn it at tables located at
* the Tate Center Plaza, the Main Library,'the North Psychology-
Journalism Auditorium and the Boyd Graduate Studies Building. SGA
President John Bradberry said the petition will be presented to the
commission, which will have a work session and public hearing on the
liquor tax issue March 16. - Russ Bynum
m NATION
Anderson, S.C. (AP): Company must pay for sandwich
A Georgia company must pay $10,000 to a former nursing assistant
who said she bit into a mouse while eating a barbecue sandwich in a
hospital cafeteria, a jury has ruled. The jury, which did not have to de
termine exactly what was in the sandwich to reach its verdict, deliber
ated about an hour Wednesday before returning the verdict in favor of
Sherry R. Collins. Ms. Collins, 26, now of Leavenworth, Kan., sued
Castleberry Food Co. after she claimed there was a mouse in a sand
wich she bought from a vending machine during a work break at the
Anderson Area Medical Center on Feb. 14, 1990. The Augusta, Ga.,
company prepares barbecue pork and sells the food to South Carolina
distributors. It contended the object was not a mouse, but a pork vein
that should been removed during the cooking process. “I think the jury
did the fair thing,” said Ms. Collins’ lawyer, David StandefTer.
Laurel, Miss. (AP): U.S. has first secondhand smoke trial
Burl Butler smoked dozens of brands of cigarettes at his Laurel barber
shop every day for 30 years without bringing a single filter tip to his
lips. Now, after decades of inhaling the smoke of customers whose hair
cuts and shaves kept food on his family’s table, Butler, 59, is dying of
lung cancer. Specialists at Ochsner Medical Institutions in New
Orleans have diagnosed Butler’s accelerated cancer as being caused by
breathing secondhand smoke all those years. Millions of non-smoking
Americans are in danger from exposure to secondhand, or environmen
tal smoke, the Environmental Protection Agency reported in January.
The EPA said secondhand smoke causes cancer and other respiratory
illnesses in adults and children. “My advice to people who are around
smoke would be to move away from smoke wherever they are because
it is very hazardous,” said Butler, who was diagnosed last March. He is
suing six national tobacco companies and six Mississippi tobacco prod
ucts wholesalers for $25 million in damages. His case is the first of its
kind in the United States. No date has been set for the trial.
New York (AP): FBI confirms explosion caused by bomb
Z 'Hie FBI confirmed Sunday that a bomb caused the explosion at the
*” Worla 1 Trade Center. James Fox, head of the New York FBI office, said
agency explosives experts came to that conclusion. “We are prepared to
say at this time that it definitely was a bomb in the opinion of the
FBI,” he said on WCBS-TV. “We aren’t going to complete this crime
scene investigation for some time,” Fox said. ‘You’ve got some drug
dealers upset with the U.S. government, it could be terrorists upset for
other causes. We’re not speculating at this point.”
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Native American Cultural
Society meets today at 7 p.m. in
Baldwin Hall room 263. Anyone
^...interested in the Native American
is invited. For rttore infor
mation, call James Leon at 354-
1200.
• The Federation of
Neighborhoods meets today at 7
p.m. at the Student Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin St. All
interested persons are welcome.
For more information, call 543-
6578.
• UGA Kashima-Shinryu, a club
offering training in the traditional
weapons and unarmed combat
arts of Japan, meets today from 5
to 7 p.m. in the Martial Arts room
in Stegeman Hall. Beginners are
welcome. For more information,
call 543-1020.
• Unified Asiatic Society will
have its last meeting of the quar
ter on Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. in
Memorial Hall room 414. For
more information, call Kris at
357-3282.
• Alpha Phi Omega National
Service Fraternity will meet on
Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Tate Center
room 134. For more information,
call 213-7794.
• UGA Equestrian Club and
Team will meet on Wednesday at
7:30 p.m. in the Livestock/Poultry
Building room 319 for officer elec
tions. For more information, call
Melinda at 357-2335.
• Speech Communications
Association will meet on
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Tate
Center room 141 for speaker
Shera Bridges Wright.
• UGA Pre-Vet Club will meet on
Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the
Microbiology Auditorium at the
Vet School(3rd floor). For more in
formation, call Kim at 546-0661.
• Student Government
Association will have a special
medttng on Tuesday in Tate
Center room 140. For more infor
mation, call 542-8584.
• Worldwide Discipleship
Association will have “I Am the
Vine* on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the
Forestry Auditorium. For more
information, call Dan at 354-6063.
Announcements
• There will be a Percussion
. Ensemble and Steel Band Concert
today at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts
Auditorium.
• There will be a Lifeguard
Instructor Course at the Athens
YMCA March 1-16 on Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 7
to 10 p.m. The cost is $75 for
members and $85 for non-mem
bers. Prerequisites are: Lifeguard
Training Certificate, CPR and 1st
Aid. For more information, call
543-6596.
• Stillpoint Literary Magazine
submissions have ended and
those chosen will be informed
next quarter.
• Rec Sports is having sign-ups
now for the UGA Biatnlon on
Saturday. Sign-up now in
Memorial Hall room 229. First
150 entries receive a free t-shirt.
For more information, call 542-
5060.
• Rec Sports needs volunteers to
work the Biathlon course on
Saturday. Free t-shirts to all who
help. If interested, go by
Memorial Hall room 229 or call
542-5060.
Upcoming
• There will be a Pre-Law
Orientation on Tuesday at 3:30
p.m for Freshmen and
Sophomores and at 4:30 p.m. for
Juniors and Seniors in Room G of
the Law School. For more infor
mation, call 542-1412.
• An Academic Assistance
Writing Workshop entitled
Sentence Combining and
Coherence will be on Tuesday
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in
Journalism 403. It will be taught
by Ms. Elaine Bond and will help
writers achieve coherence and va
riety through combining sen
tences and providing transitions.
Items for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be pub
lished Items are printed on a
first-come, first served basis as
space permits.
PAC dedicated to reducing national debt
Concord Coalition starting chapter here
By TRAVIS RICE
Staff Writer
The Concord Coalition, a polit
ical action committee dedicated
to reducing the national debt, has
applauded President Bill
Clinton’s budget proposal but
cautions that more emphasis
must be placed on cutting such
entrenched entitlements as Social
Security.
The Coalition, which claims
70,000 people have called its 800
number and 15,000 have joined,
issued a statement from its
Washington headquarters giving
Clinton’s plan “two-and-a-half
cheers” but said “the proposal
does not reduce the deficit
enough to keep the debt from con
tinuing to grow.”
The Concord Coalition was
founded last September during
the presidential election by
Senators Paul Tsongas, a
Democrat, and Warren Rudman,
a Republican.
Tsongas, a former senator
from Massachusetts, emphasized
debt reduction during his bid for
the 1992 Democratic presidential
nomination. Rudman is a senator
from New Hampshire best known
for his co-sponsorship of the
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Balanced Budget Act.
Gregg LaVangie, state coordi
nator of the Concord Coalition,
said the group’s only goal is the
reduction of the federal debt.
“We will educate our members
on what the debt is doing to us
and our economy," LaVangie said.
“Fourteen percent of all federal
spending is required every year
just to pay the interest on the na
tional debt."
The Georgia chapter of the
Coalition, which has 750 mem
bers, is operating on less than a
shoestring budget, LaVangie
said, but still wants to form a
University chapter by the end of
March. LaVangie is in Athens to
day to meet with the Coalition’s
lOth-district coordinator, Monica
Wyatt, about forming a
University chapter.
“We are trying to get someone
to donate some Athens office
space,” he said, “We are also
working with the University’s
Office of Student Activities to get
a phone line established on cam
pus.
“We’re going to put together a
core group of students to share
Paul launches Ga. lottery
TNE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — The woman
chosen to launch Georgia’s lot
tery draws diverse views from
the state of Florida, where she
put that state’s lottery in five
years ago.
Rebecca Paul’s supporters say
Georgia made a wise choice and
that nobody else could have
pulled off what she accomplished
in Florida, where the lottery
passed $2 billion in sales its sec
ond full year. Others call Mrs.
Paul a showboat who took more
credit than 6he deserved.
“When she first came here, the
lottery was ready to go,” said
Sen. A1 Gutman, R-Miami in an
article published in Sunday’s edi
tions of the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution.
“After she left, our numbers
kept escalating. Rebecca Paul is
good, but she likes her name out
there.”
Mrs. Paul was fired two years
ago from her post in Florida
when Democrat Lawton Chiles
won the governor’s race after crit
icizing the lottery operation un
der Republican Gov. Bob
Martinez as too glitzy.
Mrs. Paul then went to work
for Ernst & Young, an accounting
firm that does consulting work
for lotteries. Ernst & Young is
one of two companies bidding for
a consulting contract with the
Georgia lottery.
Sen. Ron Silver, D-Miami, the
former leader of the Democrats in
the Florida House, says Chiles
made a mistake by firing her.
“The lottery was the best-run
department in the state,” Silver
said. "It didn’t make any sense to
let her go.”
Mrs. Paul had a legislative
mandate to start the Florida lot
tery in less than six months after
she was hired and was given a
$10,000 bonus as an incentive.
She accomplished the task
and became one of the most visi
ble public officials in the state.
Her name was in the newspa
pers, her face was on TV and her
signature was on every ticket
sold.
“I don’t think I promoted me, I
just promoted the lottery,” she
said. “For a wide range of rea
sons, that ended with having
players know me and love me."
“Rebecca was beginning to
build an impression of self-ag
grandizement,” said Ralph
Turlington, the former commis
sioner of education who orga
nized the statewide petition drive
for a lottery in 1986.
Turlington said the lottery
was spending too much on adver
tising and promotion:
Chiles replaced Mrs. Paul
with Marcia Mann, a professor at
the University of South Florida
who had no lottery background.
Under Ms. Mann, lottery soles
continued to climb, even when
the promotional budget was
slashed by $8.5 million a year.
But Florida officials believe
sales will begin to drop in July
when Georgia’s lottery is project
ed to start. About 2.5 percent of
Florida lottery tickets — about
$50 million a year — are sold to
Georgians. Another $40 million
in sales goes to Alabamians,
many of whom may start buying
their tickets in Georgia.
' Where our top dollars go
Social Security
Source:
Congressional
Budget Office
& Human
Development
TIMOTHY MOODY/ Th. Red and Slack
Entitlements/
Welfare
2% Others
Defense
the responsibilities, and then
have a membership drive on cam
pus," LaVangie said.
Wyatt said she hopes the
group can be registered this week
and said they will become very
visible on campus.
Many interests compete for
student attention and money, but
LaVangie said he thinks students
will have a vested interest in
joining the Concord Coalition.
“Students today will be asked
to pay a greater and greater
share of their income to Social
Security to support my genera
tion,” he said. “And by the time
students retire, Social Security
might not be there for them.”
Wyatt said students “face a
lower standard of living than
their parents” and should join the
Concord Coalition “if they are
worried about their future.”
Sapelo easier to study
By GARY PEEPLES
Staff Writer
Sapelo Island, home to some of
the last unaltered salt marshes
along the Atlantic coast, has long
been a subject of University re
search, but a new computer data
base will make that research easi
er.
“Several of us felt that we
needed a way to integrate 35
years of work and put it into an
accessible data base,” said Jim
Alberts, director of the
University’s Marine Institute on
Sapelo Island.
The institute, which studies
salt marsh ecology and barrier is
land formation, was begun in 1953
at the invitation of R. J. Reynolds,
who owned the island for 1933 to
1965.
The island, located off the
Georgia coast near Darien, is
managed by the Georgia
Department of Natural Resources.
The database serves as a de
pository for the information col
lected about the island since 1953,
including elevation, types of vege
tation, outlines of shores and
creeks, roads and drainage canals.
The data base also has aerial
photos of the fourth-largest. of
Georgia’s barrier islands, from
1953, 1974, 1987 and 1989, which
were converted into digital images
for the computer.
New remote sensing tech
niques, including information
from a 24-satellite system, were
used for the newest maps of the
island, which were also placed in
the data base.
With the maps and aerial pho
tos, researchers can easily add vi
sual “layers” on the computer and
display data on marsh vegetation,
land use, watershed areas,
drainage patterns, shorelines and
elevation.
This allows researchers to ex
amine change easily, said Alice
Chalmers, a University researcher
who works with the data base.
“You can detect variation in
marsh island vegetation or shore
line over time,” Chalmers said.
However the data base, started
in 1988, is not complete.
“We’re adding details and infor
mation to it all the time,"
Chalmers said. “We’re also
adding information from specific
research sites on the island.”
Speed is a main asset of the
data base, Chalmers said.
“It allows vou to do a lot of in
formation collection rapidly and
keep track of it,” she said. “You
can look quickly for information.
For example, if you know eleva
tion, and soil type, and vegetation,
you can use the data base to find
where a certain marsh plant can
be found.”
This data base contains infor
mation specific to Sapelo Island
but may be used for other projects,
said Roy Welch, a University re
searcher who helped map the is
land.
“This study is a prototype for
research that will take place in
similar (coastal) environments in
the future," Welch said. “This is
one of the first demonstrations of
the development and use of these
methods for coastal studies.”
Alberts said he is also opti
mistic about the future.
“For resource managers, this is
the way of the future,” he said.
“Right now we are looking at the
entire area of salt marshes on the
Georgia-South Carolina coastline.
It’s clear that what we did on
Sapelo can be done with an area
even this large.”
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March 1 - 5,1993
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