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2 « The Red and Black « Wednesday. March 3, 1993
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■ UNIVERSITY
Hard Rock Cafe obtains Elvis Presley's Harley Davidson
Atlanta’s Hard Rock Cafe has acquired a new artifact to add to its col
lection of rock n’ roll memorabilia: Elvis Presley’s 1976 Harley
Davidson. The King of rock-and-roll bought the custom-made blue mo
torcycle in a bike shop in Marina Del Ray, Calif, in August 1976. A 14
karat gold design is painted on the motorcycle’s body and The King’s
initials are inscribed on the license plate. After waiting more than a
year for the hot-rod to be completed, Elvis rode it around the grounds
of Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. The bike can be found just inside the
doors of the Hard Rock Cafe, located at 215 Peachtree St. - Maura
Corrigan
Nature Center offers moonlight walk along Cook's trail
Owl calls, frog croaks and chirping crickets await those who sign up for
Sandy Creek Nature Center’s moonlight walk being held this Monday,
March 8. The walk is a hike along the four mile Cook’s trail, which
goes from Sandy Creek Nature Center to Sandy Creek Park, and will
be lit by the full moon. Katie Ford, of Sandy Creek Nature Center, said
“Being a moonlight walk, it is different from what people normally do."
She emphasized the trail isn’t physically strenuous so anyone can
come. The walk will be held from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The walk is free,
but does require prior registration and is limited to 20 people. For more
information, call the nature center at 613-3615. - Gary Peeples
Lecture series focuses on collection of American works
In the second of its four-part brown bag lunch series entitled “Eye on
the Collection," the Georgia Museum of Art presents “William Merrit
Chase at Shinnecock” at noon today. Chase is recognized as one of
America’s leading impressionist painters, and the series provides a ca
sual, in-depth look at artists or art historical movements depicted in
the museum’s permanent collection of 19th- and 20th-century American
works. “This series provides an informal opportunity to learn about the
museum’s permanent collection and its historical significance," said
Susan Longhenry, curator of education for the Georgia Museum of Art.
The event is free and open to the public. - Steve H. Hall
Program helps polish skills for speaking in public arena
Do you get nervous speaking before a crowd of people even though you
use those old speech tactics of picturing your listeners naked and wear
ing black socks? The University’s Counseling and Testing Center is
sponsoring a program designed to make you more comfortable in the
public speaking arena. Beginning at 12:10 p.m. in room 145 of the Tate
Student Center, the workshop will touch on controlling speaking appre
hension and increase your confidence in dinner discussions. The pro
gram is free and open to anyone in the University community who
wants to attend. - Cathleen Egan
■ STATE
Atlanta (AP): Axl Rose won’t be given a key to the city
Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose is coming to Atlanta for the first time
since 1987, but city officials don’t plan to give him a key to the city.
They haven’t forgotten his last appearance here. The heavy metal band
is scheduled to perform April 15 before a sellout crowd at The Omni.
Apparently, the promoters thought it would be entertaining to give him
a key, or at least a piece of paper signed by the mayor. But official city
image-protector Joel Babbit said no way. “I don’t think it’s appropriate
that you give a key to the city to a guy who hits a policeman on his last
visit here,” Babbit said Monday. On the group’s last trip to Atlanta,
Rose was arrested for brawling with security personnel at The Omni. “I
think he ought to be the one giving something to us - maybe 1,000 bul
letproof vests for police,” said Babbit, who is Mayor Maynard Jackson’s
spokesman. “Plus, I don’t like his music.”
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• 1' * Hort Club meets today at |
the Hort Club
Gr use. For more informa
tion, .1 Shane at 357-2844.
• Students For Environmental
Awareness meets today at 8 p.m. j
in Tate Center room 145. All are
welcome. For more information, I
call Neil at 357-3282.
• College Republicans meets to- I
day at 8 p.m. in Tate Center room
141. For more information, call
Bobby at 353-8375.
• Speech Communications
Association meets today at 5:30
p.m. in Tate Center room 141 for |
speaker Shera Bridges Wright.
• UGA Flying Club meets today j
at 7:30 p.m. at the Athens Airportj
Georgia Flight Academy Hanger. !
For more information, call Jenny I
at 369-1906.
• UGA Equestrian Club and
Team meets today at 7:30 p.m. in
the Livestock/Poultry Building
room 319 for officer elections. For I
more information, call Melinda at I
357-2335.
• Pi Sigma Epsilon meets today j
at 6 p.m. for a general business
meeting and at 6:30 p.m. for
pledges in Caldwell. For more in
formation, call 549-5291.
• The Culture of the South
Association meets today at 7:30
p.m. in Tate Center room 140 to
announce candidates for office for
next quarter. All members need
to attend. For more information,
call Greg at 613-0196.
• Young Democrats of Athens
Clarke County meet today at 7
p.m. in Tate Center room 138 for
speaker Gwen O'Looney. All are
welcome. For more information,
call Chris at 208-0108.
• 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.
Announcements
• Jan Pendergrass will speak on
“John Calvin s Natural
Philosophy" today at 12 noon in
Park Hall room 261. All are wel
come.
• There will be a panel discussion
“Black Women and the Real Deal
with Welfare," today at 7 p.m. in
the North PJ. Auditorium. For
more information, call 542-2846.
• The Reverend Karen W. Rice
will speak on “A New Day” today
at 7 p.m. at the Presbyterian
Student Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin
St. All are welcome. For more in
formation, call 548-5932.
• The Leadership Resource Team
presents “University Women
Leaders,” a panel discussion, to
day at 7:30 p.m. in the Tate
Center Reception Hall as a part of
PHOENIX: A Women in
Leadership Lecture Series. For
more information, call 543-0207
or 208-9285.
• There will be a Jazz Band I
Concert today at 8 p.m. in the
Fine Arts Auditorium.
• Rec Sports is having sign-ups
now for the UGA Biathlon on
Saturday. Sign-up in Memorial
Hall room 229. First 150 entries
receive a free t-shirt. For more in
formation, 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
• The Japanese Friendship
Society will have Japan Night on
Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. in Tate
Center Georgia Hall. Tickets are
$7, call in advance or arrive early
that night. For more information,
call 542-9447.
• The South's oldest debating so
ciety, the Demosthenian Society,
meets Thursday at 7 p.m. for an
evening of discussion and debate
at Demosthenian Hall, located be
tween the Academic Building and
the Chapel. Visitors are welcome
and encouraged to participate in a
hundred eighty-nine year old tra
dition of debate.
• Vegetarian Student Union will
have its first Potluck Dinner on
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Tate
Center room 140. For more infor
mation, call Jason at 357-0176.
• College Republicans will have
club elections on the 2nd
Wednesday of Spring Quarter. All
paid members who have attended
two meetings may vote. For more
information, call Bobby at 353-
8375.
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New health center should solve problems
The planned site of the new health center is between College Station Road
and the new SPACENTER, which is pictured here already under construction.
By GARY PEEPLES
| Staff Writer
The long waits and parking anxiety that
characterize the Gilbert Health Center may be
come a thing of the past when the center gets a
new building in 1995.
The new $6.6 million building, which will be
j located between the SPACENTER and College
I Station Road, is designed to provide for the fu-
i ture expansion of the center’s services and to
address the two main problems students have
with the present structure.
“The number one complaint we have about
the Gilbert Health Center is parking," said
! Jacquelyn Kinder, director of the health center.
“The number two complaint is the waiting
time. We will offer services in a way that
makes it more time-efficient for students.”
The physical exams are currently held in the
clinicians’ offices, and Kinder said this creates
' the longer waiting times, because one student
I must get dressed and leave before the next can
j be seen.
In the new building, each clinician will have
I an office and two examination rooms. This al
lows the clinician to see a student in one exam
ination room and then move on to another pa
tient while the first is getting dressed.
To alleviate parking problems, the new cen
ter will have 50 student parking places, as com
pared to the 15 the present center has. Even
more student parking may be added if needed
after the dairy research building is torn down
in 1997.
Kinder said the new center will also allow
for future growth, including an expansion in
the radiology facilities.
“It will be expanded to allow us to offer new
services, such as ultrasound and mammogra
phy, as the need arises,” she said.
The new radiology area will also have room
to replace the X-ray machine. Kinder said the
present machine is adequate, but will one day
be replaced by a new larger machine.
The sports medicine area will also have
more room in the new building, and a proce
dure room will be added for more large-scale
activities, such as making casts.
Campus architect Charles Porter said the
new building is being designed by Nix, Mann,
and Vieman, an architectural firm based in
Atlanta.
He said bidding for the construction contract
will take place in December at the earliest, and
construction on the building may begin in early
1994.
“The main concern is student accessibility,
and we thought this site provided the best ac
cess for students,” Porter said.
The four-story building will be on the
University bus line. An auxiliary fund, which
receives 5 percent of student health fees, will
also be used for the center’s maintenance and
construction. .
One curiosity concerning the design was
that the building was designed to avoid dis
turbing a nearby grove of trees.
Porter said the grove will probably turned
into a pork area, with walkways and sitting ar
eas.
Porter said concern expressed by students,
faculty and staff saved the trees.
Exchange program offers new opportunities
By KERRY HENDRY
Contributing Writer
University students who want
to get away from Athens for a few
quarters are taking classes at oth
er schools across the country with
out paying out-of-state tuition.
Through the National Student
Exchange Program, any student
may pay the University’s tuition
and fees and travel to one of 100
selected colleges and universities
in the United States.
Jenny Best, coordinator of the
program, said there has been an
increased interest this year in
traveling to the Western states,
particularly Alaska and Colorado,
because of the climates.
“The most outstanding benefit
of the program is that it offers
many more opportunities than a
student can get in one place,” Best
■ said. “It teaches a lot about
j America.”
Frederick Marshalk, a junior
| from Augusta who participated'in
an exchange progr- at the
University of Idaho last fall, said
the program gave him the chance
to tour places he wouldn’t have
been able to visit, such as Canada
and Seattle.
“(The program) offers a great
experience to travel to places out
side the South so you can see
places where you might want to
live after graduation,” Marshalk
said.
Some students said the pro
gram gave them the opportunity to
try some things they had never
done before.
David Barnhart, a junior from
Watkinsville, made his first at
tempt at skiing while he attended
Colorado State. He said he chose
Colorado because of the climate.
The University also accepts as
many incoming students as it
sends out.
This year more than 40 incom
ing and outgoing students have
been accepted.
Once the number of students an
institution can accept is deter
mined, the coordinators negotiate
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so the students are matched with
schools of their choice.
Although most students receive
their first choice, Best said stu
dents must select two additional
schools they would like to attend
and would fit into their course of
study.
Tibor Lageman, a sophomore
from the University of Wisconsin
at Green Bay, chose the University
for academic reasons. Lageman
said the University has a good
business school and offers many
courses not available at his home
school.
“I was able to experience life at
a different school without it being
financially strapping,” he said.
The NSE has catalogs, video
tapes and a collection of postcards
documenting various trips from
exchange students across the
country.
■ CLARIFICATIONS
A story published in Monday’s edition of The Red & Black incorrectly
identified the media specialist of Winterville Elementary School. Pat
Thruston is the media specialist at Winterville, not Bobbie Epting.
A second story in Monday's issue of the Red and Black incorrectly
identified the Concord Coalition as a political action committee. They
are actually a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational organization.
It is the policy of this newspaper to clarify errors of fact that
appear in its news columns. Clarifications usually appear on page 2.
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