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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Learn how to study abroad and pay University tuition
Information sessions about study-abroad opportunities will be held this
week at 12:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on March 9, 10 and 11 in room 210 of
Memorial Hall. Applications for exchange programs for the 1993-94
school year will be available at the sessions and can also be picked up
at the Office of International Services and Programs. The programs
permit students to pay University tuition to study at universities in
countries such as England and France. If you are interested but unable
to attend, call the ISr office at 542-1557. - Maura Corrigan
■ STATE
Atlanta (API: Alliance Theatre gets $1 million NEA grant
The Alliance Tneatre Company has received a $1 million challenge
grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The challenge, if it is
matched 3-to-l with private dollars over the next three years, would
eliminate the theater’s $600,000 debt and establish an endowment for
artistic programs and personnel. “The first word that comes to mind is
dumbstruck.” said Alliance managing director Edith Love, noting it’s
only the second time in 24 years the Southeast’s largest theater has re
ceived more than $40,000 from the NEA. “But this does not mean, ‘Oh
my God, Free at Last!”’ she said. “We still have a lot of money to raise
and we need all of Atlanta to do it.” A $1 million grant from the NEA is
rare. The Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., got one four years ago, but
it, like the $1 million the Alliance received from the Lila Wallace-
Reader’s Digest Fund in 1991, was for cultural-diversity programs and
could not be applied toward debt.
Soperton (AP): Man tries to have sheriff killed by bazooka
A man accused of trying to hire someone to kill the Treutlen County
sheriff asked an undercover agent to fire a bazooka into the sheriffs
house, an investigator testified. A judge denied bond for Clarence
Walker on Friday. At a bond hearing Thursday, Jim Fullington of the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation testified that Walker asked an under
cover agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to use a
bazooka so Sheriff Wayne Hooks, his wife and 13-year-old daughter
would be killed. The agent declined to use a bazooka. Fullington also
testified that Walker told the agent he had a list of other people to kill.
Magistrate Judge Clayton Stephens said he denied bond because
Walker still may pose a threat to the community. Walker is charged
with solicitation of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and two
counts of possession of a silencer. Walker grew up in Treutlen County
and rode on the same school bu3 as Hooks when they were youngsters.
■ NATION
New York (AP): Pro-life activist convicted of contempt
Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry was convicted Friday of con
tempt of court for helping another man try to give a fetus to President
Clinton during last year’s Democratic National Convention. U.S.
District Court Judge Robert Ward dismissed a second contempt count
that would have required finding Terry knew the fetus was going to be
presented to Clinton and did nothing to stop it. Terry, 33, of
Binghamton, faces up to six months in prison when he is sentenced
May 21. Prosecutors said Terry was behind the Clinton encounter as
part of a campaign to draw attention to the anti-abortion movement
during the convention. He was charged with contempt because a feder
al court, had already ordered him and Operation Rescue not to follow
through on threats to present a fetus to Clinton. The man who alleged
ly tried to present the fetus, Harley Belew, faces civil contempt
charges.
■ WORLD
London (AP): Prince Philip to drive custom-ordered taxi
First the monarchy agreed to pay income taxes — now Prince Philip is
going to drive a taxi! The husband of Queen Elizabeth II ordered one of
London’s trademark cabs for driving himself about town when a chauf
feur-driven royal limousine doesn’t suit the occasion. Philip, 71, tested
a cab at Buckingham Palace before placing the order, said a spokesman
for Metrocab, which makes the boxy taxis. The $28,000 royal cab will
be dark green, rather than black, with grey velour upholstery and car
pets. It will have a passenger seat instead of a luggage area to allow a
security officer to sit next to the driver.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Student Union meets today at 7
p.m. in Memorial Hall room 213.
There is a guest speaker. For
more information, call 549-9368.
• 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.
• There will be no Amnesty
International meeting today.
Those members with
International Women’s Day peti
tions can either mail them or con
tact Rana Cullers at 543-1607.
Announcements
• There will be an International
Women’s Day Program “Works by
Ethnic Women in Spaces of
Conflict," readings and commen
tary by foreign students at the
University, today from 12:10 to
1:30 p.m. in Tate Center room
140. All are welcome. For more
information, call 542-2846.
• The UGA Wind Ensemble will
have a concert today at 8 p.m. in
the Fine Arts Auditorium.
Upcoming
• Public Relations Student
Society of America will meet on
Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Tate
Center room 137 for resume writ
ing. Students are asked to bring
their resumes. For more informa
tion, call 357-0552.
• The Criminal Justice Society
will meet on Tuesday in Memorial
Hall room 221 for officer nomina
tions. For more information, call
542-7079.
• There will be an Academic
Assistance Writing Workshop en
titled Diction on Tuesday from
3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Journalism
room 403. It will be taught by Ms.
Elaine Bond and will help writers
I recognize vague word choices and
wordiness and suggest ways they
' can choose appropriate, effective
I words and sentence structure.
• Christian Campus Fellowship
will have its weekly meeting with
a free meal and Bible study/wor
ship time on Tuesday at 6:15 p.m.
for the free meal and at 7 p.m. for
the study at the CCF Campus
House, 1080 S. Milledge Ave.
Campus Minister Tim Hudson
will speak. All are welcome. For
more information, call 548-9625.
• Professor Jean-Francois
Lyotard will speak on "The
Other’s Rights: An Approach to
the Question of Human Rights”
on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Law
School Auditorium. All are wel
come.
• International Business Club
will have an Atlanta Committee
for the Olympic Games speaker
Harris Bostic on Thursday at 6
p.m. in Tate Center room 141.
The topics are “International
Press Planning for ACOG” and
“Atlanta Olympics and Volunteer
International Programs." For
more information, call 613-5763.
• There will be a blood drive on
Wednesday at Walmart
Perimeter Square from noon until
5:30 p.m. For more information,
call 546-0681.
• There will be a blood drive on
Thursday at Athena Industrial
Park on Olympic Drive from noon
until 5:30 p.m. For more informa
tion, call 546-0681.
• There will be a blood drive on
Friday at First Presbyterian
Church in downtown Athens from
12:30 until 6 p.m. For more infor
mation, call 546-0681.
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Dean Buccino returns from year in D.C.
By MELANIE THOMAS
Staff Writer
Alphonse Buccino, dean of the
College of Education, returned
from a yearlong assignment in
Washington D.C. last week in
spired with the ideas of the latest
technologies and ways to improv
the University’s classrooms.
While he was away, Buccino
worked as an adviser on math and
science education in the Executive
Office of the President and helped
create a federal standard for cur
riculum and testing. The assign
ment also involved coordinating
interrelating agencies, such as the
National Science Foundation and
NASA, to aid the plan.
“It was a great experience to
me as a person and a professor,”
Buccino said. “And I hope some
thing I learned will have rele
vance to the University.”
Buccino worked as part of a
group with the Office of Science
and Technology Policy that creat
ed the first federal unitary strate
gy for science, math, engineering
and technology information.
Buccino said President Bill
Clinton is also planning to follow
the plan that theold administra
tion developed for fiscal year 1994.
Buccino said the group’s great
est concern was raising American
students’ low academic rankings
in comparison with other coun
tries.
“Studies show that Americans
generally perform less well than
their counterparts," he said. “I
don’t want to replicate what’s in
Japan, but I want to raise the stu
dents to be comparable.*
Buccino cited the myth of “ef
fort versus innate ability” as a
reason for Americans’ poor perfor
mance. He said students in other
countries are taught that if they
work at something they will mas
ter it. But in the United States
students quit sooner, because they
have heard too many stereotypes,
such as the belief that male stu
dents are better at math.
Buccino, who calls himself an
"information lover," said
Washington is the place to catch
up with current trends in technol
ogy, but he warned that it is not a
“cure-all” as some view it.
“Some people expect to come
back from Washington with buck
ets of money,” he said. “But I
didn’t come back with money or
influence. The idea is to keep up
with what the thinking is."
Buccino said he is excited about
bringing new technologies directly
into the classrooms and hopes the
University will move toward the
integration of all the technologies,
including television, networks and
studios, that the rest of the nation
is increasingly using.
Of the many educational issues
now facing the nation, Buccino
said integrating new technologies
and upgrading the educational
quality of the work force are the
most important. But moving to
the new technologies will be the
greatest challenge, he said.
“It can really revolutionize in
formation and education at all lev
els, especially the University," he
said.
George Gazda, associate dean
for research in the College of
Education, agreed that Buccino’s
year in Washington will benefit
everyone.
“One of his motivations was to
go up there and get a handle on
things that are going on in higher
education and where it’s going,”
Gazda said.
Buccino said the College of
Education suffered along with the
entire University because of the
Alphonse Buccino is dean
of the College of Education.
budget cuts while he was away.
Gazda said he has full faith in
Buccino, but the budget cuts and
lack of space may be his greatest
challenges.
“The dean is quite capable of
picking up where he left off,"
Gazda said. “The budget cuts have
been a very big problem for the
faculty in the college. We’ve had to
cannibalize positions to be com
petitive.”
No concerns about cellular phones, cancer
Students see no link between cellular phones and cancer.
By TRAVIS RICE
Staff Writer
University students with car
phones say they don’t think the
phones could cause them health
problems, although research has
suggested a possible link between
cellular-phone use and brain can
cer.
And although studies still being
conducted, several experts agree
cellular-phone owners don’t have
anything to worrv about.
The National Cancer Institute
recently began studying items that
emit radiation — for example, mi
crowaves and cellular phones — to
determine whether any everyday
electronic products might be dan
gerous, said Dr. Dan Nixon, vice
president for cancer detection and
treatment for the American Cancer
Society.
“I’m not losing sleep over it,”
Allen Statham, a junior from
Griffin, said. “I only use it about
twice a week, mostly when I drive
home, and I heard that the health
risks are for frequent users.”
Alice Lund, a freshman who
commutes every day from her home
in GGMonroe, also said she seldom
uses her car phone and consequent
ly isn’t that worried about health
risks.
“I guess I’ve used it four times in
past three months,” she said. “My
dad and I talked about the news re
ports, but neither of us are really
that worried. There are so many
things that cause cancer that you
just can’t go around worrying your
life away.”
No one with BellSouth Mobility
was available to comment on the
possibility of cellular phones caus
ing brain cancer, but the company
is distributing a brochure to dispute
the claims of health risks.
The brochure lists experts from
Yale Laboratories to the Federal
Communications Commission, all
asserting that cellular phones pose
no known risks and dorvt cause can
cer.
A study by the Electromagnetic
Energy Policy Alliance, quoted in
the brochure, maintains that less
radiation is emitted by cellular
phones than by citizens band ra
dios, which have been extensively
used for decades and have not been
cancerous agents.
Nixon said most of the evidence
against cellular phones is circum
stantial.
“There is no concrete data to in
dicate that cellular phones cause
cancer,” he said. “On the other
hand, cellular phones do emit radia
tion, and theoretically there is a
possibility they could cause cancer."
Todd Tucker, a sophomore from
Hartwell who said he uses his car
phone three or four times a week,
said he is “worried in a way.”
Tucker said he fells safe but is “very
interested in finding out more.”
Number of harassing phone calls rising
By KELLY DANIEL
Staff Writer
Sometimes the phone just isn’t
worth answering.
Especially when you hear a
death threat on the line.
Just ask one University fresh
man who is so concerned about a
harassing caller that she refuses to
be identified.
“They were basically death
threats, she said of the repeated
calls she received in her Brumby
dorm room. “It was scary. We
thought it could have been some
guy who was already in someone’s
room (in the dorm).
“It was an older man, and he’d
sometimes call three times a night,”
she said. “But he stopped right after
we reported it (to University po
lice)."
The man left messages on their
answering-machine tape, which
University police took as evidence.
Police also checked with her neigh
bors, but no one else reported re
ceiving any threatening calls, she
said.
An increasing number of
University students, mostly women
dorm residents, have reported re
ceiving harassing calls since the be
ginning of winter quarter, and
University police cannot explain
this trend.
University police said they re
ceived 19 reports of obscene or ha
rassing calls during the first two
months of 1993, including nine com
plaints in the first thrls weeks of
February. Only five luch com
plaints were filed with University
police between July and December
1992.
University police Lt. Jeff
Whitfield said the number of ha
rassing calls seems to be rising
again after a three-year drop.
“Nine is really, really nigh for
one month (February),” Whitfield
said. “There really hadn’t been that
many until the last couple of
months, but, back in 1988, they
used to be really commonplace —
we always had 10 to 20 a month.
For whatever reason, people just
stopped making the calls, but now
the number has gone back up.”
Police define harassing calls as
repeated hang-ups or instances in
which the caller never speaks or
just breathes heavily. Making ha
rassing or obscene phone calls is a
misdemeanor offense punishable by
up to a year in prison and a $1,000
fine.
Whitfield hesitated to classify
the recent increase as a fad.
“It may just be two or three peo
ple who decided to call University
students,” he said. “The calls don r t
seem to be of any relation to each
other either, and nothing points to
any one person making the calls.”
University police have cleared
two cases, but they are not hopeful
about solving the rest, Whitfield
said. The victim must decide to
press charges once police find the
caller, but police said most people
are just happy when the harass
ment stops and don’t want to prose
cute.
Police advise victims to keep a
log of the calls, including time, date,
length and nature of the calls. The
phone company can put a trace on
the line once a pattern of abuse is
established, Whitfield said.
“Some (calls) that are reported
don’t ever happen again,” Whitfield
said. “That’s why it r s so important
to keep a log and establish that it is
a pattern of abuse and not an isolat
ed incident.”
Tracy McAlvoy, a Southern Bell
representative, said customers have
two options in tracking down ha
rassing callers.
“Buy call tracing, which is about
$4 a month, and itll do it automati
cally,” McAlvoy said. “Or get in
touch with the Annoyance Call
Center, and they’ll put a tracer on
the line and tell you how to log the
bothersome calls. This won’t cost
students anything.
“After determining who is mak
ing the calls, well mail out letters to
the person telling them to stop,"
McAlvoy said. “We generally don’t
let the victim know who was calling
them, but we’ll turn over the
records to the court system if the
victim wants to prosecute.”
The number for the Annoyance
Call Center is 780-2969. It is a free
call.
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STUDENT AFFAIRS
STUDENT MEMBER OF
ALLOCATIONS COMMITTEE
Applications for membership on the Student Activity
Fee Allocations Recommendations Committee are
available in the office of Student Affairs, 201
Academic Building, and at the Information Desk in the
Tate Student Center. The committee, composed of
faculty, staff, and students, is responsible for
reviewing allocation requests from groups and
activities with campus wide programs and from any
club not directly related to a school or college.
Any currently enrolled student of sophomore level or
above with at least a 2.0 GPA may apply. Applications
must be returned to the Office of Student Affairs no
later than 5:00 P.M., Friday, March 12, 1993.
This information has been submitted by the Office of the
Vice President for Student Affairs