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■ NATION
Baltimore (AP): Key figure in cheating scandal cleared
The U.S. Naval Academy cleared the central figure in its biggest cheat
ing scandal in two decades after a key witness withdrew his statement,
an academy spokesman said Wednesday. Six other midshipmen, includ
ing the witness, were convicted of honor violations in March and face
expulsion. The witness, Midshipman 2nd Class Rodney Walker, 23, of
Atlanta, said he told the board his statement detailing how the exam
was obtained was made under duress and should not be considered.
Walker told The (Baltimore) Sun he was acting on the advice of a Navy
lawyer. In a sworn statement to naval investigators, Walker admitted
he got the fall-semester final exam for Electrical Engineering 311 from
Midshipman 2nd Class Christopher Rounds and sold copies to four
friends in December. “I wasn’t advised of my rights, and I believed that
I could not leave on my own free will," he said. “By the time I got the
statement, I just started signing, because I wanted to get out of there.”
But Cmdr. Mike John, an academy spokesman, said Walker voluntarily
told investigators his version of the events. “He made his statements
freely, he signed them, he swore to them and he even made several
trips on his own to add additional information," he said. “I hardly think
these are the actions of someone who was coerced.”
Los Angeles (AP): Clinton says higher taxes necessary
President Clinton said Tuesday that higher taxes were an unpopular
but necessary ingredient of his economic recipe because of huge deficits
wrought by the Republican “free lunch crowd” that preceded him.
Clinton made the sharp attack on budget policies of the Reagan and
Bush administrations as he tried to sell his economic plan as a cure for
recession-weary California. Speaking at Los Angeles Valley College be
fore visiting the city’s riot-scarred South Central section, Clinton was
outlining his economic views when a heckler screamed, “No new taxes.”
“We tried it your way for 12 years and look what it got us.” Clinton
quickly retorted. “The no-new-taxes crowd had it their way for 12
years. ... The free lunch crowd has had its chance. I’m telling you there
is no free lunch out there. So we will just have to decide if we are going
to take a different course.” In Washington, Vice President A1 Gore ap
peared with business leaders to demonstrate corporate support for the
package, while other administration officials sought to calm a revolt by
conservative House Democrats who want deeper spending cuts.
Republican Senate leader Bob Dole was unfazed by the campaign, char
acterizing Clinton’s trip as “heading west while his poll numbers go
south.”
Orlando, Fla. (AP): Chemicals and food prevent cancer
Soybeans, lavender oil and orange peel might sound like the makings of
a dubious dining experience, but they are high on a list of foods and vi
tamins being explored as ways to prevent cancer. An emerging new
field called chemoprevention is looking for ways to stop cancer by side
tracking the progression of cells from normal to malignant — a process
that can take decades after exposure to a cancer-causing substance.
Experts have long noticed that people who eat lots of fruits and vegeta
bles that are rich in vitamins and other nutrients have a lower risk of
cancer. Now, they are trying to isolate the cancer-preventing chemicals
in these foods to make medicines to keep people healthy. Reports on
several of these cancer-preventing strategies were presented
Wednesday at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer
Research. “These are not ready to put on everyone’s breakfast table
yet,” said Dr. Michael Spom of the National Cancer Institute. “But this
has gone from a dream and a fantasy to reality. It’s very exciting.”
While experts agree that food is usually the best way to get essential
nutrients, highly concentrated supplements may be necessary to short-
circuit cancer once damage occurs.
■ WORLD
Rome (AP): Special agents capture another Mafia boss
Special agents burst into a farmhouse at dawn Tuesday as the reputed
No. 2 Mafia boss slept — his pistol on the night table beside him —
and arrested him. The capture of Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola, after
11 years as a fugitive, was the latest in a series of victories against the
mob, prompted by the bombing deaths of two Mafia prosecutors last
year. Authorities began closing in on Santapaola two years ago, and
pinpointed him the previous night, said Antonio Manganelli, the com
mander of the special squad that made the arrest. He was traced to a
farmhouse in Mazzarrone, in the Catania area of Sicily. Police said
Santapaola, who had been asleep next to his wife, did not try for his
gun and gave up calmly. “All things have to end,” an investigator quot
ed him as telling the arresting officers. Since the murders of prosecu
tors Giovanni Falcone in May 1992, and Paolo Borsellino in July, police
have picked^up Salvatore “Toto” Riina, the Mafia’s “boss of bosses;” the'
No. 3 boss, Giuseppe Madonia; a few leading money-launderers; and
hundreds of lesser figures.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• The Christian Science
Organization meets today at 6
p.m. in Tate Center room 145. All
members of the university com
munity are invited to attend and
participate. For more information,
call Jim at 542-1922.
• The South’s oldest debating so
ciety, the Demosthenian Society,
meets today at 7 p.m. for an
evening of discussion and debate
at the Demosthenian Hall, be
tween the Academic Building and
the Chapel. Visitors are welcome
and encouraged to participate.
• Athens Area Habitat for
Humanity meets today at 7:30
p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian
Church, 1065 Gaines School
Road. All are welcome. For more
information, call 208-1001.
Announcements
• The History Department and
Phi Alpha Theta are having a
book sale today and Friday from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. in LeConte Hall,
second floor.
• Mary Hood, visiting writer-in
residence in the English depart
ment, is giving a reading at a
recognition ceremony for faculty
and students today at 4 p.m. in
the University Chapel. The public
is invited. For more information,
call 542-9266.
• An Academic Assistance
Writing Workshop, Audience
Awareness: Writing With Your
Reader in Mind, is today from 4
to 5 p.m. in Journalism room
404A. Dr. Molly Moran will teach
students how to gear their writ
ing to their prospective audience.
• Sigma Delta Tau is having Ice
Cream Scoop today from 3:30 to 6
.m. at the SDT house, 525
loomfield St. The cost is $1 for
all-you-can-eat ice cream and
ticket* are available at the door.
For more information, call 543-
1733.
• There is a Doctoral Solo Recital
with Elizabeth Jobson on violin
today at 12:10 p.m. in the
University Chapel. All are wel
come.
• There is a Doctoral Solo Recital
with Jill Schneider on organ to
day at 8 p.m. at First Baptist
Church.
• Delta Gamma is having Anchor
Splash, a swim meet to aid Sight
Conservation and Aid to the
Blind, today at Legion Pool. For
more information, call 543-0010.
• Registration for the 10th
Annual Theta Tennis Classic is at
the Tate Center today through
Wednesday, May 26. The tourna
ment is Friday, May 28-Sunday,
May 30. Each event costs $10 and
will benefit CASA.
• Georgia Recruitment Team co
ordinator applications are avail
able in Academic Building room
114 until May 21.
Upcoming
• Muscular Dystrophy Support
Group will meet on Friday at 7
p.m. at Campus View Church of
Christ, 1360 S. Lumpkin St. We
meet every third Friday of the
month at 7 p.m. F^r more infor
mation, call Annie at 783-5815.
• The mathematics department
will hold its annual Carl F.
Kossack Calculus Competition on
Saturday. The exam is open to
undergraduates who are taking or
have recently taken calculus at
UGA. For more information or to
sign up, go to the Graduate
Studies Building room 452.
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Creswell residents caught posting anti-black unity signs
By TRACIE POWELL
Staff Writer
Four University students, .in
cluding a University housing em
ployee, were caught hanging unau
thorized anti-black-unity day signs
in Creswell Hall early Wednesday
morning.
Pashia, a freshman from
Atlanta, said she was leaving a
friend’s room on the eighth floor of
Creswell Hall when she saw three
males and one female hanging the
signs, according to a University
housing incident report filed
Wednesday with housing officials.
Pashia didn’t want to use her full
name because she feared retribu
tion.
A housing official, who didn’t
want to be identified, said the signs
were hung by students who were
upset over Wednesday’s Black
Unity Day.
The signs read: “We share in
their ‘struggle’... / We share in the
bias and discrimination/ So why not
share in their stupidity/ White
Unity Day/ May 19,1993.”
The report names two of the stu
dents as Annette Nicole Watkins
and John Yarber. The other two
weren’t named in the report, and
housing officials refused to identify
them. All four were written up for
hanging unauthorized signs in un
designated areas of the residence
hall.
The report states that Yarber, a
Creswell Hall rover, was escorting
the other three students around the
hall and helping them hang the
signs between midnight and 1:15
a.m. Rovers are hired to ensure the
security of housing residents.
Yarber denied the allegations in
a telephone interview Wednesday
evening.
“I don’t know anything about it,”
Yarber said. “I was not there, and I
only know what I heard this after
noon.”
Watkins didn’t return repeated
phone calls.
“TTiey were very sarcastic to me
when I confronted them and asked
them why they were hanging the
signs,” Pashia said in an interview
Wednesday.
Pashia said she awakened her
CLASS Advocate, a housing staff
member who monitors race rela
tions and concerns of black students
in University housing. When she ar
rived at the CA’s door, there was a
sign posted above his peep hole, she
said.
Pashia said Yarber and the fe
male student ran when the CA con
fronted them.
Pam Schreiber, assistant direc
tor of housing, said housing officials
were talking with students who
hung the signs.
“I think it’s a situation where
students are expressing some frus
tration,” Schreiber said. “The issue
is not the content of the signs, but
how they went about expressing the
content. Hanging signs without per
mission in areas where they were
not supposed to be hung was an in
appropriate fashion of expressing
their views.”
Schreiber said students will be
punished for hanging signs in unau
thorized areas and not for the signs’
content. She also said housing offi
cials plan to set up a program
where students can communicate
their views more positively.
How now, hot cow?
Professors research effects
of hot weather on dairy cows
Lane Ely finds ways to alleviate heat stress among cows.
By JASON ROCKFELD
Contributing Writer
Two University professors are
studying how heat affects cows, to
help improve the South’s dairy in
dustry.
Lane Ely, a professor in dairy
sciences, is attempting to see if dif
ferent temperatures around the
state hinder or enhance milk pro
duction and food efficiency.
“Basically we’ve been utilizing
the natural environment to tTy to
evaluate the effects of heat stress
on animals by comparing trial runs
in the fall versus the same trial
runs in the summertime,” Ely said.
Heat stress is a condition com
mon in animals that aren’t able to
regulate their body temperature in
hot and humid weather. It impedes
a cow’s ability to function normally
and poses a major problem for
dairy farmers.
“In south Georgia where temper
atures reach 90 to 95 degrees in the
day and cool down to 75 degrees at
night, it’s not unusual for cows to
be under heat stress for four or five
months during the summertime,”
Ely said. “Partly due to the heat
stress, the South hasn’t developed
as much a dairy industry, as say,
the Midwest has."
Cows consume a tremendous
amount of feed that, when digested,
produces metabolic heat.
Generally in normal or cooler
temperatures, a cow can expel the
heat into the environment and
away from its body. But when the
surrounding temperatures are the
same temperature or warmer than
the cow’s body, it’s unable to get rid
of the extra heat.
When the high temperatures
stress the cow, it decreases its in
take of food, which results in the
cow maintaining fewer nutrients
and producing less milk. These cir
cumstances tend to lower the ani
mal’s immune system, making the
cow more susceptible to diseases.
“Research has shown that heat
stress negatively affects animals,
especially the dairy cow, which is
very susceptible to heat stress," Ely
said.
Research over the years has
shown that if dairy farmers can al
leviate heat stress, modify the envi
ronment or change the diet of the
animal, the dairy cow will increase
its intake, allowing for milk produc
tion to return, Ely said.
“We’ve built bams, and the ani
mals have shade over the feed
bunks and sprinklers to control the
environment in the bam,” Ely said.
Joe West, an associate professor
at one of the University’s experi
ment stations, said he sees heat
stress as a major setback to the
South but feels research is helping
solve this problem.
“As we learn more and more
about managing [heat stress], I
think you’re going to see us being
able to control it,” West said. “But
there’s a cost there. Any time you
build these expensive bams, put in
fans and sprinklers, there are defi
nitely some costs there, so it’s got to
pay.”
West, a nutritionist at the
University’s Coastal Plain
Experimental Station in Tifton, is
trying to find ways to get the cows
to eat more feed or be more efficient
and at the same time lower their
body temperature in hot weather.
Researchers are experimenting
with different possibilities to
achieve these goals, such as in
creasing the cows’ intake of fat to
expand their energy levels. Some
researchers have also discovered a
type of “Gatorade” for cows, which
acts almost the same way the drink
does for athletes, by optimizing the
cows’ electrolyte balance.
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