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■ STATE
Man asks for court order barring display of Georgia flag
ATLANTA - An Atlanta man filed suit in U.S. District Court Monday ask
ing an order barring the state of Georgia from flying its flag at public
buildings. The lawsuit by James Andrew Coleman, 36, names Gov. Zell
Miller and the state. It also seeks $10.5 billion in punitive damages plus
compensatory damages and other relief to be determined by the court.
Miller’s spokesman Rob Rickies said he could not comment on the suit un
til the governor’s staff has a chance to review it. The current Georgia flag
was created by the Legislature in 1954 as the federal government began
to push school desegregation. It includes the Confederate battle flag - the
familiar cross of stars on a field of red - beside a strip of blue containing
the state seal. TTie suit calls the flag offensive to the African-American
community. It was created when blacks “here in the state of Georgia were
not allowed to vote and were never represented fairly,” the suit says.
Displaying the flag violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting
Rights Act because the flag is a “symbol of discrimination, racism, preju
dice and bigotry,” the suit says.
-The Associated Press
m NATION
Doctor warns head-banging could lead to "uncool whip"
Brace yourselves, Beavis and Butt-head. We’ve got some news that’s a
pain in the neck. Head-banging to Motorhead on MTV can give you
whiplash, claims Dr. Marilyn Kassirer. (Whiplash is a neck injury.) “The
snapping motion of the head back and forth while dancing stretches the
neck muscles beyond their ordinary ability,” she explains. Of the head
banging eighth-graders Kassirer polled, 16 percent of the boys and 82
percent of the girls felt killer pains in their necks. More girls may get
whiplash because of the length of their hair. “Longer hair,” Kassirer ex
plains, “requires an extra whip of the head to keep the hair rotating.”
Bummer.
-The Associated Press
Group helps combat city's rodent problem by "rat fishing"
BALTIMORE - Chuck Ochtech knew exactly where he wanted to cast
his hook. “Just down the middle of the alley, near that water,” Ochtech
said early Sunday. Ochtech Was one of nearly 40 contestants who cast
hooks baited with bacon smeared with peanut butter, bits of hot dog or
raw steak down garbage-strewn alleys for the Yellow Rose Saloon’s sec
ond annual rat fishing contest. “Chuck, you catch it honey, and I’ll club
it,” said Ochtech’s wife, Shirley Difatta, a red aluminum baseball bat at
the ready. ‘'Look, look, look there goes one.” The, uh, anglers paid a $3
entrance fee, covering the cost of trophies and a donation to charity, to
cast their bait down alleys in the East Baltimore neighborhood. They
aimed for puddles that might attract rodents to drink, or particularly
pungent piles of household garbage. “We’re sportsmen,” said Ochtech,
who organized the first tournament last year after reading about the
city’s rat problem. “There’s a lot of technique to it.” No artificial lures,
trotlines, bells, whistles or firearms allowed. No stuffing rats with lead
or steel shot “or in any other manner in which to increase its weight.”
And no chumming. “There’s enough stuff in that alley that we don’t have
to chum,” Ochtech said.
-The Associated Press
U. of Maryland Medical School Completes Mummification
BALTIMORE - It’s a mummy, right down to the drying technique and
the linen wrappings. But this body has never been near Egypt and is
strictly a 20th-century project. “We are seeing a pretty good replica of
what the ancient embalmer would have seen 2,000 years ago,” said Bob
Brier, professor of ancient philosophy at C.W. Post University. Brier and
his partner, Dr. Ronald S. Wade, head of anatomical services at the
University of Maryland medical school, used as their subject a 76-year-
old local heart attack victim man who died last spnng and left his body
to science. The body, with its internal organs removed, spent 35 days
covered with 600 pounds of powdered natron, a naturally occurring salt
that Egyptian embalmers used to dry the bodies of pharoahs. When the
salt was shoveled away, the body had lost more than half its weight and
the skin was leathery brown. The body was then stufied with wood shav
ings to help keep its shape, and it was rubbed with oil. The process was
completed on June 25 when the mummy was wrapped from head to toe
in 100 yards of linen.
-The Associated Press
UGA THIS WEEK
Meetings
• The Women's Recovery
Group will meet at 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, July 6 in Room 142 of
the Tote Student Center. For
more information call 357-3485.
• The Warnell School of Forest
Resources will sponsor an
Environmental Law for
Foresters Conference, a focus
on wetlands management, water
auality and endangered species at
tne Georgia Center on Wednesday
and Thursday, July 6 and 7. For
more information, contact Joseph
Allen at 542-6638.
• The State Botanical Garden
will host Trees: Nature's Great
Providers, a workshop for chil
dren ages 8-10 on Wednesday,
July 6. Included will be a variety
of hands-on activities and games
to introduce children to native
trees and how they function. Call
542-6156 for ticket information.
• Athens 96, the planning com
mittee for the Olympics in
Athens, will meet Wednesday,
July 6 at 7:30 a.m. in the
Chamber of Commerce board
room.
Upcoming
• The College of Family and
Consumer Sciences will sponsor a
Comprehensive Child
Caregiver Workshop on
Thursday, July 7, at
the Georgia Center. Call 542-
1586 for more information.
• The language department of
the College of Education will
sponsor the Annual Conference
on Teaching the English
Language Arts on Thursday and
Friday, July 7-8 at the Georgia
Center. Contact Margaret
Caufield at 542-1585 for more in
formation.
• The State Botanical Garden
will host "A Geology Walk," The
July Garden Ramble, focusing
on geological features of the gar
dens on Saturday, July 9 at
9 a.m.. The event is free to the
public and will meet in the lower
parking lot. For more informa
tion, coll the Garden Education
Department at 542-6156.
• Family Day: A Hungarian
Folk Festival will be held at the
Georgia Museum of Art on
Saturday, July 9 from 10 a.m.
to noon. Featured will be story
telling, hands on art activities and
native folk music.
Announcements
• University offices will be closed
and classes canceled on
Independence Day Holiday,
Monday, July 4.
• The Georgia Outdoor
Recreation Program (GORP)
will sponsor Rapelling,
Backpacking, Whitewater Rafting,
and Fly Fishing Instruction dur
ing the first two weeks in July.
Participants should sign up in the
Rec. Sports Office, Room 229,
Memorial Hall. Call 542-5060 for
more information
• "Come Into My Garden/' wa-
tercolor paintings by Judy Bolton
Jarrett, will be on display at the
State Botanical Garden through
July 31.
• The art exhibit, "Community
Collection: Connecting
Georgians with Variant
Disabilities," will be at the
Georgia Center through July 15.
• Baroque Goldsmiths' and
Jewlers' Art from Hungary will
be on display at the Georgia
Museum of Art through July 24.
• 'The Jimbo & Larry Show"
an exhibition featuring the sculp
ture of Jim Buonaccorsi and the
mixed-media constructions of
Larry Hopewell will run through
July 24 at the Thompson Gallery
on Thomas Street.
• Charles Hinman: The
Chimera Series, Works from
Georgia" will be on exhibit at the
Georgia Museum of Art through
July 31.
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Local tattooists, fortunetellers may soon be legitimat
By MICHAEL CASS
Staff Writer
Tattooists and fortunetellers
soon will be able to charge for their
services legally if the Athens-Clarke
County Commission repeals two lo
cal ordinances, as it has indicated it
will do next week.
The commission is likely to re
scind the ordinances Tuesday,
clearing the way for all body artists
and fortunetellers to sell their
wares without fear of punishment,
according to several officials.
Businesses that opened prior to pas
sage of the ordinances, such as
Midnight Iguana Tattooing, already
operate legally.
Tattooist Savic Enn said he is
thrilled he will no longer have to op
erate underground.
“My art doesn’t belong in some
back alley," said Enn, who said he
usually charges at least $50 for a
tattoo. “It’s something to rejoice in.
Great body art is a great thing. To
pay taxes and be inspected by the
health department, that’s all I ask.”
At an agenda-setting session
June 21, the commission put the re
peals of the ordinances against tat
tooing and fortunetelling on a con
sent agenda, meaning no commis
sioner was opposed to the repeals.
But the items could be removed
from the agenda at the request of
the unified government’s chief elect
ed officer or any of the 10 commis
sioners.
‘These were obsolete ordinances
carried over from the past govern
ment because there was no time to
clear them up," said Athens-Clarke
CEO Gwen O’Looney.
Commissioner John Barrow said
O’Looney deserves much of the
credit for the move to repeal the or
dinances. The laws are no longer
necessary, he said.
“The state legislation [regarding
tattooing] just now enacted is better
than the local ordinance, which was
crude and somewhat old-fashioned,”
Barrow said. “As for fortunetelling,
we felt the decision was best left to
the people who want to pay for it.”
Legislation passed during the
1994 session of the Georgia General
Assembly allows for regulation of
tattooing by local health depart
ments and requires that tattooists
obtain a general business license to
operate for profit.
Tracy Henderson, better known
as Madame Rue to fans of her tarot-
Fortuneteller Tracy Henderson’s
business may soon be legalized.
card readings and “metaphysical
gifts,” said she will advertise heavi
ly if the ordinances are repealed.
“When this thing is over, we will
have a blitz.” said Henderson, who
added that “tons of people” read for
tunes in Athens. “I’m going to start
advertising like will t»jain."
Henderson saio s»he gave six to
10 readings a day at prices ranging
from $15 to $45 before undercover
police officers began frequenting!
store and looking for evidence I
she was charging for her servil
She said she was stunned that|
was under investigation for prai
ing her craft.
“Astrology, illegal? I mean, tlL
about it,” she said. “It’s in evl
newspaper across the country. T
law is too broad, and it’s wrong J
old way.”
Several students said they t
port the commission’s plans to I
peal the laws that kept Hendersl
Enn and others from legally makj
money for their work.
“Neither service means muchl
me personally,” said Dina ElmogJ
a graduate student in landscape!
chitecture. “But I don’t understal
(the ordinances). It seems there «
equally questionable activities til
people pay for. These are not real
harmful to society.”
“You have a basic right to |
what you want to your body,” sa
Stephanie Clifton, a junior phot<u
raphy major who displays on o|
ankle a tattoo of a Greek key stl
rounding a Minoan motif. “I’m vel
proud of my tattoo. I plan on gettiil
another one. They’re addictive, ij
kind of like a natural high.”
Student facing drug charge
awaits Judiciary decision
By STACEE DANIEL
Staff Writer
It started as a fight over a
woman and escalated into a drug
charge, and now Clarence Hines is
waiting for a decision from the
Student Judiciary.
Hines, a senior from East
Point, was arrested by University
police on May 16 and charged
with disorderly conduct and pos
session of illegal substances. He
appeared before the Student
Judiciary in an administrative
hearing on Tuesday.
Reginald Davenport, a senior
from Roswell, testified he fought
with Hines on May 16 because
Hines was disrespectful to him.
Davenport’s girlfriend had pre
viously been acquainted with
Hines and the two men had not
been getting along for several
months as a result of her prior re
lationship to Hines, Davenport
said.
After Hines’ arrest on disorder
ly conduct charges, the violation
was compounded with the alco
hol/drug charge when six bags of
marijuana were found in his back
pack by University police.
“He was handcuffed and in the
back of the car and he wanted me
to get his backpack,” University
Police Officer Cindy Stevenson
testified. “I opened the backpack
to check for weapons and saw that
a bag of the leafy green substance
was on top of his books.”
Also found in the backpack and
admitted as evidence were a 10-
dollar bill, a mini-scale and Hines’
beeper.
Hines was represented by
Athens attorney Mark Wiggins
and did not testify at the hearing.
Davenport testified that he met
Hines his freshman year and had
purchased marijuana from him at
least 10 times. Davenport testified
that Hines was known on campus
as a marijuana dealer.
“His status (as a dealer) had
been improving,” Davenport said
during the hearing, “I’ve been at
parties where it wouldn’t start un
til he got there.”
However, Hines’ lawyer
Wiggins attempted to rebut
Davenport’s testimony by ques
tioning his motivations.
“I think all of the testimony
we’ve had to endure from Mr.
Davenport has not been supported
by anything,” Wiggins said. “It’s
been stirred only by his jealousy.”
ACOG sets Olympic soccer
price; will students pay?
By LEAH BALL
Staff Writer
Students used to paying $2 to
attend an American football game
in Sanford Stadium may be
reluctant to pay the hefty sum it
will cost to see Olympic football in
Athens.
Ticket prices for Olympic
soccer matches in Athens will
range from $25 for an upper-level
seat at an intermediate match to
$125 for the best seat at a final
game.
Richard Hudson, University
liaison to the Atlanta Committee
for the Olympic Games, said the
ticket prices are reasonable
because they are consistent with
those of the 1984 Summer
Olympics in Los Angeles.
However, ’84 ticket prices may
have been too high, as
approximately 1.2 million Los
Angeles Olympic tickets were
never sold.
Hudson said he believes tickets
will sell well among students, but
he wasn’t so optimistic about the
chance that students will receive
special benefits.
“I doubt they will reserve
tickets for students,” Hudson said.
“Based on the things Billy Payne I
(head of ACOG) hafe said, tickets I
will be the same price for a I
student or a head of a|
corporation.”
Several University students I
said some of the prices are just too |
high.
Seth Shanahan, a freshman I
from Atlanta, said,“It’s just so I
much money. It all depends on if I
you’re interested in soccer, which V
I’m really not. I'd pay $25, but not I
$125.”
Senior Jerry McGahagin of I
Warner-Robbins also said he’d [
consider getting “some nosebleed
seats” but wouldn’t pay for the
more expensive tickets. I
Miina Shukair, a sophomore
from Athens, said, “I wouldn’t I
even pay $50 to see the Georgia
Bulldogs, so I definitely wouldn’t
pay $50 to see a soccer game!”
For those students willing to I
buy one of the 2.49 million soccer I
tickets available, the mail-order I
purchasing process begins next I
spring. All unsold tickets will be I
sold at the Games.
Other cities are hosting I
Olympic soccer matches, but
Athens is the only city hosting a
final Olympic match.
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