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The Red and Black • Wednesday, May 1, 1996 • 3
Ostrich found dead, University police suspect fowl play
By MARY SUE KOPECKO
Staff Writer
Gwendolyn, a 4-year-old, 6.5
feet tall, 250-pound female os
trich, was found laying motion
less Sunday at 4 p.m. by an em
ployee of the Ratite Research
Center The center, located on
South Milledge Avenue, houses
the ostriches in 60 feet by 60 feet
pens with six feet fences sur
rounding them.
“The employee was gathering
eggs Sunday morning,” said Fred
Smith, agricultural specialist for
the University. “In the morning,
the ostrich was fine. When he
came back, the ostrich was lay
ing down, and the employee saw
blood around the ostrich’s eye."
Smith said 30 to 60 minutes
may have passed between the
first time the employee saw
Gwendolyn and when the em
ployee found her dead.
‘Whoever did this has
to be a mean person.’
- Fred Smith
Agricultural specialist
The damage could have been
done before that time, Smith
said.
“When you stand outside of
the pens, you don’t see all the de
tails," he said. “He might not
have noticed until he was right
up on the ostrich."
Gwendolyn and her mate
Alfonzo were donated to the cen
ter over a year ago by a breeder
in Tennessee. That breeder orig
inally paid $45,000 for the pair.
An autopsy revealed that the
skull of the bird had been
crushed with a hard, blunt ob
ject, Smith said.
“The ostrich suffered a good
blow to the head," said Dr.
Stanley Kleven, head of the
Department of Avian Medicine.
At the present time, some
members of the department are
speculating the cause of death.
“Maybe someone was trying to
steal an (ostrich] egg and
Gwendolyn charged at him,”
Smith said. “The ostriches are
gentle, but very territorial. If
they’re mad, nothing will stop
them.”
The center uses the ostriches
for research and information
about the hatchability and fertil-
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Alfonzo is one of the University ostriches housed at the Ratite
Research Center, where his mate was found dead Sunday.
ity of the birds.
The center’s goal is to have 10
pairs of ostriches to study, but
with Gwendolyn gone, a new fe
male is needed.
“We eventually plan to pull
another hen (female ostrich) over
to take her place," Smith said.
University Police have no sus
pects at this time, said Lt. Rod
Platt of University Police.
“Somebody did this," Smith
said. “Whoever did this has to be
a mean person. I say this because
the ostriches are gentle. You can
walk up to the pen, and her mate
will come up and playfully peck
at your hands."
“We would greatly appreciate
any help the students could pro
vide,” he said. Anyone with in
formation on Gwendolyn’s death
should call University Police at
542-2200.
Need a job? Try a service organization
By HOLLY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Going to college isn’t the only way to gain an
education. Students looking for a break from
the standard higher institutions of learning can
earn experience and money for college through
a variety of service organizations.
We’ve previewed four organizations that of
fer learning experiences.
• Serve Across America is a faith-based service
corps that links potential volunteers with ser
vice organizations. Students can serve almost
anywhere in the country, doing just about any
type of service work.
“We really are a bridge between those who
want to volunteer and those organizations that
need people," said Andrew Newsom, director of
Serve Across America.
Participants in this program live and work
in three different communities for four to six
months each, for a total of fourteen months of
full-time service. Volunteers can serve in a va
riety of places and services, from Habitat for
Humanity here in Atlanta to one of the
Covenant Houses in Texas. Volunteers receive
a living allowance from the different organiza
tions.
The AmeriCorps National Service Network
also has programs to fit individual needs of vol
unteers across the country. AmeriCorps is di
vided into three major programs: AmeriCorps
VISTA, AmeriCorps NCCC and Teach for
America.
• Americorps VISTA (Volunteers In Service To
America) is a full-time, year-long program that
helps low-income communities get the services
they need. Members work in the areas of hu
man needs, education, public safety and the en
vironment.
“I think there is a great need among
‘Generation X’ members to find a place in soci
ety to do service work," said Bill Barrett, the
spokesman for Americorps. “It offers a time of
growth, service, and also looks good on a re
sume for jobs in the future."
•AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian
Community Corps) is a residential service pro
gram for people ages 18 to 24. AmeriCorps
NCCC combines aspects of military service,
such as leadership training and team building,
with aspects of civilian service. Members serve
in teams of ten to twelve in the areas of the en
vironment, education, human needs, public
safety and disaster relief.
Full-time members of either AmeriCorps
VISTA or AmeriCorps NCCC receive a modest
living allowance, limited health care and a post
service award of $4,725 to be used for college.
Part-time members receive $2,362.
“The education award is invaluable to those
who either need money for future college edu
cation, or for those who have graduated and are
trying to repay student loans," Barrett said.
• Teach for America is a national teacher cor
poration that employs teachers in all fields to
give children an equal opportunity for an edu
cation. The organization accepts applications in
the fall and then trains them in a five week
summer training session.
“Teach for America hires graduates with a
B.A., but it doesn’t have to be in education,"
said Christine Thelmo, communications direc
tor for Teach for America.
Participants are expected to fulfill a two year
commitment and are placed in cities across the
nation.
The assignments are random, and include
New York, Maryland, Texas, Louisiana and
parts of the Rio Grande among others.
Volunteers receive a living allowance.
“Participating in Teach for America is a won
derful way to make a difference and give back
to the community,” Thelmo said. “It will forev
er impact the way that they perceive the world."
For more information on Serve Across America,
contact Andrew Newsom at (404) 524-4455;
AmeriCorps VISTA or Americorps NCCC, call
1-800-942-2677; Teach for America, call 1-800-
832-1230.
HEARING
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her he loved her, but Shaheed
said he didn’t mean it in a ro
mantic way.
•Kristin Lindberg said Ross
repeatedly asked her to socialize
with him and interfered in her so
cial plans.
On cross-examination, none of
the witnesses testified to feeling
threatened or feared retaliation
when they resisted his alleged ad
vances.
Ralph Verrastro, who was di
rector of the School of Music, tes
tified that he met with Ross in
May 1990 to discuss faculty/stu
dent relations.
Verrastro said he told Ross he
needed to improve his rapport
with female students but didn’t
use the phrase sexual harass
ment. He suggested Ross seek
psychological counseling and Ross
agreed.
Bryndis Roberts, University
vice president of legal affairs, tes
tified she was made aware of com
plaints in 1991, but said that
Verrastro told her the situation
was in hand. Complaints contin
ued until April 1994, when she
met with a group of female stu
dents to learn the details of their
accusations.
Roberts will finish her testimo
ny at 8 a m. today in a conference
room at the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education.
Even though the University
had not finished presenting its
case, the defense was permitted to
call two witnesses who are unable
to testify today.
Patricia Loveday and Rachel
Horton, former students of Ross,
testified to his good character.
Horton discounted previous
claims of harassment and de
scribed Shaheed as “bitter be
cause she wasn’t the hot-shot vio
linist.”
The hearing panel comprises
three female and two male
University faculty members.
- Staff writer Charu
Kumaharia contributed to this
article.
Networks help productivity
“The Network is the Computer,"
says Sun Microsystems in their cor
porate motto, but never has this
been more true than today. The real
power of the computer comes from
its interaction and connectivity with
other computers.
The Internet has become the best
example of the need to network com
puters allowing them to share infor
mation with the world. Before the
Internet came into its own in the
last couple of years, networks were
not interconnected and productivity
suffered.
Networks draw their roots from
the mainframe. The mainframe was
so expensive since it carried out all
the processing that it was necessary
to share the machine. Thus, termi
nals can request processing from the
mainframe and then display the re
sults.
However, technology moved on.
PCs offered people their own proces
sor to accomplish tasks. As compa
nies adopted the PC proliferating
“sneakemets," systems of info ex
change on floppy disks that were
carried around the office.
The Local Area Network or LAN
grew as a way to share files and
hardware between a company. This
way people could share a printer or
another important device. This
helped companies communicate bet
ter internally and made better use of
the available computing resources.
Internal e-mail also became popular
as LANs made it possible.
Now, the Internet has connected
these LANs. Just as the stand
alone, non-networked PC became
obsolete because its usefulness was
limited, so has the stand-alone LAN
become a thing of the past.
For the greatest productivity
gains, a network must be able to
communicate with other networks.
For example, to cut the cost of
vast amounts of paperwork many
companies are turning to Electronic
Data Interchangi <EDI).
Bookkeeping and records of new in
ventory. as well as accounts payable
and supplier accounts can be settled
automatically, without the usual pa
perwork.
The flaw in Sun’s motto is that
the network is becoming more im
portant than the actual computer.
For example, if you are using
Netscape to browse the Web, does it
matter if Netscape is running on a
Windows PC or a Mac? Or, how
about accessing your MUSIC ac
count on the campus mainframe?
Networks are so vital that only a
minimal amount of work is done by
the client, (ie. your computer). This
opens the door for the Internet
Terminal/$500 PC/Network
Computer. If the world is becoming
more network-centric and accessible
by almost any type of computer,
then the role of the computer in
front of you must evolve.
These Network Computers, NCs,
will have an increasingly important
role as a cheap but qualified substi
tute for the common PC in some
business applications.
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