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WEDNESDAY
February 10,1999
Vol. 106, No. 99 | Athens, Georgia
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DEATH OF A KING
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death of King Hussein. RAGE 5
Activities to honor
Black History Month
By WILL KISER
The Red a Black
Although they are busy year
round, the University’s Office of
Minority Services wants to capitalize
on having the world’s attention dur
ing February.
To celebrate Black History
Month, the African-American
Cultural Center and the Minority
Services Program have scheduled a
series of speeches, movies and dis
cussion groups and other events.
Representatives from both the
AACC and MSP said campus stu
dent groups have a large impact on
their scheduling.
“A lot of programs were sponsored
by students," said Kimberly Butler-
Roberts, director of AACC.
“We sit down and decide on the
types of programs or get with stu
dent organizations and see what
they are planning,” said Vanessa
Williams, assistant director of
Minority Services. “We don’t want to
program on top of them." '
The question of why programs are
being scheduled now rather than any
other time in the year is being con
sidered by both groups.
“As far as I’m concerned, every
day is black history day," Williams
said.
The Minority Services Program at
the University is active year-round —
not just in February, Williams said.
“We provide cultural program
ming throughout the year,” Williams
said. “We are planning things on a
consistent basis.”
Butler-Roberts said the AACC
wants to use the attention while the
public is giving it.
“You can’t ignore it — people are
looking now. There is a keen aware
ness,” she said. “When you have the
audience’s attention, use it. Not that
we don’t schedule things year-
round.”
Erica Brantley, a senior from
» Feb. 11 Gospel at Colonus
Fine Arts building, 8 p.m.
Feb. 19 International Coffee Hour
Memorial Hall Ballroom, 11 a.m.
'jp Feb. 20 Step Show
A- Classic Center, 7 p.m.
^>) Feb. 21 Club Adinkra sponsored by Cribssa
407 Memorial Hall, 6 p.m.
fiS Feb. 25-27th Black Theater Ensemble -
"Amen Comer"
Morton Theater. $3 for Students
HHSTIMU I t>. K.L .
College Park attended the
Abeneefoo Kuo Honor Society's
Leadership Workshop Forum.
"It was very resourceful," Brantley
said. “They helped with business eti
quette, resumes, among other
things.”
Today at noon, the African-
American Cultural Center will spon
sor a free discussion led by professor
of communications Veronica
Duncan. Duncan will discuss
“Overcoming the Barriers to
Building Healthy African-American
Relationships" at Adinkra Hall,
Room 407 in Memorial Hall.
Class leaves a sting
Entomology students
learn ins and outs of
bees and beekeeping
By KRISTEN WYATT
The Red a Black
Frank Pridgen won’t go to class without
Benadryl in his pocket.
You wouldn’t, either, if you were allergic to
bees and had to come face-to-stinger with thou
sands of them once a week. For class credit.
Pridgen’s one of 15 students in Bees and
Beekeeping, an entomology class that teaches the
ins and outs of honeybee maintenance by giving
students their own colonies to raise.
Students hear lectures once a week on campus
from Keith Delaplane, a University honeybee spe
cialist. On Thursdays, the group heads out to the
University's horticulture farm in Watkinsville to
learn beekeeping first hand.
That's where Delaplane keeps 40 bee hives,
which look like stacks of boxes about 3 feet tall.
Each one holds 20,000 to 60,000 bees, depending
on the season — which means in the spring there
can be up to a quarter million bees on just a few
acres.
Last Thursday, half the class practiced identi
fying parts on dead bees while the other half
“suited up" with Delaplane to collect live bees for
an experiment.
"Put on your bee clothes," Delaplane called
out, and students wiggled into meshy helmets
and long-sleeved shirts. “Put on as much protec
tion as you want."
“We get about one sting a week," he confided
to a reporter.
Then the students stuffed burning pine straw
into metal boxes, “smokers," and waved them by
a hive.
"The smoke calms them down,” explained
Jamie Ellis, a junior from Warrenton who assists
the class. “We don’t know why it works, but we
don’t care."
“They can be great, or they can be snakes,”
Ellis said. “They get in moods. They do. Just like
people.”
After about 10 minutes of shaking bees into
two experiment boxes, Pridgen talked about why
he’s taking the beekeeping class — and what he
gets out of it.
“I'm a Japanese major, but I Just needed a
class, and this looked interesting,” said Pridgen, a
senior from Rising Fawn. “It's really cool. We’re
learning how to do all this ourselves. I’d recom
mend it for anyone."
Only one student in the class is majoring in
entomology. Most of the rest of the students took
it for fun.
The class, offered every other spring, requires
only Biology 1103 as a prerequisite. That’s why so
many students who aren’t science majors sign up,
Delaplane said.
“Most of them are from North Campus," he
said. “Lots of them think they don’t like science,
but they get really into beekeeping. This class
always fills up right away.”
Katie Stepp, a freshman from Stone Mountain,
said she found the class “just looking through the
bulletin,”
“I thought it looked cool,” she said. ‘T’ve
learned so much, and I’ll probably keep a colony
as a hobby later. Honeybees get a bad rap
because lots of aggressive stingers look like them,
but they’re really not bad. They’re cool.”
A Many of
the stu
dents in
Entomology
2100 take
the class
for fun and
to fulfill
science
require
ments.
The only
prerequi
site for
signing up
for Bees
and
Beekeeping
is Biology
1103.
Nominees
validated
for SGA
campaign
By FRANCIA McCORMACK
The Red a Black
Despite a few setbacks due to invalid petitions,
candidates running for the Student Government
Association elections were officially given the green
light Tuesday to begin campaigning.
The elections subcommittee and employees in
the Department of Student Activities have had
their hands full with a number of this year’s poten
tial candidates because of a few invalid names on
the petitions.
“One actually had “Ben Dover" on their peti
tion," said SGA Senator Chris Hoofnagle.
Since each name and social security number has
to be verified,
the increase in
SGA candi
dates this year
has caused a
few delays in
naming all the
candidates.
Some stu
dents have
been given
until Friday to
correctly fill
out their peti
tions, said Jennifer Martin, a candidate for vice
president.
Candidates got the rundown on what was
allowed and what was considered “dirty” campaign
ing tactics.
"Dirty campaigning, like tearing down signs, will
not be tolerated," said SGA President Brett
Newman. “You know what’s right and wrong and
what shouldn't go up."
The meeting covered what donations candidates
are allowed to accept and the punishment for illegal
campaigning and voting actions like block voting —
when one person will go down a list of names and
social security numbers rather than allowing each
student to vote for themselves.
New guidelines prohibit candidates from using
their own computers in campus hot spots to
increase votes and from bombarding ARCHES e-
mail accounts with advertisements.
SGA members warned those who plan on having
events at fraternity or sorority houses that they also
must consider whether the house belongs to the
University.
“If you have the owner or realtor’s permission,
then do anything you want," said Jeff Waters, chair
of the SGA elections subcommittee.
The candidates on the SGA president/vice presi
dent ticket are:
► Buck Levins, a sophomore from Perry, and
Jennifer Martin, a junior from Jackson, Miss.
>■ Tricia Page, a junior from Roswell, and Corey
Stem, a junior from Port Jefferson, NY.
► Danielle Metz, a junior from Brunswick, and
Brian Fink, a junior from Albany.
► Paul Killebrew, a sophomore from Nashville,
Tenn., and Amy Salley, a freshman from Savannah.
»■ Clay Anthony, a junior from Acworth, and
Stacey Godfrey, a junior from Ringgold.
>• J.T. Johnson, a junior from St. Simon’s Island
and Harris Henderson, a sophomore from Baton
Rouge, La.
► Vernon O. Darley, III, a sophomore from
Peachtree City, and Reza Grigorian, a freshman
from Alpharetta.
— Contributing: Amanda Brannon,
Tara McCormick
★★★★★
Softball team looks for improvement
By KATIE MCLENNAN
The Red * Buck
With a trio of stellar seniors
and a promising freshman class,
softball head coach Alleen
Hawkins hopes to create yet
another women’s sports power
house at the University.
In only their third year of exis
tence, the Bulldogs will look to
improve upon last year's 34-26
record with a team Hawkins said
is "a thousand times better than
we were last year."
Georgia has finished each of
its first two seasons in fourth
place in the SEC East division,
making the SEC tournament as
the eighth seed last year.
This season. Georgia was
again picked to finish fourth, but
Hawkins claims no new informa
tion or imagination was used in
the rankings and Instead pre
dicts her team will finish second
behind Tennessee.
The three seniors, All-America
candidate and first baseman
Jessi Cerra, third baseman
Chrissy Gavin and pitcher
Rhonda Coffelt will anchor a
team that could possibly start
four freshman and has a brutal
early season schedule.
The Dogs leave Thursday for
the Fiesta Bowl tournament in
Tempe, Ariz., where they will face
some of the top teams in the
country, including No. 13 Long
Beach State and tournament
host No. 18 Arizona State.
“It will be a very difficult
opener for us, but it’s show-up
time," said Hawkins, whose
team’s first home game is Feb. 20
against Georgia Southern. "We
are past the time where we’re
saying we’re going to be good;
it's time to be good now.”
The coaching staff hasn’t yet
nailed down a starting lineup
and battles between the talent
ed freshmen and experienced
veterans are expected to go
down to the wire. Since the team
has considerable depth, Hawkins
said the Is a tough decision and
13 of the 18 players on the roster
will compete for playing time.
An underlying strength of this
team also will be the leadership
the three seniors provide.
“They’re three of the most tal
ented players in the SEC,”
Hawkins said. "The seniors are
going to help the coaches bring
the team together."
Freshmen Sabrina Pimentel,
Alyssa Mauro, Monique Rhoden
and Emily Lauer will look to
make an immediate impact.
“I anticipate I'm going to be a
power hitter and hit in the mid
dle of the lineup," Lauer said.
“My job is to pretty much drive
in runs.”
In addition to an improved
offensive lineup, speedy baserun-
ners and a defensively sound
Infield, the pitching of junior ace
Natalie Price (22-16, 2.01 ERA)
and Rhonda Coffelt (12-10, 1.95)
make the Bulldogs a tough team
to beat. Hawkins says the team
will have to “grow up real quick,"
but the future looks bright for
the Dogs.
“If you come out to see us you
will not be disappointed, and you
will want to come back,"
Hawkins said.
A Left to right, Monique Rhoden, a freshmen from Miami,
Alyssa Mauro, a freshmen from Mission Viejo, Calif, and
Sabrina Pimemtei, a freshman from Riverside, Calif., sign
autographs at Saturday’s “Meet the Team” reception.
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