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A glarwe at the morning’s news and the day ahead
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NASA's probe eavesdrops on Red Planet
PASADENA, Calif. — A NASA spacecraft set to land on Mars
next month will attempt for the first time to capture the sounds of
the Red Planet — using a $15 microphone connected to a chip
commonly found in talking toys and telephones.
Unlike other instruments aboard the $165 million Mars Polar
Lander, the Mars Microphone is privately funded and has no clear
ly defined scientific mission
Its purpose is simply to capture the planet’s noises, whether
they be the whoosh of a dust devil, the crackle of lightning or the
Whir of sand blowing through the thin atmosphere. Dead silence is
another possibility.
Sponsors believe the 10-second sound bites it can record will
fbrther fUel the public's interest in an alien world that for years
has been fodder for science fiction — and serve as a tool to teach
the physics of sound.
“This is going to be another way of getting another sense on
Mars — and a sense of Mars," said Louis Friedman, executive
director of the Planetary Society, a private group that spent less
(han $50,000 on the entire microphone project.
Attendance is low for
Atlanta’s panda exhibit
ATLANTA - Zoo Atlanta
officials expected long lines and
packed parking lots Saturday,
estimating that perhaps 15,000
people would come to see the
giant pandas on the first day of
the new exhibit.
Instead, there was almost no
wait Saturday morning to see
-the black-and-white, bamboo-
eating bears from Beijing. Zoo
-officials estimated Saturday’s
attendance was closer to 6,000.
“It totally was great. They’re
beautiful animals," said
Johanna Yarbrough of Atlanta.
"And the crowds were not that
bad. We didn’t have any prob
lem waiting in line.”
Neither did any of the other
Visitors. Zoo membership
supervisor Carmen Harrison
said some people were scared
off by news reports of huge
crowds. Other people didn’t
come out because of the light
rain, she said.
Tiger Woods carries U.S.
team to World Cup title
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia
— The United States recap
tured the World Cup on
Sunday, with Tiger Woods
shooting the best total score in
tournament history and the
Americans beating Spain by
five strokes.
Woods' 21-under-par 263
added to Mark O'Meara’s 282
sent the United States past
Spain 545 to 550.
O’Meara managed only a 6-
over 77 Sunday but Woods
made up for that with a 65, and
the United States took the
$400,000 team prize. Spain’s
Miguel Angel Martin shot 68 for
273, and Santiago Luna
slumped to a 72 for 277.
"Tiger rose to the occasion,"
O’Meara said. "He met the
challenge."
Woods won $100,000 for best
individual score, his fifth per
sonal triumph in his last six
tournaments and ninth in 13. It
was his 13th victory in a row in
tournaments in which he has
led after 54 holes.
His 263 total beat the 265 set
by Fred Couples in the 1994
World Cup, although Couples
was 23 under on the par-72
course jn Puerto Rico.
Woods finished nine shots
ahead of New Zealand’s Frank
Nobilo, the largest victory mar
gin for the individual title. Sam
Snead set the previous record
of eight strokes in the 1961
World Cup.
Woods and O'Meara started
the final round with a seven-
shot lead over Spain thanks to
Woods' course record-tying 63
Saturday.
"It’s just awesome,” said
O'Meara. "It’s only going to get
better for Tiger Woods.”
Four busloads of Penn
State students crash
WHITE HAVEN, P». - Four
buses packed with Penn State
University students crashed in
thick feg early Sunday, killing
at least one student and a bus
driver and injuring 106 people,
authorities said.
The buses were among six
carrying 280 students home
from a shopping trip to New
York, university spokesman Bill
Mahon said.
Three of the buses traveling
together on Interstate 80
apparently slammed into each
other and a fourth hit a guard
rail, authonties said. A car and
a pickup truck were also
involved in the 1 a m. wreck,
police said.
Four hospitals treated the
most seriously injured. Various
churches in White Haven took
in those with less serious
injuries.
"We offer our condolences to
the families of the deceased
and want to do everything pos
sible to assist the other stu
dents who made this trip,"
University President Graham
B. Spanier said.
Charlie Brown’s creator
battles colon cancer
SANTA ROSA, Calif. —
“Peanuts” creator Charles M.
Schulz is battling colon cancer,
the Santa Rosa Press
Democrat reported Sunday.
The cancer was discovered
Tuesday, when Schulz was
rushed to Santa Rosa
Memorial Hospital to clear a
blocked abdominal artery, the
artist's wife, Jean Schulz, told
the newspaper.
His treatment will begin
once doctors decide on the
best course for attacking the
disease, she said.
The future is uncertain for
“Peanuts," which is distributed
to 2,600 newspapers in 75 coun
tries and is the basis of a fran
chise that collects $1 billion per
year.
But new strips chronicling
the friendships and foibles of
Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy,
Linus and Woodstock will con
tinue to appear at least
through Jan. 1, 2000, because
Schulz works more than five
weeks ahead of publication.
— Associated Press
UGA Today
MEETINGS
► Psychology Club, general
Jneeling, 6 p.m., Journalism Building Room
■605. Information: (leach.psy.uga.edu.psych-
club)
• > Alpha Phi Alpha, speaker lec
ture. 6:00 p.m., Tale Student Center Room
1142. Speaker: Hilton Young. Information:
•316-2387
► Students for a Free Tibet,
Jjeneral meeting, 8 p.m., Blue Sky base
ment Information: 583-1904.
\ ► UNICEF, weekly meeting,
'Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Tate Student Center
fcoom 143. Information: 357-3387.
■ ► Pagan Student
Association, weekly meeting, Tuesday,
8 p.m.. Memorial Hall Room 102.
Jntormation (paganOwwwuga.edu)
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► Worldwide Dtedptofthip
Association, weekly meeting, Tuesday.
6 p.m., Pharmacy Building Room 149.
Information: 759-2176.
•
; > Amnesty International,
weakly meeting. Tuesday. 7 p.m., Tate
Student Center Room 145. Information 357-
11307.
>■ Caribbean Student
Association, general meeting,
Thursday, 6 p.m., Tate Student Center Room
137. Information: 357-2833.
>- Phi Kappa Literary Society,
debate and public speaking, Thursday, 7
p.m., Phi Kappa Hall. Information: 227-8922.
► Italian Circle, weekly conversa
tion group. Thursday, 5 p.m., Globe.
Information: 542-3139.
Announcements
► Junior League Grants,
accepting applications from non-profit orga
nizations tor grants from $1,000 to $6,000
Applications are available al the Tiylor-
Grady House and must be submitted today.
Information: 549-8688
► Open Dance Session, spon
sored by the Ballroom Dance Club, 6:30
p.m., Jittery Joe's on Prince Avenue.
Information: 549-2522.
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ing to space available.
Legal Affairs has new director
Judge says he shares
president’s view on
affirmative action
By MIRANDA MANGUM
The Rso a Black
University President Michael
Adams has appointed Judge
Stephen Shewmaker as the new
executive director of Legal
Affairs.
Shewmaker will take over the
position Jan. 1. Jere Morehead,
now the director of the Honors
Program, has held it since March
1998.
"The Office of Legal Affairs
provides critical legal services for
the University community,"
Morehead said
in a written
statement.
“The appoint
ment of a per
manent execu
tive director
will serve the
University
well, particu
larly in light of
our continuing
litigation in
the area of
affirmative action.”
Shewmaker has served as a
circuit court judge for the 50th
Judicial Circuit in Kentucky since
1983.
“I considered this to be a
chance of a professional lifetime
to change directions and be
SHEWMAKER
involved in the life of the
University of Georgia,"
Shewmaker said.
“I have known Steve
Shewmaker for many years and
believe he will be a significant
addition to the University legal
community,” Adams said in the
same statement. “He brought
more experience to this position
than anyone else."
More than 90 candidates
applied for the position, but
Adams said the time Shewmaker
has spent on the bench will be
helpful as the University moves
through affirmative action issues.
Shewmaker said he shares
Adams' view on affirmative
action at the University.
“I agree with the stance on
admissions, both personally and
legally," Shewmaker said in a
statement.
Shewmaker served as circuit
judge for the past 16 years until
earlier this month, when he lost
his re-election campaign.
He received his law degree
from the University of Kentucky
in 1974 and has practiced private
ly as well served as an assistant
U S. attorney.
Shewmaker said he is a good
fit for the position and is looking
forward to working with lawyers
and judges in Georgia.
"I have followed the University
of Georgia closely over the past
few years," Shewmaker said. “I
look forward to being a part of
the team to maintain the positive
momentum of a nationally recog
nized land-grant university."
NUMBER, PLEASE: UGATS LICENSE PLATE
Will the wheel No. 2 please
stand? The person belt hut one of
Georgia ’s most important car
tags is not who you might think
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Red a Black
^ f you’ve ever spotted
I University President Michael
Adams cruising around town
in his Jeep Grand Cherokee
or Provost Karen Holbrook
making campus rounds in her
Jaguar, you might have noted the
trendy wheels of the campus' top
leaders.
And if you’re tuned in to cur
rent events, you may have even
recognized the school’s most
powerful and highest-ranking
officials
What you may not have
noticed, though, is what’s on the
back of their cars.
In Adams' case, it’s a cus
tomized license plate with a
Bulldog and the number “1.”
Holbrook, who’s next in
administration hierarchy, sports
a similar tag reading “3.”
Vice President for Services
Eugene Younts is 4. Vice
President for Research Joe Key
is 5. Senior Vice President for
Business and Administration
Allan Barber is 6.
And so it goes for some 200
other officials, alumni, board
members and donors.
But wait — it seems as though
RAKHI DALAL T«. ki„ a R
A University Provost Karen Holbrook (Jaguar, left) and
University President Michael Adams (Jeep Grand
Cherokee, right) claim Bulldog license plates “3” and “1.”
someone got left out.
Who’s number 2?
About a dozen calls around
campus yielded few clues.
It’s not Adams' wife, Mary. It's
not Jim Donnan or Vince Dooley.
Nor is it Uga VI owner Sonny
Seiler. It’s not former University
President Charles Knapp. Or the
mayor, the governor or any mem
ber of local, state or national
government.
In fact, it belongs to someone
who doesn't even work for the
University.
But he used to. Yes, after an
exhaustive search, and the help
of the University’s public rela
tions office, we found the owner
of the elusive tag number 2
Drum roll, please.
The answer is: Henry King
Stanford, who served as presi
dent of the University for one
year (1986-87) in the wake of the
Jan Kemp controversy, which led
to then-President Fred Davison's
resignation.
Stanford, who now lives in
Americus, confirmed last week
that he still has the "2” tag on
the back of his '97 Buick.
Stanford applied for the tag
when the University first offered
them in 1989.
Knapp was given 1 and
Stanford, the most immediate
past president, was offered 2.
The semi-retired Stanford,
who’s been president of five col
leges and released a book last
week called "Campus Under Fire
and Other Essays," said his time
in Athens was “just wonderful."
‘T’ve never felt more needed
or more appreciated than when I
did at UGA," Stanford said.
He said the tag garners waves
and smiles from fellow Bulldog
fans. Sometimes, he said, it gets
him in trouble.
“But I can usually spot a
Yellow Jacket fan from far away
and avoid him,” Stanford said.
Campaign 2000: Voter info group seeks first UGA intern
By DENA LEVITZ
The Red a Black
Vacationing in the Montana Rockies or the
Boston area while participating in the upcom
ing 2000 election might be a unique opportu
nity for University students.
Project Vote Smart is looking for student
interns from U.S. and foreign universities.
A nonprofit organization, Project Vote
Smart provides information to the public on
more than 13,000 presidential, congressional
and state-level political candidates to make
citizens more informed.
“Preventing political candidates from skirt
tailing the issues is the meat and potatoes of
what we do,” said Internship Coordinator Aili
Langseth.
While Project Vote Smart got its start in
1990, PVS’ nationwide internship program
began in 1994. Interns have become responsi
ble for handling about 90 percent of the
Project's work.
Interns perform a variety of tasks, mainly
researching the information that PVS pro
vides to citizens, Langseth said.
This information includes data about can
didates’ backgrounds, stances on issues and
sources of campaign funds and can be
accessed on the group’s Web site (www.vote-
smart.org) or via a toll-free hotline (1-888-
VOTESMART).
PVS interns are hired throughout the year.
Students and recent graduates with majors in
political science, communications and com
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application process is open to anyone.
Applications are available on PVS' Web
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Internships last 10 weeks in a time period
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Depending on their expertise, interns work
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Montana interns receive free room and
board. Boston interns must provide for their
own housing but can earn up to $1,000 in
scholarships.
Because of the individualized application
process, there is no deadline, but Langseth
recommends students apply at least one
month before they want to become interns.
There has yet to be a University student to
Intern, and last year only two of the interns
came from the South, Langseth said. In past
years, most interns have come from the
Northeast, particularly Illinois and
Pennsylvania, but Langseth is looking to
change that.
"This year, we’re looking for interns from as
broad a pool of places as we can find,” she
said.
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