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National & World Headlines
Shootdown victims to be compensated
WASHINGTON — The mammoth spending bill signed Monday
by President Clinton includes legislation giving American victims
of the 1994 friendly Ore shootdown of two military helicopters over
Iraq the same compensation that foreign victims received.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mac Collins, R-Ga„ was incorporat
ed into the spending measure before Congress adjourned earlier
this month. It provides families of the 15 American victims the
same $100,000 payments that went to families of the 11 foreign
nationals killed when two Air Force F-15s shot down two Army
Black Hawk helicopters.
The 1994 accident occurred when the F-15 pilots, who were on a
routine mission enforcing a United Nations "no fly” zone over
northern Iraq, mistook the Army helicopters for Iraqi Hind air
craft. Each lighter pilot shot down one chopper; no one aboard
survived.
Collins took up the compensation issue because one of the vic
tims, Capt. Patrick McKenna of Columbus, Ga., was from his dis
trict. Also killed were 13 other American servicemen, one
American foreign service officer and the 11 foreign nationals.
“Fair is fair," Collins said in a statement. “It was wrong that our
American government, particularly the Department of Defense,
provided benefits to foreign nationals that are not even offered to
our own U S. service members."
Former Defense Secretary William Perry authorized the
$100,000 payments as a humanitarian gesture to the families of the
foreign national victims. But Pentagon officials said they were
barred by law from making similar payments to Americans for
death or injury during armed conflict.
Sunken ferry should
have never left harbor
OSLO, Norway — A high
speed ferry that sank off
Norway's west coast may have
set out in rougher weather than
it was certified for, maritime
officials said Monday, while
police lowered their estimate of
the number of people killed to
at least 16.
The director of Norway's
state Maritime Directorate,
Ivar A. Manum, said the cata
maran Sleipner should not
have been sailing in waters
with wave heights over 3.3 feet.
At the time of the accident,
waves were estimated at
between 6 and 10 feet high.
The boat ran aground on
Friday night, severely damag
ing both bows of its twin hulls.
It sank after about 45 minutes
near Norway’s west coast.
Police now believe 86 people
may have been aboard, not 89
as first thought.
All of the passengers and
crew ended up in the rough
and frigid waters of the North
Sea when the ferry went down
off Boemla island, about 250
miles west of the capital, Oslo.
Helicopters and ships raced
to the scene and rescued 70
people. The bodies of 10
Norwegians and one Kurdish
resident of Norway were recov
ered immediately. Two more
bodies, identified as
Norwegians, were found
Sunday by a remote-control
submarine that located the
wreck under about 330 feet of
water. Three people are
believed to be missing.
Coke pulls ads from
WWF after complaints
ATLANTA — Coca-Cola has
stopped spending its advertis
ing money on the World
Wrestling Federation’s tele
casts, citing often lewd lan
guage and story lines.
Coke’s action follows a cam
paign against the WWF by the
conservative Parents Television
Council, but a company
spokesman said Monday that
was not the only reason it
pulled the advertising.
The Atlanta-based company
continues to advertise with
WWF’s main rival, World
Championship Wrestling, a sub
sidiary of Time Warner's Turner
Broadcasting System, also
based in Atlanta.
Coke ended its two-year
advertising relationship with
the WWF the week of Oct. 18.
“It crossed the line in terms
of content, particularly in
terms of language and story
lines," Coke spokesman Bob
Bertini said Monday, refusing
to discuss any specifics. "It’s
not about wrestling.
Specifically, it’s about the
WWF’s programming content."
ATLANTA — Georgians are
creating more and more trash
each year, despite passage of a
law meant to reduce volume.
Concerned that landfills
would soon exceed capacity,
the General Assembly enacted
the Solid Waste Management
Act in 1990. The law, which
serves as a goal for the state
and carries no penalties, called
for the state to dump one-
quarter less trash in 1996 than
in 1992.
That didn’t happen. In 1992,
Georgians threw out 7.1
pounds of trash per person per
day. Under the Waste
Management Act, Georgia
should have reduced the
amount of trash to 5.3 pounds
per person in 1996.
Instead, Georgians disposed
of almost 11 million tons of
solid waste or 7.7 pounds per
day, according to figures
recently released by the state
Department of Community
Affairs.
Georgia's hefty garbage
numbers are growing despite
an increase in the number and
use of statewide recycling pro
grams. Part of the problem can
be attributed to a booming
economy, Georgians are build
ing and buying more — and
creating more trash.
— Associated Press
Georgians’ trash volume
increases despite laws
UGA Today
Meetings
► Rho Tau, Iasi semester meeting.
8 p.m., Ramsey Center Room 205. Topic:
physical therapy in a nursing home environ
ment. Information: 583-8475
► Young Democrats, weekly
meeting, discussion of projects lot 2000,6
p.m.. Tate Student Center Room 140.
Information: 548-6769.
► UNICEF, weekly meeting, 5:30
p.m., Tate Student Center Room 143.
Information: 357-3387.
> Pagan Student
Association, weekly meeting, 8 p m.,
Memorial Hall Room 102. Information
(pagan9www.uga.edu).
> Worldwide DtsdptesMp
Association, weekly meeting. 8 p.m..
Pharmacy Budding Room 149 Intormatiorv
759-2176.
> Amnesty International,
weekly meeting, 7 p.m. Tate Student Center
Room 145. Information: 357-1307.
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Center Recaption Hal. Information: 353-
0408
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dedate and public speaking, Thursday. 7
p.m., Phi Kappa Hal. Information: 227-8922.
> Demosthenian Literary
Society, debate and public speaking.
Thursday, 7 p.m., Demosthenian Hall.
Information: 542-3816.
> Students for
Environmental Awareness, gener
al meeting. Thursday. 7 p.m.. Memorial Hall
Room 213. Information: 549-9846.
>Lunch and Learn Series,
Wednesday, noon. Tate Student Center
Room 145. Topic: surviving stress.
Information: (www.uga.edu/counseling)
> Campus Msii>iji III Ssrvtco
lor Valentin Krumov, UGA graduate
killed while working with the United Nations
in Kosovo, Thursday, 3 p m., Chapel, l
Information: 542-5867.
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Judiciary: Suitemates involved in hair-dye prank to apologize
By AMANDA BRANNON
Thb Rbd a Black
Two students who played a prank on their
suitemates by contaminating shampoo and
conditioner with green hair dye have been
placed on probation from University Housing.
Felicia Browder, a Junior from Atlanta, and
Hardyal Singh, a senior from Orlando, Fla.,
were roommates in Oglethorpe House spring
semester when they damaged their suitem
ates’ hair care products.
In a decision delivered Nov. 23, a student
Judiciary panel sanctioned Browder and Singh
to pay for the products they damaged, write
letters of apology to the victims and their resi
dent assistant and create a program about
problems and situations involving hall mate
communications.
The two admitted to the prank during a
hearing held Nov. 17. But they said they aren’t
completely to blame for the ill feelings and
miscommunlcatlons between all four of the
suitemates last year
The women said they didn’t settle the case
informally because they refused to write let
ters of apology to the victims.
Jessica VanCleave and Kimberly Welsh,
both juniors from Marietta and victims of the
tainted shampoo, said most of their disagree
ments with Browder and Singh centered
around the shower area they shared.
“A lot of the negative interaction seemed to
revolve around the products In the shower,”
Welsh said at the hearing.
Neither VanCleave nor Welsh actually used
the shampoo, so no one's hair turned green.
But VanCleave said her hand was stained
green for a while after she poured the sub
stance she thought was shampoo onto her
hand.
The four women said they had exchanged
notes back and forth all semester about bot
tles and razors left in the shower. At one point,
they had participated In mediation with their
RA to try to resolve the situation.
The dye Incident occurred on the last day
of finals for spring semester.
In their decision, members of the studenj
judiciary panel said the defendants should
learn to Improve their communications skills.'
’’The panel feels that the majority of thfc
negative feelings you and your suitemates
seemed to feel toward one another were a
result of extreme communication problems,)'
panel members wrote
When contacted by The Red & Black,
Browder said she didn’t agree with the sanc
tions she received and would appeal the deci
sion.
“I didn’t think it was fair,” Browder said.
“Basically, I thought it was ridiculous, and yes,
I plan to appeal."
She said she believed Singh also would file
an appeal. Singh was unavailable for comment
at press time.
SGA site offers student
feedback on professors
By TARA McCORMICK
The Red a Black
Now students can check grade dis
tributions for their classes, read oth
ers’ comments on their professors
and find out their instructors’ salaries
— without ever leaving their homes.
Students can access this informa
tion, among other things, on the
Student Government Association’s
Web site (www.uga.edu/sga).
Chris Hoofnagle, SGA senator and
Web site designer, said the page is
“an organization of all the student
resources we could find on the Web.”
The site contains the University
payroll budget, a list of grade distri
butions for University classes and
links to other Web sites where stu
dents can write evaluations of their
professors. It also provides contact
information for SGA members, a his
tory of SGA and applications for
SGA’s Freshman Board.
The site was reformatted over the
summer and has been updated con
tinuously since then, said SGA
President Pro Tempore Mike
Runnels.
“The whole Web page is a general
initiative to offer more student ser
vices and to try to reach out to the
student body and let them know how
SGA operates,” Runnels said.
The “Institutional History
Database” is one of the site’s most
important features, he said. Visitors
to the Web page can search the
database for information on any doc
ument produced by SGA in the past
decade.
“One of my big concerns for SGA
this year ... is continuity,” Runnels
said. “SGA has become, in many
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>■ Information on security deposit laws
► Full text of SGA bills and resolutions
from 1999
► Breakdown of Student Activity Fee
spending
► Chari detailing University administra
tive structure
>• Information on Athens-Clarke govern
ment
► Links to Web sites where students can
buy and sell books and search tor room
mates
ways, a vicious cycle of incompetence.
What we tried to do this year is to
bust that cycle.”
The database will allow concerned
students to keep up with SGA’s ini
tiatives by providing information on
SGA’s past achievements and fail
ures, he said.
Hoofhagle said he hopes the infor
mation contained on the site, like
that on other schools’ student gov
ernments’ sites, will encourage stu
dents to press for change at the
University.
“I hope that when students see
what is out there, it will create a
demand for better student services
here," he said. “The University of
Georgia is the type of place where
your hand isn't held. It’s important
that if you don't want to be taken
advantage of that you take initia
tive."
SGA President Tricia Page said
the site contains a variety of useful
data and links to other Web sites.
"It's really fast and effective infor
mation,” she said.
Study: MCG’s
grave-robbing
was not racist
By JENNIFER COPELAND
The Red a Black
A University graduate
student is doing research
disputing well-documented
theories that racism was the
only motive behind the
Medical College of Georgia
in the late 1800s stealing
black cadavers for research.
“My argument is that
racism put blacks in vulner
able socioeconomic posi
tions so their bodies were
easy to obtain,” said Tammy
Ingram, a second year grad
uate student.
Ingram said she found
availability was a bigger fac
tor in choosing a cadaver
than race by studying docu
ments over 100 years old.
Scholars have argued
that racism motivated the
collection of cadavers during
this era after bones were
found in 1989 at MCG.
In the late 1800s a slave
owned by MCG snatched
bodies from graves in
Augusta to be used as
cadavers for dissection and
research.
Ingram said though the
majority of remains found in
a basement at MCG were
those of blacks, white
remains were found, as well.
Because the blacks in
Augusta in the Civil War era
were poorer and had less
rights than whites, they
were easy prey for grave rob
bers.
A major reason MCG and
other medical schools across
the country snatched bodies
was a lack of legal means to
obtain needed cadavers,
Ingram said.
"They needed bodies in
their labs,” Ingram said.
“Racism made blacks able
to be taken advantage of.”
Ingram said the incident
is a valid topic of research
because it illuminates the
larger issue of race as a fac
tor in medicine.
By the end of the nine
teenth century, medical
schools were given more
effective and legal means to
receive cadavers. Laws were
created to make unclaimed
bodies available for medical
school research, and body
snatching was made obso
lete, Ingram said.
Ingram’s research is
looking beyond the com
mon perception that racism
was the only factor in the
MCG case, a University pro
fessor said ;
“(Ingram) is taking >a
measured look at it,” said
Nan McMurry, a University
history professor. “She’s fit
ting it into the larger coi-
text.”
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