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GSA seeks
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By SHANA GALLENTINE
The Red a Black
About 15 students met to
form a graduate oversight com
mittee and discuss health insur
ance reform at the Graduate
Student Association meeting
Wednesday night. -
_GSA Executive Coordinator
Mark Faller said the group want
ed to form the oversight com
mittee as an "ombudsman" for
graduate students who might
otherwise be reluctant to voice
problems to their departments
Faller said the committee
would act as a mediator between
graduate students and supervi
sors in departmental conflicts.
"Sometimes it's explicit,
sometimes it's implicit, but if
you become a troublemaker in
your department, you pay a
price," he said.
Faller said the committee
would consist of four members
who would work to increase
communication between gradu
ate students and handle their
individual concerns
Two members have volun
teered to represent the Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences, but
the group is still looking for
graduate students to represent
the professional schools and the
College of Education.
Faller stressed the impor
tance of finding strong represen
tatives in order for the commit
tee to make a substantial differ
ence.
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“Sometimes it's explicit,
sometimes it's implicit,
but if you become a trou
blemaker in your depart
ment, you pay a price."
MARK FALLER
GSA Executive Coordinator
FILE ] The Km » Black
A University architects designed a new laboratory to house
huge fish tanks for researcher Richaid Winn’s genetics stud
ies on the medaka fish.
New research facility to house
professor’s study of fish DNA
Laboratory to be built
in south Clarke County
By PAUL FULTON Jr.
The Red a Black
A $1,385 million genetic engineering research
laboratory, expected to be completed by the end
of next year, was approved by the state Board of
Regents Wednesday.
The new 8,000 square foot building, containing
an Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental
Laboratory, will be constructed in the University-
owned Whitehall Forest in southern Clarke
County.
Other research facilities are already located in
this area.
All costs of the new structure will be funded by
the Georgia Research Alliance in Atlanta, a state
agency primarily dedicated to promoting
research and research facilities.
The labs will house the studies of Richard
Winn, a University researcher who has spent the
last eight years studying the medaka, a freshwa
ter fish from Japan.
The fish were injected with DNA that monitor
the effects on them after changes were made in
their environments, such as coming into contact
with chemicals that could cause cancer or birth
defects.
The fish are bred specifically for laboratory
use. Because of their altered genetic make-up
they are useful in toxicology studies of water.
"Not many times in your life do you get a facil
ity built around the things you do," Winn told
The Red & Black in September.
Director of University Architects Danny Sniff
said the KPS Group, a laboratory architectural
firm out of Atlanta, has been hired to tlesign the
new facility.
The focal point of the building are enormous
indoor fish tanks and two state-of-the-art labora
tories.
Sniff said the new facility is expected to be of a
simple rectangular design.
The building is “not on the main campus, and
we want to put as much money in the laboratory
as we can," he said. “It's basically a big piece of
equipment that we want to put a roof and sides
on."
ABEL was approved by the Board of Regents
rather than University Architects because the
project costs exceed $1 million. Sniff said.
NEWS NOTEBOOK
Man formally charged
in hotel shootings
TAMPA, Fla. — A man
accused of gunning down four
co-workers in a hotel and killing
a fifth person during an
attempted carjacking was
indicted Wednesday on 20
counts, including several counts
of murder and attempted mur
der.
“We will be seeking the death
penalty.” said Hillsborough
County Assistant State
Attorney Pam Bondi.
Silvio Izquierdo-Leyva. 36.
was charged with five counts of
first-degree murder, seven
counts of attempted first-degree
murder with a firearm, three
counts of aggravated assault
with a firearm, two counts of
armed carjacking and three
counts of attempted armed car
jacking.
His arraignment hearing is
set for Jan. 18.
During an initial hearing he
had been charged with five
counts of first-degree murder
and three counts of armed car
jacking.
Izquierdo-Leyva allegedly
opened fire inside the Radisson
Bay Harbor Inn Dec. 30.
The hotel was crowded with
football fans in town for the New
Year's Day Outback Bowl.
Four of Izquierdo-Leyva's co
workers on the hotel staff were
killed, and a woman was slain
during an attempted carjacking
after the shootings.
Three other hotel workers
were injured.
Fewer drivers run red
lights with cameras
WASHINGTON — Fewer
drivers run red lights at inter
sections when automatic cam
eras stand poised to snap pho
tos of their license plates, the
government reports.
Using a camera enforcement
program should reduce red-light
running between 20 and 60 per
cent, the Federal Highway
Administration said in a report
presented at a conference
Tuesday.
"We believe that technology
is key to making our highways
safer,” said Virginia Miller,
spokeswoman for the highway
administration.
There wasn't enough data on
the relatively new technology to
show if cameras also reduced
the number of intersection
crashes, the report said.
Drivers who ran red lights
caused 89,000 crashes in 1998,
inflicting 82,000 injuries and
causing nearly 1,000 deaths,
according to the Transportation
Department.
In 1997, more than 1.8 million
intersection crashes occurred —
including those caused by red-
light running — resulting in
more than 1.2 million injuries
and more than 7,800 deaths.
Mugger jumps out
window, survives
NEW YORK — A mugger
chased by police ran into an
office building, jumped out a
19th floor window to the build
ing next door, stole a delivery
man’s uniform and vanished
through a busy lobby.
Officers chased the suspect
six blocks until he ran into an
office building and jumped into
an elevator. He arrived at the
19th floor a step ahead of police,
who had to take another eleva
tor.
The mugger darted through
an office and jumped out an
open window.
Witnesses thought he had
plummeted to his death.
Instead, the nimble crook land
ed on an air conditioner unit on
the 18th floor setback of the
adjacent building.
It was a 15-foot leap across
and a 35-foot drop, said
McGrath.
He said the man went to a
slightly opened window.
There, he encountered a
delivery man.
He emerged in the lobby in
his disguise and sauntered out
of the building.
Associated Press
“This committee will be as
active as the four committee
members want to make it.” he
said. “They’re going to be the
energy behind it."
Faller also updated the group
on his work with University
administrators to consider new
health insurance plans. While
the discussions are still in pre-
limin°»y stages. Faller told The
Red & Black he wanted to make
quality health insurance more
affordable to graduate students
who believe the current student
policies are inadequate.
“We’re just negotiating about
the kind of model that will be
more acceptable to us.” he said.
uThe group also discussed
plans to request a breakdown of
graduate student activity fees at
the next Student Affairs
Committee meeting. Several stu
dents said they believe their
stipends from the University
should cover more of their stu
dent fees, and more of the fees
should go toward graduate inter
ests.
• “We should not be paying the
same fees as undergraduates.”
Faller said, citing a survey by the
National Association of
Graduate and Professional
Students. “At other schools they
only pay a trifling fee. like six or
eight bucks a semester.”
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