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Tyson OK'd to enter Britain, fight is on
LONDON — Mike Tyson will be allowed to enter Britain for his
Jan. 29 fight with Julius Francis despite his 1992 rape conviction,
the Home Office said Thursday.
The Home Office, the government department that oversees law
enforcement, had been facing pressure from the Immigration
Service and fight organizers, who said they would lose millions of
dollars if the fight was cancelled.
Controversy over Tyson's right to enter the country surfaced
Tuesday when several London mayoral candidates, including
Oscar winner Olenda Jackson, raised objections to Tyson's crimi
nal record.
Under British immigration law, people who have served a year or
more in prison can be barred from entering the country.
The biggest loser if the fight were called off might have been the
little-known Francis, the British heavyweight champion.
Francis, 35, will get an estimated $560,000 from the fight in
Manchester, England. Tyson reportedly will earn $12 million.
Scientists attempt to
clone twin monkeys
been rising."
Companies fined after
By KYLE WINGFIELD
The Red a Black
The debate over a commuter
meal plan resurfaced this week as
some Student Government
Association Freshman Board
members questioned the recent
replacement of dining room furni
ture in Snelling Dining Hall.
Tables and chairs in the stu
dent dining room and Georgia
Room faculty dining area were
replaced during the winter holi
day break after more than two
decades of use, according to
Wayne Fair, Snelling Dining Hall
manager.
Michael Floyd, director of
Food Services, said the replace
ments were part of constant
efforts to improve the dining
hall's appearance.
“We continually allow money
back into our facilities to give
better service to our customers
— to provide an attractive envi
ronment,” Floyd said. “Nobody
likes to eat in a facility that looks
like a mess hall."
Four members of Freshman
Board, however, said the new fur
niture contradicts Food Services'
claim that the department lacks
the money to create a commuter
meal plan.
In a letter to The Red & Black,
board member Matthew
Edwards of Augusta said he and
other Freshman Board members
were told “budgetary constraints
prevent the University from
implementing a plan to give com
muter students discounted lunch
prices.”
Edwards said the new furni
ture indicates Food Services isn’t
strapped for funds.
“We don't plan on acquiescing
on this issue," Edwards said.
“We’re going to keep working on
it until we get it done."
Floyd said comparing the two
issues was "like comparing
apples to oranges."
“The real issue for the com
muter meal plan is: Are there
enough students that really want
that program?" he said.
Floyd estimated the new furni
ture cost between $70,000 and
$85,000.
He did not have an estimate
for the cost of a commuter meal
plan.
Edwards said board members
currently are working on a peti
tion to determine whether there
is student interest in a commuter
meal plan. He said their goal is
for the program to be included
into phase two of the University’s
master plan.
Despite the controversy, most
students said the new furniture
was a welcome addition.
"The chairs are a lot more
comfortable than the old ones,”
said Michael Lee, a junior from
Cedartown. “I thought it was a
pleasant change."
Katie Stein, a freshman from
St. Simon's Island, said she
appreciated the improvements.
"There’s a lot of bigger tables,
so it lets more people sit down
together,” she said
Temeka Young, a Food
Services employee, said the old
furniture was in poor shape.
“It was iron, green, rusting and
peeling,” she said. “The bottoms
were padded, but it was used. It
wasn’t as cushiony as these."
The new chairs have silver,
metal frames and padded seats.
MR
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4 Some students say they
enjoy Snelling Dining Hall’s
new furniture, which cost
between $70,000 and
$85,000. Others, however,
wonder how the University
can afford to provide new
furniture but not a com
muter meal plan.
ATLANTA — Researchers
using a technique called
embryo splitting will try to grow
genetically identical rhesus
moneys in the laboratory — a
breakthrough that would
enable experiments such as
growing new organs from stem
cells to be tested on monkeys
rather than mice. Monkeys are
closer to human biology.
The technique has so far pro
duced only one living rhesus
monkey, a female named Tetra,
but Professor Gerald Schatten
said that four more twinned
infants are on the way.
Schatten, a researcher at the
Oregon Health Sciences
University in Portland, said the
goal is to produce identical
monkeys that could be used to
perfect new therapies for
human disease.
The study appears Friday in
the journal Science.
Most medical therapies are
first tested in mice, but mon
keys would be more reliable in
developing new techniques such
as gene therapy or growing new
organs from stem cells, said
Schatten.
“It is a huge leap from a
mouse to a patient," said
Schatten. "The monkeys could
fill that scientific gap.
Global warming is ‘real’
threat, panel says
WASHINGTON - While still
uncertain about the long-term
trend, a panel of scientists says
there's no question the warming
of the Earth — under way for a
century — has accelerated dur
ing the past 20 years.
The warming trend in global-
mean surface temperatures over
the past two decades "is
undoubtedly real and is sub
stantially greater than the aver
age rate of warming during the
20th century," said the 11-mem
ber panel of the National
Academy of Sciences.
The panel sought in a 71-
page report to lay to rest a long
standing dispute over tempera
ture data: The fact that while
ground monitors have shown a
sharp increase in Earth’s tem
peratures, satellite and weather
balloon observations have
shown little or no warming.
While this discrepancy can
not yet fully be explained, the
scientists said, it "in no way
invalidates the conclusion that
the Earth's temperature has
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Towers. Information: 316-1061.
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Hall. Jan. 18. Information: 542-5773.
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crane kills workers
MILWAUKEE — Federal
authorities have fined three
companies more than $500,000
for alleged safety violations in a
crane collapse that killed three
ironworkers at the Milwaukee
Brewers ballpark.
The workers were killed in
July when a crane lifting a 400-
ton section of the ballpark’s
retractable roof toppled.
The Occupational Safety and
Health Administration fined the
company that employed the
ironworkers, Danny's
Construction Co., $168,000 and
alleged it failed to keep employ
ees clear of the suspended roof
section.
Neil F. Lampson Inc., which
leased the 567-foot crane to
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
was fined $131,300. Mitsubishi
was fined $240,500. They were
accused of overloading the
crane and failing to factor in
wind conditions.
OSHA area director, George
Yoksas, declined to say what the
agency thought caused the col
lapse but "failure to take the
effect of the wind into account
was a significant factor."
King named candidate
to become martyr
BOSTON — The Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., the Baptist who
led the civil rights movement, is
a candidate to be recognized by
the Vatican as a martyr for the
Christian faith.
The US. Catholic bishops
included King among
Americans to be considered by
the Vatican for a list of 20th cen
tury martyrs whom Pope John
Paul II will honor in a May 7 cer
emony, The Boston Globe
reported Thursday.
Experts said naming non-
Catholic martyrs carries great
ecumenical symbolism as the
Roman Catholic Church reach
es out to other Christian
denominations.
Catholic News Service,
which is owned by the US. bish
ops' conference, reported in
1998 that King was among the
nominees. Bishop Tod Brown of
Orange, Calif., head of the U.S.
nominations panel, told the
Globe his group had submitted
King's name,
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Library. Information: 542-0696.
> Department of Religion,
Text and Iconography: The Portrayal of the
Deity El in Ancient Syria and Israel," pre
sented by the Department ol Religion, 3:30
p.m., Jan. 19, Peabody Hall Room 205 C.
Speaker: Dr. Theodore J Lewis,
Department ol Religion, UGA.
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