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Israel sells top-air surveillance to China
JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister Monday turned down a
U.S. request to cancel a deal to sell a sophisticated airborne
surveillance system to China.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak said he was aware of concerns
voiced by visiting U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen over esca
lating tensions between China and U.S.-backed Taiwan. But Barak
said Israel had already signed a contract to equip a plane with the
system for China.
The United States has on several occasions expressed its dis
pleasure over Israel’s $250 million plan, announced in November,
to sell China the AWACS system, which allows aircraft to conduct
long-range radar surveillance and coordinate forces during battle.
A plane outfitted with the system is to be delivered to China
soon, and the sale of two more planes is being negotiated.
Clinton to visit Colorado,
push gun-show issue
DENVER — President
Clinton will visit Colorado on
April 12 — days before the
Columbine school massacre
anniversary — to support a pro
posed ballot initiative to
require background checks for
all gun sales at gun shows, the
White House said Monday.
Chief of Staff John Podesta
said Sunday on 'Face the
Nation” the Clinton administra
tion is frustrated Congress has
not closed the “gun show loop
hole" and accused Republican
leaders of foot-dragging. Under
current law, federally licensed
gun dealers who sell firearms at
gun shows must conduct back
ground checks on prospective
buyers, while unlicensed dealers
are not required to.
“We re going to continue to
press the case with the public
that they ought to do it. And in
the meantime, I think the presi
dent is going to try to use his
efforts and his bully pulpit to go
out and deal with state initia
tives that are dealing with this,"
he said.
Opening arguments start
captain’s court-martial
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A
captain charged in the heat
stroke death of a Marine
Reserve corporal refused to
slow the pace of a hike and
then left before a head count
was completed, a prosecutor
said Monday in opening state
ments.
The captain's attorney said
the company commander
stayed with his 180 Marines and
had been told everyone was
accounted for
Capt. Victor Arana, 28, is
charged with dereliction of duty
and failure to obey an order in
the corporal's death. If convict
ed, he could get more than
three years in prison and be dis
missed from the Marine Corps.
The court-martial prosecu
tor, Mgj. Chris Hamilton, said
Arana was asked several times
during the hike last summer to
slow down because Marines
were getting sick.
After the eight-mile hike
ended about 10 p.m., Arana left
before the head count was com
pleted, saying "Mama ain’t
waiting up all night," Hamilton
said.
Two hours later, the body of
Lance Cpl. Giuseppe “Joey"
Leto, 21, of New Milford, Conn.,
was found along a road less
than a mile from the Marines’
camp Site.
Protesters walk to ban
Confederate flag
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. - A
group of some 70 people set
out Monday on the second leg
of a 120-mile trek to get the
Confederate flag removed from
atop the South Carolina
Statehouse.
Women in wide-brimmed
straw hats joined longshore
men and politicians walking
three to four abreast, though
the numbers were down
sharply from about 600 people
who began the march on
Sunday.
They plan to arrive at the
Statehouse in Columbia on
Thursday, the same day a rally
in support of the Confederate
flag is scheduled at the Capitol.
“The flag no longer has any
part to play in our society,"
said Sherrill Pickard, who
describes herself as “a
Southerner, and proud of it.”
“It’s an embarrassment to
people that are white and a
slap in the face to people who
are black," she said.
The marchers encountered
about a dozen Confederate flag
supporters at a rural intersec
tion northwest of Goose Creek.
DOT launches campaign
to protect road workers
ATLANTA — The state
Department of Transportation
launched a $1 million campaign
Monday to get drivers to slow
down in highway construction
zones.
The safety campaign has its
own mascot — Coneman, a
walking orange road marker —
and will use radio ads in May to
spread the slogan, "Slow down.
It won’t kill you."
“We want motorists to
understand the dangers that
work zones pose to drivers and
their passengers, and to
increase the safety of our work
ers and contractors as they do
their jobs," said DOT
Commissioner Wayne
Shackelford.
The DOT says 51 Georgia
highway workers have been
killed on the job since 1973 and
more than 100 have been per
manently disabled.
But three out of four deaths
in construction zones are
motorists, not workers DOT
officials said. The National
Highway Traffic Safety
Administration recorded 68
deaths in Georgia highway con
struction zones in 1998.
— Associated Press
UCA Today
Meetings
► UNICEF, weekly meeting,
5:30 p.m,. Tate Student Center Room 154.
► Residence Hall
Association, meeting. 7:30 p.m.. Resd
Hall Programming Room. Information:
(wwwuga.edu/rtia).
► Pagan Student
Association, meeting. "Energy
Working." 8 p.m., Memorial Halt Room 213.
Information: (paganOwww.uga.edu).
► Banking and Finance
Society, meeting. Wednesday. 6:45 p.m.,
Sanford Hall Room 212. Speaker: Patrick
Ungashick, Madison Financial Group.
Information: 548-7819.
> Center (or Humanities t
Arts, "Compien Color: Architectural Cokx
and the Artist’s Palette," 12:20 p.m.,
Wednesday, Journalism Building Room 408.
Speaker. Susan Roberts. Information:
542-3966
> Straight But Not Narrow,
Day of Silence. 10:30 a m. to 5 p.m..
Wednesday, Tate Student Center Plata.
Information: (sbraithotmail com).
► Lecture, "Archaeological Radar
Survey in the Yasmina Cemetary at
Carthage," 4:30 p.m., Park Hall Room 265.
Speaker: Nina Serman.
► Habitat for Humanity,
"Btgshot Bulldawgs Auction and Dawgnap,"
7 p.m., Wednesday, Classic Center.
Information: 357-1342.
► Lecture, the Georgia Museum of
Art wi host sculptor Stephen DeStaebler,
5:30 p.m. Information: 542-GMOA
► Black Faculty and Staff
Organization, "Twelfth Annual Forum
on the Status of Blacks at UGA." Saturday.
8 a m. to 4:45 p.m. Information: 542-3866
► UOA PMoaophy
Department, colloquium. "Human
Agency Par Excellence." April 14,3:30 p.m.,
Peabody Hat Room 205-S. Speaker: Alfred
Male, Davidson College Information:
769-8315.
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ing to space available.
Students question funding for lights*
By MIRANDA MANGUM
Thb Red a Buck
Despite grumbling from sever
al students, $500,000 used to
match a donation from Georgia
Power for installing lights at the
University’s Intramural fields
didn’t come out of the student
activities fee fund, said Tom
Cochran, assistant vice president
for student affairs.
There are two surplus funds,
one of which is an administrative
fund, and that’s where the money
came from, said Chris Hoofhagle,
former SGA senator.
“Even though it’s called an
administrative fund, it’s all stu
dent activities fee money,"
Hoofhagle said “Students didn’t
get to vote on it."
Cochran said Regents policy
states the administration only
has to seek the “advice and coun
sel" of the student activities com
mittee, but University President
Michael Adams ultimately Is
responsible for the ftmd.
Wll Layng, coordinator of
Students for Environmental
Awareness, said students were
never asked if this was some
thing they wanted to spend
money on.
“I’m opposed because I
don’t know what students
approved,” he said. "Another
issue Is Georgia Power donating
the money.”
Cochran said the lighting pro
ject was discussed years ago, and
the project would happen as soon
as money became available.
"Four to five years ago, we
made the lighting plan, and three
years ago, Georgia Power made
the pledge to give us $500,000
toward the project," he said. “We
did seek the advice and counsel
of the all-campus group at the
time."
The University used accumu
lated Interest to match the
Georgia Power donation, Coch
ran said.
“The money came indirectly
through interest earned over a
period of time," he said.
Electricity for the lights will be
paid with the regular budget.
Cochran said he believes the
lighting will receive a good reac
tion from students.
“The students I’ve talked to
have been very positive,” he said.
"It’s going to directly benefit stu
dent programs.”
Layng said he would have
liked solar powered lights to have
been chosen, and Georgia Power
could have provided the technol
ogy if it wanted.
“It obviously wasn’t a gift. It’s
just so we can continue to pay
power bills,” Layng said.
Both Hoofnagle and Layng
said the project is OK as long as
students approve the funding for
It.
Groups sponsor Student Labor Day of Action
By SHANA GALLENTINE
The Red & Black
If you’re upset that the
University put a freeze on hiring
professors or wary of corporate
sponsorship on campus, today is
your time to speak up.
Jobs with Justice, a national
group led on campus by the
Graduate Student Association
and Students Against Sweat
shops, launches the Student
Labor Day of Action today.
Mark Faller, president of the
Graduate Student Association,
said he hopes students and
faculty will participate in “teach-
ins,” in which they raise ques
tions about labor issues during
class.
“It’s important to talk about
the University as an employer ...
its role as an ethical agent,”
Faller said.
Wil Layng, coordinator of
Students Against Sweatshops
and a senior from Atlanta, said
the teach-ins will be a good
opportunity for different campus
groups to voice their concerns in
class.
"Through our whole cam
paign, we felt our views haven’t
been heard by the administra
tion," Layng said.
“When we took a step back
from our campaign, we saw the
graduate students, faculty, staff
and bus drivers were all dealing
with the same shiftiness of the
administration,” he said.
Vice President for Student
Affairs Richard Muflendore said
it was the choice of indivi
dual faculty members whether
they wanted their students to
participate.
“Our students have legitimate
concerns about what’s happening
in our world, but by the same
token, our faculty has material to
work through before exams,”
Muflendore said.
In addition to the teach-ins,
SAS member Kristin Sziartp
wrote a play satirizing the show
“Who Wants to Marry a
Millionaire."
She said the potential bride
represents the University, while
the millionaire bachelor is the
Fair Labor Association.
Sziarto said her play is tenta
tively scheduled for 12:15 p.m. on
the steps of Memorial Hall and
1:45 p.m. at the Tate Student
Center Plaza.
Faller said there also will be a
panel discussion of faculty, staff
and students at 5 p.m. in
Peabody Hall Room 115.
Faculty member lives
full time on campus
By HEATHER TUGGLE
For The Red a Black
R&B wins top awards
Take a look at the programs
put on by any resident assistant
on campus, and chances are,
Federica Goldoni has been
involved in at least one of them.
Goldoni, who is from Italy and
teaches Italian and Spanish for
the Romance Language Depart
ment, is unique among faculty
members because she lives full
time in a residence hall.
“I do not have a car, so I was
looking to live in campus. I con
tacted (Assistant Director of
University Housing) Cindi Avery,
and they were Interested in hav
ing a liaison between students
and faculty," Goldoni said.
Goldoni serves as faculty.-in-
residenee in Soule Hall, but she
puts on programs in most of the
other dorms as well.
At the beginning of the year,
Goldoni went to a staff meeting
to let the RAs know she is avail
able to work with them and gave
them a list of topics for which she
can prepare programs.
"It is good to know someone
who is like an expert in these top
ics,” said Adriana Ruiz, an RA in
Mell Hall who recently worked
with Goldoni on a presentation
on resume writing.
Goldoni also presents pro
grams on study skills, time man
agement and cultural programs.
“RAs that have worked with
her have given her rave reviews,”
Avery said.
University Housing is planning
to allow additional spaces in the
future so more faculty will be able
to live in residence halls, she said.
Goldoni graduated from the
Universita Di Trieste in Italy and
speaks six languages.
After teaching for a year at
Bard College in New York,
Goldoni came to the University
in 1998 as an Italian and Spanish
instructor.
Along with her responsibilities
as a teacher, Goldoni currently is
working on a guide on how to
take an Italian course through
independent study.
Goldoni said she is enjoying
her University experience.
“My passion is teaching," she
said. “The University is a good
environment for teachers ... I
enjoy the cozy environment here."
Judged best
daily in region
The Red & Black has been
named best daily student news
paper by the Society of Profes
sional Journalists.
The paper beat out other
college papers in SPJ’s
region three, which includes
Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
South Carolina and Eastern
Tennessee.
The Red & Black also was
recognized as best overall on
line newspaper.
Staff awards include a first
place award for feature photog
raphy and second place honors
for in-depth reporting, feature
writing and sports writing.
For the past few years, the
awards have been dominated
by the University of Florida’s
student newspaper, The Inde
pendent Alligator.
The last time The Red &
Black took first place was in
1997.
Managing Editor Jonathan
Reed said he was pleased with
the announcement.
“We have always done well in
this competition, but I was very
glad to see that we won first
place this year,” Reed said. “It
just goes to show that The Red
& Black — and the University —
produces talented, well-round
ed journalists."
— From staff reports
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