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WEDNESDAY
November 28, 2001
Vol. 109, No. 69 | Athens, Georgia
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Forum to address campus memorial
By MITCHELL GRAHAM
mgraham@randb.com
University students
and faculty will have an
opportunity to speak
today on the proposed
campus memorial for
members of the University
community who died in
military service.
Political science pro
fessor Loch Johnson,
chairman of the
University Council
Facilities Committee and
the ad hoc subcommittee
created to explore the via
bility of the memorial,
said he hopes to attract
students to an open
forum at 3:30 p.m. in
Room 128 of the Tate
Student Center.
“We’re trying... to see if
students think a memori
al will be useful, what it
should look like and
where it will be,” Johnson
said. “We’d like to get
their ideas about this,
because we’re honoring
people who were once
students.”
The forum is a fulfill
ment of the subcommit
tee’s charge to explore
whether the memorial
would be “feasible and
meritorious,” Johnson
said.
The subcommittee
also is looking into the
memorial’s aesthetic ele
ments. At the forum there
will be a presentation of
possible designs and loca
tions — the work of grad
uate students in land
scape architecture, said
subcommittee member
Allen Stovall, professor of
environmental design.
“We wanted to give
people something tangi
ble to look at,” he said.
Air Force ROTC cadet
Ian Stoeppelwerth, a
member of the subcom
mittee and a junior from
Marietta, said the memo
rial soon will begin to take
shape.
“We’re finally trying to
get some idea of what it’s
going to be, what it’s
going to look like,” he
said.
The forum is the sub
committee’s third meet
ing. When its study period
is finished, the subcom
mittee will sift through
the ideas they’ve received
and report back to the full
Facilities Committee,
Johnson said. The group’s
goal is presenting the pro
posal to the Executive
Committee by next
spring.
“The devil is in the
details,” Johnson said.
“(But) I’m pretty opti
mistic that this will move
forward.”
The 16-member sub
committee was formed in
September after a contro
versial series of debates
within the University
Council over the wording
of last spring’s memorial
proposal.
The Executive Com
mittee first refused to
authorize the creation of
the subcommittee, citing
language in the original
proposal as too exclusive
and ambiguous.
Initially, the memorial
was proposed to honor all
University students and
alumni who gave their
lives in military conflicts
to preserve liberty.
After the Executive
Committee sent the pro
posal back to the
Facilities Committee, it
was reworded to honor
those who gave their lives
serving in the U.S.
military.
Human
cloning:
too far?
By AMBER BILLINGS
abillings@randb.com
Recent advances in human cloning have
left some members of the University commu
nity wondering if cloning is ethically and
morally correct.
Representatives of Advanced Cell
Technology, Inc. in Worcester, Mass.,
announced Sunday their company had pro
duced human embryos through cloning.
The technology company’s objective is
assisting people with diseases like
Parkinson’s and diabetes — not solely creat
ing a human clone, said Dr. Michael West, the
company’s president and chief executive
officer.
Sister Jean Morris, pastoral minister at the
Catholic Center, said she was shocked at
Sunday’s announcement.
“I just thought it was something that we
weren’t going to get to,” she said. “It’s just
strange that anyone would take it upon
themselves and do this.”
Although actions to prevent terminal ill
nesses appear well-intentioned, Sister Morris
said it’s the wrong road to take.
“Looking at the consequences down the
line, it doesn’t look like the moral way to go,”
she said. “Obviously, it’s a good cause, but
the end doesn’t justify the means.”
Muslim Student Association President
Moustafa Gharib said he agreed human
cloning would be unethical and unnatural.
“The advancement of it would do more
wrong than good,” he said. “It takes away the
concept of a god creating a man and woman.”
Rabbi Ron Gerson from the Congregation
Children of Israel was unavailable for com
ment. A representative at the Baptist
Student Union refused to comment Tuesday.
College Republicans President Marty
Klein said Congress should pass legislation
against human cloning.
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Rebellion in
prison nearly
under control
Wide receiver Gibson may try basketball
By GENTRY ESTES
sports@randb.com
Bulldog star freshman wide
receiver Fred Gibson hasn’t decid
ed whether he will join Jim
Hanick’s basketball team when
the football season ends.
“I don’t know yet,” Gibson said.
“I’ll have to decide after the bowl
game.”
Harrick spoke with Gibson
Sunday about joining his 4-0
Bulldogs in early January.
“It’s on hold right now,”
Harrick said. “I want to make it
crystal clear that he’s perfectly
welcome.”
Gibson, who averaged 21
points per game on the high
school hardwood, said last sum
mer he planned to play basketball
at Georgia
But the strain of playing major
college football was more than the
6-foot-4 freshman expected.
“Right now it’s frustrating
because it’s just football, football,
football,” Gibson said. “But who
knows; when football is over, I
might just decide to play
basketball.”
Even if Gibson decides to play,
it wouldn’t be until the football
team has played its bowl game.
Therefore, Gibson wouldn’t join
the hoops team until the start of
its Southeastern Conference
schedule.
Still, Gibson would add depth
to a thin Georgia bench. Harrick
has used only eight players in his
rotation this season, and one
starter; Jarvis Hayes, could be out
for up to a month with a sprained
knee.
“It would be nice to have him,”
Harrick said of Gibson. “I think
it’s kind of a combination of his
decision and what (football)
coach (Mark) Richt would like.”
Richt said he wouldn’t stand in
Gibson’s way if he wanted to play
for Harrick’s team.
‘1 would be very supportive of
Fred playing basketball if he could
help the team and wanted to,”
Richt said. “As long as his grades
were in order”
Gibson has blossomed into the
football team’s top receiver. He set
a new Georgia record with 201
receiving yards against Kentucky,
and has five 100-plus-yard
games.
But Harrick said he spotted
Gibson in 10th grade, before he
played his first down of football
Gibson was a basketball standout
early in high school. He didn’t join
the football team until his junior
year, when high school friends
convinced him to try out.
“I recruited him before
anybody,” Harrick said. “They
talked him into playing football.
He turned out to be a world-beat
er and figured that was probably
his future.”
The Waycross native first com
mitted to play football for Steve
Spurrier at Florida, but he
changed his mind in the 11th hour.
The receiver is at Georgia on a
football scholarship, so he can
play basketball according to
NCAA rules, Harrick said.
▲ Freshman wide receiver Fred Gibson is undecided as to whether he will join the
basketball team in January. He was a hoops standout in high school.
A U.S. government
employee is still
missing in the after-
math of Sunday’s
Taliban rebellion in a
Mazar-e-Sharif
prison, Pentagon
officials said.
While the rebellion
is not entirely fin
ished, it is close to
being controlled,
according to news
sources in the area.
“It is not yet fully
under control, and
I’m not sure what
that amounts to in
terms of numbers,”
said General Tommy
Franks, chief of U.S.
Central Command.
“There were 30 to 40
hardcore people still
on the inside, and it
is a matter of rooting
them out.”
Pentagon spokes
woman Victoria
Clarke also said
there have been no
U.S. casualties in the
uprising, but at least
five members of the
U.S. military have
been airlifted out of
Afghanistan for
treatment of their
injuries.
The United States
currently has special
forces in the area to
search for the miss
ing man, Clarke said.
Near the rebellion
another journalist
died Tuesday.
Swedish cameraman
Oluf Stromberg, 42,
died while on loca
tion in Afghanistan,
according to reports
from Sweden’s TV4,
his employer.
Elsewhere in
Afghanistan, U.S.
military officials
announced Tuesday
that the Northern
Alliance had overtak
en several sites the
Pentagon suspects
may have been
research locations
for Osama bin
Laden’s terrorist
network.
“We’ve identified
more than 40 places
that had potential
for (chemical, biolog
ical and nuclear)
research or things of
that sort,” Franks
said. “Of those, a
great many are cur
rently under opposi
tion leadership
control.”
He said U.S. mili
tary units in the area
are performing “very
exhaustive” tests to
find out if al Qaeda
and its troops indeed
have access to
weapons of mass
destruction.
“We’ll perform the
tests that need to be
performed in every
possible facility, and
if there’s something
to be found, we’ll
find it,” he said.
— Compiled by
Leah Newman
Contributing:
Associated Press,
CNN, Fox and NBC
reports
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