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FRIDAY
November 30, 2001
Vol. 109, No. 71 | Athens, Georgia
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Forbes to speak at Chapel
By AMBER BILLINGS
abillings@randb.com
Publishing tycoon and former presidential candidate
Steve Forbes will speak on global and economic issues
today on campus.
Forbes, editor in chief of Forbes
magazine and president and chief
executive officer of Forbes, will give a
lecture at 1:30 p.m. at the University
Chapel. The lecture is free and open to
the public.
“He will be making comments on
global issues, on the current economy
and international affairs,” said Meg
Amstutz, assistant to the president.
“All of which are more relevant after
the Sept. 11 attacks.”
Amstutz said the speech will be FORBES
televised on University cable channel
15 and streamed over the Internet from the UGA News
Web site at (www.uga.edu/news/).
Interim Dean of Public and International Affairs
Thomas Lauth said University community members
should take advantage of the opportunity to attend the
lecture.
“I think Steve Forbes, during his presidential cam
paign, had fresh ideas, which were frequently controver
sial,” he said. “Those who agree and those who disagree
ought to come and hear what he has to say and engage in
discussion.”
Forbes campaigned in 1996 and 2000 for the
Republican presidential nomination. During his cam
paigns, he promoted a flat tax, strong national defense
and a new Social Security system, according to a
University news release.
Before graduating from Princeton University in 1970,
Forbes created Business Today, which grew to become
the largest student-published magazine in the United
States, according to the news release. It currently has a
circulation of 200,000.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Terry College of
Business, the political science department and the Office
of the President.
Ringing in the Holiday Season
MEGAN LOVETT | The Red a Black
▲ Sophie Baramidze, 5, munches on a candy cane while watching the annual Athens Christmas
Parade march down Clayton Street Thursday night.
MEGAN LOVETT | The Red a Black
▲ During a media briefing Thursday, University President
Michael Adams announced a $1,000 out-of-state tuition
increase.
Out-of-state
tuition to rise
By RACHEL VOTTA
rvotta@randb.com
Out-of-state students should
expect an even larger than nor
mal increase in tuition next fall
due to a decision announced
Thursday.
The University Cabinet
approved plans for a $1,000
tuition increase per academic
year for out-of-state students.
The increase will be added to
the Board of Regents tuition fig
ure, which currently stands at
$11,314 per year.
A policy adopted in April 2001
allows research institutions to
“bring their out-of-state institu
tions to their peer levels” at their
discretion, according to a briefing
letter distributed to cabinet
members.
The Budget Office projects $2
million in additional net revenue
for the 2003 fiscal year, assuming
a minor decrease in enrollment
due to the tuition raise, said
Hank Huckaby, senior vice presi
dent for Finance and
Administration.
“The revenue will be used to
fill faculty positions held open in
the 2003 budget,” Huckaby said.
The increase would affect a
small portion of University stu
dents, said University President
Michael Adams.
“About 14 percent of our total
population is from outside
Georgia,” Adams said.
There is no exact number for
out-of-state tuition at this time,
since the Board of Regents hasn’t
decided on the base figure.
“The actual figure will be set in
April,” Adams said.
The increase will not be in
effect during the Maymester and
summer terms. University offi
cials hope the measure will keep
out-of-state students at the
University during these
semesters.
Adams also said he will ask for
an increase in in-state tuition for
next year.
“I do not know the size of that
(increase) until I know the 2003
budget,” Adams said.
However, he stressed that the
increase is not out of the ordinary,
nor will it be excessive.
“We have trailed the nation in
increases, and I’m happy about
that,” he said “We’re on every
body’s list for a best buy.”
Adams said that in comparison
to other Southern states, Georgia
universities are well-funded by
the state legislature, and, as a
result, they have followed a low
tuition policy.
“My guess is there will be some
increase (next year) — close to
inflation,” Adams said. “In real
money terms it will be modest.”
Tom Jackson, associate vice
president for Public Affairs,
emphasized Adam’s point.
“State funding is 41 percent of
our budget and tuition is 12 per
cent,” Jackson said. “Tuition goes
up every year.”
University plant study
won’t see future growth
By GREG BLUESTEIN
gbluestei@randb.com
A canceled $2.5 million plant study is
not expected to reappear in the future, a
University official said.
“No one has made any requests for
funding (this program),” said Gordhan
Patel, the University’s vice president for
Research. “It’s too early for us to consid
er this given all the controversy.”
The research program, which intended
to study native plants and fungi in the
Mexican state of Chiapas, was canceled
due to protests from the local Mayan
population.
University anthropology professor
Brent Berlin, the project organizer, had
teamed with the National Institute of
Health (NIH) to develop new disease
therapies from the vegetation.
The research was scrapped amid
growing protest from the local Mayan
population over the distribution of prof
its and concerns about the privatization
of their native plants.
Berlin, who was unavailable for com
ment Thursday, was “bitterly disappoint
ed” at the cancelation of the project, said
Tom Jackson, associate vice president for
Public Affairs.
“It was a very controversial issue on an
international scale,” Jackson said. “It’s
emblematic of a much larger debate
involving the possible commercial
exploitation of a native plant.”
Along with the NIH, Berlin also had
joined with a Mexican university and a
British pharmaceutical company to
study the potential uses of the local vege
tation.
He also created the company ProMaya
to quell the fears of the local population.
ProMaya was designed to funnel 25 per
cent of the potential patent profits to the
local community.
Patel, who was inaugurated as
research vice president in August, said
the controversy surrounding the research
program is nothing new.
“This (situation) has been brewing for
a while,” Patel said. “I think we need to
cool off for a while.”
Patel said cancelations of this scope
are rare events, and the potential impli
cations of the research are unknown.
“We all look for different sources of
medicine,” he said. “There’s no telling
where this research would have taken
us.”
Bush defends military tribunals
Overseas strikes continue
President Bush Thursday defended the use of
military tribunals in trying accused terrorists.
“If I determine that it is in the national secu
rity interests of our great land to try by military
commissions those who make war on America,
then that we will do,” Bush said while address
ing U.S. attorneys general.
Military tribunals would allow for speedy,
secret trials by a military panel, rather than a
civilian panel.
Bush recently signed an executive order per
mitting the use of the tribunals. He said he will
personally decide on a “case-by-case” basis
which suspects will be tried by tribunals.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
Thursday also announced a possible plan to offer
immigration assistance to international
citizens.
The plan, which he referred to as the “respon
sible cooperators program,” is to encourage non-
American citizens to come forward with infor
mation about suspected terrorists.
“If you have information which is reliable
information and useful to us in preventing ter
rorism and apprehending those who are
involved in terrorist activities, bring it to the
FBI or, if you are overseas, to an embassy,”
Ashcroft said.
After providing information, international cit
izens would be provided with a visa to live and, if
needed, work in the United States, he said.
In Afghanistan Thursday, U.S. warplanes
u
“If you have information ... useful to
us in preventing terror... bring it to
the FBI, or if you are overseas, to an
embassy. ”
JOHN ASHCROFT
Attorney General
struck Kandahar and its surrounding areas.
The attack came after a day and night of
some of the most intense attacks on the south
ern Afghan city thus far, sources inside
Kandahar told CNN.
In Kandahar, an Afghan man was hanged in
the city’s main square for aiding U.S. operations.
The man was suspected of using a global
positioning satellite to locate possible terrorist
cells in Afghanistan, according to reporters in
the city.
Opposition forces in Afghanistan announced
Thursday they have captured a top al Qaeda
recruiter. Northern Alliance forces were holding
Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, 35, at an undis
closed location.
Rahman is the son of Sheik Omar Abdel
Rahman, the blind cleric convicted in 1995 of
conspiring to blow up New York landmarks, the
Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
—Compiled by Leah Newman and
Dena Levitz;
Contributing: Associated Press, CNN reports
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