Newspaper Page Text
2 I Friday, November 30, 2001 | The Red & Black
NEWS
V
t
V
QuickTake
^ A glance at the morning’s news and the day ahead
Best Bet
► Check out the Dance Majors Showcase to see
graduating seniors dance to various musical forms,
tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the New Dance
Theater in the Dance Building.
National & World Headlines
Explosion rips bus in Israel’s north
JERUSALEM — An explosion ripped through a bus on a
main highway in north Israel on Thursday, and police said
at least three people were kiUed and injured six others.
An eyewitness, Emanuel Biton, told Army Radio he was
driving behind the bus and that he saw the blast “rip the
bus into pieces, and things were flying everywhere.” The
bus was not full when the explosion happened, he said.
Army Radio said the bomb apparently was police said it
was too early to determine.
Another eyewitness, Sadi Ovadia, told Israel TV “There
was nothing left of the bus” after the blast.
The bus was near an Israeli military base when the
bomb went off, but it was a civilian vehicle.
Ambulances and police vehicles raced to the scene.
Police commander Moshe Waldman told Israel Radio that
three people were killed on the vehicle and that six others
were iryured, two critically.
The attack came as U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni was hold
ing talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, trying to
cement a truce to end the fighting.
Spreading awareness on AIDS Day
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
awomack@randb.com
Georgia is ranked eight nationwide
in the number of reported AIDS cases,
according to the University Health
Center.
In commemoration of World AIDS
Day, peer sexuality educators urged
students to become informed about
AIDS prevention to keep them from
becoming a part of this statistic.
Educators passed out free condoms
and supplied information at a table at
the Tate Student Center Plaza
Thursday.
World AIDS Day has been scheduled
Dec. 1 since 1988. At the University peer
educators decided to hold the informa
tional event Thursday to avoid
conflicting with the weekend’s
football game.
“We’re just trying to get some infor
mation out to the student population
so they can make informed choices,”
said Amber Royland, a sophomore from
Warner Robins and a participant in the
event.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control, an estimated 40,000 new HIV
infections occur each year in the United
States. Worldwide, approximately one
in every 100 adults aged 15 to 49 is HIV
positive.
AIDS is the fifth leading cause of
death in the United States among
SPECIAL | The Red a Black
i World AIDS Day organizers
seek to inform students about the
disease and ways to prevent it.
people aged 25 to 44, but it is the lead
ing cause for African American males
and females.
Teenage females and women under
the age of 25 also are at a greater risk
for HIV and sexually transmitted dis
eases than older women primarily
because they have a greater tendency
to have multiple sex partners, to
engage in risky behaviors or to be
unable to negotiate safe sexual prac
tices with partners.
According to the health center, HIV
infects people by entering the blood
stream after direct contact with semen,
vaginal fluids or blood from an infected
person.
Individuals with the highest risk of
AIDS INFORMATION
For more information about AIDS contact:
>• University Health Center: 542-8690
>• AIDS Coalition of Northeast Georgia: 542-AIDS
>- AID Atlanta: 1-800-551-2728
► National Aids Hotline: 1-800-662-HELP
infection are those who participate in
anal or vaginal sex without a condom
and lubricant, who share needles while
injecting drugs, who have sex with mul
tiple partners and those who have sex
with individuals without knowing then-
sexual histories.
According to the UHC, when used
properly and consistently, condoms are
95 percent effective in preventing
the spread of most STDs,
including HIV.
Other products on the market, such
as spermicides and latex squares, are
effective in preventing the spread of
HIV. Using a spermicide with
nonozynol-9 may provide additional
protection against HIV in the instance
when a condom slips or breaks.
Anonymous testing is available at
the health center for students and
their spouses, staff and faculty
members.
Appointments are made on a first-
name basis to ensure anonymity. The
UHC also offers pre- and post-test
counseling. Results are usually avail
able within three working days.
Democrats blame
Bush for deficit
WASHINGTON —
Congressional Democrats
blamed President Bush and
his tax cut Thursday for the
return of federal deficits, a
day after the White House
budget chief said he expects
shortfalls for at least the
next three years.
Mitchell Daniels, the
administration’s budget
director, blamed his predic
tion on the recession and
the war against terrorism.
Democrats said the real
culprit was the 10-year, $1.35
trillion tax cut Bush helped
muscle through Congress
last spring, over complaints
by most Democrats that it
would jeopardize federal
surpluses.
“I’d love to be able to say,
’I told you so,”’ Senate
Majority Leader Tom
Daschle, S.D., told
reporters.
The Senate Budget
Committee chairman, Sen.
Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said
that when Daniels blamed
the recession and terrorism,
“He left out the biggest
cause — the tax cut this
administration pushed and
got passed.”
White House press secre
tary Ari Fleischer brushed
aside the criticism. “I think
that accusations like that
will make Americans tired of
how business is done in
Washington,” he said.
Fleischer conceded the
budget may force Bush to
take another look at pricey
policy plans such as his pre
scription drug initiative.
Security guards
negotiate contract
AIKEN, S.C. — Security
guards at the Savannah
River Site have reached a
tentative agreement with
their employer after 30 days
of negotiation over retire
ment benefits.
Federal and state media
tors helped Security Police
and Fire Professionals of
America Local 330 and
Wackenhut Services Inc.
reach a tentative agreement
Wednesday and extend the
current contract until Dec.
S. Union members are set to
vote on the new contract
Dec. 6.
About 450 uniformed
members of the union have
been embroiled in a con
tract dispute with the site’s
security contractor since
Oct. 28. Nonsalaried
employees wanted an
amount comparable to fed
eral retirement figures,
Wackenhut spokesman Rob
Davis said.
“The union is confident
in the federal mediation
process and is hopeful for a
positive outcome,” union
representative Harvey Key
said.
Uniformed personnel
working for Florida-based
Wackenhut handle security
at the 310-square-mile for
mer nuclear weapons com
plex on the South Carolina
side of the Savannah River.
Only half at-risk
for AIDS tested
ATLANTA — Only about
half the people at highest
risk for HIV have been test
ed, suggesting U.S. infection
rates could be higher than
health experts thought, gov
ernment researchers said
Thursday.
Just 54 percent of people
who reported being at high
or medium risk said they
had been tested for the
virus that causes AIDS, the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said.
An even smaller propor
tion of the risk group — just
10 percent — said they had
been tested in the previous
year. The study was released
in advance of World AIDS
Day, which is Saturday.
The results underscore a
problem that has concerned
health officials for years: A
segment of people with HIV
don’t even realize they have
it and are probably spread
ing the infection.
Tift County official
sues commission
TIFTON — A Tift County
official who is the target of a
state investigation has sued
county commissioners,
claiming they broke the law
when they discussed the
case against him in a closed
meeting last summer.
Darrell Wiggins, the
county’s community devel
opment director for the past
26 years, is under investiga
tion by the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation. It stems
from claims that he
skimmed rent money for
subsidized housing and
allowed county employees
to work on private property,
GBI documents said.
He has not been charged.
Wiggins sued county
commissioners last week
under Georgia’s open meet
ings law. He said laws were
broken when commissioners
called a closed meeting on
short notice Aug. 27 to dis
cuss the investigation.
Commissioners said the
meeting was held on an
emergency basis because
Chairman Buddy Bryan was
told that morning that the
GBI would investigate.
They also said the meeting
was closed legally because it
involved a personnel matter.
A judge has set a hearing
on Wiggins’ suit for Dec. 19.
— Associated Press
UGA Today
Announcements
► International Student
Life Office & Delta Phi
Lambda, holds campus coffee
hour today from 11:30-1:30 p.m.
in the Memorial Hall Ballroom. A
campus coffee also will be held
next Friday, also in the Memorial
Hall Ballroom. Information: Beth
at 542-5867.
► Black Theatrical
Ensemble, hosts “A Star Ain’t
Nothin' But A Hole in Heaven"
tonight at 7:30 at the Morton
Theatre downtown.
Information: 613-3771.
► Make A Wish
Foundation — Wishmakers
on Campus, holds a meeting
Tuesday tonight at 7 in Room
504 of the Journalism
building.
— Items for UGA Today
must be submitted in writ
ing two days before the
date to run.
Items may run only one
day and are published on a
first-come, first-served
basis according to space
available.
High school performance key in admissions
By ROSANNE ACKERMAN
rackerman@randb.com
Next fall’s prospective stu
dents will be judged solely on
academic performance, a
change which University offi
cials said will be a temporary
fix to the school’s evolving
admissions criteria.
The University formerly
used the Total Student Index
to evaluate applicants based
on a variety of factors, includ
ing race and gender. The TSI
was suspended Nov. 9 follow
ing the University’s decision
not to appeal the ruling in its
admissions lawsuit.
University admissions will
be based “almost exclusively
on demonstrated academic
achievement without regard
to race, gender, socioeconom
ic status, legacy, geography or
the various other factors that
have been employed here in
the recent past,” Adams said
in a statement to the
University Council Thursday.
Outside consultants and
legal counsels, as well as the
rp) negia —
V4/ ' IT solutions stcrt here —«
www.neflia.net
NEGIA is now offering
UGA Student Discounts
Student Internet Plan
Unlimited Dialup access to the internet
2 mailboxes • 2 mb server space
ONLY $63.40 per semester
Call NEGIA Today 706-546-57S7
Reference # ST 001
330 Research Drive Suite 250
Athens GA 30605
Sales ffinegia.net
University’s institutional
diversity committee, will lead
the continued evaluation of
the admissions process.
The decision to admit stu
dents based solely on aca
demic performance was
reached by University
President Michael Adams
and the Faculty Admissions
Committee.
The University will use a
formula of two-thirds high
school performance and one-
third standardized tests
when deciding whether to
admit an applicant.
A student’s “total person,”
which considers leadership
potential, student activities,
socioeconomic background
and demonstrated academic
achievement will be consid
ered by the admissions office,
Adams said in his statement.
Potential to succeed as
well as the applicant’s high
school will be looked at when
evaluating their application.
“It’s not a recognition of a
good high school or a bad
high school,” Director of
STUFF YOU CAN'T get
"HONE.
STOCK UP
™ X-KAS
nor
AT THE CORNER OF
iliegeaclatton
rm.Ii;xTgTlECOBM.CO>
706-369-9428
Undergraduate Admissions
Nancy McDuff said. “You’re
driven by how the class
before you has done.”
The University looks heav
ily at schools that send a
“critical mass” — at least 10
students — to Georgia state
schools.
The University’s two
exceptions to the academic
admissions procedure include
a small number of institution
al admits and varsity athletes
who meet SEC and NCAA
requirements.
The few dozen students
admitted on an institutional
basis have special talents in
areas like art, music or com
puting or graduated as the
valedictorian or salutatorian
of their class.
“Anybody who thinks
(institutional admits are)
their ticket is misleading
themselves,” Adams said. “If
anything, we want to be cau
tious about how we apply
that process.”
McDuff said the number of
minority students that have
applied to the University is
not known, explaining that
the admissions office has
only received about 30 per
cent of total expected
applications.
She said the University will
know more admissions statis
tics after the Jan. 15 applica
tion deadline.
ORlG//y
milHflKS m<&M IF©©®
m 5 Minutes
from Downtown!
706-548-4261
995 Hawthorne Ave. Located in Bell’s Plaza
7 Days a Week 3-7pm
Bar Appetizers
Domestic Bottles & Draft
(iyJfaOlmport Bottles & Draft
onse Wine
Champagne
(ftfjftywell Drinks
including. Red .Bull & Vodka
LADIES NIGHT
Reverse Cover
we pay yon $1 to walk in the door
Guinness Toast at 11:00pm!
Sunday
„ $2.50
Guinness
LIVE Irish Music
7:30-11:30
Inmb Dab
Athens, GA 30601
Hours: Mon-Tues 3pm-2am • Wed-Sat llam-2am • Sunday 5pm-12am
Free Continental Breakfast 8am-llam
Specials all morning on Bloody Marys,
White Russians, Mimosas, and Screwdrivers
8-9am tiffin 9-10am<S!ffit 10-11am<5^^)
During the Game
IOC WINGS
E# $4
99 Pitchers ofKillians Red, Bud, Bud Light
AS LONG AS THE DAWGS ARE WINNING!
(offer ends at the end of the game)