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Norway celebrates minister’s gay marriage
OSLO, Norway — In a breakthrough for gay rights and a
show of tolerance by Norway’s political right, the country’s
Conservative finance minister has married his longtime
companion.
The union, first reported Tuesday, came a year after Per-
Kristian Foss announced he was gay — and won a standing
ovation from his party’s Oslo chapter.
Foss married Jan Erik Knarbakk earlier this month,
becoming the first member of a Norwegian government to
enter a legally binding gay partnership. The Finance
Ministry confirmed the wedding took place at the
Norwegian Embassy in Sweden, but said Foss declined fur
ther comment.
“Yes, we entered a partnership at the embassy in
Stockholm on Friday, Jan. 4,” Foss was quoted as telling
the Norwegian business newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv.
“But beyond that, it is a private matter.”
Norway prides itself on its progressiveness on gay rights.
In 1993, it became the second country, after Denmark, to
legally recognize homosexual unions. Now, same-sex mar
riages are allowed in many western European countries and
in other places, including parts of Australia. In 2000,
Vermont became the first — and only — U.S. state to recog
nize same-sex unions.
HUD names seven
empowerment zones
WASHINGTON — Seven
problem-ridden communi
ties received empowerment-
zone designations from the
federal government
Tuesday, allowing them to
start tapping into special
tax and regulatory breaks to
lure employers and ignite
economic growth.
The zones chosen from 35
applicants are located in
Pulaski County, Ark., home
to Little Rock; Fresno, Calif.;
Jacksonville, Fla.; Syracuse
and Yonkers, N.Y.;
Oklahoma City and San
Antonio, the Department of
Housing and Urban
Development said.
“This critical partnership
between the public and pri
vate sectors will give local
businesses in distressed
neighborhoods an economic
boost to help drive revital
ization, provide jobs and
ultimately build a founda
tion for stronger communi
ties,” HUD Secretary Mel
Martinez said.
The choices are based on
an area’s poverty level,
unemployment rate or pop
ulation loss and the commu
nity’s plan for using the des
ignation to make itself
attractive to businesses.
Businesses in empower
ment zones qualify for tax
credits for hiring local resi
dents, those from groups
with traditionally high
unemployment or longtime
welfare recipients,' higher
business expense write-off
limits, tax deductions for
pollution cleanup, tax-
exempt bonds to secure low-
cost expansion loans, and
some relief from capital-
gains taxes.
ATV tracks in forest
costly to repair
ATLANTA — Illegal trails
created by all-terrain vehi
cles in Georgia’s national
forest have caused a prob
lem that would cost $1 mil
lion to fix, a recently
released report says.
The report, released
Monday by nonprofit
Georgia Forestwatch, says
the U.S. Forest Service esti
mates there are more than
550 miles of illegal trails in
the 865,000 acres of the
Chattahoochee-Oconee
National Forest.
A botanist spent 12
weeks last fall surveying
woods and waterways in
north Georgia. Of the 59
routes he surveyed in the
Chattahoochee, he found
illegal ATV use on 67 per
cent, including designated
wilderness, and trails
restricted to pedestrians,
the report said.
“It highlights just how
big the problem is and how
out of control it is,” said
Georgia Forestwatch direc
tor Brent Martin. “The
Forest Service is woefully
inadequate when it comes to
law enforcement and you’ve
got to have better enforce
ment to get a handle on
things.”
The Forest Service has
been working on a new ATV
policy for the past several
months but is nowhere close
to finishing it, said Larry
Luckett, recreation staff offi
cer for the Chattahoochee-
Oconee National Forests.
Luckett said there have
been more than 5,000 writ
ten comments from people
who use the woods for vari
ous forms of recreation.
Man charged with
robbing airport ATM
MCDONOUGH — Henry
County police say an airline
ticket agent tried to rob the
same automated teller
machine three times in
about two weeks — with a
drill, a crowbar and finally
by punching it.
The third attempt — on
Dec. 30 — set off an alarm
that notified police.
Timothy Lloyd Lee, 32,
was in the Heritage Bank
parking lot in McDonough
when police arrived, Sgt.
David Ruiz said. The officers
let him go because there was
no proof he had tampered
with the machine.
After reviewing the ATM
videotape of the three rob
bery attempts, police saw a
car similar to the one Lee
was driving, Ruiz said.
Convenience store
manager killed
COMMERCE — A conve
nience store manager was
killed this weekend while
trying to help a co-worker
who was being robbed in
northeast Georgia.
Laynette Fincher, 52, of
Commerce was shot to
death Saturday night.
Commerce police said
Fincher was on the phone
with the clerk at Presto’s
Convenience Store about
10:15 p.m. Saturday when a
man walked in to rob the
clerk. Instead of calling
police, the woman drove to
the store to try to help her
co-worker.
Police said the suspect
fired multiple shots into
Fincher’s car as it pulled in
front of the store.
James Willie Watkins, 26,
was arrested at a South
Carolina motel Sunday
night in connection with the
incident.
— Associated Press
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Relay raises money for cancer
By JENNIFER MOORE
jmoore@randb.com
Relay for Life kicks off tonight with a
party, which starts at 7 in the Georgia
Hall of the Tate Student Center.
Andy Huff, a senior from
Montgomery, Ala., and Relay’s publicity
chairman, said the event serves to intro
duce people to Relay and inform those
who are interested in starting teams.
Bulldog kicker Billy Bennett will
speak at the event, and a video from last
year’s relay will be shown, Huff said.
Relay for Life raises money to do can
cer research and is basically a “big party
celebrating cancer survivors,” said Scott
Lusk, a junior from Rowena who has
chaired the event the past two years.
Teams raise money during the
semester and continuously keep a team
member walking or running around the
track the night of the relay. In addition
to the actual relay, Lusk said there also
is live entertainment, bands, games and
ceremonies.
Lusk said the event was called the
“most diverse event at UGA other than
a football game” last year and incorpo
rates many groups of people who are
working toward a common cause.
“Cancer affects old and young, all
races and creeds ... it affects college stu
dents,” Huff said.
The University’s chapter of Relay for
Life is the first completely student-orga
nized Relay in the country. Last year, it
surpassed Dance Marathon ter become
the largest money-raising philanthropy
on campus with $174,000, Huff said.
He also said he has been traveling
around the country talking to other col
leges about how they can start their own
chapters.
“The (UGA and Georgia Tech) com
mittees have been bantering back and
forth about who will raise more money,”
Huff said. “It will be a little friendly
competition.”
Relay for Life is set for April 12-13 at
the University’s Spec Towns track.
Shedd replaces
Dyer; new VP
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
awomack@randb.com
The University named long
time employee Peter Shedd
interim vice president for
Instruction.
Shedd
will replace
Thomas
Dyer, who
resigned
last fall
to resume
teaching
and res
earch.
Shedd’s
responsibil
ities will be
based on
managing and aiding the
instruction of University stu
dents.
“I will assist the University
campus in the discovery and
implementation of opportuni
ties for students and faculty,”
he said.
The knowledge Shedd
gained through spending most
of his career at the University
may enhance his abilities to
serve as interim.
“We’re pleased to have Peter
Shedd move into this role,” said
Provost Karen Holbrook in a
news release. “His knowledge of
the office and excellent working
relationships with faculty and
staff will allow all activities
to be sustained and move
forward while the search
progresses.”
Shedd holds degrees from
the Terry College of Business
and the University’s law school.
He has served in many
capacities at the University,
including a legal studies faculty
member in the business college,
an associate dean and assistant
to interim president, Henry
King Stanford and his succes
sor, Charles Knapp.
“I am pleased to have the
opportunity to serve the
University in this capacity,”
Shedd said.
Between 1995 and 1997,
Shedd was director of the
educational programs for
the University System’s
Consortium on Negotiation and
Conflict Resolution.
Shedd currently is a
mediator with the University
System’s Mediation Program
and the University’s Alternative
Dispute Resolution Task Force.
He is also a member of
the American Arbitration
Association’s Panel of
Arbitrators, according to a
news release.
Shedd was named 1993
Professor of the Year for the
state by the Council for
Advancement and Support of
Education and received the
Josiah Meigs Award for
Teaching Excellence.
He also has served as chair
of the executive committee
with the University Council.
As interim, Shedd will serve
until a permanent successor for
the position is chosen.
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BUDGET: Georgia
leads Southeast
in school funding
Georgia
ranks No. 19
> From Page 1
“The 4.4 percent increase
is about what we expected,
but we hoped it would be a
little more this year because
of enrollment growth,” he
said. “We will not know what
the University system has
allocated to us in state funds
for 2002-03 until April.”
Georgia ranked No. 19 in
state allocations in the report,
topping Tennessee, Alabama,
South Carolina and Florida.
Last year, Georgia ranked No.
12, while Florida came in at
No. 4.
BUDGET STATS
University of Georgia
(year) (state funds) (% change)
2001-02
$428,795
+4.4
2000-01
$410,651
+3.5
Georgia Tech
2001-02
$186,354
-4.3
2000-01
$184,805
+6.6
Georgia State University
2001-02
$165,650
+4.9
2000-01
$159,281
+0.7
Georgia Southern
2001-02
$73,777
+6.2
2000-01
$69,470
-0.4
Source: Chronicle of Higher
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