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The Red & Black | Monday, April 17, 2006 | 3
Atlanta contributing to poor Athens air quality
By AUBREY SMITH
bsmith@randb.com
As the temperature begins
to rise in Athens-Clarke
county, University students
may want to think twice
before going out on an after
noon jog due to air quality
issues.
“If there are asthmatic stu
dents who, like a lot of college
students, like to exercise in
the afternoon, they don’t
need to exercise on days of
high ozone in the afternoon,”
said Luke Naeher, a professor
of environmental epidemiolo
gy in the College of Public
Health.
The air in Athens-Clarke
County borders on crossing
the pollution threshold estab
lished by the Federal Clean Air
Act, said Dick Field, environ
mental coordinator for ACC.
If air quality further deteri
orates, Athens-Clarke
County will be classified as a
nonattainment area — a por
tion of the state not meeting
federal air quality standards
— and can be forced to
undertake a state-designed
plan already underway in the
metro-Atlanta area, he said.
ACC is taking steps to
make sure that doesn’t hap
pen.
“We are doing more than
other areas in that we have
cleaner burning fuel,” Field
said.
Although ACC has volun
tarily adopted cleaner-burn
ing fuel, it does not require
vehicle emissions testing or
improved gas-pump nozzles
that stop harmful vapors
from escaping into the
atmosphere — both parts of
the state-plan underway in
the metro-Atlanta area.
“For us to go beyond state
rules and require stricter
vehicle emissions testing
we’d have to get the state to
say OK and pass a local ordi
nance,” Field said. “Also,
someone would have to pay
for it whether through taxes
or industry. To do these
things takes community and
political support that so far
hasn’t been attempted.”
Although emissions test
ing and improved gas pumps
could improve air quality in
Athens, much of the county’s
pollution problems can be
attributed to its proximity to
Atlanta.
ACC’s air pollution issues
are “regional problems result
ing from being downwind of
the Atlanta airshed,” Naeher
said. “If you completely
removed everyone from
Athens-Clarke County we’d
still be borderline on particu
late matter,” Field said.
Regardless of where the
fault lies for its pollution,
ACC promotes air quality by
providing alternative trans-
EMISSIONS
More information on emissions
standards
www.epa.gov - Has information
on air pollution issues and com
munity involvement
www.airnow.gov - Has daily
local air quality indexes
portation, sidewalks, bike
lanes and zoning ordinances
to reduce urban sprawl, he
said.
Health center patients to receive gifts
This week, the University
Health Center will host the
6th Annual Patient
Appreciation Week, an oppor
tunity for staff to thank stu
dents for choosing the health
center for their health care
needs.
Students can stop by the
health center anytime during
the week to pick up free give
aways and are also invited to
participate in the Patient
Appreciation Week online
crossword puzzle. Correct
entries of the crossword will
be entered into a raffle to win
a football signed by the foot
ball team, a free UHC dental
cleaning or a free UHC mas
sage.
The first 100 participants
who submit correct cross
words will also win a prize
from one of the center’s
donors.
Sponsors of this year’s
Patient Appreciation Week
include Achim’s K-Bob,
Broad Street Bar & Grill,
Chick-Fil-A, Coca-Cola, Five
Points Deli, Five Star Day
Cafe, Frontier, FTX
Bookstore, Loco's Deli & Pub,
Papa John's Pizza, Smoothie
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King, The Red Zone,
University Bookstore and
Weaver D’s Delicious Fine
Foods.
For more information visit
the center’s Web site,
www.uhs.uga.edu
Civil rights activist
to give lecture
A Pulitzer Prize-winning
author and civil rights histori
an will deliver the Charter
Lecture today at 3:30 p.m. in
the University Chapel.
Taylor Branch will be
speaking on the topic,
“Democracy in Crisis: Martin
Luther King, Jr. and the
Future.”
Branch is the author of
“America in the King Years,”
a three-volume history of the
civil rights movement.
Branch has also written for
a variety of publications,
including The New York
Times Magazine and The
New Republic. He is a gradu
ate of the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill and the
Princeton Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and
International Affairs.
The lecture is free and
open to the public.
The Charter Lecture
Series, established in 1988,
was named to honor the
ideals expressed in the 1785
Charter that founded the
University. A committee of
senior faculty members
selects speakers of the first
rank for the series.
Additional information about
the Charter Lecture Series is
available at
www.uga.edu/provost/admn-
cal.htm.
Professor to speak
on industrialization
Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler
Professor of English emeritus
at Tulane University, will give
a lecture in Park Hall room
265 on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
The talk, entitled
“American Literary
Naturalism: A Re-introduc-
tion,” is sponsored by the
English department’s Eidson
Series and will focus on the
short works by Hamlin
Garland and Stephen Crane
and Theodore Dreiser’s novel
“Sister Carrie.”
Pizer will explore the ways
in which these writers are
critical of the dehumaniza
tion of an industrialized
America.
Among Pizer’s best-known
works are “Realism and
Naturalism in Nineteenth-
Century American
Literature,” “The Novels of
Theodore Dreiser: A Critical
Study,” and “The Theory and
Practice of American Literary
Naturalism: Selected Essays
and Reviews.”
He also is the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship as
well as senior awards the
American Civil Liberties
Union.
Pizer has two books in
press: an edition of previously
unknown letters of Theodore
Dreiser and a documentary
history of Dreiser's “An
American Tragedy.”
The event is free and open
to the public.
—Sara Pauff
Lack of evidence causes charges to be dropped
Due to lack of evidence,
charges against Gene
Whitner Milner III have been
dropped.
The former University stu
dent and owner of the house
where Lewis Fish was just
hours prior to his death, was
originally charged with pos
session of marijuana and
drug-related objects.
“Milner was out of the
state when the warrant
search was executed,” Athens
Clarke County Solicitor-
General Mo Wiltshire said.
Milner verified that he was
in Colorado taking classes at
the time the warrant was
issued, in an e-mail to The
Red & Black sent in
February.
Also, Milner never gave a
confession, making it difficult
for police to charge him,
Wiltshire said.
Charges remain against
the other six individuals who
were present at the house
during the search, four of
whom are scheduled for state
court arraignment this
Tuesday.
“The cases will be judged
on an individual basis,” but
their presence at the crime
scene make their conviction
more probable, Wiltshire
said.
— Aubrey Smith
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RESEARCH: Despite
setbacks, AHRC
shines as facility
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are due to zoonotic
pathogens, or pathogens
that can spread from ani
mals to humans, he wrote.
“There is an acute need
for comprehensive
approaches to identify, pre
vent and control zoonotic
diseases, emerging infec
tious diseases and select
agents,” Tripp wrote. “The
AHRC provides the facili
ties and associated person
nel to do this.”
AHRC was first sched
uled to open in 1998 after
two years of construction.
But specific features for
air flow, water and waste
treatment in the laborato
ries resulted in construction
problems.
“(Some features) didn’t
work the way it was expect
ed to work,” Dickerson
said.
While finger-pointing was
being resolved between the
design and building teams
in state courts, regulations
for some of the laboratories
changed, Dickerson said.
“The facility needed to
be essentially gutted and
rebuilt, modified or retrofit
ted to meet the new stan
dards,” Tripp wrote.
Instead of taking bids for
builders separate from the
design team as in the initial
process, Dickerson said a
design and build team
working together brought
the AHRC up to compli
ance.
Despite its setbacks,
Dickerson called the
approximately 75,000
square feet, $40-million
building the “jewel in the
crown” of research facilities
at the University.
For more information on
the AHRC, visit the center’s
Web site,
www.vet.uga.edu/ahrc.
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3:30 pm—6:30pm
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the gap between the number of minority
students in our system and the number of
minority teachers.
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outstanding candidates for certified
positions. The spring 2006 Minority Teacher
Job Fair is a drop-in format. Please bring
multiple resumes. Every school in the
Walton County Public School System will be
represented by administrators with authority
to extend job offers.
In order to be in position for hire, candidates
must have completed an on line application.
Your application file must include three
reference forms, last two years’ annual
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