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2A Thursday, August 30, 2007 | The Red & Black UGA TODAY ► Groundbreaking Ceremony. Griffin Campus Student Learning Center. Other Griffin campus buildings open for tours before and after the groundbreaking cer emony. Reception immediately follows. 10 a.m. UGA Griffin Campus, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin >- President Michael F. Adams speaks to the Griffin Rotary Club. Noon. The Griffin Elks Club building >- Bulldog Book Club. Sponsored by the English Department and the Library. Today's book: Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22.” All welcome. Blue card event. 3:35 p.m. Main Library student lounge. Contact: fteague@uga.edu ► Concrete Leaf-Casting. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden. Make a big statement in your garden using elephant ear leaves to cast concrete forms which can be used as birdbaths, in water features, or as garden accents. Members $22; non members $25.6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Botanical Garden Visitor Center, classroom A. Contact: 706-542-6156, dbmitchl@uga.edu ► Volleyball at Jacksonville. 7 p.m. Jacksonville, FL. ► National Bio and Agro- Defense Facility Information Session. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and the Athens Grow Green Coalition. A meeting dedi cated to environmental issues related to the proposed NBAF facility. Georgia is one of five finalists selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the NBAF, anew national facility that would address the federal government's need for research and develop ment space to meet threats from infectious diseases of animals and livestock that can also trans mit to humans. Researchers at the NBAF will focus on develop ing tests to detect diseases and countermeasures such as vac cines to prevent diseases. The Athens site under consideration is University of Georgia-owned property on South Milledge Avenue near Whitehall Road. The University of Georgia is the lead of the Georgia Consortium for Health and Agro Security, the statewide collaboration working to bring NBAF to Georgia. 7 - 8:30 p.m. Rooms K and L, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Contact: 706-542-5941 ► Whitewater Kayak Clinic. Sponsored by Georgia Outdoor Recreation. S6O students, $65 non-students 5 p.m. Through Saturday, Sept. 1. Multiple. Contact: choppie2@uga.edu ► Project Riverway 2007. Sponsored by the School of Environmental Design and the Fanning Institute. Faculty & stu dents showcase their work from the service-learning landscape architecture course. During the summer they developed projects designed to address the needs of communities along the Chattahoochee River from Fort Gaines, Georgia to Chattahoochee, Florida. Reception and gallery opening Aug. 30,5 - 7 p.m., 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Through Wednesday, Sept. 12. Gl4 Caldwell Hall: the Circle Gallery. Contact: 706-542-8292, rds@uga.edu or 706-542-0856, bivins@fanning.uga.edu >■ LSAT Test Prep Course. Sponsored by the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Get a score on the LSAT that gets you into the law school of your choice. Book and tests included in $799 course fee. Pay before Aug. 23 for a SSO early registration discount. Improved LSAT score guaranteed or your next course for free. Tuesdays and Thursdays 6 - 9 p.m. Through Tuesday, Sept. 25. The Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Contact: Professional & Personal Development, 706-542-3537 or www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/ppd ► Alpha Kappa Psi Coed Professional Business Fraternity. Fall Rush. All majors accepted.s4s South Milledge Ave. Contact: www.terry.uga.edu/akpsi - Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com. Listings are published on a first-come, first-serve basis. CORRECTIONS In Wednesday’s edi tion, a photo caption accompanying the story “Pom star and pastor go head-to head” was incorrect. The pastor’s name is Craig Gross. Editor-in-Chief: Juanita Cousins (706) 433-3027 jcousins@randb.com Managing Editor: Matthew Grayson (706) 433-3026 mgrayson@randb.com Officials request Sen. resignation WASHINGTON ldaho Sen. Larry Craig’s political support eroded significantly Wednesday as three fellow Republicans in Congress called for his resignation and party leaders pushed him from senior committee posts. The White House expressed its disappointment, too, and nary a word of support for the 62-year-old lawmaker, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge stemming from an undercover police operation in an airport men’s room. Craig “represents the Republican party,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the first fellow GOP member of Congress to urge a resigna tion. Craig said Tuesday he had committed no wrongdoing and shouldn’t have pleaded guilty. He said he has only recently retained a lawyer to advise him in the case that Former security guard dead No foul play, said coroner ATLANTA Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said. “There’s no suspicion whatsoever of any type of foul play. He had been at home sick since the end of February with kidney prob lems,” said Meriwether County Coroner Johnny Worley. The GBI planned to do an autopsy Thursday, Bankhead said. Lin Wood, Jewell’s long time attorney, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that he was “devas tated” by the news. He declined to comment fur ther, saying he was in New York trying to get back to Atlanta. Jewell initially was hailed as a hero for spotting a sus picious backpack in a park and moving people out of harm’s way just before a bomb exploded during a concert at the Atlanta Summer Olympics. The blast killed one and injured 111 others. Three days after the bombing, an unattributed report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described him as “the focus” of the investiga tion. As recently as last year, Jewell was working as a sheriff’s deputy. Guitarist slammed, demands apology STOCKHOLM, Sweden Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has demanded an apology from Swedish newspapers for their scathing reviews of the group’s performance in the country earlier this month. Tabloids Expressen and Aftonbladet gave thumbs down to the Aug. 3 concert at Ullevi stadium in Goteborg, with Expressen suggesting Richards was “superdrunk” on stage. “This is a first!” the 63-year-old rock star wrote in a letter published by Stockholm daily Dagens Nyheter. “Never before have I risen to the bait of a bad review. “But this time ... I have to stand up ... for our fans all over Sweden ... to say that you owe them, and us, an apology.” Dagens Nyheter said it received the letter from concert organizer EMA Telstar. Company head Thomas Johansson told The Associated Press that Richards wrote the letter and gave it to him after reading translations of the Swedish reviews. “There were 56,000 peo ple in Ullevi stadium who bought a ticket to our con cert —and experienced a completely different show than the one you ‘reviewed,’” the letter said. The Wire threatens to write an igno minious end to a lifetime in public office. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Norm Coleman of Minnesota joined Hoekstra in urging Craig to step down. McCain spoke out on an interview with CNN. “My opinion is that when you plead guilty to a crime, you shouldn’t serve. That’s not a moral stand. That’s not a holier-than-thou. It’s just a factual situation.” Coleman said in a written statement, “Senator Craig pled guilty to a crime involv ing conduct unbecoming a senator.” For a second consecutive day, GOP Senate leaders stepped in, issuing a state ment that said Craig had “agreed to comply with lead ership’s request” to step down temporarily as the top Republican on the Veterans Affairs Committee as well as *' (I Wt m & Si' GREG GIBSON j Associated Press ▲ Photographers surround Richard Jewell prior to his testifying before a House Judiciary Crime sub committee hearing on the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, July 30, 1997. Jewell, a former secu rity guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. NATION Legless man gets third DUI charge ABBOTSFORD, Wis. Police cited a legless man and his friend with drunken driving the third and sec ond such arrests for the men, respectively saying the disabled man was at the wheel while his friend worked the pedals. Harvey J. Miller, 43, was steering the 1985 Chevrolet truck and Edwin H. Marzinske, 55, was operat ing the pedals when they were pulled over Aug. 18, according to a police report. f • " ill| BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL | Scanpk Sweden ▲ Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards plays at the Uiievi stadium in Goteborg, Sweden, Aug. 3. Richards has demanded an apology from Swedish newspapers for their scathing reviews of the group’s performance during the concert. NAMES & FACES “How dare you cheapen the experience for them and for the hundreds of thousands of other people across Sweden who weren’t at Ullevi and have only your ‘review’ to go on. “Write the truth. It was a good show.” In his review, Aftonbladet’s music writer Markus Larsson gave the NEWS TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD two appropriations panels. “This is not a decision we take lightly, but we believe this is in the best interest of the Senate until this situa tion is resolved by the ethics committee,” said the state ment, issued in the name of Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the party leader, and others. Tuesday, the leaders jumped ahead of Craig’s appearance before television cameras in Idaho to announce they had asked the ethics committee look into the case. Associated Press ► Senator Larry Craig, R-ldaho, left, speaks to reporters with his wife Suzanne Tuesday after noon in Boise, Idaho. Under fire from leaders of his own party, Craig is accused of lewd conduct in a men’s room. Miller, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, told offi cers he had too much to drink, but argued he wasn’t really driving since Marzinske was on the brake and the accelerator, police said. Marzinske was arrested on the same charge. Miller received a citation for a third drunken driving offense, and Marzinske his second. Both also were cited for driving after their licens es had been revoked. The two do not have list ed phone numbers, and police and court officials could not immediately say Wednesday whether they had attorneys. Associated Press concert a score of two on a five-point scale, and said Richards appeared “a bit confused.” “I am not going to apolo gize for my subjective opin ,ion,” Larsson told the paper’s Web edition on Wednesday. “It is Keith who should apologize. After all it costs around $145 to see a rock star who can hardly handle the (guitar) riff to ‘Brown Sugar’ any more.” Associated Press MIKE VOGT | Idaho Press-Tribune Venezuelan pres, seeks to facilitate hostage exchange BOGOTA, Colombia Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is taking on a risky role as a mediator in Colombia’s hostage standoff, stepping squarely into his neigh bor’s civil conflict and provoking optimism among the families of those long held captive by rebels. At the invitation of President Alvaro Uribe, Chavez comes to Colombia on Friday to discuss how he might facilitate an exchange of imprisoned rebels for hostages. “I hope we can make it so these people return safe and sound to their homes and that this humanitarian agree ment comes through,” the Venezuelan presi dent said last week in Caracas during a meeting with the grate ful families of the hos tages. But Colombia’s civil conflict is complex, and Chavez got a rude awak ening when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, rejected his first con crete proposal, an offer of Venezuela as the site for the swap. Chavez unabashedly targets the U.S. govern ment and his detractors in countries from Mexico to Spain with incendi ary rhetoric, but has sel dom involved himself so directly with the inter nal affairs of another nation. He has long sought to maintain cor dial relations with the U.S.-allied Uribe despite their ideological differ ences. If he succeeds in Colombia, he could expand his influence and improve his image. Italian window washers banned FLORENCE, Italy Florence, Renaissance city of art and history, is trying to clean up its streets by cracking down on squeegee men, saying they were caus ing “great danger” to drivers and pedestrians alike. Mayor Leonardo Domenici issued a decree last week to force the squeegee men people who wash driv ers’ windshields and demand payment off the streets, imposing fines and detention of up to three months. The decree, which is valid through Oct. 30 but can be renewed, alleged the squeegee men were hindering traffic, inconveniencing pedestrians and abus ing drivers, particularly women. While the measure was applauded by some, leftist politicians said Florence was going after the wrong people. “If there are attacks against people, they WORLD have to be stopped,” Social Solidarity Minister Paolo Ferrero told Associated Press Television News. “But to consider being a squeegee in itself a crime, it is wrong.” Jean Leonard Touadi, a security adviser for Rome’s City Hall, said the problem was real in many big cities. “In very recent time, these peo ple have become very aggressive, mainly with women,” Touadi said. The Florence crack down was reminiscent of the one championed by former New York City mayor and now presi dential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, whose pursuit of such minor “quality of life” offenders won him acclaim. Statue honors ‘great liberator’ LONDON lt was 1962 and Nelson Mandela was on the run. Hunted by South African authorities and gearing up for armed struggle against his country’s apartheid gov ernment, Mandela visit ed London seeking money, training and support. It was then that he and Oliver Tambo, his partner in the anti apartheid struggle, walked through Parliament Square sur veying the statuary trib utes to the British Empire’s great and good. The figure of South African states man Jan Smuts caught their eye. •“When we saw the statue of Gen. Smuts near Westminster Abbey, Oliver and I joked that perhaps someday there would be a statue of us in its stea'd,” Mandela wrote in his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.” Forty years later, Mandela returned to the square Wednesday to watch the unveiling of his own statue across from Smuts’ andjoin the ranks of Britain’s most revered heroes. “Nelson Mandela is one of the most coura geous and best-loved men of all time,” Prime Minister Gordon Brown said of the 89-year-old Nobel Peace Prize win ner, who has come to personify his country’s struggle to end apart heid. Brown said it was fit ting that Mandela, whom he called “the great liberator,” joined statues of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill in the square. * Associated Press