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Newspaper Page Text2 Wednesday, September 5, 2007 | The Red & Black UGA TODAY > Meeting. Arch Foundation Executive Committee. 10 a.m. UGA Atlanta Alumni Center, 3333 Peachtree Rd NE, Suite 210. Contact: 706-542-8385 > CSO Fall Activities Fair. Sponsored by the Center for Student Organizations. Department of Campus Life. More than 100 registered student organizations will host exhibits to recruit members and disseminate information. 10:30 a.m -3 p.m. Tate Student Center Plaza and Lawn. Contact: 706-542-6396, jhpodvin@uga.edu >- Bulldog Book Club. Sponsored by the English Department and the Library. Today’s book: Joseph Heller's Catch-22. All welcome. Blue card event. 12:30 p.m. Jittery Joe s in Student Learning Center. Contact: fteague@uga.edu >- Republican Trivia Night Sponsored by UGA College Republicans. All may join the UGA College Republicans for a night of Republican trivia. Winning teams will be awarded prizes and food will be provided. 7 p.m. 214 Student Learning Center. Contact: 404-643-2844, dballard@uga.edu >- Peabody Awards DVD Screening. Sponsored by George Foster Peabody Awards. Screening of this year’s Peabody Awards ceremony that featured host Bob Costas and recipients including Spike Lee (“When the Levees Broke”), Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs") and Aaron McGruder (“The Boondocks”). 7 -10 p.m. 102 Student Learning Center. Contact: 706-542-8983, nholston@uga.edu > Campus Cats Presentation. Sponsored by Speak Out for Species. Kelly Bettinger will dis cuss the Campus Cats program. 7:30 p.m. 245 Student Learning Center 245. Contact: sos@uga.edu, www.uga.edu/sos - Please send submissions for UGAToday to news@randb.com. Listings are published on a first come, first-serve basis. CORRECTIONS In Monday’s edition, there was a spelling error in the headline of a story about the University Police bomb squad. The police use a robot to defuse bombs. Editor-in-chief: Juanita Cousins (706) 433-3027 jcousins@randb.com Managing Editor: Matthew Grayson (706) 433-3026 mgrayson@randb.com A Monday - Wednesday M $1 00 Lite Drafts M SI 50 Domestic Bottles S2 5 ° Well Pints i s3°° Bombs I s4°° Power Hour 9-1 Opm W mf Hsl 00 Domestic Bottles & Wells M M m ■ 10-1 lpm 1 J M ■ s2°° Domestic Bottles & Wells f | A ' f| www.myspace.com, firehouseinathens fl YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE interested in getting involved at UGA. Come learn about hundreds of registered student organizations at UGA, with topics from culture and hobbies to politics, sports, and religion. Student organizations are a great way to get involved on campus! ff M CEWTEH FOft STUP6HT OftGAUgATKWS IJI tffCampusLife I W- ■ VK'*' 4fca-v/ |*l ■ Dtvwioo of Student Affaire Millionaire pilot fails to return home, still missing RENO, Nev. Teams searched rugged terrain Tuesday for a plane carry ing aviation adventurer Steve Fossett, the first per son to circle the world solo in a balloon, but crews had little idea where the plane might be, federal officials said. Fossett took off in the single engine Bellanca at 8:45 a.m. Monday at a pri vate airstrip in western Nevada and didn’t return as scheduled. A friend reported him missing, said lan Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Maryland. “The Civil Air Patrol is looking for him. One prob lem is he doesn’t appear to have filed a flight plan,” Gregor said. “They are working on some leads, but they don’t know where he is right now,” Gregor said. The search for the mil lionaire entrepreneur was being coordinated by the Air Force’s Rescue Gallons of uranium spill in plant, kept secret KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reversed a three-year secrecy policy and said Tuesday it would release hundreds of docu ments involving the trou bled operations of a Tennessee nuclear fuel processing plant. The commission said it had directed its staff to review and make public some 1,900 documents that had been kept secret under the veil of national security involving Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. in Erwin and BWX Technologies in Lynchburg, Va. Both plants supply fuel to the U.S. Navy’s nuclear fleet. The NRC, worried about releasing sensitive information, has withheld all documents about the two facilities since 2004, including a report on a potentially lethal spill of highly enriched uranium in 2006 at Erwin. “While we must contin ue to be mindful of the national security aspects of these facilities, we must also remember that our regulatory oversight pro cess should be performed in an open and transpar- The Wire Coordination Center in Langley, Va., Gregor said. The Nevada Division of Emergency Management and the Nevada Highway Patrol were assisting. Fossett, of Beaver Creek, Colo., took off from an air strip at hotelman Barron Hilton’s Flying M Ranch, about 70 miles southeast of Reno in the south end of the Smith Valley, Trooper Chuck Allen said. “They don’t know exact ly where he was going,” Allen said. A telephone message left for a Peggy Fossett in Beaver Creek was not immediately returned. Steve Fossett is married to the former Peggy Viehland of Richmond Heights, Mo. In 2002, Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone in a balloon. In two weeks, his balloon flew 19,428.6 miles around the Southern Hemisphere. —Associated Press NEWS BRIEFS ent manner that instills public trust,” NRC Chairman Dale Klein wrote in his ballot supporting the policy change. The decision followed congressional pressure and an outcry from envi ronmentalists and resi dents near the Tennessee facility after the NRC revealed the uranium leak in April as part of the NRC’s annual report to Congress. The spill was one of three major inci dents involving NRC licensees in 2006. No one was injured when nine gallons of highly enriched uranium spilled onto a floor at the private ly held Nuclear Fuel Services plant on March 6, 2006. However, the NRC said the solution could have accumulated in such a way as to cause an uncontrolled nuclear reac tion. “It was likely that at least one worker would have received an exposure high enough to cause acute health effects or death,” the report said. NEWS TOP STORIES FROM AROUND THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD DAVID DYSON | Associated Press ▲ Steve Fossett, right, is kissed by Richard Branson after an emergency landing on Feb. 11, 2006. Fossett and his plane are currently missing. The incident was civil ian operation side, where surplus highly enriched uranium is converted into commercial reactor fuel for the Tennessee Valley Authority. New ‘View’ star defends Vick NEW YORK So much for the sedate alternative to Rosie O’Donnell on “The View.” ■ Whoopi Goldberg used her first day on daytime chat show Tuesday to defend foot . ball star UULDHLKIi Michael Vick in his dogfighting case. Goldberg said that “from where he comes from” in the South, dog fighting isn’t that unusual. “It’s like cockfighting in Puerto Rico,” she said. “There are certain things that are indicative to cer tain parts of the country.” The Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded guilty to federal dogfighting charges last week, admit ting that he provided money for a dogfighting ring that operated on his Virginia property and ' Iri.B^t : SSS s£gs ;'" ;r^9|HHK| ' . •* * ' '■ *"** rw ** ; idk ’■; iTf&L ■ *■ * vC " 4f helped kill six or eight pit buUs. Goldberg was select ed by series creator Barbara Walters to replace O’Donnell, whose stormy tenure on the ABC pro gram lasted less than a year. In the Vick discussion, Goldberg served notice that she won’t shy away from controversy. Co-host Joy Behar lobked horrified at Goldberg. “How about dog torture and dog mur dering?” Behar asked. For many people, dogs are sport, Goldberg replied, and it appeared it took awhile for Vick to realize that he was up against serious charges. “I just thought it was interesting, because it seemed like a light went off in his head when he realized this was some thing that the entire coun try didn’t appreciate,” she said. Vick has been suspend ed indefinitely by the National FootbaU League and will be sentenced on the dogfighting charges in December. Twin hurricanes rock two coasts LA CEIBA, Honduras Hurricane Felix slammed into Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast as a record-setting Category 5 storm Tuesday, PLEASE JOIN US FOR A vineyard vines” martha’s vineyard Fall Trunk Show Friday, September 7 th • 10 am - Saturday, September Bth8 th • 10“" - 2 pm at f 9l george mbsons V —' MENSWEAR SINCE 1964 Wg 1059 Baxter Street • Athens, GA 30606 flSSBfc 706.548.4663 • www.georgegibsons.com whipping metal rooftops through the air like razors and forcing thousands to flee. Hurricane Henrietta made for a direct hit on the Cabo resorts of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. Twin Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes making landfall on the same day is unprecedented, according to National Hurricane Center records dating back to 1949. The closest comparison happened at 5 a.m. on Aug. 24,1992, when Hurricane Andrew devas tated southern Florida 23 hours after Hurricane Lester hit Baja California, Mexico. “The winds are horri ble,” Red Cross official Claudio Vanegas said by phone from the Nicaraguan town of Puerto Cabezas shortly after Felix struck land nearby with 160 mph winds. “They send roofs flying through the air, so we aren’t going outside because it is too danger ous.” Felix landed around dawn, destroying many homes, before weakening to a Category 2 storm. “There are some that are nothing more than a few remaing walls,” he said. Only two weeks earlier, Hurricane Dean struck Mexico further up the Caribbean coast. Associated Press

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The Red and Black (Athens, Ga.) 1893-current, September 05, 2007, Page 2, Image 2