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NOVEMBER 16, 2000
VIGG Children’s Medical Center wins design award
The Children’s Medical Center
f MCG Health Care has been
amed awinnerin the 15" annual
Jesign Awards competition spon
ored by Modern Healthcare maga
ineand the American Institute of
srchitects’ Academy of Architec
ure for Health. According to the
udges for the 2000 Design Awards
Jompetition, the overriding crite
ia in selecting this year’s win
-lers were sensitivity to patient
leeds and the integrity of design.
Natural light, warm surroundings
ind an environment conducive to
lealing were other key criteria
ased in selecting the winning fa
slities.
“This prestigious national award
is further evidence that the
Children’s Medical Center is suc
ceeding in our goal of combining
high tech with high touch,” com
mented Don Snell, president and
CEO of MCG Health, Inc. “The
CMCisnotjustanattractive build
ing, it’s a place that was architec
turally designed to enhance fam
ily-centered patient care.”
“This recognition is even more
special because the architects’in
spiration came from real children
and families who sat in dozens of
meetings with us and shared what
was important to them in a
children’s hospital,” explained
Patricia Sodomka, executive vice
president of MCG Health, Inc.
“Features like having a patient
UGA to name site
in honor of first
black students
ATHENS, Ga.
(AP) University of Georgia plans
to name a 95-year-old building in
honor of the first black students to
enroll at the school in 1961.
University President Michael F.
Adams said naming the Academic
Building for Charlayne Hunter-
Gault and Hamilton Holmes com
memorates one of the milestones
in the university’s history.
“When Charlayne Hunter and
Hamilton Holmes walked through
the Arch and registered for classes
in the Academic Building, the mis
sion and direction of the Univer
sity of Georgia were forever
changed,” he said.
On Jan. 7, 1961, Hunter-Gault
and Holmes walked into the Aca
demic Building to register for
classes, thus ending 160 years of
segregation at the institution.
Hunter-Gault is CNN bureau
chief in Johannesburg, South Af
rica. Holmes, who died in 1995,
was a prominent Atlanta orthope
dic surgeon.
Recount blocked
From page one
that included hand-counted totals
in a few precincts.
Intheirletters to Harris, thecoun
ties cited several reasons for need
ingtheextended time. But allagreed
that one week was simply not
enough time to go through hun
dreds of thousands of ballots.
“Clearly, the results of this
manual recount could affect the
sutcome of this very close presiden
sial race,” wrote Judge Charles
Burton, the chairman of the Palm
Beach County Canvassing Commis
sion.
Harris said there was nothing in
Floridalaw or court cases that would
llow those counties to submit any
;otals after Tuesday’s deadline.
The counties’ “requests are in
sufficient to warrant waiver of the
Inambiguous filing deadline,” she
said Wednesday night.
Harris promised to certify a win
-ler in the election this Saturday
ifter overseas absentee ballots are
:ollected and counted. But she ac
<nowledged she may not be able to.
“Thisschedule, of course, issubject
‘0 judicial intervention,” she said.
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MCG Health, Inc. vice president and chief operating officer
Patricia Sodomka (L) and president and CEO Don Snell hold
plaque awarded to the MCG Children’s Medical Center for its
architectural design.
room for each child with sleeping
space for two parents, outdoor
playandrest areas, artwork hung
at a child’s eye level, and furnish
ing the hospital with colorful
childsize couches and chairs are
all elements that were suggested
by our pediatric patients, their
families, and other members of
the community.”
“The computer chips were my
idea,” proudly stated Kevin Toelle,
now 15 years old, who has served
since 1996 on the Children’s Medi
cal Center Advisory Committee,
now called Kids’s Art. The high
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tech look of the CMC is accom
plished in part by the repetition of
computer chips on the exterior
walls of the building and in the
ceiling of the elevators. Another
favorite feature that was inspired
by the Committee is the Dinosaur
Wall. Children can trace around
the shapes etched into the con
crete wall with their fingers and
marvel at the sheer size of the
creatures. These are just two of
the many examples of how, in
designing the hospital, the archi
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healing process.
“In designing the CMC our firm
experimented with the creative
integration of nature and technol
ogy,”said architect Betsy Beaman.
“We incorporated the beauty and
richnessthat nature affords, while
unabashedly weavinginto the en
vironment a creative and playful
use of technology.” According to
Beaman, research has show that
recuperativeimagery, ratherthan
institutional environments, can
have a positive impact on the well
being and recovery rates of pa
tients and that art, music and
other forms of entertainment can
reduce a child’s perception of pain
by as much as 50 percent.
Competition judge Arthur
TuttledJr. stated, “The design team
was able to anticipate the special
needs of children and provide an
ideaenvironment for care.” Simi
larlyimpressed,Judge David Moon
commented, “This exceptional
project creates a childlike sense of
wonder, while not being juvenile
in its approach.” In their article
ontheawards, Modern Healthcare
states, “As a teachinginstitution,
the Medical College of Georgia
has been a leader in research, as
well as telemedicine and other
technologies. This new facility
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Flag fight looms
From page one
many consider a racist relic of the
past.
But most whites said they op
posethechange, regardlessoftheir
political stripes. The poll showed
that 51 percent of whites who con
sider themselves Democrats and
64 percent of white Republicans
want the flag to stay the same.
Regardless, Rep. Tyrone Brooks
said he still plans to push next
year to restore the flag to its ap
pearance pre-1956, the year law
makers voted to include the Con
federate emblem.
“We will attempt in the 2001
legislative session to convince the
General Assembly to retire the
current flag to the archives and
museums,” said Brooks, D-At
lanta, who is black.
The poll comes as Georgians
from both sides of the flag debate
are gearing up for a fight.
The Coalition to Change the
Georgia Flag will meet Saturday
in Fitzgerald to demand the flag
be changed. Flag supporters, in
cluding the Sons of Confederate
Veterans, plan acampaign includ
Justice Department
reviewing racial attack
NAPOLEON, Ohio filed.
(AP) The U.S. Justice Depart
ment is reviewing the federal in
vestigation of racially motivated
attack against a black woman and
will decide whether federal charges
should be filed.
An 18-year-old white man ad
mitted to attacking the woman
who was holding her 5-month-old
daughter and walking along a
street in Napoleon, which is about
35 miles southwest of Toledo.
Kraig Brinkman last month
pleaded guilty to ethnic intimida
tion and assault. Municipal Judge
John Collier ordered Brinkman to
spend 90 days in jail and partici
pate in a work release program
during his sentence.
The victim’s family at the time
said it also wanted federal charges
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to keep the current flag aloft.
House Majority Leader Larry
Walker, a white Democrat from
Perry, said he doesn’t believe the
issue can be avoided, although, “I
think the majority of Georgians, if
asked to vote, would vote to retain
the flag.”
“I think it’s coming. I wish it
were not,” said Walker, who is not
related to Charles Walker. “It’s
very troubling to me.”
Gov. Roy Barnes, also a Demo
crat, hasn’t taken a position on
changing the flag, other than say
ing the state has more pressing
issues to decide.
The poll of 512 Georgians was
taken Oct. 27-31. It had a margin
of error of plus-or-minus 4 per
cent. It was conducted by Market
ing Workshop, with analysis per
formed by Mitchell Research De
sign.
Support for the flag was weak
est in metro Atlanta, the region
withthemost newcomers. Twenty
nine percent of poll respondents
in five core metro Atlanta coun
ties favored keeping the flag.
Elsewhere in Georgia, 55 per
cent want the flag untouched, ac
cording to the poll.
Carl Spicocchi, an FBI agent in
Toledo, said the department com
pleted its review about two weeks
ago. Hesaid it has been sent to the
Jjustice department.
Brinkman admitted hitting Ali
cia White, 21. A car with three
white men pulled next to White
and her daughter on Oct. 12, po
lice said.
The men began yelling racial
slurs and got out of the car and
approached White, police said.
“Brinkman yelled at us that this
is a segregated town, that Napo
leon was segregated,” Angela
White said at the sentencing.
Brinkman began punching her,
she said. An elderly white couple
yelled at the men who fled.