Georgia Southern University Digital Commons@Georgia Southern The George-Anne Student Media 9-25-1990 The George-Anne Georgia Southern University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Georgia Southern University, "The George-Anne" (1990). The George-Anne. 1187. https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/george-anne/1187 This newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Media at Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in The George-Anne by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ■B 912/681-5246 Vol. 63, No. 4 • Tuesday, September 25, 1990 Since 1927, Georgia Southern's Official Student Newspaper Georgia Southern University • Statesboro, GA 30460 Tote News I Student loans purchased from Sea Island Bank By WENDI L. KING an independent agency based in dois tomakeloans to students while loans that were sold are PLUS loans. The current rate is 8% for the Staff Writer Washington, D.C. they are in school and sell these first four years of repayment and loans during the six month grace The changes brought about for 10% for the remaining six years of Sea Island Bank sold the loans period. Currently only the loans of those students who have a Guaran- repayment. The student is given up because they were no longer profit- students who are still in school have teed Student Loan are few, and the to ten years to repay their loan. The Student Loan Association able for the bank. While a student been closed. The loans of those who Student Loan Marketing Associa- Sea Island still has available recently purchased all of the Sea is in school, the government pays have already graduated should be tion will inform students of what loans. However, they do not deter- ©Copyright 1990, USA TODAY/Apple IslandBankstudentloansthat were the interest on the loan. After closed by the end of the month. has transpiredby letter. In addition, mine eligibility for the loans. If you College Information Network neither under five hundred dollars graduation the student has a six the student will receive a new pay- are interestedin obtaining a student nor in delinquent standing. month grace period before repay- The majority of the loans that ment book. There will be no change s loan contact the Financial Aid Of- OBSCENITY TRIAL BEGINS: The Student Loan Marketing ment of the loan begins. were sold were Guaranteed Stu- in the payment plan. The interest fice in Rosenwald for further infor- Dennis Barrie, director of Association, Sallie Mae for short, is What banks usually attempt to dent Loans (GSL). The remaining rate will also remain the same. mation. Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center, goes on trial Monday for obscenity in his gallery. This is the GSU employee drug testing on hold first time a gallery has been in- dicted on obscenity charges. Barrie By MISTY McPHERSON rates would drop if future employ- upon it as a cumbersome and costly and the gallery are charged with Assistant News Editor ees knew that they had to be tested program," said Rogers. misdemeanors: pandering obscen- before employment. Very few people at GSU were ity and illegal use of a minor in "The original idea was to get tested, and no one lost his job over nudity oriented material. The A decision made by Georgia State people to not use something that the testing. charges stem from photographs by Legislature to require all new gov- would harm them, but implement- "At the time, [earlier this sum- the late Robert Mapplethorpe. ernment employees, including those ing it has been a real difficult task, mer] you were required to take the HIGH SCHOOL MATH IS KEY: of the university system, to take a and it has been very costly for the drug test or you couldn't be hired," Minorities who take high school drug test before employment has system," said Ruth Ann Rogers, said Rogers. This resulted in many algebra and geometry succeed in been challenged because it is Executive Assistant to the Presi- other state employees taking the college at the same rate as whites, thought to be unconstitutional. dent and Director of Institutional test, which consisted of a urine says a College Board study. It Testing has been stopped until it Compliance. sample. shows low-income students who can be further reviewed by the If every new employee had been Bulloch Memorial Hospital take basic math courses do almost courts. tested for three months, it would agreed to do the testing for GSU. as well in college as their more af- Judge Robert H. Hall of the U.S. have cost GSU about $90,000. For people who lived outside of fluent peers. Experts say the study District Court in Atlanta issued an Georgia but seeking employment shows the real key appears to be order restraining the University Even though eachinstitution was within the state, out-of-state collec- geometry, taken after algebra in System along with other state required to pay for its testing, the tion sites had ben set up for the most curriculums'. agencies from requiring the pre- public school systems were allowed testing. GAS PRICES LOWER THAN EXPECTED: employment drug testing as a con- to charge the test taker $50, which The question now being faced is is the cost to administer the test. whether or not the testing violates Even though gasoline prices are dition of employment. The testing was quickly imple- constitutional rights. up sharply since Iraq invaded State legislature required the GSU has discontinued the test- Kuwait, U.S. consumers have got- testing because it felt it would be mented and just as quickly taken away, so there was not a lot of dis- ing and Rogers said it will not be ten off easy so far, analysts say. effective for the state. The legisla- cussion about it. reimplemented until GSU is told to Pump prices typically rise 2.3 cents ture felt that the number of drug "I think that most people looked do so by the Board of Regents. agallon for every $l-a-barrel rise in users as well as employee absentee crude prices. Since Aug. 1, crude prices are up $13.89 a barrel. While unleaded gasoline should have Former GSU employee pleads guilty risen about 32 cents - to $1.39 a gallon from $1.07 a gallon on Aug. 1, Lovett. From the GBI, Bill Butler By LAURA MCABEE dollars for the three ounces. it is up 22 cents. Primary evidence included tapes and Undercover Agent M.G. Wash- News Editor ALMANAC PREDICTS COLD WINTER: ofboth telephone conversations and ington participated, as well as It is going to be a long, cold contacts between Washington and Bulloch County Sheriff Raymond winter for most of the USA made GSU employee Alether Holloway the defendant. Akins. tougher by cutbacks in imported oil, Yes, hard to believe, but summer's almost over was arrested on April 27,1990 for Holloway originally plead not Federal Prosecutors were com- the 1991 edition of "The Old possession and sale of crack cocaine. guilty, but changed her plea to guilty plimentary of Chief Brown and his and it's time to get back to the books already. Department for their cooperation Farmer's Almanac" predicts. Flor- After classes began in earnest last week, studying Holloway, who worked at the prior to jury selection. ida and areas west of the Rockies Educated Palate, was arrested after The trial was to be held at the with GBI and the Sheriffs Depart- should be warm and dry, but people offered a brief respite from the endless lines for she sold crack cocaine to undercover U.S. District Federal court in Au- ment, saving, "This is an example of in coastal areas should look out for late registration and drop/add. (photo: Kim Perry) GBI agent M.G. Washington, who gusta, Georgia before Judge Dudley how organized law enforcement can Dec. 2,1990 - when there will be the was posing as a student. The drugs H. Brown. successfully attack drug distribu- closest approach of the moon to were sold in the parkinglot between The investigation incorporated tion." Earth since 1975. the Herty building and across the elements from GSU Police, the Records indicate that Holloway O'CONNOR SUBPOENAED SUNDAY: street from the Math Physics Science Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has several prior drug-related con- victions beginning in 1985 when Several hundred pro-choice and building. and the Bulloch County Sheriffs Is Statesboro too noisy? she recieved 10 years probation for AIDS activists cheered Sunday Proceedings in Federal court department. trafficking in cocaine. In 1987, when the lawyer for activists ac- tests the sound decibels comingfrom showe d that the investigation lasted By LAURA MILNER Holloway was convicted of the sale cused of disrupting a mass taped a a noisy car. from March 16 until the date of Holloway was indicted and con- Special to the G-A of cocaine, and at the time of her copy of a subpoena to Cardinal John Councilman Bo Hook said he arrest. Court proceedings also victed on a federal statute enacted most recent arrest she was serving O'Connor's front door in New York. thought such gadgets would be af- showed that 13 contacts between in 1986 which makes it a violation a 13 year probation sentence from Four men and three women go on The Statesboro City Council fordable, but city administrator Washington and Holloway occurred. to distribute or sell controlled sub- the 1987 conviction.