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University of Georgia Friday, February 16, 1979
Volume 85, Number 63
Key, Mulherin to vie in presidential run-off
Photo by I.
Thanks to my supporters, said Billy Key
By MIKE ROBERTS
Staff writer
Harold Mulherin and Billy Key will he the candidates in the run-off election Feb
22 for the position of Student Government Association president
Mulherin will also lie in a run-off with Steve Caldwell for the vice presidential
slot, according to unofficial results announced at 12:15 a m today.
After the results were announced, Mulherin. the first candidate to run for both
top SGA positions in recent history, said, “I'm just trying to save the students
some money ."
Billy Key. former Senate president, thanked his supporters and said the first
election was past and the next was yet to come.
In the presidential rare, Mulherin garnered 847 votes and Key earned 727—22.5
percent and 19 3 percent respectively of the total votes cast.
In the vice presidential race Mulherin received only 886 votes to Steve Caldwell’s
988
The total votes, 4,316. almost doubled last year's turnout
Mulherin has campaigned on a platform that promised abolition of SGA His
passage into the run-offs drew praise from former Student Sen Mark Segura
"This is the greatest day in the long, sordid history of student government."
Segura said "If I may be allowed to paraphrase, students are saying. We're mad
as hell and we're not going to take it any more.'"
Douglas Teper. who failed to make the runoffs, promised opposition to Key. “I’ll
do anything to stop Billy Key," Teper said. He added he might run a write-in
candidacy in the run-off.
On Teper's defeat. Voice Party Chairman Mark Monroe said. "I’m astonished I
don't know what to say I’ve got a lot of thinking to do Doug is really the hardest
worker of all the candidates " Voice had endorsed Teper earlier in the week
Caldwell said he was “very hopeful" and will vork hard in the next week. He
added he wasn’t really surprised by the election's results
Other election results showed all three referendums on Thursday's ballot passed
by nearly 1.000 votes each
University students voted 2.615 to 1.012 to abolish SGA salaries. 1.987 to 1,431 to
allow SGA to allocate student activity fees and 2.530 to 1.082 asking that state laws
Ik* amended to allow beer sales on campus.
Computer problems slowed the returns, according to Claire Cornwell, elections
committee co-chairman. A crowd of about 100 persons waited nearly two and
one-half hours past the anticipated announcement time.
At 9:30 p in., elections committee co-chairman Murray Garnick said the returns
were overdue He added the write-in votes had already been hand-tabulated and all
the other data was being counted by Computer Services equipment.
Once returns began coming in. trouble with a public-address system forced
Garnick to call out the results without electronic amplification
Garnick stopped calling the returns several times to quiet the crowd, which
cheered the announcement of tacy candidate's total.
If you get quiet I'll continue, if you don't I won't. I personally don't give a
damn." Garnick said
One incident that marred election night was an apparent scuffle that broke out
between Mulherin and senate candidate Gregg Jocoy. No serious injuries were
reported.
' Justin (.illis and Brian O'Shea also contributed to this story.)
4316 students cast votes in senate races
By BOBBY BY III)
Staff writer
Although most of the notice in the
elections concerned the races for
president and vice president, the unusual
ly high turnout of 4.31b also elected
representatives to the student senate and
University Council
J Harold Mulherin. who won spots in
both the runoffs, retained his Arts and
Sciences seat in the senate with 484 votes
Mulherin's total was eclipsed, however,
by freshman Jill Frost, who had two
votes more
Arts and Sciences students selected 20
senators In .ill Irom fitld of 53
candidates The third senate seat went to
Greg Anderson, with 465 votes Other
A&S senate winners were Gregg Jocoy
(450 votes.» l^e Davis <4«H. Karen Duke
(401) Floyd Buford (.167.) John Hrcaugh
(351.) Lynn Johnson (349 * Staci Kramer
(343,) Tim Youngblood '336 ) Teresa
Blaxton (330,) Larry Angel (323.) Brigid
Muhlerin (322.) Scott Borman (315.) Mike
Hoorn n K Torooo Smith (111,) Lynn
Bruce '304.) Howard Kothbloom (303.)
and Dan Forman (292.)
Eight new senators were selected from
the business school. The winners were:
Betsy Barnett (222.) Hick Hill (174.)
James Braden < 170. > James Levy < 162.)
Kay Daniel (160.) Jim Price *158. > Keith
Mff 111,) and Greg Thurmond 146'
Five seantors were picked from the
agriculture school. Those elected are:
llita Ann Patton (182,) Keith Kelly (172.)
Woiloy Smith '164.' Cecil Davis i 160.'
and Ray Loako lit).
At press time, the individual totals
from the other schools were unavailable,
but the winners were known
Eleven students were elected to senate
seats form the grad school They are
Tom Ladd. Ken McPherson. Bill Doom.
Barbara Bosk. Patty Kelly. Kosanne
Worden. Michael Tomarelli. Gerald
Heed. Robert Westbrook and Greg Miller
Three seats were up for selection in the
home economics school Katherine
Carver and Melanie Neal were elected,
while Kay Strickland and Stephanie
Studdard will enter a runoff for the third
seat.
Suzanne Peavy was the top vote-getter
for the five available senate positions
from the College of Education The other
four elected were Jeanette Davis. Laura
Underwood. Brad Williams and Andrea
Fleming
Jeff Turner and Jeff Barnes were
elected from the social work school,
while Michael Breedlove, Sam Brooks
and Jane Wall won seats from the school
of environmental sciences
Veterinary medicine students picked
Dietrich G. von Schwein and Lynn
Turner to be their senators, while Bill
Kennedy and Coget Lowery won in the
pharmacy school
Leon McCoy and Tom Porer were
elected from forestry resources, whil#
Barry Irwin and a write-in named
Anderson were selected from the law
school.
Two senators were selected from the
journalism school, both without opposi
tion Karin Pendley and Meg Peltier thus
won their seats with little trouble
See SEN \ IF p ft
Beer, tension flow during election
By GARY FOL'TS
and SKIP IIULETT
Beer flowed freely and patience ran short Thursday night as
Election Central swarmed with old has-beens and hopeful
newcomers drinking, smoking and waiting
As the rhythm of the Pamoja Singers echoed through the
student center in songs of unity, the various candidates were
around the corner hoping their own kind of song had been sung
loud enough and would pull together at the final count
As 9:15 p m. rolled around, the first murmurings of "When?"
began to permeate the crowd Time grew long and tempers
eased as candidates and supporters alike swapped stories
"Who did you vote for?"
"Have you heard anything?"
Nobody knew and everybody wanted to know Two hours
dragged on but still no word coming out of the SGA offices
Politics has always made strange bedfellows, but it also
makes strange drinking buddies Variety in the form of every
brand from Coors to Pabst Blue Ribbon was the most visible
characteristic of every clique, yet some chose to stray further
as evidenced by the acrid smell of hemp wafting forth
Apologies from the SGA parapet were prevalent as 10 30
passed "We're having problems with the computer." Betsy
Barnett told the crowd
See ELECTION, p.5
SUfl ph«>»o Jack Waterman
Bar owners not excited over extra business hours
By SALYNN BOYLES
Owners and managers of most local bars are generally apathetic toward
ordinances permitting nightclubs to remain open past midnight on Saturday nights
The Athens motion, passed at the Feb 6 meeting of the city council, allows bars
to stay open until 1:45 am. although liquor still cannot be sold after 11 45 p m
The resolution was proposed to the council's finance committee by the
Restaurant and Bar Association of Athens The group claimed that later closing
hours would keep people from going into Atlanta on Saturday nights and help the
city compete for convention trade
However. Finance Committee Vice Chairman Lewis Shropshire said that he
doesn't feel that the ordinance will have a big impact on the city's nightclub
businesses "The major effects will probably be on the clubs which feature live
entertainment" he said.
In a similar move, the Clarke County Commission approved the same ordinance
at its monthly meeting Tuesday night
"We did it because the city did it,” said commissioner Jewel John, explaining
that the commission tries to keep its charter as close as possible to that of the
city*»
John added that she was surprised at the lack of opposition to the proposal
Both motions went into effect immediately after passage but proprietors of many
Athens area bars have not yet decided if they will remain open the extra hours
Most owners are taking a wait and see' attitude toward the ordinance
"We will stay open at first," a spokesman for T K Hardy's bar said, "but if we
lose money we ll go back to closing at midnight " He said that the bar could
conceivably make a profit from the extended hours if people bought large
quantities of beer oi liquor during the bar s "laft call "
None of the bar spokesmen contacted felt that the new ordinance would make a
big difference in the amount of Saturday night business Thought the majority said
they would remain open, a few said they definitely would not "It would be
different if we had entertainment." a spokesman for Papa Joe s bar said
But the manager of the B&L Warehouse, a nightclub primarily featuring live
entertainment, said his club would not take advantage of the new hours either
Saying he thought the ordinance was ridiculous, the manager felt there would be
no way to make up for the cost of staying open through "last call" drink hoarding
He said that when people knew they would have to leave at midnight, they usually
drank faster
A few spokesmen predicted possible problems with people trying to buy liquor
after the 11 45 deadline As one bar manager said. "If one guy has beer and
another guy doesn’t, that’s going to create problems, especially if they've been
drinking already "
UGA Today
Grizzard looks at life
Whil! is lift- as a feature columnist and as a journalist'' l.oms tiri/i rd
Atlanta Constitution columnist, will discuss his life in journalism when I.
lectures Monday. Keb IS. at 8 p m . in Memorial Hall Ballroom
Student tickets are tree al the Memorial Hall information Booth and sene' .1
admission tickets are $1 in the Memorial business office
Dairy fun night
The Annual Dairy Fun Night
sponsored by the Dairy Science Club
W’ill he held in the Coliseum Little
Arena tonight, at 7:30
Scheduled events include dairy
maid milking, professor milking,
dressing up calves, milk chugging.'
and also, a "throw pies at professors'
faces" event
All clubs, dorms, sororities, fra tern
ities everyone is invited to compete
for plaques and a special trophy
There s a $3 entry fee for each event.
Twenty five cents will get you in and
door prizes will be awarded*, too Call
John Rogers at 549 7263 or 546 9622 for
more information
Winter quarter blood drive
The University blood drive dales and locations have been changed On Monday
Keb 19. it will be set up in the Brumby Rotunda Then. Tuesday. Keb 20.
through Kridav. Keb 23. from 11:30 a m lo 5 p m the location will he Stegeman
Monkeys talk
"Peers, play and social development
in young monkeys" is the topic of a
talk by Dr Stephen J Suomi today, at
3:30 p m .in the South PJ Auditorium
Suomi is a research associate at the
Wisconsin Regional Primate Researc h
Laboratory and is also on the
psychology faculty at the University
of Wisconsin
Flute concert
Flutist Bonita Boyd, recipient of
many honors, will perform in the
University Chapel at 8 p m on
Saturday. Feb 17 This is the third
concert in the Franklin College of Arts
and Sciences Chamber Music Series
Chicago Symphony Orchestra pian
1st Kimberly Schmidt will accompany
Boyd during this free, open concert
Dean Tate featured reader
Dean Emeritus William Tate will be the featured reader at the UGA Botanical
Garden this Sunday. Feb 18. at 3 pm., in the second of a series of nature
readings "
You're welcome to bring along a favorite poem or passage
Midnight, 1 a.m.
The Midnight Special, which is on
channel 2 at l am (not midnight),
features Alice Cooper. Olivia Newton
John Tanya Tucker Chic, the Cars. T
Connection, and the Jeff Kutash
Dancers
Tune in for 90 minutes of Special
entertainment
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