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COMMITTEE HAS FIRST MEETING
Task forces plan involvement studies
By TOM LEE
Staff writer
A special student admistrator committee split into three task forces Thursday to
study student involvement in the University but Associate Dean of Students Bill
Mendenhall stressed the committee is not trying to re-establish student government
' With the dissolution of SGA went the vehicle of gathering feedback from the
students. Mendenhall said "We must be assessing what mechanisms we currently
have to do this <get student feedback), and assess vhat needs we might have."
The committee, made up of six students and three University administrators, was
divided into task forces to study student involvement in campus organizations,
including college councils, agencies in student affairs and other student organizations
Students Peggy DeVore. Sara Collins. Joan Dawson. Jimmy Durham. Bret
Thurmond and Mike Valentine are on the committee, as well as Bill Bracewell. director
of judicial programs. Dr Tiny Cupas of student activities and Chuck Werring. student
affairs adviser for University housing
The committee met for the first time Thursday in what Mendenhall called only the
first of a lot of meetings. We will look at this as the quarter progresses, but obviously
this will go on into the next quarter."
‘It takes so much energy, so much
effort...there are so many sleepless
nights, colds, sunburns. It begins
to take its toll.’
—Band Director Gary Teske Jft
SUtt porno Lurry ( uimaii
They ’ re the sound of victory
By INGRID SCHORK
Assistant features editor
lies lift you head up to the sky!
‘Cause we're the Redcoats passing
by.
And if you heard what I just said.
Get down on your knees and bow your
head.
Go dogs!
That's supposed to res them up. bui
the Redcoat Band hardly needs it. Even
after hours upoi hours of gruelling,
paltcnee-batterirg rehearsals, the mo
ments iust before the pre-game show
luirlv vibrate with fine-tuned anticipa
tion.
The band opens up the football game,
and it's a hell of an immduetion. It's the
band that brings the stadium crowd to
its feel for the national anthem, the
band that leads the bellowing of the
right song and the band that sets the
scene for the football team to hit the
field.
And halftime...a Redcoat Band half
time show breaks up the tension of the
game, and it's show hi/ at its best and
biggest. For the band, halftime is the
reward for all the praetiees they've
labored through.
"You’re high when you go on the
field." band member Walter Cotter
said. Concent rat km during a show is
immensely intense, and not without its
plnsieal symptoms. "I’ve often pulled
stomach muscles, and people hasc told
me I l»*ok totally green after halltime.
It’s real easy to hyperventilate." Cotter
said.
The glor> of halftime has its roots in
the "real pain"—rehearsals. Five days
.1 week are spent in perfecting, first
individual maneuvers—pinwheels, drag
turns, flips—the sections of each
They love him and hate him,
but he still leads the band
By TAMMY SAVAGE
Features editor
It is. quite simply, a love-hate relationship
They love him. and they hate him
He hates them, so they think, but he really loves them
They are his life Totally, completely , down to the red and black decor of his
home
Sounds a lot like a football coach and his team, doesut it? Coach Dooley and
the Bulldogs, perhaps 0
Close, but not quite right
It s the other coach that takes the field with his team on Saturdays The larger
much stronger, more instrumental of the two teams
Instrumental, incidentally, is the key word here.
The team behind the team the Georgia Redcoat Marching Band
The man behind the team Gary Teske
Probably, without that one Gary Teske. the band just wouldn't be the same
The energy, the enthusiasm contained in Teske s slight frame is exhausting a
hyperbole of activity It's what you notice about him first, and dominates your
perception of him
Apparently, it's part of the job Being responsible for 300 people and their
precise movements, and knowing your job. your living, your ability to pay your
grocery bill depends on it is no small task
"It's like living an adventure, it's never boring. Teske said "It s never, never
boring 1 have never had a day in my five years here that was boring
But could it be that he has made this hell on earth for himself 0
See BAM), p. 2
routine, and finallv the entire show
Band director Gary leske runs rehear
sals from a steel tower using a micro
phone to belt commands at the hand,
somehow seeing and hearing every-
thing each of the 300-plus band
members docs beneath him.
"It you don't listen, band. I'm going
to have to be a hard you-know-what!
Could someone get K2 and K3 to listen
PLEASE?
His followers shift around in their
assigned places and wait lor instruc
tions. A few uncertain panickcrs wail.
"Where do we go? Where do we turn?"
Teske roars in an attempt to clear up
the confusion. "It's easy. Old chart 2H is
now new 28. Band! We can do it in 10
minutes it everybody listens.*
B> game day. the show has been
pulled together, but the possibility lor
catastrophe is never ruled out. Sousa
phone bells can still fall off during the
final bow. uniform pants can still split
and there's always the majorette whose
baton doesn't quite make the connee
lion. The view from the stands, though,
is of precise, com pier, maneuvers made
to look perfectl\ simple.
Perhaps the final sheen of the show
conics from the camaraderie within the
ranks—the closeness that defeats the
chaos. Though it's one of the largest
and most diverse organizations on
campus, there's little rivalrv or faction-
ali/atoin among the band members.
There are few Greeks: many compare
the band to a huge fraternity or sorority.
Road trips, talent shows, and the sheet-
amount of time spent together create "a
lot of social situations." according to
one band member.
"I'ni definitely in it for the fun."
Cotter said. "I’m there to pla\ my
niacho horn real loud."
Hey what's that coming down the
tracks?
A huge machine that's red and black.
There's nothing finer in the land...
Than the Georgia Redcoat Marching
Band!
Miller tells General Assembly to construct more prisons
By BRIAN O'SHEA
Staff writer
Lt. Gov. Zell Miller called on the General
Assembly Thursday to build more prisons
and provide better tools for prosecuting
attorneys to help combat the state's
growing crime rate.
Speaking to a conference of prosecutors
at the Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. Miller said. "We're back in the
Dark Ages as far as giving tools to
prosecutors" and called on tha state to
provide more workers for district attor
neys.
* Miller told the group he is not a erhne
expen, **l know you have the answers
more than anyone else." he said.
"Those of us in state government
need...to listen more closely than we have
(been) to what new laws are needed and
what is needed for you to do \otir job."
Miller refused questions about his up
coming 1080 Senate race, saving. "I've
pledged to try to separate m> posit ion as
lieutenant governor from my campaign tor
the Senate."
Miller announced Monday he would seek
the post now held by senior Sen Herman
Talniadgc and was in Athens Wedn**sda\
as part of a campaign swing through the
state.
Miller said any solution to the crime
problem involves an 'interplay of fneiorv
"If you increase arrests dramaticallv.
you've got cases that are going to stack up
in the prosecuting attorneys oltiec. ' he
said. Ibis backlog would carry over to the
courts and the prisons, and 'we do not
have enough prisons in this state." Miller
said.
"With the people demanding tougher
sentencing, we in the General Assembly
this session... perhaps ought to give
priori! \ to construction of additional
prisons he said.
Asked later about the likelihood of more
money tor prosecution and prison con
struction. Miller said. I think we’ve got to
find sonic money there The crime problem
is not iust in Atlanta.
"It we’re going to make any dent at all
tin the crime rate) , "e must stan right at
the root of crime.
"That conics ba*k to education." Miller
Also at the meeting was University student Gmgg Jocoy. a member of the Student
Senate before it was abolished last spring
"Any move of this type should come Ir* rr» the students," Jocoy said, "not the
administration." Jocoy outlined a plan he had formulated whereby students would fill
out applications if spots were available for students on certain University advisory
committees
These applications would lie reviewed by st;Hents who serve on the University
Council, and the council would then turn over t • 'lie adtn mist rat ton no more than three
names to fill any one opening. Jocoy said II :d loo many spots are filled by
students who are hand-chosen by administrators
Bracewell disagreed with Jocoy The Univi • -itv adminiMration should ask for student
involvement. Bracewell said I think it would lx i plus that administrators want
student involvement."
Bracewell also said the committee was not trying to re-establish SGA. calling the
former organization "a beautiful little struc ture without any function.”
Mendenhall agreed "If we try to establish a structure first, then it may be hard to
define a function much like the architect s saying form must follow function "
Two areas in which he would like students to immediately become involved were
outlined by Bracewell "I want to see students say they want to be involved in the
admnistration of the libraries, and to make the library heads say yes' or no.’
And in a reverse of that. I would like to see the direi ’or of uuhlir safefv ask students
if they would like to work for him. and have the student 4 - say yes' or 'no '
After the meeting. Mendenhall said he was pleased with "the Jesuits "We hope to
meet again before Thanksgiving." he said "However it gonna take a while”
Patterson praises McGill
at first lecture in series
Bv NELSON d. ROSS
and BRIAN O'SHEA
Eugene Patterson launched the journal
ism school's Ralph McGill lecture series
Thursday, praising the achievement of the
late editor of the Atlanta Constitution and
urging voung journalists to carrv on
McGill's legacy.
Patterson, editor of the St. Petersburg
Times and former editor of the Constitution
under McGill, told the audience McGill s
lesson for journalists would be. "build your
work on a moral base."
Patterson centered his speech on the
achievements and qualities of his former
colleague who was a strong advocate of
civil rights.
"Me developed an enormous sense ol
u i tii. care .i d admiration for the poor
in tbi' '.H' the white people and—rare in
ibis si.oi tin black people," Patterson
said
M, w as one of the few who did not
* 'tetson said I his,
a "iditig’ 'Patters n. was the "foundation
ol Ins mnuumeiiial editorship."
I In . in tism school is sponsoring the
McGill I* '.lute seties. endowed with
$21.IM' i • i* I by Iricnds of McGill am!
sell. -1 alumni McGill was publisher of tht
((institution when lie died in IWt.
s«. PATTERSON. p. 2
added.
Miller also joined the grow mg number «>l
state officials calling lor stricter drug U^s.
citing the state s leading national partition
in drug traffic "It has reached epidemic
proportions." Miller said
Asked about the use ol the state patrol in
Atlanta in August and September. Miller
said the troopers were used there mostly
for traffic enforcement, adding a danger
ous precedent could be set bv the usi of
troopers for law enforcement in a citv or
counts.
"I think the state's responsibility i> not
to send in the stale pair” I think it gives
the citv and local governments son of an out
if cities and counties tan sav. 'send
someone in. "
UGA Today
Please Don’t Disease
( enter for Disease Control officials
are joining University Health Sei \ ic*S
next week to launch a study of
influenza vaccines Student volunteers
will be paid 135 for their participation,
plus an extra $15 if the flu actual
hits campus this fall Students may
sign up Monday through Thursday in
Russell or Memorial. Monday and
Tuesday in Stegeman or Thursday and
Friday in the PE building Any
student in relatively good health with
no chronic problems (diabetes, lung
disease * is eligible for the study As
an added bonus, the student may lx 1
less susceptible to flu if it hits campus
this year
You're Gammoned Rockin' n 13ouncin'
There will be a Backgammon
Tournament on Monday and Tuesday
November 5 4 6' This •vent i' open
to University students only The winner
will be invited to represent the
University in the ACU-I Regional
Tournaments
Kappa Alpha I’m is sponsoring a
Homecoming |)anci Saturday at the
llourgl .s 1 1 -no on Broad Street from
10 p m until who knows when Tickets
y brother for
5? A.Inn Sion a’ the door is $3
^t’s Botany in the Garden-
The University's Botanical Garden invites you to celebrate the
Garden's first decade |i a m For
those attending the football game, i shuttle Im will run to the Garden
from the Coliseum parking lot bus *b»p
And if you're planning to build a i t* nhou* • * - • V out tin 4 workshop
on Home Greenhouse Construction t the (..o bn starting Monday at
7 30 p.m The cost is $15 and it is necessarv to tegtster by calling
542-1244
It’s Smelling at Snelling Again
The Georgia Room at Snellmg Hall has rtvpencd following construction
and renovation of the dining hall during th*» pit year
The Georgia Room features cash and a la carle service for students,
faculty and staff from 11:30 a m. til I 30p m. daily
Welcome Alums
The Agricultural Alumni Association
will be holding tU 25th annual banquet
and awards ceremony today
Awards will be presented during the
association's membership meeting at 3
pm in the Agricultural Engineering
Center There will be seventeen
awards given out. including the
Distinguished Service Award and
awards in research, teaching, and
extention
There will be a reception and dinner
at the Athens' Country Club tonight
Also, there will be an ABAC Alumni
Meeting on Saturday from 4 40 6 p m
at T K Harty's Call Lynn Medford
for more details at 546 957*
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