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Tuesday. March 30, I9H2
The Hed and Black
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Sandwich board
man Ed Weeks dead
ByCASSHEARIN
Red and BUck SuHWrller
Athens will miss smiling, white-haired Ed
Weeks, the sandwich board man who had
become a fixture of downtown Athens Going
downtown any morning or afternoon without
seeing Weeks strolling around and talking to
anyone who was willing to stop and chat was
almost impossible. He had time for
everyone.
Weeks was 59 years old when he was found
dead by a friend March 18. Clarke County
Coroner Charles Owens said Weeks died of
natural causes approximately a week before
his body was discovered.
Eddie Hinson, co-owner of The Odyssey,
said Weeks used to come into the Odyssey
almost every day, but workers did not
believe anything was wrong when he failed to
show up for several days. "I took Ed to Col
umbus two weeks before he died. He told us
he was going to catch a bus there and go on
down to St. Pete for the dog races," Hinson
said. "We didn't even know he was back," he
said.
“Everyone liked Ed a lot," said Lamar
Lance, Hinson's partner at The Odyssey.
"He seemed to be having some problems
with some of the new students but I think that
was just because they didn't take the time to
know him They called him 'Pops,' and Ed
hated that," he said. "But once they gave
him a chance and talked to him on their level
rather than as an older man, they grew to
love him."
Originally from Savannah, Weeks taught
at a ballroom dance studio in Florida before
coming to Athens in 1972 He left Athens last
year to return to Florida, but returned quick
ly
Most people remember Weeks as the man
who wore a sandwich board advertising
downtown shops But Weeks also spent his
life enjoying dancing and poetry; he loved to
recite poetry
“I miss him," said Pete McCommons,
editor and publisher of the Athens Observer
and one of his closest friends. "He was a very
unusual and talented person who never
achieved what could be called official
recognition of his poetry, but he probably
entertained more people than most poets do
His art was always immediate because one
had the pleasure of hearing the poet recite
the poetry,” he said.
"Ed was everybody's friend He was a real
trouper even though he had some problems
He was a great humanitarian,” said Dave
Akers, manager of the Mad Hatter
Jimmy Teller, a University student who
was Week's neighbor, remembers Weeks as
being "just like one of us You could talk to
Ed about anything. He was a great old man
who would never hurt anyone," he said.
“Ed was one of those people we take for
granted but we miss once we realize he is
gone," said McCommons
Lobbyists forestall new
Pennsylvania fees hike
CPS — Over 76,000
Pennsylvania students
have narrowly missed
becoming the next victims
of mid-year tuition in
creases, thanks to a lawsuit
filed by the Commonwealth
Association of Students, a
"technicality” in the
tuition approval process,
some free football tickets
and a last-minute budget
increase awarded by the
state legislature
Students at state schools
in Oregon, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and California
have recently been hit with
midyear tuition or fee
hikes. Until last year,
educators traditionally
increased charges only at
the beginning of the
academic year
In January, the Penn
sylvania board of
education voted to hike
tuition for the spring
semester by $75 to help pay
for faculty salary in
creases.
But the Commonwealth
Association of Students, the
statewide student coalition,
sued the board, claiming
the hike would violate its
original “contract” with
the students to provide an
education for $625 a
semester for this year.
Rescinding this year’s
hike means the schools will
have $5 7 million less to
work with, but most of that
sum will lie made up by the
budget increase.
Colleges in some 19
states have had to cut back
one way or another
because legislatures have
cut their budgets from
previously-set levels. More
state systems are expected
to try to compensate for
those losses by laying off
faculty and staff, limiting
enrollment and increasing
tuition and fees cither now
or next fall.
While reluctant to take
credit for the budget in
crease, Penn State
University lobbyist Frank
E. Forni said he spent
some $22,000 — the second
highest amount spent by all
lobbyists in the state last
year - wooing lawmakers.
Most of the money was in
the form of football
weekends at Penn State's
main campus, « here
legislators got to attend the
game and afterwards relax
over dinner
Soggy sub from Schlotzsky’s
Staff photo/Tammy Thompson
As famous as the other Alan King?
Not yet. Besides, he doesn't even spell his
name the same. Chemistry professor Allen
King was surprised by his class Friday,
March 12 with an unusual bouquet, but refut
ed to try to explain the chemistry inherent in
balloons. King didn't say to, but it's probably
obvious that, if the balloons had carried him
off in to the stratosphere, he would have been
much more famous. Which would be a reason
to change his name from Allen to Alan. The
delivery, by the way, wasn't for any special
reason, but simply out of respect.
Soggy sandwiches and
soupy sodas were the special
of the day Monday at
Schlotzsky’s Sandwich Shop
on College Avenue after the
ceiling sprinkler system,
which was under repair,
burst and flooded the
restaurant.
The indoor rain began
around 1:10 p.m. when
plumbers were replacing
sprinkler systems which had
broken and been shut down
since a winter freeze.
When the water was cut
back, other stems broke,
flooding the rear of the
restaurant and forcing the
customers to the front.
Some sandwiches were
saved, some were saturated.
The manager of the store
closed the business for the
rest of the day while the
system was shut down again
and the carpet was
vacuumed.
—Jeff Jackson
Poetry to come to life
Dannie Abse, one of Bri
tain's leading contemporary
poets, Mill read from his
works Wednesday at 8 p.m.
in the Main Library's B-2
auditorium. Abse's first
book of poems, "After Every
Green Thing," was publish
ed in 1950. Ills other works
include two books of poems.
"Collected Poems" and
"Way out in Center,” his
autobiography, "A Poet in
the Family." and a book of
prose, "Ash on a Young
Man’s Sleeve," which was
originally published in 1954.
Admission is free. The event
is sponsored by the Depart
ment of English and the
University Press.
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