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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens. Ga. Vol. 90. No. 51 Tuesday, Jon. 25, 1983 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Gasses scheduled for this Saturday
Stan Lawhon (left) and Michael Rosenthal give Christy Weaver a helping hand at Legion Field
By SUSAN LACCETTI
Red and Black Senior Reporter
University officials confirmed the expected Monday. The
classes lost to “Snowflop ’83” and the University's sub
sequent Friday shutdown will be made up this Saturday.
Virginia Trotter, vice president (or Academic Affairs, said
a council of deans from the University's schools and colleges
met Monday to decide on the make-up date.
"We took an overview of What happened last year and what
the students and faculty wanted,” Trotter said. "It is a short
quarter and we have no choice but to make it up "
Trotter said other options for making up the missed day,
such as extending the times classes met or extending the
quarter one day into spring break, were not practical
“Academically, lengthening classes is too piecemeal a
method because you really can't get much accomplished,”
she said.
"We couldn't extend into spring break because we need the
time between quarters to administer grades,” said Louise
McBee, associate vice president for Academic Affairs.
Trotter said the council of deans wanted to make up the
missed day as soon as possible and, because the University
had no major events scheduled for the weekend, the con
sensus was to hold classes Saturday.
"There is no reason to wait to do it so we decided to get it
over with as soon as possible,” Trotter said.
The Board of Regents, the administrative body of the
University System, requires the University to schedule 50
class days per quarter. It also requires a make-up day if
classes are canceled for any reason
University buses will run Saturday on a summer schedule,
said Chet Malanoski, director of Auxiliary Services. Eleven
buses instead of the usual 18 will run the five routes used
during the school week.
“We are anticipating attendance will be down," Malanoski
said. “We are basing the number of buses to run on that and
the average Friday count of passengers ”
Malanoski said Friday was the lowest travel day of the
week, and that he expected Saturday to be similar.
Unlike last year, there were no snow-related damages to
University buildings, said Physical Plant Director Ken
Jordan.
“Last year we had severe temperatures, so we had
problems with frozen pipes But I have no specific reports of
any problems this year," he said.
No buses ran Friday as a result of icy roads, but all three
dining halls remained open.
Georgia Square Manager John Jolly said the snowstorm
forced the mall to close early Thursday evening and that
many stores closed all day Friday.
“We had to essentially close the mall," Jolly said, "Only 20
small shops and three of the four major stores opened
Friday,"
Jolly said the storm had a noticeable impact on sales for
the week.
Joe Foster, owner of Foster's Jeweler's said, even (hough
he closed his store Friday, his financial loss was not as great
as it was last year.
"For the day, we did miss some business, but it wasn't like
last year," Foster said "It was no major loss to be viewed
with any alarm."
College Square Schlotzsky's manager Janet Barna said her
restaurant lost about $800 because it closed Friday.
"Friday is one of our biggest days of the week, so it was a
big loss," she said. "Saturday wasn't even a good day when
we did open."
Such merchants as Brownstone Fashions saw Friday's
sales loss balance out with increased sales Thursday and
Saturday
“Even though you could say we lost $2,500 with no problem,
it was not a great loss because we had such great increases
before and after the storm,” said Gail Brown, manager of
Brownstone Fashions
Allen Stephenson, a spokesman for the Athens Area
Chamber of Commerce, said the loss of revenue within the
city was not as severe as it was last year
"Grocery stores probably did well but retailers, especially
department and specialty stores, did not make up the lost
revenue, " Stephenson said
Ernie Craven, assistant manager of the Beechwood Winn
Dixie, said sales were extremely good Thursday, but slower
than normal on Friday.
“For the convenience of the customer we opened Friday,
but Thursday was our best day of the week, with a 30-percent
increase in sales.”
22 arrested in
By TOMMY SIMS
Krd and Black Senior Reporter
By the time two inches of snow and
ice had come and gone, local police had
arrested at least 22 University students
on charges ranging from making ter
roristic threats to pedestrian under the
influence.
Charles Gregory Kelley, 22, from Col
lege Park, and 18-year-old Scott Ray
mond Sanford, were arrested early Fri
day morning and charged with making
terroristic threats.
Kelley and Sanford were charged
with throwing objects including a serv
ing tray at a city public works truck
that was attempting to pour sand on the
streets near Russell Hall, said Maj.
Ernest Nix of the University Police
Department
The charge of terroristic threat carries
a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or
one to five years in jail if found guilty,
Nix said.
Registration site move
‘50-50,’ Shutt says
By SHERI FOX
Red and Hlark Senior Reporter
The chances that OpSTAR registra
tion will be moved from Chicopee to the
Bulldog Room in Memorial Hall are
“about 50-50,” said University
Registrar Bruce Shutt.
If OpSTAR doesn't move to the
Bulldog Room, Shutt said, it will re
main at Chicopee.
"I don't see them moving us
anywhere else," he said. "There is no
other space available."
Shutt first announced the Universi
ty’s intent to move registration back on
campus two weeks ago at a Student Af
fairs Advisory Board meeting.
Because the University must run
buses to and from Chicopee, hire wat
chmen and provide for separate main-
tainance functions for that facility,
Shutt said the Bulldog Room would be
cheaper to operate
One of the problems with the move,
he said, is the size of the Bulldog Room
Even if all the ground-level space at
Memorial Hall were used, Shutt said,
the area would still be less than that
currently provided at Chicopee
Shutt said the Memorial Hall
ballroom would have to be used as an
overflow area where students could
gather in bad weather and wait for
registration appointments.
In addition, Shutt said, the game
room would have to be used as a fee-
collection area.
"It isn't as much space as Chicopee,”
he said, "but we would have to make do
with it."
Also complicating the proposed
change of location is the extensive
renovation that would be required
For instance, Shutt said, all the kit
chen equipment in the Bulldog Room
would have to be moved and replaced
by registration equipment.
Also, an input station, similar to the
area in Chicopee where students submit
completed registration forms, would
have to be built, he said.
If the move were made, Shutt said the
Bulldog Room would become
OpSTAR's permanent location
Because the project is still in the
planning stages, Shutt said a comple
tion date and cost figures were impossi
ble to predict
Nothing can really be done, he said,
until the Tate Student Center is com
pleted and Bulldog Room facilities and
other operations housed on Memorial
Hall’s ground level are relocated in the
center.
Student Activities Director Bob Net
tles earlier expressed doubts that the
center would be completed as schedul
ed by May and said a realistic starting
date for the possible relocation of
OpSTAR would be August
snow caper
Kelley was released on $200 bail,
while Sanford, who was also charged
with pedestrian under the influence,
was released on $1,200 bail.
Eric Keith Krasle, 19, an Oglethrope
House resident, and Kenneth Drew
Jones, 18, a Creswell resident, were
also charged with making terroristic
threats for throwing snow and ice and
were both released on $5,000 bond, Nix
said.
All four will appear in Athens/Clarke
County Magistrate's Court in late
February.
Edwin K Bray, 18, from
Wrightsville; Von Eric Byce, 19, from
Stone Mountain; and Jonathan C.
Miller, 18, of Russell Hall, were ar
rested Friday on charges of theft by
receiving. The three were caught with
public street signs valued from $10-$20
each and were released on $2,500 bond,
Nix said
Bray, Byce and Miller arc also
scheduled to appear in court at the end
of February.
Patrick David Cox, 20, Gary Bob
Gam, 20, of Oglethorpe House; Anthony
Richard Marshall, 18, of Creswell Hall;
James Marcus Lee, 20, Russell Hall;
and Tayfun Riza Kiran, 19, from Elbcr-
ton were all arrested and charged with
disorderly conduct. Cpl Mel Hegwood
of the Athens Police Department said
all eight were arrested for throwing ice
and snow at pedestrians and vehicles on
Baxter Street.
All eight were released on $500 bond
and, with the exception of Gam, who
will appear on Feb. 28, all will appear in
court Feb. 11.
Thursday night students opened a fire
hydrant on Baxter Street in response to
the sanding of the frozen street by
Public Works sand trucks.
On Friday some students stepped out
onto Baxter Street to hit cars and
pedestrians with snow and ice. The
crowd of over a hundred subsided after
police vehicles arrived.
University police made more arrests
this year than during last year's
snowstorm because, according to Nix,
"we have a responsibility to prevent
things that would go against the safety
of innocent people "
Nix said fraternities and sororities,
as well as housing officials, were told to
warn all students that arrests would be
made for throwing ice on Baxter Street
Hegwood said only "three or four”
cars were damaged by the thrown ice
Hegwood said city streets were not
designed for snowball fights. "I don't
feel sorry for these individuals at all,”
he said, "they got what they deserved."
Gary Gant (left) arrested by undercover cop Greg Barland
Two professors injured in accident
By TOMMY SIMS
Krd and Hlark Hmlor Krpurtrr
A car struck and injured two University professors
on Baldwin Street Monday morning, leaving one in
fair condition in the intensive care unit of St Mary's
Hospital Monday afternoon
Warren French, 41, of 285 Cedar Creek Drive and
an associate professor of marketing and distributing;
and Jan Henkel, 45, of 291 Cedar Creek Drive and an
associate professor of real estate and legal studies,
were hit by an Oldsmobile Cutlass driven by William
Jones of 165 Rocksprings while attempting to cross
Baldwin Street at Sanford Drive, said Cpl Mel
Hegwood of the Athens Police Department.
Passersby said French and Henkel were crossing
Baldwin Street in the pedestrian walk lane at about
8:40a.m when they were hit, Hegwood said.
Both victims were taken to St Mary's Hospital,
where Henkel was listed in satisfactory condition
with both legs broken French suffered serious
head injuries alter striking the car s windshield and
remained in intensive care, hospital and police of
ficialssaid.
Jones, 35, was charged with running a red light at
the intersection, Hegwood said
Maj Ernest Nix of the University Police Depart
ment said he didn't have "any complaints on file"
from students or motorists who wanted extra safety
measures taken at the busy intersection
"It’s just that at that busy intersection, pedestrians
and motorists have got to be very careful," Nix said
Because no complaints about the busy intersection
have ever been recorded at campus or city police
departments, neither plan to place traffic directors at
the intersection
"That’s a city street and I can't tell (city policel
what to do," Nix said. "We don't have anyone we
could put there on a permanent basis due to our
manpower allocations "
Nix did say University police had directed traffic at
the intersection in the past, but said that placing
someone there every morning "would be taxing on
our manpower.”
The police have noticed a lot of jaywalking goes on
at the intersection, Nix said
Freshman Tammy Timm said she's had the usual
problems along Baldwin Street
"Sometimes when the light changes it doesn't look
like they're going to stop," she said, "but it's not as
busy as other streets like Broad Street.”
City council special primary election set for today
By JIM BARBER
Red and Black Senior Reporter
Athens voters go to the polls today in the city
council special primary, and election officials
are predicting a very light turnout
"If the absentee ballots have been any in
dication, the turnout will be light," said Fran
Strickland, registration clerk for the Clarke
County Board of Elections
Only 18 absentee ballots had been received
by Monday, Strickland said.
Strickland said 6,465 — 3,979 in Ward
2 and 2,486 in Ward 4 — were registered to vote
in today’s primary.
Voters in Ward 2 will choose between in
cumbent Jerry Nicholson and challenger
Martha Henderson. In Ward 4, incumbent
James Boswell (aces Carolyn Reynolds
Nicholson said he was confident of being
elected to a fourth term "I feel good about it,”
he said
Nicholson said his campaign had been a
persona! one. 'Tve done a lot of personal
contacting on the street, walking and a lot of
telephoning," he added
Although Ward 2 includes most University
students, Nicholson said he had not aimed his
campaign at them
"I was not necessarily trying to pinpoint just
students, but tried to get in contact with
everyone in Ward 2," he added
Henderson said she felt there was a strong
possibility she would win the primary. "I have
an awful lot of support in the neighborhood,"
she said
She said she had taken her campaign door
to-door, to neighborhood organizations and to
city organizations
"I've gone to as many places as I could
where I thought the people would be in
terested,” she said
Henderson said she expected a light turnout
because only two races were on the ballot
"We’re calling people to tell them to
remember to vote," she said
City councilmen running for re-election but
not facing primary opposition are Ed Turner,
Ward 1; John Taylor, Ward 3; and Calvin
Bridges, Ward 5
The Athens elections were delayed after the
proposed redistricting of the city's wards met
opposition from Athens black leaders, in
cluding attorney Curtis Miller, who claimed
the plan divided black districts.
The University Young Democrats and
College Republicans also objected to the plan,
claiming it diluted the student vote by
separating the University campus among four
separate wards
Although the U S Justice Department ac
cepted the redistricting plan in December,
council elections were postponed further so
candidates could have enough qualifying time
before the primary.