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THE RED AND BLACK
Athens. Ga. Vol. 91, No. 57
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Wednesday, Feb. 0, 1904
News 543-1009 Advertising 543-1791
City council votes to keep
sidewalk cafes in Athens
Breakers make waves in Athens
Bv JILL CORSON
Red and Black Senior Reporter
Sidewalk cafe owners can sleep
soundly after Athens City Council's
decision Tuesday allowing the cafes to
remain downtown after nine months of
"unwritten" civil war involving
downtown merchants
At their monthly meeting, council
members voted 7-2 to approve a public
works committee recommendation to
maintain the present sidewalk cafe
zoning ordinances. However,
pedestrian walking spare will be
measured differently
City ordinances require a five-foot
wide, unobstructed pedestrian walk
way The revised ordinance will require
measurement of pedestrian space to
begin at any obstructions on the
sidewalk, such as trees
Bob Russo, owner of Chow Gold
stein's delicatessen, hailed the coun
cil's decision as a victory for downtown
Athens, and said the new ordinance
would not affect his cafe
Opponents of downtown sidewalk
cafes didn't voice their opinions on the
controversial issue at the public
hearing before the council meeting
Tuesday night
Ten supporters of sidewalk cafes
from the University and the Athens
business community asked Athens
Mayor Lauren Coile and the council
members to save sidewalk cafes
City council held the forum to allow
public discussion of planning com
mission recommendations to alter
current sidewalk cafe zoning
Police drop investigation plans
after meeting with rape crisis staff
By LEE SMITH
HH *i*4 Btorfc Scalar Reporter
University Public Safety Director Asa Boynton has
dropped his request that a grand jury investigate the
Athens Rape Crisis Line. Boynton said Tuesday
The relationship between University police and the
ARCL has improved after a meeting between the two
groups last Thursday
“I don't see any reason for an investigation since
we don't have a problem with them anymore,"
Boynton said
The misunderstanding between the ARCL and
University police stemmed from an article about
rape in the Jan 19 edition of The Red and Black
Linda Chafin, the rape crisis program coordinator for
the Northeast Georgia Mental Health Center, said
then. "I do know that women have been raped on
campus or University women have been raped in
town in the past three years."
University police have said that no rapes have been
"reported" on campus in the past three years
"I felt we had been wrongly accused," Boynton
said “I wanted an independent agency like the
district attorney's office to look at our records ”
ARCL volunteers called for the Thursday meeting
after Boynton sent District Attorney Harry Gordon a
letter, which requested the grand jury investigation
Boynton said if the ARCL knew of more rapes or rape
attempts, it should have reported them
Boynton sent copies of the letter to The Red and
Black. University Police Chief Max Smart and
University President Fred Davison
Smart described the recent meeting as "real
successful" and added that it “improved our lines of
communication ”
"We explained to each other that we both have to
operate under confidentiality," Smart said "If
people who report to them don't want to call the
police, then they <the volunteers) can't do anything
about it.”
Chafin said Boynton and the ARCL discussed ways
to improve cooperation.
“We talked about presenting joint programs on
campus, providing in-service training for University
police and about not airing our grievances in the
press before we discuss things among ourselves,”
Chafin said
Part of that cooperation included a program
Tuesday on sexual assault sponsored by several
Athens agencies including Univeristy police, the
ARCL and the rape crisis program at the Northeast
Georgia Community Mental Health Center Speakers
included Chafin, Smart and Lt. Gail Hoppe of the
University Police Department
By JANINE FAUCHER
Hrd and Hlark Senior Reporter
To improve Georgia's national
academic ranking, the Board of
Regents and a state Board of Education
committee today will approve a
dramatic increase in college admission
standards, a regents official said.
The regnets education committee
unanimously approved a new pre
college curriculum at its Tuesday
meeting and the full board will give its
approval today, said Ray Cleere, vice
chancellor for Academic Affairs
Cleere said the liaison committee will
meet directly after the regents' full
board meeting today and that he ex
pects unanimous approval of the new
curriculum.
If approval is granted, minimum
standards for college admission will be
four years of English, three years of
science, three years of math, three
years of social science and two years of
foreign language
The current admission standards
require no foreign language and only
two years of science
The regents have been working
closely with the Board of Education,
because the increase would force high
schools to raise their standards also,
Cleere said.
"Foreign language is damn near
vanishing in high schools today and we
don't even have enough foreign
language teachers to handle the current
demand,” he said
For the past two decades, Georgia
has consistently ranked near the bot
tom for its percentage of high school
graduates going to college However,
Georgia's college have some of the
lower admissions standards, Cleere
said.
"By making stronger admission
requirements across the (University)
System, we will he assisting the public-
schools in raising their standards and
we will also be raising ours," he said.
In other regents news, the buildings
and grounds committee approved the
sale of $11.3 million in bonds through
the Georgia State Financing and In
vestment Commission
Asbestos removal in dormitories
throughout the system will receive $4 4
million and renovations at Fort Valley
State College will get the rest of the
money for improvements at its
facilities, said Frank Dunham, the vice
chancellor for facilities
Dunham updated the board on the
most recent asbestos findings in the
system buildings and the projected cost
for removing the material
Removal of asbestos from the
University's nine asbestos-
contaminated buildings will cost an
estimated $14 million, the report
states
The education committee went into
its executive session for the annual
election of system institution
presidents
Kay Miller, the spokeswoman for the
regents, said education committee
members will announce their elections
results at the full board meeting today
By Jll.l. CORSON
Kr4 and Black Hrntnr Hrporlrr
For convenience, the University-
calls one a freshman and the other a
junior, but what would you call
students who spin around on their
heads''
Steve I,oe and Bill Agudolo prefer to
be called “break dancers " Break
dancing is a very current, urban
dance form, according to one
University dance instructor
"There is a dance explosion now,"
said Danna Frangione "Dance is so
popular in the media Everybody has
seen Michael Jackson and MTV "
Breakers, as they call themselves,
dance with incredible physical in
tensity Michael Jackson, Lionel
Richie and Al Jarreau videos in
corporate break dancing Dick
Clark's New Year s Rockin' Eve
extravaganza featurd three breakers
"It's hard to articulate what we
'dancersi do." Frangione said "It is
so muscular, so kinesthetic "
Breakers literally "get down" on
the floor to dance Dancers tote
cardboard and pieces of linoleum to
provide a slick, cushioned surface for
their acrobatics
“You need a cushion or you'll get
scabs on your head. Lee said
The fun starts when the music is
switched on
"The most important thing is
definitely the beat," Lee said,
snapping his fingers to a tune unheard
by the rest of the w orld
Bright orange Walkman earphones
wrapped around Lee s neck and white
Converse high-top sneakers
distinguish him from just another
preppy shagger
Swaying to that inner beat. Lee and
Agudelo explain some of their moves
The head spin, the elbow spin and
the hand spin involve balancing one s
weight on those particular parts of the
body and whizzing rapidly in circles
C ouncilnten George llesler and Kd Turner discuss the sidewalk
cafe issue.
regulations
"The public works committee
reviewed (the planning commission's
recommendations) and had three or
four meetings this month," Coile said.
"There may be some difference as to
their recommendations from the
planning commission's."
Russo presented petitions with 3,161
signatures to the council before a
standing-room-only crowd.
Russo said merchants collected 1,873
signatures of sidewalk cafe supporters
in the four days prior to the Tuesday
meeting. He said they collected 1,288
signatures in a four-day period last
year.
"In the five years I’ve had a cafe, we
have not been in any violation (of the
ordinances)," Russo said. “We have
crossed our t’s and dotted our i's.
"We need to get on with the business
of running our businesses,” he added
"There has been too much animosity
and mud-slinging "
Hal Cofer of the Athens downtown
council said his organization supports
the sidewalk cafe ordinances "on the
books "
Cofer said he would rather see the
sidewalks full, bustling with activity,
"rather than the situation in Augusta
where they have broad sidewalks which
are not full.”
University to get involved
in battle over financial aid
"In a back spin, you ball up on your
back," Agudelo said "Whoosh,
whoosh ”
"In a windmill, your legs keep
continually going around in circles
and never touch the ground," Lee
said
The moonwalk is an eerie,
seemingly slow motion step that
imitates weightlessness on the moon
The partners also do a version of the
moonwalk on their knees
A small crowd gathered to watch
the partners dance Monday in front of
Oz Records in The Pavilion
Lee spent 10 minutes searching the
record shop for the "right" music to
dance to
"If the beat 's not right, you can t do
it right," he said "You need scrat
ching like on Herbie Hancock's
“Rockit ' You know — da da di da.
shwa. shwa
Agudelo and Lee then demonstrated
the worm by lying prone on the
linoleum floor, undulating forward
and backward like two inchworms
The pair suddenly transformed into
robotic bicycle riders They pedalled
and shifted the gears of their
imaginary bikes with exact, con
trolled twitches and movements
"How do they do that, Mom’’" a
little girl said in an incredulous
whisper to her mother
Please See BREAKERS, Page 2
By KAREN BENNETT
Hrd anil Black Senior Hrporlrr
The battle lines are being drawn
among the Reagan administration,
student aid lobbyists and Congress over
the federal financial aid budget, and
now the University will join the fight,
officials said Tuesday
President Reagan wants students to
pay more of their education costs by
restructuring the Higher Education
Reauthorization Act, the master plan
that sets five-year financial aid
budgets
Student aid lobbyists, however, are
Steve Lee shows off his break dam-ini' talent
pushing for grant increases, according
to Ray Tripp, the director of student
financial aid here
Tripp said the University will become
involved as Congress hammers out its
final proposals for the act.
"This is such a big issue, we will get
involved," he said. "We don't lobby, but
as we read information that comes out
of committee, we will contact the
Georgia congressional delegation to let
them know what we think "
As it did last year, the Reagan ad-
minstration has proposed increasing
College Work Study funds at the ex
pense of grant programs as part of a
“self-help" plan for student financial
aid
The proposals would make students
apply for work study and loan funds
first, then receive Pell Grants as a last
resort. In addition, 80 percent of all Pell
Grants — instead of the current 74
percent — would go to students with
family incomes of less than $12,000
However, both Tripp and Debbie
Nagy, the legislative assistant to 10th
District Congressman Doug Barnard,
Jr, said they doubt Congress will cut
grant funds
"Congress has increased funding for
education in general as a response to
national concern and I don't think it’s
inclined to shut down existing grant
programs,” Nagy said
Tripp said he docs approve of the
administration's idea that students
should first try to work or borrow funds
before receiving a Pell Grant
"People who really need the money
most should get the grants," he said
However, Tripp said he opposes
Reagan's proposal that would raise the
maximum individual Pell award to
$3,ooo from $1,900
“These awards are based on half of a
student’s costs and I'd hate to see
schools increase their costs just so they
can get an increase in the grant
award," he said.
The Reagan administration also
proposed that all Guaranteed Student
Loan applicants show financial need.
Currently, only students whose families
have incomes of more than $30,000 must
prove financial need
Tripp said he supported this measure
and would even go further by requiring
that both income and assets bo used to
determine financial need.
"Now, the GSL looks only at income,
not assets which can include savings
accounts,” he said. “Other programs
look at both income and assets and it
would be more equitable to look at both
in this program, too "
Lobby groups such as the American
Council on Education see this year as
an opportunity to increase financial aid
funds because Reagan may be reluc
tant to make budget cuts during an
election year
"We're trying to increase funding for
student aid programs, particularly for
grants," said Charles Saunders, the
vice president for governmental
relations of the American Council on
Education.
"Reagan wants to eliminate three
grant programs and we re trying our
best to oppose elimination of the
programs,” he said.
Reagan requested no tunds in his
fiscal 1985 budget for the Supplemental
Educational Opportunity, State Student
Incentive and Cooperative Education
grant programs.
Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Simon, D-
lllinois, has proposed several changes
also His congressional subcommittee
will plan the blueprint for the act.
Simon proposed that the $2 8 million
Pell Grant program be changed from a
set funding level to an entitlement
formula that would fund the program
based on the annual number of
qualified applicants
"This would he a difficult thing to
pass when the direction of Congress is
more toward cutting entitlements,"
Nagy said. "This is a major reform
that's pretty radical."
Officials to approve raise
in admission standards