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THE RED AND BLACK
Athens, Ga., Vol. 92, No. 108
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Thursday, May 16, 1985
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
The Lucy Cobb bouse on Millege Avenue was built in IK5H
University, architect ready to begin
renovating Lucy Cobb Institute
By MICHAEL KOENIG
Kr<l .r„l HI., S s.m.« Hrpwtri
After months of worries about lack of Junds and a search
for qualified architects, renovations on the University's
Lucy Cobb Institute on Milledge Avenue is finally ready to
begin
The University's Architect Selection Committee has
recommended the Ellis Ricketl Architectural firm of
Valdosta to design the specifications for renovating the
Lucy Cobb Institute
The final decision still rests with the Board of Regents,
but Campus Planning Director Dave Lunde said the
committee's recommendation usually is approved
The committee- picked the firm from more than 40 ap
plicants. Lunde said
He said the committee used a number of criteria to
determine which architects were best The firm needed
experience in rehabilitating historic structures, needed to
be large enough to do the job efficiently and he able to
submit a design that kept the Institute's historic features
intact, he said
The Institute’s main building was built in 185k The site,
when renovated, will be the home of the Carl Vinson In
st itute of Government
Karen Murphv, legislative assistant to Rep Doug Bar
nard said the Congressman had language introduced to
fund the Lucy Cobb as part of the Library Services and
Construction Bill, approved by the House Oct 17
The bill was then passed by the Senate and signed into
law by President Reagan
But funding ran into trouble Feb 7 when the Reagan
Administration submitted a proposal to Congress to rescind
funding for almost *174 million in educational projects,
including the *3 5 million for Lucy Cobb
The bill stipulated that the money would remain intact if
Congress voted the bill down or took no action within 45
work mg days by April 24
But when Reagan proposed the rescision bill. Barnard
‘We want the result to be very
pleasing to those familiar with the
Lucy Cobb Institute.'
— Dave Lunde
contacted the chairman of the House Labor Appropriations
Subcommittee to lobby for the Institute's funding, Murphy
said
The chairman then stalled the rescision bill, effectively
ensuring the funding, Murphy said.
Lunde’s office is filling out the forms for the University to
apply officially for the grant, a process Lunde said is a
mere formality
The- University is trying to raise private funds to cover
costs heyond actual construction costs, such as furnishings
and landscaping. Lunde said
The University also is putting together information that
the architect will need to begin work, such as structural
data, a topographical survey on the site and design work
from a previous, abortive renovation project, he said
Campus Planning also must make sure that the design
abides by federal and state requirements for work on the
building, which is considered a historic landmark.
They must also make sure the building meets energy
conservation requirements and it must be accessible to the
handicapped
The trees on the site must be kept there, as they are also
designated historic landmarks
The project also mvovles the renovation of the Stovall
Chapel, on the Lucy Cobb site, he said
Lunde said the buildings are in “very poor shape "
"We must determine how much of the structure we can
maintain to keep the building's appearance," he said. “We
want the result to be very pleasing to those familiar with
the Lucy Cobb Institute ”
Omega Psi Phi gets
two-year suspension
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National fraternity
cites \pledge abuse ’
By TAMI DENNIS
Krd and Hlaek Hrnltir Hr (sorter
The University chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity is
suspended from the national fraternity for two years due to
violations of the rules in the fraternity’s charter, Dorsey
Miller, district representative of the fraternity, said Wed
nesday
“For two years it’s as if we don't have an Omega chapter at
the University of Georgia," Miller said
The suspension followed an inquiry by Samuel Jolley, state
representatives of the fraternity in which he investigated
reports of "physical abuse of some of the pledges," Jolley
said Wednesday.
Jolley said he received the reports from members of the
fraternity as well as members of other fraternities. No one
involved in the incidents made the reports, he said.
No individual fraternity members were named in the
action taken by the district level, Jolley said When the
chapter is suspended, that takes care of all the individual
fraternity members, he said
Jolley said a suspension simply means they cannot par
ticipate in activities as a group under the name of Omega Psi
Phi
"For right now, we haven't received any verification of
that, so we don't have any comment right now," Omega Psi
Phi President Robert Bryant said Wednesday.
The fraternity is allowed to appeal the suspension to the
national board of directors. Miller said.
However, Miller said, "To my knowledge, a suspension by
theDRs (directors) has never been overturned."
Bill Bracewell. director of judicial programs at the
University, said that if enough evidence exists to conduct an
investigation or action by the Student Judiciary, the
judiciary definitely would look into it.
Bracewell said he would contact other University officials
and decide whether or not to take University action against
the fraternity.
Fraternity members "have got to have the courage to say,
'Look, I'm a human being and I'm not going to stand for
this’." Bracewell said
Interfraternity Council Adviser John Opper said he will__
cooperate in any sanctions the national level of the fraten
handed down to the University chapter
The IFC's evaluation and review board will try to help
improve the chapter and correct the problems, Opper said
Hix Myrick. IFC vice president for public relations, also
said the evaluation and review board would try and work
with the fraternity.
Miller said it’s a disappointment to him when a fraternity
does not live up to its goals and expectations of enhancing
student life.
He said he would rather not have a chapter that can'f
perpetuate these goals than have one that commits such
infractions
"Hopefully, this will be a good lesson and cause whatever
actions were committed to not be repeated." Miller said.
Eddie Daniels, student affairs adviser, said that when he
was the fraternity's adviser he never received any formal
complaints concerning the fraternity except about the
omega brand that some of the members wear.
“As a department, we determined that was not haling."
Daniels said
Bomb death toll up to 11
PHILADELPHIA (API - Police
found five more incinerated bodies and
a cache of weapons Wednesday in the
ruins of a radical cult’s fortified
rowhouse while searching the debris
with heavy machinery and long-
handled prongs
Thai find — which included the bodies
of two children — increased the death
toll to 11. Two other children were
among the six bodies found Tuesday in
the ruin of the house once occupied by
the MOVE cult.
“We're taking one shovel at a time,"
said police spokesman Lt. Jerry
Whartrnby "We’re looking for any
kind of evidence to tell us what went on,
any more bodies that may or may not
be there, weapons, ammo, things of
that sort ”
The five bodies found Wednesday
were wrapped in canvas body bags and
taken to the city morgue for study, ac
cording to Clarence Mosley, the city's
assistant city managing director.
Police assaulted the house on Monday
with bullets, water hoses, tear gas and
finally a two-pound bomb. An ensuing
fire burned 61 homes and uprooted at
least 225 residents of the west
Philadelphia neighborhood.
Two shotguns and a rifle were found
Wednesday, Mosley said, and pieces
which police at first thought were bomb
material That proved untrue, he said,
but addded that a substantial quantity
of 38 caliber ammunition had been
found
Police also uncovered a second
bunker with gunports in a rear .omer
of a basement. Earlier, police found
another basement bunker and bombed
a steel-reinforced bunker off the roof.
Meanwhile, Mayor W Wlison Goode
again defended his plan to evict the
radicals and took full responsibility for
the result.
"The whole purpose of the operation
was to preserve life What happened
was an accident There will not be any
scapegoats I am fully and totally
responsible,” he said at a news con
ference
(inode said that he would appoint
within one week a commission to
review the facts that led up to the Mon
day confrontation.
Police used a five-story crane with a
jaw-like bucket to scoop rubble from
the MOVE house and dump it in the
street Officers picked through the
debris with hand tools.
NCAA deliberating
on University’s report*
Athens developers say growth might decline
Bv JOHN ALDEN
Krd and Mark Srosur Reporter
The booming development of outlying
East and West Athens has brought new
wealth to the community, but this
expansion soon may end, Athens
planners and renters said Wednesday
While commercial and retail growth
will continue in such places as the
Gaines School and Atlanta Highway
areas, the residential boom supporting
it is much in doubt, said Athens-Clarke
County Planning Director Dick Crew
"I think we're at the tail end of the
boom." Crew said "Construction ought
to tail off a little, especially in the
outlying areas
The construction of apartment and
condominium developments in areas of
the county such as the Gaines School
area and the Georgia Square-Atlanta
Highway area had in the past three
years assumed boom proportions
because of the market for student
housing. Crew said.
Figures released by the Planning
Commission Staff show that in 1983 and
1984 there were about 1,300 new multi
family housing building permits issued
in Clarke County According to the
figures, developers secured 1,280
building permits outside the city limits
in the past 26 months
Following this trend, grocery stores,
convenience and drug stores, and even
restaurants, an industry once
dominated by downtown, have sprung
up in this area . Crew said
"We’ve got almost the full range of
fast food restaurants out there," Crew
said. "Right now we’ve probably got
more grocery stores than we can
support "
Next will come a wave of office
buildings and other commercial cen
ters, he said
But some developers and planners
already see a saturation point, even
while building continues
“I don't see any major events
bringing more people to the area unless
they move from another part of town,
and I don't see that happening." said
Paul Miller, director of development
for the Athens Chamber of Commerce
Maxine Smith, the rental manager
for Parthenon Apartments, said there
is already a buyer's market because of
a housing glut, and owners are feeling a
drop-off in demand
"People are making compensations,
like offering a free month's rent. It has
gotten to that point," Smith said
"Somebody's going to have to absorb
the cost, and it looks like the owners "
Smith said the outlying boom areas
are feeling the most pressure Other
developers are looking for locations
closer to the University, a trend
homeowners m those neighborhoods
are fighting, he said
The growth of East Athens is further
limited because it’s becoming more
difficult to get there, Crew said There
are only three corridors across the
Oconee River and the Athens
perimeter: Lexington Highway,
College Station Road and South
Milledge Avenue Bottlenecks are
common. Crew said
Lexington Avenue and Barnett Shoals
Road are scheduled for widening, Crew
said, but even that will allow little room
for further growth
Al Grubbs, an agent for Hill-Calaway
Development, Inc , of Athens, said he
agrees the future development will be
closer to the University
"It's closer to Milledge Avenue,
where the girls are bouncing up and
down the street. I guess." Grubbs said
By BETII PATE
HmI and Mark Hralar Krfsortrr
Although the University expected a
decision in the NCAA investigation of
its men's basketball program by
Wednesday, no information has been
released yet
Also, Clarke County Superior Court
Judge James Barrow didn't take action
by Wednesday on a motion filed May 8
by two newspaper groups requesting
the release of the documents on the
University's in-house investigation
Kent Lawrence, an attorney for the
University, said this past week that he
expected the NCAA Infractions
Committee to make a decision by
Wednesday.
According to a report in Wednesday’s
Athens Banner' Herald, the Committee
met Tuesday and Wednesday in
Washington to study the University's
case, but NCAA officials refused to
confirm any meetings
Kirby Moore, one of the University's
attorneys, said he had expected a
decision by now but had not heard
anything from the NCAA yet.
"We anticipated a wait of two to three
weeks, which would be about now. but I
know of no decision," he said
Lawyers and University officials met
with the Infractions committee in
Kansas City, Kan , on April 28 to
discuss the allegations against the
men's basketball program
Once a decision is made, the
University has 15 days from the day
it is notified of the decision to appeal
The time needed to notify a university
of a decision varies from one case to the
next, said Mike Glazier, assistant
director of enforcement at the NCAA
The committee will reach a decision,
then the staff has to prepare a report,
he said Once the report is finished, the
committee has to approve it before the
John Opper
University will be notified, he said.
The University and two newspai
groups also are waiting for a decision
from Clarke County Superior Court
Judge James Barrow
Morris Communications, owners of
the Athens Banner-Herald and the
Daily News, and Cox Enterprises,
owners of the Atlanta Journal and
Constitution, filed a motion May 8
asking Barrow to order the release of
documents on the University’s in-house
investigation
Although Barrow said this past week
that a decision would be made “shor
tly," a spokeswoman in his office said
Wednesday that he hadn't ruled on the
matter yet
Although the newspaper groups say
the records are public documents under
state open records laws, the University
has claimed that release of the papers
prior to an NCAA decision would be
detrimental to the University and
Georgia basketball player Cedric
Henderson.