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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 93, No. 25
Tuesday, Novembers, 1985
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
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Alcohol sales on today’s ballot
By Michael Koenig
Red and Black Senior Reporter
An expected low voter turnout will decide
today two Athens City Council races and make a
recommendation on a controversial Sunday al
cohol-sales referendum
The referendum, if passed, would advise city
council to allow Sunday alcohol sales in restau
rants from 12:?0 p.m. until midnight.
THe proposal has been the subject of contro-'
veisy since the council voted 6-5 to hold the ref
erendum at its September meeting, with Mayor 1
Lauren Code’s vote breaking the tie:
In October, the oouncil voted 6-5 to reject a
proposal by Councilman Calvin Bridges to stop
the referendum, with Code again casting the de
ciding vote.
But Fifth Ward Councilwoman Gwen O’Looney
said she doubts the referendum will win by a
large enough margin to change the council's
policy.
She sajd that if citizens vote for the proposal,
the Sunday alcohol bdl will go back to the coun
cil's finance committee for its recommendation
and be voted on at December’s full Courted
meeting. ’ •
“I’m interested in whether the University
people get involved," she said.
Third Ward Councilman Lewis Shropshire sajd
there is probably as much for support for the ref
erendum as there is opposition.
He said church groups and Mothers Against
Drunk Driving have expressed tfieir oppositiop,-
while the Athens Chamber of Commerce and the
Georgia Hospitality and Travel Association are
vocal in support.
Dot Barrett, vie? chairwoman of the . Clarke
County Board of. Elections, said past experience
shows that the low number of absentee ballots
local voters • requested may indicate a low
turnout today. She said she had received about
75 requests as of Thursday afternoon
Voters also will decide two Athens City Council
races. In second Ward, Which includes the Five
Points area, Democratic incumbent Fred
Leathers is running for re-election against Re-
jpublican "Bill Lyons In the 3rd Ward, Which in
cludes most of Midtown and Baxter Street,
Democrat Kathy Hoard is running against Re
publican Steve Bush.
The candidates were unavailable for comment
Monday
Polls open at 7 a m and dose at 7 p.m. Only
voters registered in Clarke County are eligibly.
Homecoming ’85: A smashing success overall
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By Jim Moody
K«l and Black Stall Writer
Student and alumni participation. com
bined to make this year's Homecoming
celebration "a very respectable event,"
Homecoming Committee Chairman Lisa
Williams said Monday.
Williams said the turnout was .better
than expected, with Friday s bad weather
having little effect on the proceedings
The 1985 Homecomiog Queen is Mary
Lynn Terry, a senior in public relations
from Austell. She was crowned at halftime
of the Homecortiing football game, in
which Georgia beat Tulane 58-3
Beta, Theta Pi and Delta Phi Epsilon won
overall' best awards for the various Home
coming competitions in the Greek division.
Hill Community won the overall tfWard for
residence halls and the Wesley Foundation
won in the service organizations category
Vicki Triponey, Homecoming Committee
adviser, s'aid the Super Dance competition
was especially successful The dance
raised $6,550 to aid muscular dystrophy re
search. about $2,000 more than this past
year, Triponey said
Winners of the Super Dance were Beta
Theta Pi and Delta Phi Epsilon in (he
Greek division, Student American . Phar
maceutical Association in the service divi
sion and Hill community in the residence
hall divisioft.
Other winners include:
•Parade floats — Pi Kappa Alpha/Alpha
Omicron Pi, Baptist Student Union and
Hill community.
•Banners — Pi Kappa Phi/Alpha
Gamma Delta, Wesley Foundation and
Reed community.
•Window Painting — Beta Theta Pi-
/Delta Phi Epsilon. Sigma Tau Gamma
and,Myers community.
•Cake Bake r- Alpha Tau. Omega/Zeta
Tau Alpha, Pre-vet club and Myers com
munity.
•Skits — Alpha Tau Omega/Zeta Tau
Alpha, Alpha Phi Omega and Reed’com
munity.
AIDS tests for ROTC planned
Bv Mickey Higginbotham
Bed and Black Senior Reporter
University Air Force and Army
ROTC officials said Monday they
aren’t aware of the details of a new
U S. Department of Defense policy
requiting ROTC participants to un
dergo mandatory AIDS virus tests
.Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger signed a policy order
dated Oct. 24 that will require all
ROTC personnel to lake a manda
tory Acquired Immunity Deficiency
Syndrome virus test, Julian Barber,
assistant to the assistant secretary
of defense for health affairs in
Washington, said.
All active duty military personnel
and reserve units also must undergo
the tests, he said.
Barber said the test,’ which
screens blood for the HTLV-3 virus,"
is already under way at some mili
tary bases and ROTC programs. He
said all AIDS victims carry the
virus, although not everyone with
the virus contracts AIDS.
It could take several months be
fore the tests are conducted on a
large-scale basis, Barber said.
"Realistically, it will be the first
pf the year before any testing of sig
nificant! numbers takes place”’ he
said. i
Maj Tom Gentry, an instructor in
the University’s Army ROTC, said
he hasn’t'received any instructions
qn how to implement the policy, but
tests for the AIDS virus are planned
for all upper-level and scholarship
holding ROTC participants as soon
qs details are worked out.
“We received a letter dated Oct.
24 informing us'there have-been ar
ticles in the paper about the AIDS
testing, but we have not received
any implementation instructions
yet,’’ Gentry said.,
He said the test will be part of the
Routine ROTC physical exam
Maj Robert Chisolm, an in
structor in the University Air Force
ROTC, said he hasn’t received word
of any procedure or policy for the
testing. ,but that all ROTC candi
dates are sent to Robins Air.Force
Base in Warner Robins for physical
examinations
Dr.’ David Summers, who per
forms physical exams aj Robins,
said testing for the AIDS virus
began Oct. 31 at his facility.
VAs of this moment, we re testing
just those who are leaving ROTC for
active duty, but this is brand new
and it might change tomorrow,” he
said.
“If you get a virus in a large
group of people in closed quarters,
it’s just inevitable that it's going to
Spread," Summers said. “I don’t
thinjt a person has ia right to bring
an illness into an area I think it
(the test) is quite necessary."
Maj David Sutherlin, public rela
tions officer at Maxwell Air Force
Base in Montgomery, Ala., said
testing already has begun there.
University Air Force ROTC par
ticipants receive physical examina
tions there, but he declined to say if
University ROTC members have re
ceived the tests.yet.
• Three tests are perforated to en
sure the vajidy of (he results,
Barber said Medical records are
kept confidential by the military’s
privacy act, he said.
“We’re not screening for AIDS,
but we are screening for those
people who have been exposed to
the virus," Barber said. “If they
arie found to be positive', we reject
them, give them ^counseling and
send them home.'* "
Judge allows a one-week extension for
lawsuit involving UGA officials, paper
By Tami Dennis
Kf4 mmd Black Scalar KcfMclrc
An Augusta judge has delayed his
decision in a newspaper lawsuit re
questing the Georgia Athletic Asso
ciation's financial records so
attorneys can present further oral
arguments in the case.
’ Richmond County Superior Court
Judge Franklin Pierce said he will
wait until Nov. 14 to make a deci
sion in the case pitting the Macon
Telegraph and News against Uni
versity President Fred Davison, the
Board of Regents and Allen Barber,
University vice president for busi
ness and finance. *
•Walter Bush, attorney for the
Telegraph and News, said the exten
sion came at the state’s request.
Bush said no new witnesses or tes
timony will be .presented at the Nov.
14 heirring The hearing gives both
attorneys a chance to sum up their
cases in court before the judge
makes his decision, he said.
But State Attorney General Mike
Bowers, attorney for. Davison,
Barber and the regents, still filed a
separate response to the suit
Monday
Bowers said he filed four sets of
papers with the court: One set is the
response to the initial suit filed by
the newspaper, he said. Another set
is a brief stating the state's opposi
tion to the Telegraph and News's
motion for re judgment, he said
The Telegraph and News filed suit
this past spring against Davison,
Barber and the Regents to force
them to release the records Their
Case is based pn the fact 'that Da
vison and Barber posess the records
and,, as government officals, are
subject to the Open Records Act,
which forces public officials to re;
lease public information.
However, Bowers has argued that
Davison and Barber are acting not
ai government officials but as offi
cers of the athletic association, a
private corporation
The Telegraph and News initially
also named ‘Head Football Coach
Vince Dooley and the athletic asso
ciation "as defendants. When the
case originally went to trial thi^
past spring, Pierce ruled out Dooley
and the association as, defendants
due to the association's status as a
private organization, which isn't
subject to the Open Records Act.
^he court said Dooley was acting in
his capacity as chairman of the as
sociation.
Tech profs endorse ‘Stars Wars’ petition
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia Tech professor
said Monday that 15 members of the school's
physics faculty have signed a petition opposing
academic research for the “Star Wars" defense
plan, which has brought $4.6 million in research
contracts to Tech
The Atlanta school ranks third among univer
sities in grants from the program, formally
known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Tech President Joseph M. Pettit defended the
SDI contracts
‘('1 think that what we’re doing is perfectly, rea
sonable," Pettit said, adding faculty members
are free to “choose sot to participate." '
Much of the school's SDI-related work is being
dofie in the electrical engineering-computer sci-
depertment, where the petition has not yet
circulated! said Andy Zangwill. an. asso
ciate professor of physics
Zangwill said the 15 signatures in the Sc hod of
Physics represent 35 percent of the physics fac
ulty At least two other members of the physics
faculty have submitted proposals for SDI grants,
he said
Zangwill, who came to Tech this fall from the
Polytechnic Institute of New York, said his.petr-
tion'drive thus far has been limited to his new
acquaintances at Tech.
He hopes to publicize the effort at a sympo
sium on SDI sponsored by Tech and the Univer
sity of Georgia’s Dean Rusk Center Nov. 15.
The symposium at the Tech campus will fea
ture SDI director Lt. Gen James Abrahamson,
U S. Arms Contifol and Disarmament Agency Di
rector Kenneth Adelman, Sen Sam Nunn, D-Ga.,
and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk
"My guess is that at that time, we’ll suddenly
see a lot of action (by faculty members inter
ested in the petition),’’ Zangwill said.
Scientists from 90 universities have signed
similar petitions, pledging not to Seek SDI grants
and to encourage colleagues to boycott the pro
gram
The Tech petiUon describes SDI a? an "ill-con
ceived and dangerous." program that also may
restrict academic freedom by allowing the Pen
tagon to place security classifications on pre
viously unclassified research.
Pettit said Tech's SDI contracts, which include
work with computers, lasers, materials and sen
sors, "are really just outgrowths of the research
that we already had under way ."
Pettit is one of 12 university presidents’on the
DOD Forum, a Defense Department advisory
group which was briefed by Abrahamson re
cently
"Basically, the current effort is to increase'the
knowledge base on .which future decisions can be
made either about our doing or not doing an SDI
system" and evaluating other countries' space
weapons capability, Pettit said. . /
Tech officials have said the boycott drive* will
have little effect because faculty members op
posed to SDI simply .won’t seek granfj from the
program. The officials said grant applications
originate with the faculty members who want to
do the work
Junior, Junior Varsity
Hie freshmen seem to get smaller every year. Sarah Grace Bowen, 3. bal
ances on the shoulders of her dad, former University cheerleader Alan
Bowen of C'onnersville. Saturday's breathtaking 58-3 triumph over the Tu
lane Green Wave was Sarah's first homecoming game, and she was concen
trating on more than the action on the field. Like staying balanced on
Daddy's shoulders. After all, a cheerleader, shouldn't fall down and go
botom.
Fowler to tour state
to gain recognition
ATLANTA (AP) - US. Rep Wyche
Fowler probably won’t announce
•until January whether he will run
for the U.S, Senate, but the Atlanta
Democrat will tour far beyond his
5th District as he crisscrosses the
State with House Speaker Tom
Murphy beginning Monday.
Fowler will join Murphy on the
32nd annual Pre-Legislative Forum,
a series of question-and-answer ses
sions sponsored by the Business
Council of Georgia
Fowler's aiiministrative assistant,
Frances Zwenig, said the nine-day,
19-city tour will allow Georgians to
become better acquainted with
Fowler, who has been in Congress
since 1977.
"Outside of the Atlanta media
market, lie's just not known — as
liberal, conservative or Donald
Duck," Zwenig said
“People just don’t know him. This
will give him a chance to hear what
their concerns are, she said.”
Fowler has been.frequently men
tioned as a possible challenger to
U S. Sen, Mack Mattingly in the
1986 election
Zwenig said he will announce his
intentions some time after the up
coming forum, probably soon''after
the first of the year.