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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 93, No. 46
Thursday, January 16,1986
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1 791
Gov. Harris reveils
‘86 budget requests
By Jill Corson
Bed and Black Staff Writer
ATLANTA — Bursts of applause
punctuated Gov. Joe Frank Harris'
sentences Wednesday when he
asked legislators to approve $74 1
million for the University System of
Georgia to fund building repairs, re
search projects and salary hikes.
Harris emphasized quality educa
tion as the top priority for Georgia
in his annual State of the State ad
dress, which he combined with his
budget address
“Education is receiving over 64
percent of all new , non-earmarked
funds in the two budgets you will be
considering this session," Harris
said to legislators
Harris’ overall budget request of
$5 3 billion for the 1986 87 fiscal year
included about $20 million that ful
fills the budget of the formula
funding bill composed in 1982, which
determines the financial needs of
the system
This $20 million includes $10 mil
lion for renovation of system build
ings, $7 million for instructor
salaries and $2.7 million for over
head costs on research projects,
said Jacob Wamsley, Board of Re
gents vice chancellor for Fiscal Af
fairs.
“Full funding of the university
(system) formula recommended by
a 1982 study committee on higher
education...is a dream that many
felt we would never achieve,”
Harris said.
In addition, the full funding of the
formula will allow research institu
tions in the system to keep any
profits made in their research,
Harris said.
The budget requests $24.8 million
for a 4 percent cost of living adjust
ment for system employees, effec
tive Sept. 1 for academic personnel
and July 1 for non.academic per
sonnet
The budget also provides a 1.5
percent built-in salary' increase,
according to Kay Miller, regents
vice chancellor for Public Rela-
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Gov. Harris
lions.
The proposed budget allots $10.8
million for major repair and reha
bilitation of system buildings.
Of this sum, Harris recommended
the allocation of $500,000 to renovate
the University's Soil Testing Labo
ratory.
Harris recommended the sale of
$54.5 million in bonds for new con
struction This figure includes $24 5
million to add to $7.5 million al
ready appropriated to build the $32
million bioscience complex at the
University.
Marlatt
Senior Reporter Andrew
contributed to this story.
March commemorates
Martin Luther King Jr.
By W.S. Boozer
Krd and Hlark Senior Krpnrtrr
An estimated 500 people turned out Wednesday to
march in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial March
from the Tate Student Center to Athens City Hall.
At City Hall, several speakers, including Athens
Mayor Lauren Coile and City Councilman Matthew
Ware, addressed the marchers.
Natasha Moon, treasurer of Alpha Kappa Alpha so
rority, declared the march a success but said, "I think
if only one person came it would be a success."
The march was led by Emerson Henderson, one of
the organizers of the first local Martin Luther King Me
morial March, in 1979 From the Tate Center through to
City Hall, Henderson led the crowd in songs and chants
expressing commemoration of past trials and dedica
tion to overcoming current racial struggles
Moon told the crowd that when her sorority was de
ciding if it should sponsor the march, the sisters were
afraid there would be too little student concern
"Students seem not to support each other, but you
have proved me wrong," she said. "If Martin Luther
King had said 'No,' he had to study, then we’d all be
back stuck in the Deep South."
Henderson, addressing the crowd, recalled the spirit
involved with the 1979 march.
"We could not wait for the state legislature the make
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a state holiday,"
Henderson said.
At that time, students simply declared the day a hol
iday and skipped classes or work to commemorate
King, Henderson said. The marches were continued for
several years but later were discontinued.
In commemorating King's birthday in 1986, Hen
derson said though some people might disagree with
some of the things King did or said, they still should re
spect him because of his sincerity and dedication
"We want to recreate the spirit of the civil rights
movement,” Henderson said.
Henderson reminded college students that they owe
King a great deal of respect
"You didn't get here because you’re smarter; you got
here because of Dr King, " he told them.
Coile spoke to the crowd gathered on the steps of City
Hall after the march
"The man that we are celebrating is one who pre
ached what he believed," Coile said. "He did a job for
every one of us, not just black and not just white. We
can be what we want to be — he spoke that message
better than anybody "
Attorney Michael Thurmond urged the marchers to
recommit themselves to the goals by which King led his
own life
"You've got to believe in yourself," he said. “You've
got to believe in your brothers and sisters and you've
More charges of abuse
ATLANTA (AP) — The University altered the rules of
a remedial program to mislead academically deficient
athletes into believing they had a chance of earning a
college degree, a teacher charged Thursday in federal
court.
“I firmly believe the athletes were damaged in ways
people do not realize. They were used by a system that
told them they were going to get a college degree They
were hoping from the bottom of their hearts that this
was possible. It was a tragedy, a tragedy," said in
structor Ruth Sabol.
Sabol's testimony came during the second week of a
U S. District Court trial of a civil lawsuit filed against
University officials by former English instructor Jan
Kemp.
Kemp claims she was fired from the remedial Devel
opmental Studies Program in 1983 because she spoke
out against special treatment given to some athletes
and wealthy students. She is seeking reinstatement,
back pay and punitive damages
The University contends Kemp, an untenured tea
cher, was dismissed because she was insubordinate and
failed to publish sufficient scholarly work.
Sabol, who serves as English coordinator of the De
velopmental Studies Program, told the six jurors and
four alternates that students were required to complete
the non-credit remedial program in four quarters or
face dismissal from the University.
But she said she and other instructors repeatedly
were ordered to give some athletes extra time and tu
toring.
"These tutorials did not become a part of the stu
dent’s permanant record. They were given extra quar
ters, but it wasn't called that," she said.
Sabol described how one football and track star,
whose name was shown to the jury on a piece of paper,
was "exited" from the remedial program by adminis
trators after failing to pass in eight quarters.
"That student, a lovely human being, was one of our
most disadvantaged. It was obvious to everyone that he
would have trouble getting through English, so when he
didn’t complete the requirements of the program, he
was given tutorials, put back in the program, given
more tutorials, put back in the program,” she said.
Sabol said the two University administrators named
as defendants in the suit — Developmental Studies Di
rector Leroy Ervin and Vice President for Academic
Affairs Virginia Trotter — openly admitted in faculty
meetings that such disadvantaged athletes had no
chance of earning degrees.
But she said the administrators maintained the ath
letes would better off "as citizens” after taking the re
medial courses.
"The athletes do not understand that they have no
chance of getting a degree. They don’t know that, they
are not told that," Sabol said.
The instructor also testified that Ervin accused her in
March 1985 of engaging in “familiar embraces" with
one of her student-athletes and of loaning him her car.
Sabol, who denied the charge, said Ervin had based the
allegation on evidence supplied by two athletes who
were failing the program.
Students march to honor King
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got to believe in God.
“All he had was faith in God and a love of his fellow
man. He changed the world ”
Henderson reiterated Thurmond’s statement in
closing the demonstration.
“We've just got to believe in all our hearts that we
make a difference," he said. “If we don't realize whal
he meant to us, then he died in vain.”
After the speeches the marchers sang several verses
of “We Shall Overcome,"
Integration: A look
back 25 years ago
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Drugs
Mandatory testing
already underway
By Frank Steele
Krd and Blai-k Srnlar Krporlrr
Twenty-five years ago this
week, the University was racked
with protest and confusion, as Dr
Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne
Hunter-Gault became the first
black students to enroll in classes
at the University.
Federal Judge William Bootle
ordered their admission on
Friday, January 6, 1961, saying
Holmes and Hunter-Gault were to
be admitted immediately if they
chose, as they had been seeking
admission for well over a year and
winter quarter registration was
then underway.
The two Turner High School
graduates had reached this junc
ture after years of grudging dis
putes They decided on the
University partly because of the
strong journalism and pre-med
programs, and partly, some sto
ries say, because Holmes liked the
football team.
Holmes, who is now an ortho
pedic surgeon in Atlanta, said he
thinks the decision was partly
theirs and partly the decision of
black leaders in Atlanta, who felt
the time had come to integrate
Georgia schools
•• At first, they thought Char
layne and I should try Georgia
Tech or Georgia State But there
was nothing at either of those
schools that we were interested
in,” he said.
They were both denied admis
sion for over a year for various
reasons, including late applica
tions and poor housing avail
ability. Holmes’ citation for
speeding, which became a factor
in an admissions interview, was
also a factor.
“They asked if I’d ever been in
dicted, in a house of prostitution,
or arrested," he said
"I said no, and they asked if I
was certain 1 said I was, and I
was refused based on my inter
view. They said I was a liar, I was
evasive and that I was of low
moral character "
The weekend was full of at
tempts by Gov. Ernest Vandiver,
an avowed segregationist, to pre
vent their admission, legislative
maneuvering, and efforts by stu
dents to keep the school open
Hunter-Gault, now a correspon
dent for "The McNeil-Lehrer Re
port," said she remembers the
campus in the first days of inte
gration as a "very strange envi
ronment."
"The behavior (of students and
Athenians) was like at a picnic —
it was like some new game they
were playing .”
The game turned somewhat
threatening on Tuesday night as a
group of demonstrators gathered
outside Hunter-Gault’s Myers Hall
room chanting and throwing fire
crackers. Dean of Men William
Tate broke up the demonstration
by confiscating the University ID
cards of several demonstrators.
On Wednesday, word was out on
campus that demonstrators would
march at Myers that night after
the basketball game with Georgia
Tech
At 10:00 p.m., a number of stu
dents arrived, unveiling a banner
with the words “Nigger Go
Home " A few students threw
bricks and bottles. After the
game, the crowd grew to more
than 1,000 with the dorm protected
only by administrators and two of
the University’s four night
watchmen.
After several hours and several
delays, Athens police, originally
assigned to direct post-game tra
ffic, broke up the crowd with tear
gas Tate suspended four students
for their part in the demonstration
and put 17 others on probation
Two others withdrew with suspen
sion pending. Dean Joseph Wil
liams suspended Holmes and
Hunter-Gault "for their safety and
the safety of almost 7,000 other
students ”
In the aftermath of the demon
stration, Bruce Galphin reported
in “The Nation" that Ku Klux
Klan members, including the
Klan’s national leader, had taken
part in the demonstration.
Horace Montgomery, emeritus
professor of history, met with
other faculty members and
chaired a committee that drew up
a resolution calling for the imme
diate reinstatement of Holmes and
Hunter-Gault, and later in the
week Bootle ordered that they be
readmitted.
"The whole affair embarrassed
the administration." Montgomery
said.
“ (University) President O. C.
Aderhold walked a tightrope be
tween the faculty (who supported
re-admission l and the people in
the state, including Governor Van
diver, who didn’t Aderhold be
haved well in a very difficult
situation," he said
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Holmes and Hunter-Gault both
said they had to deal with harras-
sment at first, but that the
number of incidents decreased as
time passed Both said they had
tires slashed or flattened, and
Holmes said he once had to pre
tend he was carrying a gun to dis
courage some students who had
blocked his parked car
The two said they have had to
deal with hostility over the events,
but both say they aren’t hostile
today.
Hunter-Gault said she’s never
been a "rah-rah alumni,” but
added “I'm real proud of some
things — the consciousness of that
era that the (new Holmes-Hunter)
lecture series demonstrates, and
the acknowledgement of problems
with black students."
By Greg Guest
Krd and Black AuliUnl Sport* Kdllor
The NCAA's passage of manda
tory drug testing in Division I
schools won't change the Univer
sity's testing program because it is
already more stringent than re
quired, a University training official
said Wednesday.
The new regulation, passed
Tuesday at an NCAA convention in
New Orleans, specifically bans 79
drugs, including steroids and caf
feine and specifies punishment if a
player is found to be using drugs in
preparation for a post-season game.
Though the University’s athletic
department has been involved in
drug testing for three years, many
schools haven't taken a strong
stance on the use of drugs in their
departments, said Warren Morris,
the University’s head athletic
trainer.
“The big change in the rule,"
Morris said, “is that it is attacking
the use of performance-enhancing
drugs, such as steroids, cocaine,
PCP, amphetamines and barbi-
tuates.
“If an athlete uses an over-the-
counter drug without a doctor ap
proving it and if he is tested before
a game and caught, he can be ruled
ineligible and the University can be
held responsible," he said
Before Tuesday’s passage of man
datory testing, the NCAA didn't re
quire schools to test athletes for
foreign chemicals. Many schools
only tested yearly, if at all, Morris
said
However, University athletic di
rector Vince Dooley, after finding
that many rumors of drug use circu
lating through the athletic depart
ment were true, decided to begin
announced testing in 1983. The de
partment soon found that commer
cial testing was too expensive and
purchased its own equipment ca
pable of detecting foreign sub
stances in urine samples, Morris
said.
When the testing first began,
nearly 10 percent of University ath
letes were found to use drugs,
Morris said After testing began, the
number using drugs fell below l
percent.
Many athletes, though, would
simply prepare for the tests by not
using drugs before the test or by
using drugs which leave the system
quickly. Now, male athletes are
tested weekly at random, Morris
said.
Female athletes are tested in the
same way but only once every two
weeks.
Morris said the idea behind the
program is to help the athletes kick
drug habits and to protect the well
being of the team members, not to
persecute them.
"That (the new NCAA rule) has
definitely been coming for a long
time," said Donna Cooper, women's
athletic trainer. "Our program has
been very successful and very
structured. Those of us who admin
ister the tests go by the book and
we’ve had very few problems ’’
“Though our original test re
vealed that we were below the 10
percent mark, there have been
some athletes that we did test,
whose samples came up positive,"
Morris said. “Now our records show
that less than 1 percent of them are
using drugs.
"I think that’s why Coach Dooley
thinks we have a good program —
because we are trying to help the
young people free themselves from
their problem," he said.
Athletes whose urine samples con
tain foreign chemicals are informed
first and then their parents are con
tacted. They are then sent to a drug
counseling agency The head coach
is responsible for any suspension or
probation given.