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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 94, No. 50
Thursday, January 22, 1987
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Students frolic on a snowbound Baxter llill
University officials are ready
to face a snowbound campus
By Mike Krensavage
I ted and Black Senior Krpotlri
If icy weather freezes the Uni
versity today, dining hall officials
will replace their plastic food
trays with styrofoam ones
During icy weather, students
turn dining hall trays into sleds.
Larry Dendy. University assis
tant public relations director, said
"Typically, when the University
gets a good snow, the students
seem to find innovative ways to
sled, ski and otherwise propel
themselves on the snow
University officials will decide
whether to replace the plastic food
trays this morning, when they also
decide if the University will be
open today.
By 5:30 p.m Wednesday, the
National Weather Service in
Athens was predicting an inch of
frozen precipitation in Athens and
three to four inches in the
northern sections of Georgia
But University officials said
Wednesday that chances of the
University closing today or during
the rest of the winter are slim
"Unless weather conditions are
extremely atvtrt, the likelihood is
that the University will operate,”
Dendy said.
The last closing of the Univer
sity was in 1982 when six inches of
snow paralyzed the school for
three days, Dendy said. Before
1982. though, closings have been
rare, he said
This winter, when weather serv
ices predict icy Athens weather.
Assistant to the President Peter
Shedd will speak to University
Physical Plant and public safety
otlu ials at about 6 a m. each foui-
weather morning, Shedd said.
He said he will relay road condi-
t ion Information to Interim Proai-
dent Henry King Stanford, who
will reach a decision in time for
Shedd to announce a closing to the
media by 7 a m
"It’s very unusual when the Uni
versity closes." he said.
Physical Plant Director Ken
Jordan said physical plant staff
working in the mornings will eval
uate road conditions and talk with
public safety officials and the
president's office.
The physical plant has no spe
cific snow removal equipment but
its capable of sanding problem
spots on University roads, he said.
George Young, head of Univer
sity vehicle transportation and
maintenance, said University
buses usually run during snowy
weather when the University isn't
closed.
"We have operated on some
pretty bad days," he said.
No action on zoning measure
- By Jeff Turner
Med and Hla< k Senior Hrporlrr
Confusion about the definition of family’ led a city
committee to put a request on hold Tuesday night that
could affect living conditions for University students
The Public Works Committee was unsure how to
count the number of residents in a dwelling and so
shelved the request by Athens City Council member
Carolyn Reynolds relating to the number of unrelated
people who can live together
Before she made the motion that the request be put
on hold, council m^nber Cardee Kilpatrick said. "I
think we need to look at what is in the ordinance before
we act.”
The request originated with a letter to Reynolds
asking that the maximum number of unrelated people
who may live together in single-family residential dis
tricts be changed from four to two to conform with
county regulations However. Reynolds changed her re
quest at the meeting to read 'all residential districts”
instead of just single-family districts
Confusion arose when Ken Suddreth. acting fanning
Commission director, said the county counts the
number of unrelated people in a different way than the
city.
In the city, four unrelated people may live in a
dwelling The same holds true for the county, except in
a single-family district, where the limit is two, he said
However, the issue becomes blurred when a family
takes in one or more housemates
Council member Kilpatrick said she violated city, but
not county, regulations when her family of four housed
a foreign student
Because of the confusion, the committee voted to
have Suddreth and Building Inspector Brice Bishop
clarify the definition of family and the enforcement of
regulations and report the results back to cpmmittee.
The city’s Building Inspection Department is respon
sible for enforcement of zoning ordinances. Suddreth
said
While the enforcement issue caused the request to be
put on hold, the committee, as well as Suddreth. who
doesn't play a part in the decision-making process,
didn't voice support for Reynolds' request
"Students aren t going to ju^t disappear,” he said
if you change the number, students have to go some
where else Where are they going to go 0 ”
Council member Kathy Hoard said after the meeting
that a decrease in numbers won’t make a difference in
noise. * '
"Two people can be a nuisance the same as four."
she said.
Hoard said lowering the number would affect not only
students, but elderly and ill people who live together as
a part of the city's Shared Housing Program.
"This is not a student issue, this is a people issue."
she said.
After the meeting. Suddreth said the planning com
mission will, in fact, review the issue if the committee
requests .t review However, he '.ml he doesn't antic
ipate a change in the ordinance
In other committee action, the public works com
mittee recommended denial of a proposed condomi
nium development on South Mi Hedge Avenue
Forsyth march
Students planning to join in
By Keith Phillips
Hrd and Kla< k Senior Kt-put it-r
Two University students are holding a meeting at 6
p.m tonight to try to organize various University
groups into a united front to join in the second "broth
erhood march" in Forsyth County Saturday.
Bill Clark, a University law student and junior Re
gina Weir, an art major, are holding the meeting in the
Law School Auditorium to unite the numerous groups
going to Forsyth and inform them of the consequences
of the march.
“I’ve just been trying to put things together so we
can go as one group." Clark said. "Right now there are
a whole lot of paddles going in different directions."
At a similar * brother hood" march this past weee-
kend. Ku Klux Klan members and supporters harassed
marchers The outbreak of violence drew national
media attention and Saturday's march is expected to be
attended by much larger crowds with much tighter se
curity.
Today's meeting basically is for information pur
poses, he said.
"I imagine a lot of the people going have never done
this before." Clark said
Weir said a meeting will make possible the' creation
of a list of the organizations going and should affirm
the marchers’ belief in non-violence.
"When something throws something at you. the first
instinct is to strike back. If there is any violence, it de
feats our purpose." she said.
Current plans for Saturday call for students to meet
at the graduate parking lot on Hull Street at 8:30 a in.
and travel to the site of the march.
The march is scheduled to begin at 11 a m
Philip Kontos. a University senior in telecommumca-
tons, Forsyth resident and coordinator of one group
planning to march, said the starting point is in a shop
ping center and there should be plenty of parking
Clark also said he will distribute instructions and
maps to the march site at the meeting
He began by organizing the Student Bar Association
and the Black Law Student Association members as a
group to march in Forsyth. When he learned of the nu
merous other groups doing the same thing, he decided
to organize them into a united front, he said.
"I'm not in a group, I just started asking different
groups asking them if they wanted to join together "
Clark said.
Yoculan wins national honor
The Games, a function of the United States Gymnas
tics Federation held every two years, is coached by one
male and one female collegiate coach. The 1987 Games
will be held in Yugoslavia in August. Arizona’s Jim
Gault was the male coach selected
Is Yoculan honored’’
"When you think rfx>ut it. every two years two
coaches are selected to coach the Games." Yoculan
said "That’s a pretty big honor ”
Yoculan, the 1986 Southeastern Conference Coach of
the Year, beat the likes of Florida’s Ernestine Weaver
and Alabama's Sarah Patterson, both ol whom have
coached the Games before. Patterson serves as a liason
between the USGF and the NCAA. Weaver has coached
the Olympic team and is a Brevat judge, the highest
level of judging achieveable
The fourth finalist, Penn State's Judi Avener. is on
the USGF’s executive committee
The top ten all-arounders from the 1987 NCAA
championships and six other gymnasts are invited to
try out for the World University Games, and the top six
finishers at the tryouts comprise the U S team
One factor in the selection of the coaches was the pos
sibility of having members of their own teams compete
in the Games With the strength of the Georgia team, it
is likely that one or more Lady Dogs will qualify for the
Games Terri Eckert, now a senior, competed in the
1985 Games.
Yoculan s current involvement with the USGF is lim
ited to a mere subcommittee for selection of the ath
letes who will participate in the World University
Games Before coming to Georgia to coach four years
ago. Yoculan was an active USGF coach for eight
years, serving as program director at the Woodward
Gymnastics Camp in Woodward. Pa
Georgia women's athletic director Liz Murphey said.
"Selections like these are very political, and we're
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By I.ori Clark
Hrd and Black Sporlft Hrnini Reporter
It's a good feeling to know that someone can win one
of the highest honors in her profession not by politics
but through work and talent alone.
Georgia gymnastics coach Suzanne Yoculan has done
that The Women's International Programs Committee
l).is Mtected Yocul.m as the 1987 World University
Games Coach
.1 Hrrt Willuim/Tht* Ki-0 and Hl.n k
Suzanne Yoculan(l) and Paula Maheu
Weir also was attempting to organize a unified group
of students and began working with Clark Wednesday.
Clark said
I'm kind of dependent on Regina She was con
tacting all the undergraduate groups,' he said We've
kind of joined forces "
Clark said he had talked with Kontos. who had agreed
to join and attend the meeting
Kontos was unavailable for comment late Wednesday
afternoon but had said Tuesday that he was willing to
join with other student groups
Jacque Reid, treasurer of the University chapter of
the NAACP. said she thought her club's group would
join the coalition and at least send a representative to
the law school meeting
A scene from the first march
NCAA to study how
to keep costs down
By Tony I.. Wilson
Hrd and Mark Sralur Hrporlrr
A presidential commission of the National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion has called lot a special convention of the association'tn June to discuss
cutting the rising costs of college athletics.
"It’s an economy effort on their.(the presidents,) part,” said late
Hayley, University associate athletic director
The commission, made up of 44 college and university presidents, called
for the special conference earlier this month to discuss proposals the com
mission hopes to iron out at its meeting in April, he said
"Although it's a small group, it (the commission) is very influential,"
Hayley said
Some of the topics the commission hopes to work through are cutting the
number of scholarships awarded to players, reducing the length of playing
seasons and possibly limiting the size of coaching staffs, he said
Hayley said he didn't know any specific amounts the commission would
be considering
This is only the second time the commission has called a special confer
ence in its three-year existence
Hayley said the conference isn’t extraordinary because the commission
tries to deal with problems as they arise.
The commission does need to do a survey and research its proposals be
fore presenting them at the special meeting in Dallas, Hayley said
The commission has discussed such things as ethics and academics in
athletics in the past, he said.
John B Slaughter, chairman of the commission and chancellor of the
University of Maryland at College Hark, said the commission wants to
bring the cost of athletics down to balance with other expenses at the va
rious institutions
Tate Center addition in holding pattern
By Jerry Ashworth
Hrd and Black Mall Writrr
Funding for the Biological Sci
ences Complex has put other Uni
versity projects on hold, including
a proposal to expand the Tate Stu
dent Center, officials said
"Funding for additions do the
Tate Center) is in the dormant
stage as are other projects until
the biosciences center receives
budget approval,” said Dwight
Douglas, vice president for stu
dent affairs
The University system has some
money for construction im
provements, which is allotted to
the 34 schools in the state system
according to priority, he- said
Funding requests submitted by
each school are considered by the
Georgia Board of Regents
"For the past three or four
years the biosciences center has
been number one." Douglas said
"Rather than muddy the waters,
no other requests were made (by
the University).”
As of Wednesday, other con
struction projects were given
higher pnority than the student
center additions, including re-
placing Fain. Griggs and Dudley
halls, which will be torn down for
construction of the biosciences
center, he said
The Georgia General Assembly
allocated $5 5 million to the l m
versity for Phase 1 construction of
the student center in February
1979. but West Point Construction
Co. completed the project for only
$4 03 million The University
planned to use the remaining $1.5
million for Phase II construction
Campus PlanningDirector Dave
Lunde said, "We asked an ar
chitect to look into the future to
see if there was room for another
phase (to the Tate Center). "This
would be Phase II."
This phase would include an out
door recreation center, a bowling
alley and a hobby and crafts room
on the bottom floor The second
floor would include a TV lounge,
additional meeting space and a
sweet snop. he said.
"All* of these would be con
structed along the south wall of
Stegeman Hall,” Lunde said
The new addition would cost
about $nf million, depending on
whether a
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David Lunde. director of Campus Planning