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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 95, No. 24
Friday, October 30, 1987
News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Dean search continues
By Charlene Smith
Krd and Black Senior Reporter
University President Charles
Knapp gets his request today when
the Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences Faculty Senate reports
its election results for a dean
search committee.
The senate elected 10 faculty
members at its meeting Thursday
to a committee that will find a re
placement for Dean Jack Payne,
who will resign in June.
Stanley Longman, presiding of
ficer of the faculty senate and a
University drama professor, said
Knapp reserves the right to ap
point a committee chairman and a
staff or student representative, but
will take into consideration the
senate’s list of candidates.
In September, Knapp requested
the senate to provide the names of
10 faculty members to sit on the
committee.
The senate voted at its Sep
tember meeting to advise the pres
ident against student and staff
representation on the committee
Earlier Thursday afternoon, a
senate caucus met for an informal
discussion of nominees. The sug
gestions of that caucus were ap
proved as nominations and
senators added others from the
floor.
The senate elected the first five
candidates simultaneously, one
from each division of the college
Senators chose Longman from
fine arts, zoology professor Wil
liam Cosgrove from biological sci
ences, comparative literature
professor Betty Jean Craige from
language and literature, math pro
fessor John Hollingsworth from
physical sciences and assooiate
history professor Jean Friedman
from social sciences.
The senate elected the final five
candidates singly and at large — a
process that required several run
offs in some cases.
The senate elected English pro
fessor James Colvert, philosophy
professor Bernard Dauenhauer,
political science professor Charles
Bullock, geology professor Gilles
Allard and art professor
Wadsworth Jarrell.
Senators expressed concern
during the nominations about ra
cial balance on the committee and
made efforts to include minorities
and women.
Microbiology professor John
Fitzgerald said he doesn't think
it's fair to elect someone on the
basis of race.
“I think it does them (blacks) a
disservice,” he said.
The senate also discussed ex
tending the deadline for respon
ding to an ad for the open dean's
position, which allows for about
four weeks of response time.
An ad already appears in The
Chronicle of Higher Education,
stating a Nov. 25 application dead
line.
SCAARI petitions
for committee seat
By Kevan Ward
Red and Black Senior Reporter
Students Concerned About Alcohol
Related Issues has collected 1,100
signatures in an effort to be in
cluded on the University's com
mittee to revise the interim open
party policy, the group’s president
said Thursday
Frank England said SCAARI
manned four boths around campus
Wednesday, talked to students and
accepted signatures.
"We set up booths for about four
hours at Tate, Caldwell Hall. Hark
Hall and graduate studies," En
gland said. “We collected about 1,-
100 signatures ”
He said the group actually col
lected more than 1,100 but “threw
out” many of the signatures
"We required that people include
their social security numbers when
they signed," he said. "That pre
vented people from signing for their
friends.”
England said he took the petitions
to Dwight Douglas, vice president
for Student Affairs, Thursday
morning.
"He said if I typed a cover letter
and attached it with the petition, he
would consider us,” England said.
Douglas said he was in the
process of typing a list of people he
would invite to join the open party
policy committee when the two
spoke, England said.
"When I brought the petitions
down, he told me he wouldn't be
able to get to me until early next
week," he said.
Douglas couldn't be reached for
comment Thursday
SCAARI collected many of its sig
natures from T.K Harty's Saloon
Wednesday night, England said
Owner Richard Middleton said he
supports the group’s efforts.
“It seems like there should be
some other way to supervise open
parties rather than to abolish
them," Middleton said
England said SCAARI may have
picked up some new members
through the effort
"A large percent of the people
who signed indicated they were in
terested in hearing from us again,"
he said.
SCAARI will meet Monday from 6
to 8 p.m. in Room 140 of the Tate
Student Center.
England said he also met with Bill
Porter, student activities director,
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Lambda Chi suspended
By Kevan Ward
Rwl and Black Senior Reporter
The Student Judiciary Thursday
leveled a one-quarter social suspen
sion effective winter quarter on
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity for vi
olating regulations regarding disor
derly conduct, shared responsibility
and alcohol and drug misuse
The judiciary announced it found
Lambda Chi "guilty of all charges"
brought against the fraternity.
Lambda Chi President Mike
Windham said Thursday the frater
nity may appeal the decision.
"My defender feels we have a
strong basis for appeal,” he said.
If Lambda Chi does appeal, it
must file a request in the Office of
Judicial Programs within five
working days.
The Judicial Council of the stu
dent judiciary then will decide the
appeal
From there, the fraternity could
make a final appeal to Dwight
Douglas, vice president for Student
Affairs
Judicial Programs Director Bill
Bracewell said social suspension
means an organization "may not or
ganize, finance, sponsor or take
part in social activities,"
In addition, at least 90 percent of
the fraternity's membership, as
well as 90 percent of the pledges,
must attend a lecture by a Univer
sity Health Services alcohol edu
cator describing alcohol
responsibility at social functions
The fraternity also must read the
judiciary’s opinion to at least 90 per-
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Bottoms up
The days of the tux-deductuhlr two-martini lunch are over, but "mocktails"
may last forever. Alcohol-free drinks are becoming a popular alternative to
"the real thing," thanks to heavy enforcement of the drinking age and the
dangers of driving under the influence. Since closed party policy dictates
that a few partlers must remain sober, mocktails might be a pleasant sub
stitute. Tony Uunn II), a junior pre-medicine major, and James Berger (r),
a freshman physics major, are sampling non-alcoholic drinks "on the
house." The University Residence Hall Association gave out the "virgin"
drinks Thursday as part of Alcohol Awareness Week. Mothers Against
Drunk Drivers (MADD) also had a booth at the Tate Student Center plaza
as part of the week’s activities.
cent of the members with a witness
from the Office of Greek Life or its
designate present
Bracewell said all three penalties
apply to pledges as well as those
who were members at the time of
the violations
The disorderly conduct regulation
in the University's student organiza
tions regulations prohibits "any ac
tion which can reasonably be
expected to disturb the academic
pursuits, or infringe upon the pri
vacy, rights, privileges, health or
safety of students or the University
community "
The shared responsibility regula
tion states. "Student organizations
are responsible at all times for any
violations of University Conduct
Regulations by their guests ”
The alcohol and drug misuse reg
ulation states, "No organization
shall furnish or cause to be fur
nished any alcoholic beverage to
any person under the legal drinking
age,”
A University policy prohibits the
Office of Judicial Programs from
commenting on what the organiza
tion is accused of doing. Bracewell
said.
The office can release to the
public only the name of the organi
zation, the regulatlon(s) it is
charged with violating, whether it is
found guilty and its punishment, he
said.
"We don't go into the details of
what it was for fear of exposing in
dividuals," Bracewell said "This is
the organization's responsibility, so
the organization is responsible."
UGA official denies
classified research
By Ann Buffington
K«l and Black Senior Reporter
No classified research is taking
place at the University, the director
of the University Advanced Compu
tational Center assured members of
the UGA Arms Control Forum
Thursday at the forum’s first
meeting this year
Charles Bender, featured speaker
at the forum, said although some
faculty members at the University
possess various levels of security
clearance in the Department of De
fense, there is no classified research
on campus.
“There is no classified research
under the vice president for Re
search," he said.
In reference to individual faculty
members with clearance. Bender
said, "it's sort of a personal thing "
The University doesn’t keep track
of faculty involved in independent
classified research, he said.
However, the University does
work with the Defense Department,
he said.
The University has received $98,
000 from the Air Force, $260,000
from the Army and $902,000 from
the Navy for a total of $1.3 million.
Bender said.
“The work we are doing is so
cial," he said.
Bender said the University's de
fense programs are either social or
pure basic research and chemistry
A secure area is needed to con
duct classified research and there
hasn't been a security office at the
University for three to five years,
he said.
"We have no means of protecting
classified research on this
campus,” Bender said. “We can't
support classified research on this
campus "
No policy on classified research
by University employees exists at
this time so it's possible for faculty
members to engage in classified re
search independent from the Uni-
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versity, he said.
Loch Johnson, co-chairman of
UGA Arms Control Forum and po
litical science professor, said
guidelines for the faculty and classi
fied research are needed
“1 think somewhere down the
road the faculty members will be
come involved in classified re
search. I think there need to be
guidelines," he said “We are a
community of scholars, not individ
uals."
Bender said it was a matter of
personal choice by individual fac
ulty members as to whether to be
come involved in classified research
outside of the University,
"I think it's a matter of personal
choice," he said. "I don't think any
body should mandate It.”
Milner Ball, University law pro
fessor and member of the forum,
said classified research "strikes at
the core of the nature of the Univer
sity.
"The purpose of a land grant Uni
versity is to make research avail
able to all," he said.
Dorinda Dallmeyer, forum co
chair and research director of the
Dean Rusk Center for International
and Comparative Law, said classi
fied research is an area of interest
that hasn't been addressed.
"There needs to be some dis
cussion across the disciplines and
across North and South Campus,"
she said.
University plans annex, labs
for forest resources building
By Jonathan Tully
Red and Black Senior Reporter
Preliminary plans for an annex to
the existing forest resources
building and two laboratories at a
University experimental forest are
being completed, a Campus Plan
ning official said
"We are in the process of drawing
up a schematic design for the pro
jects, which should be finished
soon," Campus Architect David
Matheny said "Then we should
begin design development after ap
provals from the School of Forest
Resources."
Forest Resources Dean Leon Har
greaves said the planners already
have received $280,000 in planning
funds from the Board of Regents
and are awaiting approval of a $7
million construction budget from
the board.
The school had been promised an
addition to the existing facilities in
1968, when the first annex to the
school was built, Hargreaves said
Due to insufficient funds, the Uni
versity didn't follow its original
plans for the annex
“If I didn't think we needed this
addition, I wouldn’t have been
asking for it for 20 years," Har
greaves said.
The annex to the forest resources
building will house offices for fac
ulty, staff and graduate students in
addition to some laboratory space,
Matheny said.
Klaus Steinbeck, a. forest re
sources professor, said with the
amount of grants coming into the
'If I didn’t think we
needed this addition,
I wouldn’t have been
asking for it for 20
years.’
— Leon Hargreaves,
Forest
Resources Dean
forest resources program, the Uni
versity needs to upgrade the facili
ties the department uses
“We re short of lab space and oi
graduate student and faculty
space," he said “The faculty that
will move into the building will rep
resent $1.8 million in grants to the
University. We need this annex if
we want to keep pulling in this
money."
Steinbeck said the soil, plant and
water analysis and wood utilization
laboratories in Whitehall Forest, an
experimental forest on South Mil-
ledge Avenue, will do the work sev
eral smaller laboratories do now
"Currently, the work is done in
smaller labs all over campus," he
said. “We want to pull all of this
work together."
The laboratory will do experi
mental projects regarding acid rain
and the effects of ozone pollution on
plant samples, while the wood utili
zation laboratory will be working
with reconstituted wood products
and with glue developmeni
"We will be working with plywood
and with oriented strand board,
which is a relatively new product,”
Steinbeck said
Jim Fortson, a forest resources
professor, said the wood utilization
lab will house a dry wood kiln,
planing machines, a lab for formu
lation of glues to make plywood and
a general purpose lab
Matheny said the University has
chosen architect Peter Norris of
Hail. Norris and Marsh of Atlanta to
draw the designs for developmeni of
the project.
University vets save UGA IV’s vision
By Jonathan Tully
Rrd and Black Senior Reporter
Doctors at the Small Animal
Teaching Hospital have prevented
UGA IV from going blind by using
University-patented new therapy
techniques
UGA IV became the fourth dog
to be treated with cyclosporin at
the University, said Dr. Renee
Kaswan, assistant professor of
small animal medicine The Uni
versity is the only school using the
drug for corneal diseases and
holds the patent for its use on eye
problems
The bulldog is suffering from ke
ratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS),
commonly referred to as dry eye,
she said.
Dry eye occurs when there is a
deficiency of tear production and
an irritation of the surface of the
eye, Kasw an said
"When the cornea is not moist,
there is a sickened surface on the
eye," she said "The sickened sur
face becomes scarred and cloudy
The scarring causes the cornea to
become dense, which obscures vi
sion."
Dr M.A. Salisbury, a first-year
teaching hospital resident special
izing in opthalmology, said UGA
IV had been suffering for more
than a year when he was first
brought to the hospital in summer
1986
"The disease is definitely more
prevalent in bulldogs." she said.
The hospital tried to halt the ill
ness using normal therapeutic pro
cedure, but found it unsuccessful.
Salisbury said
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