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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga. Volume 95, No. 26 Wednesday, November 4, 1987 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
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By Rich Faulkner
Hed and Black Senior Reporter
Local businessman Dwain Cham
bers won a decisive victory over Re
publican candidate Fred Leathers
Tuesday night in the city’s mayoral
election, receiving 75.6 percent of
the votes.
Thirty-three percent of registered
Clarke County voters cast their bal
lots Tuesday.
Chambers received 4,086 votes
while Leathers' votes totaled 1,321
Chambers, a Democrat, will leave
his position as Ward 2 Athens City
Council member in January to be
come mayor
"I feel very humble when 1 think
of all the help 1 got I feel very
humble about all the people who
went out and worked hard for the
campaign and gave me support with
their votes,” he said.
Chambers has said his first objec
tive if elected will be to go back and
evaluate each department of the
city goverment.
"We'll look at the expense in
volved and look at the finances in
volved, and see if we can improve
much in these areas. ” he said
A 21-year veteran of the city
council, Chambers owns Sunshine
Cleaners and The Carpenter's Shop
Christian bookstore.
Chambers has lived in Athens for
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52 years. He is a graduate of the
University with a bachelor of sci
ences degree in agricultural engi
neering.
Leathers said he was disappointed
at only getting 24 4 percent of the
votes
“Of course I was upset over the
outcome, because I thought we'd
done a better campaigning job in
the city,” he said.
Leathers expressed gratitude to
the University Young Republicans
for their help in his campaign.
“In their respect, you could not
ask for a better or more determined
group of people. You could not ask
for better support," he said.
In the University’s mock election
last Friday, Leathers beat Cham
bers by 72 4 percent.
Leathers, president of Collegiate
Investments Inc., said he probably
won't run for mayor again.
"I don't think I will enter politics
any more,” he said. "We did all we
could do to cover our community
and get our platform out."
At the polls, some voters said they
voted for Chambers based on his ex
perience in city goverment
“(I voted for Chambers* basically
because of the length of time he's
served in city government. He
knows and understands the issues,”
said a female Chambers supporter
who asked not to be named
Voters in Clarke County approved
both the sales tax referendum the
referendum for staggered license
tag sales
The sales tax referendum calling
for a one-cent sales tax increase
passed by a vote of 7,004 to 2,598
The tax will finance, among other
things, a new civic center, a new li
brary, and an addition to the jail.
The referendum calling for stag
gered vehicle tag sales also passed,
7,245 to 1,622
Dates for tag sales in Clarke
County will now be based on the
purchaser s last name.
In the only contested seat on the
city council, Ward 2 incumbent Bill
Lyons defeated Bill Light, 936 votes
to 610.
"I'll continue to work toward im
proving the community, and make
this a good place to raise your kids
and a good part of Athens," said
Lyons, owner of Lyons Co.
His opponent, Walt Light, owner
of the Lighthouse restaurant, said
he doesn’t feel not getting the seat
was a loss
"To come this far in the election
process, you learn a lot," Light
said.
Red and Black Senior Reporter Jon
athan Tully contributed to this
story.
Rich r sulk n^r/The Red and Black
Dot Barrett and Patty Curtis of the Clarke County Board of Elections tabulated final votes
Oglethorpe opposes new custodial policy
By Jonathan Tully
Red and Black Senior Reporter
Custodial services in Oglethorpe
House's semi-private bathrooms
have been discontinued to make
custodial operations more efficient,
but some residents are petitioning
against the action.
"The bathrooms are not a
common area (in Oglethorpe
House),” said University Housing
Assistant Director Brenda Rich
ardson said. "In the past, the custo
dians cleaned each stall But these
are not community stalls It was un
realistic to have the custodians
clean each bathroom "
Custodians cleaned the bathrooms
once a week.
Three hundred twenty-six of the
504 Oglethorpe residents signed a
petition complaining about the
change.
Yolanda Woods, a junior health
administration major, said, "We
can't help it if the bathrooms are in
our rooms."
Parents of the students have have
‘These are not community stalls. It was
unrealistic to have the custodians clean
each bathroom. ’
— Brenda Richardson,
Assistant Director of Housing
written to the University to com
plain, Woods said. If that doesn’t
bring the problem to the depart
ment’s attention she said residents
will ask University alumni to com
plain about the situation.
Students who have problems with
the new system are forming a
group, Oglethorpe Residents for
Equal Services, to get the housing
department to respond to their pro
test, Woods said
“We re a group of concerned resi
dents,’’ she said. “I’d hate to think
they (housing officials) aren’t lis
tening to us.”
Resident assistants instructed stu
dents, who now must buy their own
cleaning supplies, on how to clean
the restrooms, she said.
Students sent the petition to
Housing Director Dan Hallenbeck,
Richardson. Hill Community Resi
dence Life Coordinator Todd Hol
comb and Oglethorpe Graduate
Resident Jim Wassenaar
Richardson said she was con
cerned that no one is claiming re
sponsibility for the petition
“We’re more than willing to dis
cuss these problems with these
people.” she said. “But no one will
claim to be the source of the peti
tion.’’
The Oglethorpe House Hall
Council had sent a letter to Univer
sity Housing stating its opposition to
the petition and its approval of the
new program, Richardson said
"(The residents) didn’t bring the
petition before the hall council,” she
said.
Wassenaar said he urges any resi
dents to voice their disputes through
the council or their RAs
“We’re here to help," he said. “If
they’re not going to voice their opin
ions to the staff, then we can’t help
them.”
Richardson and Hallenbeck de
cided to change the custodial
system after meeting with Groover
and Groover Consultants, an At
lanta-based custodial consulting
firm hired in fall 1986
Richardson said the department
also instructed custodians on uses of
new and more effective cleaning
chemicals and procedures, and
bought them new cleaning equip
ment
Richardson said she feels the pro
gram will work well for all con
cerned.
“We re in the early stages of im
plementation, but we think it will
work.” she said.
UGA helps foreign TAs
By Charlene Smith
Red and Black Senior Reporter
The University is taking steps to
improve the English fluency of its
foreign teaching assistants — a
problem an American Association
of University Professors official
said is gaining recognition
AAUP spokesman Robert Kreiser
said awareness of the fluency
problem is increasing nationwide
Ronald Simpson, director of the
University's Office of Instructional
Development, said Louise McBee,
acting vice president for Academic
Affairs, is working on changes in
University po.icy regarding English
fluency of graduate TAs
McBee couldn’t be reached for
comment Tuesday
One requirement for foreign stu
dents to gain admission into the
Graduate School is a 590 out of 800
score on the Test of English as a
Foreign Language
Harold Gentry, Graduate School
associate dean, said the graduate
council approved raising this score
to 550 effective winter quarter
An oral test of English also is re
quired but with no minimum score
David Alley, administrative coor
dinator of the American Language
Program, said students may take
the Test of Spoken English, which is
administered worldwide, or the
Speaking Proficiency English As
sessment Kit administered on
campus
SPEAK has four sections: pronun
ciation, fluency, use of grammar
and overall comprehensibility.
Simpson said he foresees the cre
ation of a minimum score or a re
quired English class in the
upcoming policy changes
This quarter Alley and Simpson
are teaching a new class for TAs
The new five-hour course assists
international graduate students
with cultural differences and lan
guage difficulties before they begin
teaching. Simpson said.
Alley said the University is trying
to alleviate the problem before it
gets as bad as the University of
Florida's situation
The Atlanta Constitution reported
Monday that the Florida student
body president released a list of 15
instructors who had been the target
of student complaints for poor
fluency
Librarian protests
cause for seizure
By Jeff Turner
Red and Black Xitoclale Neva Kdltor
Superior Court Judge James
Barrow decided Tuesday night to
continue a hearing Nov. 20 on the
motion by Robert "Skeet" Will
inghams lawyer to suppress evi
dence gained by unlawful search
Barrow didn't finish seeing wit
nesses in the 4-hour long hearing
Attorney Ernest Depascale ar
gued in the hearing that police
didn't have probable cause to seize
evidence against Willingham
However, Assistant District At
torney Gerald Brown said the mo
tion was "remarkable in failing to
state any facts showing the
searches were illegal."
Willingham, the former Univer
sity Special Collections curator,
has pleaded innocent to 15 counts
of theft by conversion of Univer
sity-owned rare documents
Depascale filed the motion Oct.
19.
University Police Lt Mitchell
Jones testified that a group in
cluding Univerity Police Maj
Chuck Horton and Mary Ellen
Brooks of the University Library
searched the Willingham house on
Dec. 22. 1986 and seized maps that
weren't on the search warrant
Jones said he knew the maps
weren’t on the list and that Horton
made the decision to seize them
Police listed another item, a
Daniel Sturgis map, on the return
as having been seized However,
because of a mix-up that involved
the map being too large to fit in
the car, it was left at the house, he
said.
Jones said he and other police
returned to Willingham's house
Feb. 2 with a warrant for three
items they had observed during
the first visit. One of these items,
however, was the Sturgis map
with a different name: an Eleazer
Early map of Georgia.
The map actually has two
names, he said
Jones said he had been worried
that the Sturgis/Early was left on
the first trip When he asked
Horton, however, Horton replied
that there was nothing that needed
Robert Willingham
to be done
Depascale said affadavits sub
mitted for search warrants were
misleading
"Whether they were intention
ally misleading or not, I don't
know." he said after the hearing
Brown said. "They probably had
probable cause to take just about
everything in his house" at the
first visit
Caution led police to return four
more times to seize missing li
brary artifacts, Brown said
However, Depascale said po
lice's probable cause for the first
search was based on hearsay and
wasn't sufficient to search the
house
"Everything from the Will
ingham home after the first
search was taken based on what
they learned by being there on the
first search." Depascale said after
the meeting
If the first warrant was void
then the following four searches
also were void, he said
Parliament member battles apartheid policies
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Jeff Ard/The Red and BUcn
And the winner is...
Excitement mounted today as Clarke County Sheriff Gerry Massey
reached into the box of raffle tickets for the name of the lucky winner of
a Georgia-Florida football ticket. Alpha Omicron Pi philanthropy chair
Jill Bynum announced Eddie Farmer, of Good Hope. Ga.. as the winner
of the sorority’s Arthritis Research Raffle. Farmer wasn't present to
claim his prize, and if he doesn't, it will go to Ginia Tucker of Sussex
Apartments. Sorority members sold raffle tickets for It each last week
at the Tate Student Center.
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By Lisa Wolfe
Ri’d and Black I'MilrtbulInK Writer
Political problems concerning
apartheid in the Republic of South
Africa are complex with no clear
answers, but communication be
tween opposing political pirties is
vital, a member of the South Af
rican Parliament said Tuesday
“We are in the middle of two very
opposing parties We have only two
options: we can either talk or
fight,” said Peter Soal, a member
of the Progressive Federal Party,
the main opposition party to apart
heid policies in South Africa
Soal prefers to talk
In a speech sponsored by the Uni
versity’s Center for Global Policy
Studies, Soal addressed an audience
of about 15 students and faculty de
scribing the political and social
upheaval that has made his country
a focus of moral, political and eco
nomic concern
“This year has been a no-growth
year for reform in South Africa
mainly because it's been an election
year," he said. "The main objective
(of the pro-apartheid ruling Na
tional Party) is to win the election
and mend the fences afterwards."
As a result, whites, who hold a
majority of the seats in the parlia
ment, tend to stick with current pol
icies of discrimination and are
reluctant to initiate controversial
reforms, he said
White controls over political and
internal security structures are ex
tensive, Soal said
"We've come to the end of the
road as far as reform under (Presi
dent P.W.) Botha,” he said
Soal said using political and eco
nomic sanctions against South Af
rica as a means of pressuring the
current leadership to end apartheid
would be ineffective and potentially
harmful
"I understand the tidal wave in
America I understand the moral
outrage and the indignation in
America," he said "If we thought
that sanctions were going to work,
we would support them We don't
believe sanctions or disinvestment
will change white opinion "
Blacks could suffer and lose jobs
because of disinvestments, and even
a decline in the white standard of
living probably wouldn't change
white attitudes, he said.
"Whites have become reasonably
thick-skinned about the situation
The majority of whites support the
National Party," he said
Because of censorhip, many
whites are unaware of the predica
ment of the blacks, Soal said.
"White South Africans do not
know what is going on behind the
hill For them, life is sweet," he
said
Soal also said if he had the an
swers to the South African situation,
he probably would be president For
now, he'll work within his party to
voice anti-apartheid ideas
Reaction to the speech was favor
able
“1 think it was a sober presenta
tion of what he realistically believed
to be the true situation in South Af
rica," said Martin HiUenbrand, po
litical science professor
Maria Ngong. a senior journalism
major from Camaroon, Africa, said,
“To me. he did a great job I think
he gave an objective view of the sit
uation It is the responsibility of ev-
erbody to try to change the situation
in South Africa "