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THE RED AND BLACK FINALS
Monday, June 6, 1988
An independent student newspaper serving Athens, Ga. Volume 95, No. 121
the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Rippin’ and thrashin’
Jeff Ara/Tne Red and Black
Quick, what's more interesting — statistics or water
skiing? Patrice Martin Nantes of France, skiing at the
Master's ski tournament in Callaway Cardens. Ga.,
last Saturday, might choose the latter. Martin, 22, won
the trick competition and placed third in the overall
competition. The world trick champion. Nantes won 13,-
040 at the 30th annual Master's competition.For 20,000
students concentrating on finals, skiing isn’t a top
priority this week. But if all goes well, or even if it
doesn't, maybe next week ...
Many administrators and faculty
would agree that the aftershock of
Jan Kemp’s lawsuit against the Uni
versity generated much of the re
cord heat of the summer of 1986
George Marshall, a retired En
glish professor, chaired the Univer
sity Council's Ad*Hoc Committee on
Academic Affairs, which met every
Thursday from April 3 to Aug. 14 to
study the revelations brought to
light by the Kemp lawsuit and make
a report of subsequent recommen
dations.
Kemp successfully sued the Uni
versity for violating her First
Amendment rights when she was
fired for protesting preferential
treatment of athletes
Marshall said, “That was th* hot
summer. We sweated it out every
Thursday afternoon at 3:30 from
then on."
That committee’s work produced
3t recommendations in five areas:
the University Council's Bylaws and
the University Statutes; the forma
tion of a University Council griev
ance committee; the
Developmental Studies Program;
and the athletic department at the
University. Subcommittees were
formed in the first of four of these
areas; however, the committee
acted as a whole in discussing ath
letics, which proved to be the most
controversial.
Two years later, many of the re
port’s recommendations, since
dubbed the Marshall Report, are
still provoking discussion.
University President Charles
Knapp said, “Over time, 1 think we
will find it’s one of the more impor
tant documents in the recent history
of the University. I think it raised a
lot of important questions and, to its
credit, took positions on those ques
tions."
Not everyone, including Knapp,
has agreed with all those positions,
evidenced by the discussion on is
sues generated by the report this
George Marshall
quarter.
ATHLETICS:
Seats on the Board of the Athletic
Association: A compromise seems
to have resulted this quarter from
the reports recommendations to in
crease faculty input on the GAA
The committee recommended that
the six faculty members on the
board be elected by the University
Council rather than appointed by
the president. The council wanted to
amplify faculty voice on the board
even more by increasing the
number of faculty-elected represen
tatives to 11. Knapp said on several
occasions that he isn’t willing to
have a majority of the board mem
bers elected by the University
Council because he doesn’t feel the
operations of the athletic depart
ment are areas of faculty govern
ance.
“I want to control appointments
to the athletic board," he said.
Knapp proposed a compromise
that would allow him to appoint
three members and the council to
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By Sasan Hill
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Phi Delt house renovation scheduled for next week
By Charlene Smith
Red and Black New* KdHoc
One week from today construction is scheduled to begin on
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house at 690 S. Lumpkin St.
Danny Daniel, the fraternity’s house corporation represen
tative. said a complete renovation of the house has been in
the works for longer than a month, and a final decision to
make improvements was made May 27.
About 2 a m May 28, a small, accidental fire broke out in
the house that resulted in its closing until numerous Georgia
Fire Safety Law violations are corrected
Frank Edwards, University fire safety officer, said care
less smoking apparently caused the fire
Ron Binder, adviser to fraternities, said University
Housing sent a letter to Phi Delta Theta at the beginning of
this quarter, stating that its house would be closed June 11
until its fire safety violations were corrected.
Edwards said that at the house's most recent inspection by
the state fire marshal’s office April 27, officials discovered 13
new violations in addition to those discovered at an inspec
tion in October 1985 that hadn’t been corrected, he said.
Fire law violations at the Phi Delta Theta house include:
• a non functional fire alarm system
• a kitchen hood system constructed with wood instead of
metal
• no exit signs on the third floor
• no working emergency lights in the entire building
• a stairway door that swings against exit travel
• no stairwell doors that close properly
• a dumbwaiter shaft that isn’t enclosed
• holes in the boiler room ceiling
• numerous electrical violations including voids, missing
covers and doors to electrical panels
• fixed wiring on the second floor
Fire hazards have been widespread in campus fraternity
houses.
Kappa Alpha. Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kappa Sigma fratemi
ties corrected all the fire law violations in their houses a few
weeks ago and received clean inspections from the state fire
marshal’s office, Edwards said.
Chi Psi fraternity is correcting its violations through a pn
vate contractor. Edwards received a letter May 27 from the
state office accepting the fraternity's plan of correction, he
said.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity has hired a contractor and is
getting its house up to standard through Physical Plant, he
said.
The Sigma Chi fraternity house, next to the Phi Delt house,
is completing one minor electrical problem before it’s fully
Please See HOUSE. Page 5