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are first-time entrees. The only
asset she may have is that she’s
gained valuable experience,” he
said.
Reigning Miss Georgia Kelly
Jerles, a Perry, Ga., native, has
spent her last year traveling
through the state emceeing pag
eants and speaking to various
groups She estimates she has trav
eled 25,000 miles in visiting places
from Florida to California.
“It was a rude awakening when 1
won The first week was what I call
Miss America Boot Camp. You liter
ally give your life to the state —
you're their property," she said.
Jerles belleva*.The event is more
than just the “meat market" many
people consider it to be.
“it’s not just beauty —it’s based
on talent, as well and poise and in
telligence," she said.
Jerles won the swimsuit competi-
From page 2
tion and a talent award at the Miss
America pageant, but didn’t place
in the Top 10
She was admittedly “hurt' but
said she learned a lot and got
stronger
“I’ve grown as a person and ma
tured," she said. “I’ve also learned
to be a performer I conquered
stage fright. When you're forced to
be on stage all the time, you can’t
afford to be nervous."
Jerles will be leaving in Sep
tember for Los Angeles, w here she
hopes to pursue a career in enter
tainment
“I'm forever grateful for the
money, which will make the trip
possible, she said.“It's been the
most wonderful year of my life. I’m
a little sad it's over, but I can look
back and say i did it! ’
This week, preliminary judging in
swimsuit, evening gown and inter
views have taken place The Top 10
will be chosen Saturday evening,
and the whole process will begin
again. Once the pageant ends, the
new titleholder will immediately
begin her work
Jerles said the event brings all
the competitors closer during their
week together.
“There’s no jealousy For the
girls competing, the attitude is just
to do the best they can,” she said
Cox said the event will be espe
cially memorable even if she
doesn’t do well.
"It’s definitely worth it. You im
prove yourself and build self-confi-
dene And by the time you finish,
even if you don’t win, you’re a
better person." she said.
Tickets can be purchased by
calling the Pageant Office at (404)
322-2315 The pageant will be tele
vised live on Saturday at 8 p.m. on
Georgia Public Television.
Page 2
The Red and Black
Thursday, June 23, 1988
Briefly
from staff and Mire reports
Look! There 's ( JJ)0() of us
Although summer is traditionally a time for shunning schoolwork,
the ranks of summer scholars are slowly increasing, according to fig
ures released by the University registrar's office.
Preliminary enrollment figures for summer report 9.043 graduate
and undergraduate students, an increase of four percent over last
year's summer figure of 8.659 students, according to Gary Moore, Uni
versity associate registrar
The figure doesn't include students enrolled in independent studies,
in-service off-campus » classes, or evening classes
Mary Ann Barrett. University graduate programs administrator,
said the graduate school is having an average summer with about 3.300
students This also does not include in service students
Atlanta colleges may merge
ATLANTA ' AP > — Consolidation of Clark College and Atlanta Uni
versity would create a 3.000 student institution that could better face
the future, according to officials at the century-old. predominantly
black schools
The boards of the two schools will meet Friday to discuss the pro
posed merger
The resulting school, if approved, would be named Clark Atlanta
University, and consolidation would be complete by July 1, 1989. said
Tom Cordy. chairman of the Atlanta University board.
The combination will have a number of benefits, supporters said, in
cluding broadened educational opportunities for students, the potential
for higher pay for Clark faculty, and a more competitive position for
the consolidated university as it competes for research grants and the
support of private philanthropies
Two Atlanta University faculty members said Cordy told a faculty
meeting that Clark College President Thomas W. Cole Jr would be
chief executive officer of the consolidated Clark Atlanta University.
Freshmen make adjustments before fall
By David Adams
Ked and Black < ontrlbuliiiK Writer
The Bahamas always attract a lot of recent
high school graduates
So does Athens
Some recent high school graduates chose to
get a head start on college by skipping vacation
and attending summer quarter at the University.
Although exact figures on the number of first
time summer freshmen aren't available, nu
merous students began the quarter just one week
after high school graduation Chris Adair, 18,
Irom Atlanta, has had a smooth transition into
college life
"I had been here before and t like it a lot." he
said "I've made a lol of triends already ”
The simpler summer lifestyle is helpful for the
new students, most agree
Marva Mirchin, sophomore music major,
started school last summer just after gradua
tion.
"11 helped me get more familiar with the
'Here, it’s impossible to
learn anyone's name, much
less everyone’s. But I would
like to know the name of the
person who stole my bike'
— Rosenblum, freshman
campus, she said. "I came here expecting to be
a little fish in a big pond hut it wasn't so bad.
Starting in the fall would have been a lot worse."
John Rosenblum. 18. a management informa
tion systems major, came to the University from
a boarding sch<x>l in Rome. Ga. He has had some
trouble dealing with the larger environment.
i come from a school where everyone knows
everyone else's name." Rosenblum said “Here,
it’s impossible to learn anyone’s name, much
less everyone’s
“But I would like to know the name of the
person who stole my bike,’’he said.
The new students are also faced with a situa
tion that is unique to summer quarter: student
summer camps
“I'm finding it hard to adjust to college life
considering that there seem to be more high
school and middle school students than college
students." Rosenblum said.
The bureaucracy and red tape common to Uni
versity students is new to most freshmen
"To do anything you have to go through three
people," Adair said
Mirchin said she is glad she started early, be
fore most everyone else.
“I'm glad not everyone else starts early." she
said “Last summer all of my friends were up
perclassmen and they helped me find out what
was going on. They still do "
Mayor Young defends eonvention preparation
Mayor Andrew Young
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young
blasted criticism of the city's preparations for the Dem
ocratic National Convention Wednesday, saying reports
that the convention's host city will not be ready in time
are exaggerated
"I don’t care what people say about Atlanta Anybody
who doesn’t like Atlanta can go somewhere else."
Young said. "This is a building and growing city, and it
will be lor some years to come, but whatever we need
for the convention is going to be ready by the time the
convention gets here."
Young was responding to recent news articles de
scribing bad judgment calls by convention planners on
space for convention sessions and hotel accommoda
tions. The articles cited that some major transportation
routes are under construction and that convention plan
ners were fighting among themselves
He said critics were "trying to find a story and when
they don’t find one they stretch a point and try to make
one."
"\ don't know what (they're) talking about in terms
of confusion and chaos," Young said. “Peace and quiet
and tranquility and everybody getting along is not
news, and that’s what we got."
Young said he is in frequent contact with convention
planners and party officials. He estimated that the city
is about “85 to 90 percent ready" for the convention, a
condition with which he is "very comfortable "
Young said state officials never expected to complete
expansion on Interstates 75 and 85. which join and pass
through downtown Atlanta in a stretch of highway
dubbed “the Downtown Connector," before the conven
tion starts July 18.
“It's probably better to have people coming here ex
pecting a lot of problems and a lot of difficulties and
finding none, than getting the story out that every
thing's thrilling and then having something not quite
right when they get here."
Gov. Joe Frank Harris also defended the city’s read
iness for the convention at his weekly news conference
Wednesday, noting “we handle almost on a weekly
basis conventions that large and even larger "
Harris did note the convention’s importance to At
lanta's image, however, and announced a stepped-up
litter collection program using non-violent criminal of
fenders sentenced to community service as part of their
probation.
Officials said such offenders, most of whom were con
victed of drunken driving, already have collected 70
tons of trash in downtown Atlanta in the last three
months.
Atlanta-area counties have ongoing trash details in
volving about 2.000 offenders
Of news reports about the city’s readiness. Harris
said. “I saw the same kind of stories from the Cali
fornia convention before we went there (to San Fran
cisco in 1984). and it all worked well. And 1 think
Atlanta is going to do the same thing ”
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