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FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 * ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 96, ISSUE 88
INSIDE
R&B sports expert Jon
Tully reviews the latest
baseball flick, “Major
League.”
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Weather: Rain, rain and more
rain. A 40 percent chance tonight.
High in the low 70s. Saturday, a
60 percent chance of thunder
showers.
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The nation’s best: Top-ranked gymnasts prepare to compete in this weekend’s NCAA Championships
Gymnast takes on finals without team
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Assistant Sports Editor
Minnesota gymnast and 1984 Olympian
Marie Roethlisberger wants people to stop
talking about how she has overcome deafness
and injuries and treat her like any other ath
lete.
“All athletes have obstacles to overcome,” she
said. “My hearing problems don’t effect me in
the gym. With my hearing aids, I can hear my
floor music just fine and it doesn’t effect my bal
ance."
Roethlisberger, a junior pre-med major and
daughter of 1968 Olympic gymnast Fred Roeth
lisberger, comes to Atnens as the top-ranked
all-arounder in the United States.
“I’m really excited about having the chance
to win the all-around championship, but I wish
that my whole team was here,” she said.
After leaving home like all gymnasts who
seek the best training, she moved around sev
eral times before first making the national
team in 1986. Auditioning every summer for
the following year’s team, she remained among
the elite until 1987.
Roethlisberger made the World
Championships in 1983 but as would happen a
couple of times in her career, suffered a major
injury and wus unable to compete.
A year later, she was again in great shape
and was steamrolling into the Olympic Trials
for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Her luck didn’t change. She wns injured
again.
"I bit the bullet and made the Olympic team,”
she said. “I couldn’t even straighten out my arm
the day before the competition but when the
time comes, athletes learn how to ignore the
pain.”
Like Georgia’s own Lucy Wener who made
the Olympic team before blowing out a knee
and becoming unable to compete, Roethlis
berger made the team but was sidelined by a
combination of rotater cuff ir\juries and bone
chips flaking from her elbows.
"It’s hard to be sitting there when the rest of
the team is getting so excited and then goes out
to get the Silver Medal without your name ever
being mentioned," she said.
Roethlisberger wasn’t ready to retire yet
however. She made the World Championships
the following year, avoided injury, and placed
17th in the world.
GAA hoping
to sell 6,000
more tickets
By FRAN MUNSON
Staff Writer
The Georgia Athletic Associa
tion needs lots of walk-up fans to
attend this weekend’s NCAA Gym
nastics Championships, or money
guaranteed the NCAA will come
from GAA coffers.
John Shafer, assistant athletic
director, said the University sub
mitted a bid to the National Colle
giate Athletic Association stating
the University could bring in $78,-
000 for the championships. The
GAA has guaranteed the NCAA
$42,000.
To meet this guarantee and pay
expenses, the GAA must sell a min
imum of 9,000 tickets, Shafer said.
Because only 3,000 tickets had
been sold by Thursday, the GAA is
hoping for lots of walk-up sales,
Shafer said.
Any part of the $42,000 not
brought in at the tournament will
have to come from a GAA contin
gency fund, Shafer said.
Athletic Director Vince Dooley
said the contingency fund is built
into the budget for emergencies.
“We try not to use it unless we
have to," Dooley said.
If the money does come from the
contingency fund, neither student
athletic fees nor other sports will
be affected.
The gymnastics competitions at
the University usually have an av
erage attendance of only 2,000-3,-
000, Shafer said. However, the
GAA expects to sell 9,000 tickets
because of the large number of
teams involved, as well as the fact
that these are the national
championships.
NCAA Director Richard Schultz
said attendance usually varies
with the area in which the tourna
ment is held.
"Usually crowd attendance
doesn’t affect our choice of the host
team,” Schultz said, “but athletes
like to perform in front of a crowd."
The NCAA usually looks at the
job the host team does, he said.
‘The preparation in dealing with
both teams and individuals is an
important factor in picking the
Vince Dooley
‘There’s nothing like
cheering and support
at home to get the
adrenalin flowing ...
That’s what we need to
pull this thing off.'
— Vince Dooley
athletic director
host team," Schultz said.
Dooley and Shafer said the
GAA’s desire for a large crowd isn’t
only financial A large crowd can
also help a home team’s perfor
mance, they said.
‘There’s nothing like cheering
and support at home to get the
adrenalin flowing," Dooley said.
'That’s what we need to pull this
thing off.”
Shafer said, “That’s the whole
reason for having the
championships here."
Student arrested in B.B. shooting
By JIM TEAS
Staff Writer
University police arrested a Russell Hall resi
dent Thursday morning in connection with the
B.B. shooting Tuesday of a Li 1 burn man visiting
the University, a police detective said.
Det. Pat Stokes said Howard Resnik, a
freshman with an undecided major, wns arrested
at 9 a.m. at the county magistrates office on
charges of aggravated battery — the act of mali
ciously causing bodily harm to another by de
priving or rendering useless a member or limb of
the victim, Stokes said.
The victim, Billy Pittman, was struck in the
right eye by a B.B. fired from an air-powered
Crossman B.B. pistol. Pittman wns playing bas
ketball with a friend when the shot was fired from
a ninth-story window in Russell Hall facing the
basketball court.
Pittmun said doctors told him he may never re
gain 20/20 vision in his eye.
The Gnlphin Hall resident assistant said fire
arms aren’t allowed in the residence halls. Bill
Prince said the guidelines are clearly listed in res
ident policy and he had no idea Resnik had a B.B.
pistol.
Assistant Housing Director Gene Luna said re
porting violations of resident policy is the respon
sibility of the students.
“Students should look out for firearms amongst
the community,” Luna said.
The case is entirely in the hands of University
police at present and will be turned over to the
Student Judiciary, Luna suid.
Resnik wus released from the Clarke County
Jail on $10,000 cash bond Thursday morning
about two hours after his nrrest.
Faculty pay still below average
Faculty Salaries
| Regional High
E2 University of Georgia
O Regional Average
ithern Regional Educ. Board
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Students assist Valdez cleanup
1. March 24,1989: Tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground off Valdez.
Alaska. 11 million gallons dumped into Prince William Sound
2. Nov. 1,1979: Tanker Burmah Agate collides with another ship in
Galveston Bay. Tex. Up to 10.7 million gallons burned or spilled.
3. Dec. 15, 1976: Tanker Argo Merchant runs aground southeast of
Massachusets. Spills 7.6 million gallons
4. Nov. 6,1985: An exploratory well in Ranger, Tex. blows out and
spilling 6.3 million gallons. x
5. Jan. 2,1988: Ashland Oil Co.'s above ground storage tank in |
Jefferson, Pa., ruptures, spillling 3.8 millions gallons
6. July 30, 1984: Tanker Alvenus runs aground in Cameron, La. J
spilling 2.8 millions gallons. *
7. Oct. 31, 1984: Puerto Rican takner catches fire after an
explosion off San Francisco, spilling 2 million gallons.
8. Aug 18, 1984: Lightning sparks a fire near a Triangle Oil Corp. j
above-ground storage tank in Jacksonville. Fla. 2.5 million
gallons burned. ‘
Ga. university pay
ranked 8th in U.S.
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
The 4 percent pay increase, ap
proved Wednesday by the Board of
Regenta, isn’t enough to boost Uni
versity faculty's salaries above the
regional average.
For the third consecutive year,
University faculty's salaries will
fall below the regional average in
1989. The Southern Regional Edu
cation Board estimates the re
gional salary average for 1989 at
$42,589 and Georgia’s average at
$40,078.
Georgia’s $37,332 average
salary dropped below the $38,055
regional average in 1987. In 1988,
while the regional average salary
climbed to $40,361, Georgia’s av
erage only creeped to $38,537.
According to SREB figures, the
state’s university-level faculty sal
aries dropped from a rank of
second highest in 1984, to eighth
this year.
In 1984, the average salary for
university-level faculty in Georgia
was $32,447, said Joe Marks, Re
gional Data Services associate.
Only Texas’ average of $32,955
was higher.
Georgia’s average of $38,537 in
1988 fell behind Virginia, with a
region-leading average of $45,545,
Maryland, North Carolina, Texas,
Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Please See SALARIES, Page 5
By SONJA COX
Staff Writer
Two University students are
helping scientists develop com
puter programs which will predict
the flow of the Exxon Valdez oil
spill and its long-term impact on
the delicate arctic environment.
Tim Register, a senior agricul
tural engineering major, and Kit
McCormick, a junior forestry
m^jor, are aiding scientists at the
Environmental Protection Agency
laboratory on College Station
Roud.
Bob Swank, acting laboratory di
rector, said several other EPA of
fices are working directly with the
cleanup effort in Prince William
Sound, but the Athens lab is
working on n more lengthy project,
evaluating the impact of the spill
after it’s cleaned up.
The study will continue during
the next three to five years, he
said.
Of the 11 million gullons of oil
spilled, only about 8 to 12 percent
actually will be removed from the
water by the cleanup crew, Swank
said.
About 25 percent will evaporate
and about 25 percent will stick to
shorelines, he said.
That leaves about 38 percent of
the oil in the ocean, and this is the
fraction of the spill the Athens lab
is studying, he said.
Some of it will form tar balls
which will sink to the bottom of the
ocean where it will stay, and some
of it will break down into compo
nent substances, he said.
Register said that through com
puter models, the team will deter
mine where the components will go
next and what effect they have on
the ecosystem.
With the help of McCormick and
Register, the scientists have devel
oped two computer programs
which will produce moving, color
graphs of the components, Swank
said.
Mansour Zakikhani of the Amer
ican Scientific International Corp.,
who is also working at the EPA lab,
said work on the graphs will get
underway as soon as data from the
site of the spill is sent to the lab
from the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration.
The first data is expected next,
week.
Register said his work with the
team has included:
• collecting maps of the sound
area from the ‘University library
and enlarging them
• tracking down and checking
out books from the library on the
arctic ecosystem
• digitizing data so that com
puters can use it
• developing graphics to help the
EPA understand the data their
study will produce
AScI Scientist James Martin-
said the work the Athens lab is
doing will develop better tools for
predicting the impact of future
spills.
Swank said certain aspects of
the arctic environment — such as
glaciers — will affect the
movement of the spill, so it’s impor
tant to understand the arctic envi
ronment as it differs from others.
On the Friday after the spill,
This spill is going to
cost about $300
million to clean up.
Thousands of otters
and birds will die as a
result of it.'
— Bob Swank,
acting director,
EPA Athens lab
EPA Administrator William Reilly
requested the Athens lab pnrtici
pate in a task force to deal with the
spill crisis, Swank said.
While the Exxon Valdez spill is
the largest in U.S. history, it
doesn’t rank in the top 20 world
wide, he said.
Still, it’s a serious spill, now cov
ering 800 to 1,000 square miles,
Register said.
Swank said, ‘This spill is going
to cost about $300 million to clean
up. Thousands of otters and birds
will die as a result of it."
ISTINCT PRINI