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Art independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1989 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 96, ISSUE 89
SPORTS
Georgia gymnast Lucy
Wener gets the second
perfect score in NCAA
history.
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Weather; Spring's really here *his
time. Today's high in the mid 80s.
A 20 percent chance of rain
tonight with a low In the mid 50s.
Wednesday, more of the same.
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Gymnastics team attributes win to fans
J«fl Ard/The K*d and Black
The Lady Dogs: After their performances on the preceeding performer, attempts a UCLA comeback. Her 9.90 left the
rotation, they watch nervously as Kim Hamilton, the last Bruins short, making the Lady Dogs the NCAA champions.
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Assistant Sports Editor
The crowd did it.
The Georgia women’s gymnas
tics team upset the mighty UCLA
Bruins Friday night at the NCAA
Team Championships in front of a
racuous crowd of 5,216.
“Our fans definitely did that for
us,” Coach Suzanne Yoculan said.
“We did everything we could but
the crowd gave us the trophy,
firing us up and giving us that
extra edge.”
Even Athletic Director Vince
Dooley agreed.
‘The fans can take some credit
for this victory” he said. ‘The
home court advantage made the
difference between first and second
place.”
The Lady Dogs scored a 192.65
and edged out the Bruins by .05,
the smallest margin of victory pos
sible in the sport at the collegiate
level. Before the meet, Yoculan
said it was UCLA’s meet to loose,
and it did.
The Bruins took a commanding
lead to the balance beam while
Georgia was competing on its last
event, the floor. UCLA self de-
structed, suffering a pair of falls
and another uncharacteristically
low score, and blew its lead.
For their part, the Lady Dogs did
exactly what they had to do, hitting
all six floor routines and taking a
lead that would force the Bruins to
average a 9 74 on each perfor
mance of its last event, also the
floor. Freshman Missy DePaoli,
who gave Georgia a big boost by
hitting the first Georgia balance
beam routine only moments ear
lier, stuck the first floor routine.
The five remaining performers
all hit, culminating in Corrinne
Wright’s 9.90. Wright ended up
‘Our fans definitely did
that for us. We did
everything we could
but the crowd gave us
the trophy, firing us up
and giving us that extra
edge.’
— Suzanne Yoculan,
gymnastics coach
winning the individual all-around
championship with a total score of
38.90
“I’ve always known I had it in
me; I was just glad I could get it out
of me,” Wright said.
Teammate Tanya Schuler said,
“I’ve never doubted Corrinne at na
tionals. When we need her, she
really comes through.”
Senior Lucy Wener tied with
UCLA’s Tanya Service for second
in the all-around competition but
talked little of her individual con
tribution.
“Our • whole team did this,”
Wener said. “We showed this town
what gymnastics is all about and
that we are where we should be,
and that our previous ranking —
11th — was a farce.”
The championship was Georgia’s
second in the last three years Ju
nior Andrea Thomas attributed the
retaking of the title to team unity.
“We’ve been working so hard the
last four weeks because we wanted
win it for everyone else, not just
ourselves," Thomas said. 'Knowing
all of your teammates are mentally
doing your routine with you just
makes you push a little harder.”
Dooley’s investigation clears Durham
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
In a statement released Monday,
Athletic Director Vince Dooley
cleared Hugh Durham, head men’s
basketball coach, of any knowledge
of transactions between Domin
ique Wilkins, former University
basketball star, and sports agent
Jack Manton.
Dooley said, “I am satisfied that
Coach Durham had no knowledge
of any financial arrangements be
tween Mr. Manton and student-
athlete Wilkins.”
According to a series of articles
in the April 2 edition of The At
lanta Journal-Constitution, Wil
kins, while he played at the
University, signed a contract with
and received money from Manton.
In the April 2 article, Wilkins
said Durham knew about the in
volvement. However, Wilkins later
said Durham had no knowledge of
the matter. Durham insisted he
had no knowledge of Wilkins in
volvement with Manton.
Following the announcement
Durham said, “My initial
statement regarding this situation
was that I had no prior knowledge
of and arrangement between a
sports agent and any of our former
players. An extensive inquiry has
been conducted and this affirms
that my first statement was accu
rate.”
Dooley said University Presi
dent Charles Knapp reviewed the
report with the University's legal
counsel.
‘He has indicated to me he is in
full agreement with my recommen
dation that Coach Durham be ex
onerated from the allegations,” he
said.
Dooley said he completed the 50-
page investigative report with the
help of local attorney Edward
Tolley. The two conducted several
interviews and reviewed the legal
depositions involved.
Dooley supports NCAA
accreditation proposal
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
Athletic Director Vince Dooley
said Monday he supports a Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion proposal to implement a
system or accreditation for college
athletic programs.
NCAA Executive Director
Richard Schultz said the proposal
deals with “integrity issues” which
the NCAA presently doesn’t ad
dress. Under the system, every five
years, an outside team will review
the NCAA’s members’performance
in areas including graduation rates
and conduct of athletes and
coaches off the field.
The NCAA already requires an
internal study from its member
schools every five years. But
Schultz said this study deals
mostly with recruiting and athletic
program administration.
Dooley said the program could
“help to improve the credibility of
college athletica.”
Doolev said he has questions
about who should serve on the ac
crediting team, how the standards
will be determined and what the
standards will be.
“In concept it’s a good proposal,”
he said. “But it’s too soon to tell if it
will work.”
Schultz said the review team
will consist of a financial aid di
rector, a faculty athletics represen
tative and an athletic director. The
standards will be regional and in
stitutional comparisons.
Schultz said the program will
address the problems which have
created bad publicity lately.
In the last six months, the
NCAA placed several athletic pro
grams on probation including 1988
NCAA Basketball Champion, Uni
versity of Kansas, the University of
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State
University. Former University
basketball star Dominiaue Wilkins
and others, have admitted to
signing contracts with agents
while competing in NCAA events,
Schultz said.
This week, Schultz will seek the
NCAA’s Governing Council’s sup
port for his plan to initiate a review
system of its 800 member schools,
he said. If supported, the plan
must be approved at the general
convention in January.
SA spring stadium concert canceled
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Staff Writer
If you had planned to attend the
apring concert thia May in Sanford
Stadium, you will be dancing in the
dark.
Student Aieociation Preeident
Howie Mania aaid concert com
mittee negotiation! for a package
ahow including Cheap Tnck, Joe
Piscopo and hia band, Comedian
Richard Lewie and another re
gional group proved futile last
week when a satisfactory
agreement couldn't be reached.
Mania aaid ona of the three orig
inal acta wouldn't be available May
20 and the concert committee can't
find a suitable replacement for the
act.
The act* that were available at
the time of negotiation weren't of
the "caliber" the committee
wanted, Mania aaid
“We were not going to put on a
ahow just to put on • show," he
said.
The committee wanted to avoid
suffering a financial loss and felt
the remaining acta wouldn’t tell,
Mania aaid.
"We were selling a package, not
just one act," Mania aaid.
University Union program ad
viser Dave Shaw aaid no further
attempts will be made toward se
curing a concert.
“We juat basically ran out of
time," Shaw aaid. There juat isn't
the talent touring that would want
to play in a stadium.
They're more Legion Field-type
shows," he aaid.
The drawing power of the band
also had a lot to do with the out
come of the concert search, Shaw
said.
"We're talking about a band that
needed to cover the coat that would
be incurred in doing a concert at
Sanford Stadium," he aaid.
The coat of a atadium ia more ex
pensive than a show at Legion
Field, because a stage would have
to be constructed in the atadium,
Shaw said.
The concert committee —com
posed of representatives from the
SA, University Union and the ad
ministration — ha* been working
on the concert since fall quarter.
SA senator Stephanie Cala
brese, a concert committee
member, said, "We talked about it
and decided there was no use in
going further with it
The major problem wa* that no
one wa* on tour when we needed
them and some of the groups we
couldn't afford," she said.
Kristina Hall, a concert com
mittee member, said prospects
were narrowed because the com
mittee wanted the concert outside
and on th* weekend. It was diffi
cult to synchronize a concert date
with a band's availability.
There's juat so much you can do
in thia short amount of dm*,” Hall
said.
Manis said ht will meat with ad-
ministrators to explain the circum-
stances and discus* what could be
don* differently next year.
The committee is better ac
quainted with what a concert like
tnis entails. Manis said.
“Well be a step ahead next
year," he said.
Shaw said ths next step is to se-
curt the stadium for next spring.
Ht doesn't regard this aa a failure.
“Hopefully, we can take our next
step next spring," he said.
Howie Manis
Manis said, "I thought the hard
part would be getting the stadium,
but the hardest part has been put
ting together the show.”
Schisler and Hartlage
to lead SA
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
One of the tickets in the up
coming Student Association
presidential election failed
Thursday to meet requirements
for candidacy, leaving Mark
Schisler and Mary Beth Hart
lage the new president and vice
president.
"I feel good about it," Schisler
said. “We hope to get a lot done.”
Because they’re running
unopposed, Hartlage said she
and Schisler will have to work
"twice as hard" to gain peoples'
respect But ultimately the un
contested election won't hurt the
SA, she said.
•1 wish that we would have
had some opposition because it
would have brought some more
recognition to the SA ” Hartlage
said. But “I still think it's going
to be a very good SA when it gets
together."
Tom Cochran, assistant to the
vice president for Student Af
fairs, said the Schisler/Hartlage
ticket needs only one vote to
carry the election.
The other candidate in the
election. Lane Haley, ran into
difficulties last week when his
running mate, Zachary Taylor,
withdrew from the ticket. Taylor
said he withdrew for medical
reasons.
“I just needed some rest," he
said. "I wanted to withdraw
until I feel better."
Taylor declined comment on
th* nature of hia illnaaa.
Haley asked Jeff Branyon, a
senior journalism major, to re
place Taylor at hit running
mate But the new ticket was in
eligible because Branyon’* grade
point average fell below th# 2.8
required for presidential candi-
j dates, Haley said.
in ’89-90
Mark Schisler
Carter Sturkie, SA elections I
committee chair, said Branyon *
also wasn't taking enough credit ’
hours to qualify.
According to the SA constitu- I
tion, a candidate must “be en- I
rolled aa a full-time student, I
carrying a minimum of 12 hours i
at an undergraduate."
Because Thursday was the I
deadline for presidential candi- I
dates to submit their applica- I
tions, no other candidates can I
qualify to run, Sturkie said.
Sturkie granted Haley an ex
tension of the deadline to give
him time to collect the 600 signa
tures required for presidential
tickets, he said.
He granted the extension only
after Schisler gave his approval,
Sturkie said
"I gave him a little time,"
Sturkie said. “He just got dealt a
bad hand."
Haley said he's disappointed
he didn't get to run. But he is
running for a spot on th* senate.
GAA meets NCAA bid
Final rasults aren't available
yet, but th* Georgia Athletic Asso
ciation probably won’t have to
reach into ita pocket to pay money
guaranteed to th* National Colle
giate Athletic Association after the
weekend'! gymnastics champion
ships.
Ths GAA sold 9,600 ticket* at 17
each — 600 more than needed to
meet th* NCAA bid.
GAA Ticket Manager Freddy
Jones said ha was vary positive
about tha event
“Wa sold 6.200 ticket* th* first
night and 4,400 th* second night.
W* think it was a great athletic
event," he said
Only 3,000 tickets had been sold
prior to Friday*! event*. The GAA
was relying on 6,000 walk-up fans
to fhlfill its financial obligation to
ths NCAA.
Jones said he can’t comment on
th* financial results of the
championship* until th* 12 teams
that participated have been in-
voiced, probably about 10 days.
• Fran Munson
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