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THURSDAY JUNE 29, 1989 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 96, ISSUE 122
Steps
University
president
instigates
changes
INSIDE
A face only a mother could
love. An interview with
members of the local band
Five-8.
Weather; Mostly cloudy with a 40
percent chance of rain today high
of 88 Tonight, 20 percent chance
of ram, low of 69. Friday, a 30
percent chance of ram, high 85.
taken to correct Kemp grievances
Kemp says questions still unanswered
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
In his first public statement con
cerning the Jhh Kemp grievances,
University President Charles
Knapp said, “There is no substan
tial basis for the mujority of allega
tions brought,'' but some
University procedures need tight
ening.
In a press conference Tuesday,
Knapp and Hryndis Jenkins, Vice
President for Legal Affairs, dis
closed a 160 page report outlining
the origin of Kemp's allegations
and the investigation of them
Kemp, Developmental Studies
English Component coordinator,
approached Jenkins in April with
several grievances involving Uni
versity and (Georgia Athletic Assn
ciution practices.
Knapp said that while a "thor
ough inquiry” had turned up no ev
idence to support most of Kemp’s
complaints, four of her allegations
concerning improper actions taken
against her by University officials
were indeed valid.
The improprieties included inac
curacies in her personnel file and
leave time records, a mistake in
her mailing address for the 1987-
88 school year that prevented
Kemp from receiving mail and in
terference by a University official
that prevented Kemp’s speaking
engagement at a Georgia Bar Asso
ciation meeting in 1986.
Knapp said that it would be an
invasion of Kemp’s privacy to dis
cuss the specifics of the inaccura
ciei in her personnel file, but that
they were being corrected.
‘This administration will not
tolerate any uctions of retaliation
against Dr Keinp or any other fac
ulty member," he said
“Mail sent to the inaccurate ad
dress was not forwarded to the cor
rect address by the campus mail
service," Knapp said “But the erro
neous listing has now been cor
rected and procedures for making
such changes will be tightened.”
Knapp also said he will tell Uni
versity administrators that in
order to avoid even the appearance
of impropriety, faculty members’
rights to accept speaking en
gagements must be vigorously
guarded.
Jenkins released the reports of
the allegations that were handled
by her department and a review of
the investigation done by the Uni
versity Council’s Faculty Griev
unce Committee and Educational
Affairs Committee
She studied them for thorough
ness, full ness and consistency with
established University procedures
for investigation of complaints tiled
by members of the faculty, Knapp
said.
The individual reports of the
Faculty Gnevance und Educu
tionul Affairs committees, which
found Kemp’s grievances to be
"without merit," were released
upon their completion
In the new reports, Jenkins rec
ommends corrective steps in older
to “tighten up” certain University
procedures
A total of 18 minor recommenda
tions weie made by the gnevurue
koininittees and the legal affairs
department concerning the ac
edemic dishonesty policy, the GAA
tutor ml policy and fulculty address
Charles Knapp
and phone listing procedures.
Knapp said he has accepted the
recommendations and has directed
that they be implemented.
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
Jan Kemp said many of her
questions concerning her com
plaints against the Student Judi
nary and the Georgia Athletic
Association tutors have gone un
answered.
At u press conference following
the release of the University’s
“Final Report” on her grievances
Tuesday afternoon, Kemp said her
allegations must have been sub
stantial or corrective steps
wouldn’t have been instituted.
One of her unanswered ques
tions was whether the matter was
closed with the release of Univer
sity President Charles Knapp’s
"final report” of the investigations,
she said. The report concluded that
the majority of her charges were
without "substantial basis.”
Other questions Kemp asked in
cluded “Why was Director of Judi
cial Programs Bill Bracewell
exonerated 7 Why was 1 not in
formed of the investigation of me?
Why were these investigations
done on moral grounds alone, with
legal grounds aside 7 Why were my
former and current students inter
viewed even while I was in a
charity dunking booth?"
Kemp’s charges against Brace
well, the Office of Judicial Pro
grams and Athletic Director Vince
Dooley concern a hearing about a
student athlete charged with pla
giarism. Kemp complained of pro
cedures used that she said treated
Developmental Studies Professor
Jane Marston unfairly.
Kemp also said in her original
complaint that the student justices
favored athletes and “rich kids,”
and that Bracewell had been
“sassy” towards her
1 uesday, Kemp said she was un
happy that Bracewell said he had
been “exonerated" by the faculty
grievance committee and that he
planned on hanging the report on
his wall.
Bracewell said one point that
hasn’t been understood is that the
case wasn't tried by student jus
tices but by himself. He also said
that Marston had agreed with the
decision from the offset; she hadn’t
been told of Kemp’s complaints and
she would have preferred dropping
the matter entirely.
Bracewell said, “I might not be
the best with words, but I felt that
from the contents of the report, my
program had been exonerated and
that it was the correct word.
‘The investigation had re-af
firmed the procedures of the judi
ciary, and I felt good," he said. ‘The
comment about my wall was not in
reference to Dr Kemp but to the
committee and my program, and
made in a moment of exuberance.”
Kemp was investigated because
two GAA tutors filed complaints
concerning remarks they said were
made by Kemp during class time
They said Kemp remarked, “Every
body is afraid of me," and that GAA
tutors were unqualified and stu
dent athletes shouldn’t use them.
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Jan Kemp
The tutors were demanding an
apology
Kemp said she was suffering be
cause of her allegations “It is
widely known that once again de
velopmental studies is the mes
senger blamed for the message .”
Earlier in the day, Knapp had
said he thought Kemp was a valu
able member of his staff and he be
lieved she made the allegations in
g(x>d faith.
Knapp said these were questions
that needed to be asked and that
he wouldn’t try to muzzle em
ployees, but the investigation was
done by Kemp’s peers and he con
sidered the matter closed.
Kemp said she has a contract for
next year but wouldn’t comment on
whether she had been interviewing
with other institutions
Supreme Court makes
flag a burning issue
Confrontation: Arguing who will "Do the Right Thing"
Spike Lee film sparks controversy
By SCOfl WILLIAMS
Entertainment Writer
An interreview.
ATLANTA — Some people are qualified to be an
open conscience for society Many people believe they
are qualified to speak for the masses. Then there’s
filmmaker Spike lA»e, a man who opens his mouth and
thinks he’s got something to say.
1/ee, a find us fai as directorial tulent goes, has a
certain flair for comedy and for drawing good perfor
mantes from his actors However, Lee the societal
woes pi eat hei hasn’t quite figured out how to ir\ject
his life wew commentaries into a film with anything
short of an iron fist
His previous film, “School Daze," was un enjoyuble
look at tensions existing within the black community
between darker-colored blacks and lighter-colored
blacks But, in an exceptionally sloppy style (a style
often used by filmmakers unsure whether or not they
got their point across), he slammed a tactless, artsy
"message" ending (that Lee says is "like dotting an V
or crossing a ‘t**) onto the film, having the picture's
must revolutionary character storm across the screen
and yell, "Wake up "
Lee should have tuken his own advice
His newest film, “Do the Right Thing,” opening to
morrow, is another in his growing list of films
cluiming they've got something to uttei when all
they’ve really got is a lot of “I’ve heard this a dozen
times” sputtei
Prior to Lee’s entrance, in tin- meeting room ut the
Ritz Carlton in Buckhead, a bevy of reporters asked
each other what they thought of Do the Right Thing.”
The reaction was almost kompletely split, but ev
eryone did seem to agree that they weren’t suit* what
Lee was trying to get at in the film
Please See LEE. Page 3
By A.J. Tahtinen
Staff Writer
Flags will be flying next week,
but some of them might be burning
because of the recent U.S. Supreme
Court ruling that protects the bur
ning of the American flng as a form
of political protest.
Political Science Professor Lief
Carter said the majority of the
judges decided consistently with
modem free speech law. The deci
sion wns neither a step forward nor
backward.
‘This was a step along a path the
Court has already taken, not a step
off the path," he said. “It’s impor
tant to note that two conservative
judges, (Justice Antonin) Scalia
and (Justice Anthony) Kennedy,
joined the majonty.”
In a 5 4 vote last week, the Su
preme Court ruled that Texas au
thonties violated a protester’s
rights when they prosecuted him
under u state law barring dese
cration and destruction of the flag
All but two states have similar
laws against flag-burning.
President George Bush said
Wednesday that he will seek a con
stitutional amendment barring
flag burning
John O’Looney, chapter presi
dent of the Athens’ American Civil
Liberties Union, said the ACLU is
pleased with the Supreme Court’s
decision, but not pleased with
President Bush’s attempt to get an
amendment passed.
"We believe that rather than fo
cusing on a symbol of our liberty,
the Court upheld the substunce of
our freedom," O’Looney said
“Amendments to the Constitu
tion should concern basic changes
in the way government is oper
ated,” he said “I would be espe
cially concerned about any changes
that would open the door for very
serious abridgements of our Bill of
Rights.
“Such an amendment might act
‘Our society is set up in
a way that you have a
right to dissent and not
be punished for it.’
—Dale Leathers,
speech communication
department head
like a slippery slope toward more
drastic restrictions of our liber
ties,” he said
Dale Leathers, speech commu
nication department head, said the
flag’s symbolism works on two
levels. First it represent* the 13
original colonies and the current
states, and secondly it symbolizes
what America means to the people
through their own beliefs and va
lues.
“Maybe Americans are more
sensitive of the flag after what hap
pened to China," he said “Our so
ciety is set up in a way that you
have a right to dissent and not be
punished for it.
“We can see how brutal a regime
can be when you don’t have the
safeguards protecting the freedom
of expression," Leathers said.
Col. Leon Ellis, Air Force ROTC
head, said it’s important to have
freedoms, but that some things
should be special
“I don’t think the flag should be
worshipped, but respected," Ellis
said “I spent five and a half years
in Vietnam as a prisoner of war,
and symbols like tne flag are espe
cially meaningful to me from that
experience
“I think there are ways to pro
test other than burning the flag.
“Somebody burning the flag ei
ther hates his country or a part of
it and wants to see it destroyed or
just wants attention,” he said.
Education program enrollment cut
By CYBELE LANGE
Staff Writei
The University’s Early Childhood Education
Program next yeai will begin limiting the number
of professional students it accepts each quarter.
William McKillip, department head, said the
number of students accepted is being reduced in
order for the piugram to return to its original cur
riculum.
That program, he said, provides four quarters of
field experience for junior and senior early child
hood education majors
Because enrollment in the program is up neurly
30 percent from last year, the department has re
duced the field experience to two quarters, McK
illip said
‘The four-quarter field experience is a return to
normal program operation," he said “But to do it,
we must limit to 54 the numbei of students we ac
cept into the professional levels of the progiam
each quarter.”
Field experience is a short-term assignment in a
public school in which the college student works
with small groups or individual elementary school
children, he said
Compaied to student teaching, which is a 10
week, full time assignment in a public school, field
experience involves less responsibility, McKillip
said.
Originally, the professional sequence for the pro
gram included four levels of field experience with
school placements (Level I through I^evel IV) that
were completed during four quarters of their junior
and senior years, McKillip said.
But with enrollment up this year and only a lim
ited number of spaces in the public school program,
students began to receive experience only at Levels
Please See EDUCATION. Page 6
State director of SBDC to retire
William Flewellen
By NtAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
William Flewellen, acting state
director of the Small Business De
velopinent Center, will retire
Friday after serving the University
for 21 years.
Eloise Norris, Fiewellen’s secre
tary, said he served as the dean of
the College of Business Adminis
tration for 14 years before leaving
the post in 1982 to become the di
rector of the University's Institute
for Business, which now oversees
the SBDC
Last July, Flewellen hired Jan
McGovern and began to train her
for the directorship of the SBDC
upon his retirement, Norris said.
He has since been the acting di
rector of the program
Michelle Stevens, assistant to
the director of Rural Economic De
velopment, said the SBDC is a fed
erally funded program that was
piloted at eight schools, including
the University.
“Flewellen has often been cred
ited with the national program,
und without him it would never
have come into being," she said.
The program was established
nationally by the Small Business
Development Act of 1980.
It acts as a consulting assistant
for people beginning businesses
that employ less than 500 people,
Stevens said. The Georgia SBDC
has 17 regional and district centers
around the state.
Wilford A Stone, Atlanta dis
trict director of the U.S. Small
Business Administration, said,
Please See SBDC Page 6
