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URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1989 « ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 6
INSIDE
Clay Richardson, Hope
Nicholls, Errol Stewart
and the rest of Fetchin
Bones to rock the Uptown.
Weather: Autumn outlook Cloudy
today, high in low 70s. 40 percent
chance of rain. Early weekend
prediction: Sunny, dogs win.
Game-day officer accused
of improper alcohol search
Student: Frisk went too far
Stop right there
David Keck, travel signal technician for the Clarke County Transporta
tion Department, installs one of three pedestrian-crossing lights on
Baldwin Street. Students have to operate the light to stop traffic.
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
A student has filed a complaint
with the University Police Depart
ment claiming a police officer de-
liberatley touched his genital area
while inspecting for alcohol during
last Saturday's football game.
Paul Homer, a senior economics
m^jor, stated in an official com
plaint filed Sunday, that a Univer
sity police officer approached him
at the student gate during halflime
and deliberately put his hand on
Horner’s penis.
The complaint identifies the of
ficer only by his last name, Harper.
According to Horner’s complaint:
“Officer Harper did not search me
in a normal fashion such as
frisking my ankles and legs. In
stead, he placed his hand on my
peni9.”
Homer said Harper — whose
name University Police Chief
Chuck Horton wouldn’t confirm —
touched his genital area again
after he protested.
The officer then took him to a
ticket booth and asked him to drop
his pants, Horner said.
Homer did drop his pants, which
showed he wasn’t concealing al
cohol, and was then forced outside
the ticket booth with his pants still
down, according to his complaint
Homer later said he had seen
other men being inspected at the
student gate, although women
were allowed entrance without
being touched.
Several witnesses sow Homer
being taken out of the ticket booth
with his pants still down, Homer
said. However, he wouldn’t provide
the witnesses names
Homer said he is taking his com
plaint before the Student Judi
ciary.
According to Horton, touching or
frisking is against police policy
“If an officer feels that a person
is concealing something, he should
usk to see it," Horton said.
‘The person then has a right to
refuse, but will be ejected from the
game, and his ticket will not be re
funded," he said.There shouldn’t
be any touching or frisking."
Horton said he met wnth Homer
the day he filed his complaint, after
which he conducted an internal in
vestigation of the police force,
which was finished by Wednesday
afternoon.
“As far as handing down discipli
nary action, it (the investigation) is
over,” Horton said.
Horton wouldn’t describe the ac
tions, although he did say the of
ficer won’t be working at the gates
this weekend.
In its Tuesday meeting, the Stu
dent Association addressed the
issue of alcohol inspection at foot
ball games.
During the meeting, junior Sen.
Ian Henyon, a pre-journalism
rmyor, read a letter urging the Uni
versity police to “correct” its inves
tigation policies and urging
students not to bring alcohol to
football games.
The SA said it will observe offi
cers at this weekend’s game, then
vote on whether to send the letter
to the University Police Depart
ment.
Horton said the game-day police
force i9 supplemented by officers
from Augusta Medical College and
Georgia State University, all of
whom fall under the jurisdiction of
the Board of Regents
There shouldn't be any
touching or frisking.'
— Chuck Horton
University police chief
SA vice president accepts internship
Disgruntled senator resigns
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Staff Writer
After months of uncertainty, SA
Vice President Mary Beth Hart-
lage announced Tuesday she will
take an internship with U.S. Sen.
Sam Nunn’s Atlanta office spring
quarter.
At the same meeting, junior Sen.
Cale Conley announced he would
resign his Student Association post
after delivering stinging criticism
of the organization.
Last spring, when it was an
nounced thut Hurtlage received the
prestigious internship, questions
arose about whether she could ful
fill her duties as vice president.
Hartlage read u letter an
nouncing her decision at the
meeting
T do not feel that this decision
will in any way impair my perfor
mance of my duties as vice presi
dent of the Student Association.
“All work of my term will be es
sentially completed by the time I
leave," she read from the letter.
Hartlage said in the letter that
she chose an internship in Atlanta
during spring quarter instead of
winter ouarter to fulfill the duties
of her office.
According to the current version
of the SA Constitution, the SA
president and vice president “shall
serve a term until their successors
take office the following year," and
they must be elected by May 1 each
year.
The senate is currently revising
the constitution.
Since the SA hasn’t decided the
date of next year’s elections, Hart
lage said it was uncertain when
her term of office will end.
"At this time, I am not in viola
tion of our constitution," Hartlage
read from the letter. “Leaving
spring may or may not put me in
that position.
“At that time, if I am found to be
in violation of the terms of my of
fice, then that situation will be re
solved internally."
Hartlage said in the letter she
would be available to the new SA
officers to help with the transition.
SA President Mark Schisler said
the SA understands Hartlage’s de
cision.
“As vice president, she is going
to give it 100 percent,” he said.
In other business, Conley deliv
ered a letter of resignation to the
SA. He said his lack of time due to
other obligations including his fra
ternity might cause him to do a
“mediocre” job.
He also said he was leaving be
cause of personal conflicts with SA
members and general unhappiness
with the organization.
He read from his letter, “In the
past 1 have had both personal and
policy differences with the present
administration, particularly the
president und vice president.
These differences I feel are both
mutuul and detrimental to the SA,"
he read.
“I am frustrated and disgruntled
by the present course of the SA,”
Conley said in the letter.
Conley refused to comment fur
ther on the nature of the course of
the SA.
Schisler said Conley had the
most absences of all the senators.
“He had two unexcused ab
sences," Schisler said. “I think his
interests v/ere elsewhere.”
According to the constitution, all
senators and officers are subject to
expulsion if they have more than
two unexcused absences.
Andrea Naterman, SA president
pro tern, said Conley was a loss for
the Senate.
Junior Sen. John Piedrahita,
who has been offered an internship
with U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn’s office
in Washington, D.C., during spring
quarter, snid he is interested in
taking the internship, but wouldn’t
whether he will accept the
vVi
say
offer
Mary Beth Hartlage:
Sam Nunn intern
Constitution change would
cancel freshmen elections
Athletic funds to pay
SPACENTER debts
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
The Student Association
changed its constitution
Wednesday to eliminate freshman
elections that SA President Mark
Schisler has called a “big strain” on
the organization.
But at an SA meeting Tuesduy,
some senators argued that by not
electing freshmen, the SA fails to
fulfill its constitutional role as the
“voice” of the students.
The changes won’t become per
manent unless students approve it
Oct. 11 in a campus-wide election,
Schisler said. At least 10 percent of
the student body must vote in that
election.
University President Charles
Knapp also must approve the new
constitution.
If he does, the changes still won’t
go into effect until next year,
Schisler said. They will have no ef
fect on freshman elections this
year.
During spring quarter, students
elect candidates to serve os either
sophumore, junior or senior sen
ators when they start school after
the summer. But because they’re
not on campus at the time of this
election, incoming freshman sen
ators are elected separately in the
fall.
At the meeting Tuesday,
Schisler said the SA should get rid
of the fall elections becuuse they
take up too much time, cost too
much money and interfere with
projects ulready underway.
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Fans can donate
Hugo relief funds
By LISA GILMORE
Staff Writer
As the Bulldogs combat the
University of South Carolina on
the football field this Saturday,
their fans will have a chance to
ease damage done to South Caro
lina last week by Hurricane
Hugo.
“So many Georgia fans have
wanted to help but haven’t
known what to do,” said Public
Information Director Tom
Jackson.
The Georgia vs. South Caro
lina gume at Sanford Stadium is
one of nine college football games
in the Southeast hosting a nurri-
cane-relief program
South Carolina Sen. Strom
Thurmond is coordinating the
S rogram from his Washington,
1 C. office. The program is orga
nized in coryunction with the At
lantic Coast and Southeastern
College Athletic Conferences
“It is amazing and gratifying to
see people from around the
Southeast come together to aid
victims of this terrible disaster,”
Thurmond said in an official
statement released Wednesday
Other colleges are asking spec
tators to donate canned goods at
the Saturday sporting events.
However, Jackson said American
Red Cross volunteers at Sanford
Stadium will accept only cash
and check contributions for logis
tical reasons.
The volunteers will be sta
tioned inside stadium gates and
will wear identifying arm bands.
Fans should be wary of anyone
outside the stadium collecting
contributions, Jackson said.
Jackson encourages people to
have their checks made out to the
American Red Cross before they
get to the gates Contributors
should label the checks for South
Carolina hurricane relief in the
bottom left-hand comer.
In fall 1988, there were 687
University students from South
Carolina. There are currently 5,-
208 University alumni living in
South Carolina, Jackson said.
Helping the hurricane victims
in South Carolina has become the
concern of many local groups as
well.
The Navy Supply Corps
School, coordinating with tne
American Red Cross, is taking
contributions from 8 a m. to 4:30
p.m. weekdays and any time
during the weekend, said Robert
Bennett, public affairs officer at
the school.
The items in greatest demand
include small hand tools, first-aid
supplies, persona] hygiene items,
pet items, can-openers, non-peri
shable foods, blankets and pil
lows, Bennett said
Frank Pfennig, executive di
rector of the East Georgia
Chapter of the American Red
Cross in Athens, said, “We have
already received $1,000 in dona
tions."
Young Harris Memorial
United Methodist Church is one
of the local churches taking dona
tions, said the Rev Ryan Seaw-
right, pastor.
Local Kroger grocery stores are
accepting canned items in bins,
said John Porter, a Kroger front-
end manager.
By GENE COLTER
Staff Writer
University President Charles
Knapp, in his first meeting with
the Student Association this
quarter, said initial debts on the
proposed $35-million SPACE
NTER would be puid with athletic
department funds.
Knapp, who spoke to the SA
Wednesday, said the proposed ac
tion wouldn’t affect student fees.
The Board of Regents has pro
posed that the recreational center
be funded with the sales of general
obligation bonds, which must be
paid back immediately. Initially,
the regents proposed financing the
SPACENTER with revenue bonds,
which would have been paid back
over a longer period of time.
State Attorney General Michael
Bowers has said that selling rev
enue bonds to finance the SPACE
NTER would violate the Georgia
Constitution, which doesn’t allow
the University — ns an extension
of the state — to put itself in debt.
With general obligation bonds,
the University would have to start
paying back the debt during the
construction of the facility, Knapp
said. These bonds also have a lower
interest rate than revenue bonds.
Knapp said the tentative com
pletion date of the facility is fall
1992, allowing one year for plan-
ning and bidding and 18 montns to
two years for construction
Revenue bonding will continue
to be a problem for the University,
he said, because the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly hasn’t approved the
use of those bonds.
If the legislature approves their
use, the University could use the
bonds to finance such projects as
new parking, research and student
housing facilities, as well as an ex
pansion of Sanford Stadium.
Knapp also told the SA:
* A proposed site for a student
parking deck would be near
Brumby and Russell halls. Such a
project would mean an increase in
student parking fees
* He has approved the SA-pro-
posed student escort service It
probably will begin next week
Second kidnap victim praises police
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
While University freshman Eric Daine
broods about the way the Athens Police De
partment handled his kidnapping case, se
nior John Slade couldn’t be happier with the
way they handled his case
Slade, a psychology major who allegedly
was abducted, stabbed and robbed l>> the
same four Athens teen agers that allegedly
kidnapped Daine, said Dainj’s accusations
against Det. Clarence Holeman are “com
pletely off the wall."
Daine said Holeman didn’t believe his tes
timony about being abducted, robbed and
beaten over the course of 10 hours until after
the teen-agers were arrested in Florida on
an unrelated offense and confessed about
Daine's case
Daine said Holeman accused him of homo
sexuality, drug abuse and sexual improprie
ties.
Slade said, “I don't know what Dome’s
problem is. Det Holeman is one of the best
detectives in Athens He was instrumental
in solving this case for both Daine and me."
Slade said he was abducted two nights
after Daine while driving in downtown
Athens. He said four teen-agers pulled a
knife on him and drove him to an unidenti
fied building where they took his wallet and
watch.
They told me to do the same strip Was*
thing that they asked Daine to do, but I re
fused. Then they told me to get in the car
and go with them. Again I refused, then it
became an all-out brawl.
“I pulled out my knife to defend myself,
but tney stabbed me in the arm first. I saw
an opening and got away," he said
Slade said Holeman came to his house
first thing in the morning and spent the en
tire day driving around Athens with Slade
looking for his car that had been stolen by
the teen-agers and asking questions.
"After spending the day with Holeman, I
learned that he is an excellent detective, and
the people in Athens really like him.
“He never accused me of any type of mis
conduct. Holeman called me just about every
day after the incident to check on me and see
if I remembered anything new," Slade said.
Holeman said he made a special trip to
Flondu, where the teen agers were arrested
for driving a stolen vehicle, to interview the
them and obtain confessions.
Holeman said he did his best for both vic
tims. The teen agers are now in custody.
Slade said Holeman got the confessions in
less than six hours without a plea bargain
being offered — a guilty plea on charges in
exchange for a lesser sentence
Daine said, “Perhaps it is my own fault. If
I had been stabbed, if I had shorter hair and
nicer clothes, then 1 would have seemed
more believable The police even told my
mom that they didn’t believe my story before
they obtained the confessions.”