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An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1989 « ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 7
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INSIDE
The mysterious Mickey
Rourke makes his
presence known in this
week’s After Hours.
Weather: Wet and cold but smile
anyway. Highs In the mid 60s, 80
percent chance of rain. Saturday:
60 percent chance of rain.
3 added buses equal rider elbowroom
By ELIZABETH GRADDY
Staff Writer
Overcrowded University bus riders will get
some relief Monday when the Campus Transit
System adds three buses to the present routes,
said George Young, Vehicle Transportation
and Maintenance head.
An extra bus will be added during peak
hours to the Milledge, Russell and Orbit
routes, Young said.
Peak hours vary among the routes, he said.
The extra Orbit bus will run from 11 a m. to 2
pm. The extra Milledge and Russell buses will
run from 8 a m. to 2 p.m.
Public Safety Director Asa Boynton
said,“We had some concern at one time for the
driver being crowded."
Boynton said drivers haven’t had that
problem recently, but the additions will help
ease the crowds.
Overcrowding, when it doesn’t affect the
driver, isn’t a safety problem, he said.
“From a safety standpoint, we are only con
cerned if the overcrowding obstructs the
driver’s operation of the bus or his visibility
while operating the bus," Boynton said.
Public Safety doesn’t regulate campus
transit, but does make suggestions, he said.
Young said the buses are safe when car
rying up to three times their capacity. A bus is
at capacity when all seats are filled plus 15 in
the aisles.
Increasing transportation fees $2 for this
year made the additions possible, he said. The
transit system also bought two new buses,
which will be delivered in February.
“We’ve got some money we want to put into
service," Young said. “We had to wait a few
days to see where the demand would be.”
Campus transit already had the buses as
spares, but needed money for gas and driver
pay, Young said.
“It costs $18.70 per hour to run a bus,” he
said.
The additions will leave campus transit
with three spares out of its total 29 buses, he
said.
‘They’re not just standing around collecting
dirt,” Young said. “We do a lot of charter work
— orientation, campus tours, field trips."
The spares also serve as replacements while
route buses are being serviced, he said.
Knapp OKs
escort van
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Staff Writer
Students soon won’t have to
worry nbout walking around
campus in the dark.
University President Charles
Knapp hns approved a student es
cort van that will begin operating
Oct. 16, SA junior Sen. Todd King
said Thursday.
The vnn will provide rides to stu
dents in the evenings Monday
through Thursday.
Between now and Oct. 16, Uni
versity administrators will work
out the logistics of the plan and
publicize the service, Knapp said.
A planned, mail-out campaign
will provide all on-campus resi
dents with information about the
van, King said.
David Coker, Knapp’s executive
assistant, said Knapp plans to pay
for the two-quarter trial period
with money from his own budget,
not the SA r s.
The proposed cost for two full
quarters of service is $4,347.90,
according to the proposal. King
said the sum might arop a little
since fall quarter has started.
Coker said, “We want to give
this as fair a trial ns possible.”
King presented the safety escort
von proposal to the SA last week
out of a concern for student safety.
The University Police Depart
ment helped develop the plan,
King said.
The van will serve the imme
diate campus area and possibly
Milledge Avenue. A uniformed,
University police service officer
will drive the van.
When the van isn’t en route to a
user, it will remain stationary in
one of the on-campus parking lots,
possibly the lot at Brumby Hall, to
be an ,; extra eye” for police.
Building the set of a play is only the beginning.
Scott Grim, a graduate drama student (top), and
Jim Fitzmorris. a junior drama major, work on the
set for "Three Penny Opera,'' which will run Nov. 1
4. The two are working in the new scenery shop be
hind the fine arts building.
University groups continue Hugo relief work
Funds, canned food needed
By LISA GILMORE
Staff Writer
The need for contributions to
ward the Hurricane Hugo relief ef
fort won’t end with the drive at
Saturday’s football game. And nei
ther will the efforts of the Univer
sity community to help the
disaster’s victims.
Next week, the professional
pharmacy fraternities — Lambda
Knppa Sigma, Phi Delta Chi and
Kappa F.^i — will place bins for do
nations in the School of Pharmacy
lobby, said Sheila Roberson, phar
macy school information specialist.
The most needed items include
batteries, diapers, personal hy
giene products, canned food, and
distilled water, Roberson said. The
items will be taken to the Salvation
Army, who will transport them to
South Carolina, she said.
Senior Sen. Djuana Austin said
the Student Association also plans
to provide bins on campus. Specific
plans are being made and will be
announced next week.
The University announced
Wednesday that American Red
Cross volunteers would collect cash
and check donations at Saturday’s
home football game ugainst the
University of South Carolina.
In a letter written to South Car
olina Gov. Cnrroll Campbell Jr.,
University President Charles
Knapp wrote: 'The thoughts and
prayers of people throughout
Georgia have been with our South
Carolina neighbors since Hurri
cane Hugo first hit your shores. We
are glad to offer this small token of
our heartfelt concern for the people
of your state."
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said the University’s main
concern is to make sure people
bring cash and checks, which are
easier to handle than canned
goods, to the stadium, Jackson
said. If fans brought canned goods,
the University would need forklifts
and trucks to transport them to
South Carolina.
Contributors should make
checks out to the American Red
Cross and designate them for
South Carolina Hurricane Relief.
The contribution drive, coordi
nated by South Carolina Sen
Strom Thurmond, will be held at
nine football games on Saturday.
College
look to
May run
students
in 1990
By JULIE GARDNER
Staff Writer
While some University students
set their sights on the Athens City
Council other students might be
aiming even higher — the Georgia
House of Representatives.
Phillip Foil, state chair of Col
lege Republicans, said they are se
riously considering running
University students in the 1990
November election for the 67th and
68th districts in Northeast
Georgia.
The College Republican Election
Targeting Committee is looking at
possible candidates to run in those
districts, Foil said.
The committee consists of Col
lege Republicans from 20 other
chapters on college campuses from
around the state.
Foil said Democrats outnumber
Republicans in the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly and College Repub-
GOPs
House
licans are trying to correct that.
Jeff Branyon, acting chair of the
University chapter of College Re
publicans, saia, 'The Republican
Party has no one slated for these
districts. We can put people in
these offices if we can rally the
University students behind them.”
Branyon said, “We are really
pushing students to register to vote
now and change their voting regis
tration to Clarke County.”
Rep Lawton Stephens, (D-68),
said, “I welcome any opposition
and any University student that is
qualified is welcome to run in the
election.”
Stephens is serving in his second
term.
Homer Cooper, a retired socio
logy professor who served on the
Democratic State Committee for
seven years, said he admires the
College Republicans’ plans to run
candidates in the local election, but
he doesn’t think they have a
chance of winning.
Cooper said, “It’s too bad that
more students, Democrat and Re
publican, aren’t more politically ac
tive.”
Rep. Michael Thurmond, (D-67),
who is serving his second term,
said no one can represent the dis
trict better than he can.
Proposed minor policy
could cause problems
By ELIZABETH GRADDY
Staff Writer
A proposal prohibiting depart
ments, schools und colleges from
choosing students’ academic mi
nors could cause problems for the
College of Journalism and Mass
Communication, said J Thomas
Russell, dean of the college
Ivery Clifton, University Council
Curriculum Committee chair, said
the committee is reviewing a pro
posal made primarily to request
formal permission from the Board
of Regents to have minors. The
University doesn’t have official
permission from the regents to
offer minors
But part of the proposal includes
a prohibition against restricting a
student’s choice of minor.
The council’s Executive Com
mittee returned the proposal
Friday to the Curriculum Com
mittee after a journalism represen
tative expressed concern about the
limitations the college places on
students choosing a minor.
Russell said accreditation prob
lems would arise if the proposal
passed nnd a journalism student
attempted to go against the col
lege’s policy by minoring within
the college —- for instance, a news
paper major trying to minor in ad
vertising.
“We’d be out of business as fur as
accreditation,” Russell said.
The prohibition of restricting mi
nors is just one sentence in the pro
posal, but it was enough to stall the
committee’s effort to get formal
permission for minors. Clifton said
that although various academic
minors appear in the Undergrad
uate Bulletin, allowing minors isn’t
in compliance with regents policy.
"If we are going to huve a minor,
we need to get permission,” Clifton
said.
Thomas Russell: May
hamper accreditation
Alphonse Buccino, College of Ed
ucation dean, said there aren’t
rules limiting choice of minor for
education majors However, fulfil
ling the requirements of their ma
jors leaves education students
little room for minoring.
*The idea of the four-year bacca
laureate is giving way," Buccino
said.
Emily Pou, College of Home Eco
nomics dean, said the college
doesn’t have minors in name, but
the depth of the programs gives
students concentrations in ureus.
Pou doesn’t know if the college
would limit choice of minor if it hnd
them, she said. A student's choice
of major probably would dictate his
choice of minor.
Elizabeth Barth, academic
credit program specialist, said the
College of Business Administration
doesn’t have minors.
‘The reason is that the Univer
sity doesn’t allow any," Barth said
“We’re in compliance with the Uni
versity."
The Curriculum Committee will
discuss the proposal Oct. 10 at 9
a.m. in Room B of the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
For the ‘stout* of heart
On tap for Athens: The Globe, new downtown watering hole
By GENE COLTER
Staff Writer
On a back wall of the bar
hangs a picture of Irish author
James Joyce. Fittingly, it is the
kind of place characters in a
Joyce novel might have ven
tured for their lunchtime pint of
stout.
The Globe, a new bar at the
Athens Yacht Club’s old location
V at the corner of Lumpkin and
Clayton streets, has received its
beer and wine licenses and the
2 owners hope to be open for busi
ness in time for the weekend.
Common ground is the only
similarity The Globe will share
with its predecessor, which
closed last spring.
Principal owner Randy
Camp, media head for the Uni
versity library, hns put together
a tightly knit group of owners,
investors and frienas to get The
Globe off the ground.
Stepping upon the mosaic at
the bar’s entrance, one feels im
mediately comfortable.
John Thompson, an Athens
contractor, has helped Camp
and friends assemble an assort
ment of eclectic furnishings. He
built numerous tables out of
spare wood from packing crates
nnd hns crafted a U-shaped bar
of mahognny and marble.
Taps of Guinness Stout, Bass
and Harp ales rise up from the
bar, defiant of a town where do
mestic beers are often the only
draft beers available.
The owners are considering
selling their draft at $2 a pint.
Liquor won’t be Hold when the
bar first opens, but the owners
plan to stock about 20 wines
from around the world.
Co-owner Knster Swartz,
who always goes by the nick
name Pep, said the bar's atmo
sphere is based on an amalgam
of experiences in drinking es
tablishments. These tastes run
from Swartz’s travels in Euro
pean pubs and bars to the
owners’ time spent next door at
the Ga. Bar.
“My partners and I want a
place where we can sit down
nnd have a drink," he said. “We
hope others can enjoy that.”
Standing behind the bar on
Monday afternoon, Swartz
sipped a beer from the “test"
keg. The tape player was turned
off in favor of the Victrola, a
relic that still manages to pour
forth the sounds of Dlues, jazz
and opera His passing words
perhaps best describe who and
what The Globe will be
“We don’t have a lot of
money," he said “We have a lot
of friends "
Some Athenians have won
dered aloud if the city can sup
port another bar of such
substantial size, yet there are
others besides Camp and
Swartz who feel The Globe’s
time has come
Among them is Alex Hannon,
a co-owner of the Ga Bar, which
is located a mere few steps from
The Globe down Clayton Street.
Hannon said he is looking for
ward to The Globe's opening,
and he feels the two bars will be
supportive of each other, rather
than competitive
“If two areas get hot," he said,
"they reinforce each other."
Swartz said he isn't in compe- I
tition with the Ga Bar The two I
bars will be different enough to I
compliment each other.
Ed Wilde, co-owner of I
Jackson Street Books and the I
building in which The Globe is I
located, said all types will be I
able to gather on the pine floors I
of the bar.
The bar is a clean, quiet place I
where one can drink and listen I
to music, yet still carry on a con- I
versation, he said
“Randy (Camp) is a fine, I
gentle person," Wilde said, "and I
his friends will be the kind that I
come to the bar."