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LaBrea Stompers, a ‘beneficial’ band — 5
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1989 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 8
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Jaws V ? No, it’s the
health service dental
clinic. It depends on word-
of-mouth referrals.
Weather: Spruce up the tan one
last time. Sunny and hot today,
high near 90. Wednesday: High
near 80.
Dog Dono
Although the Bulldogs lost to South Carolina, it could have been worse, before losing possession. The score shortened the Gamecock lead to
Rodney Hampton was ruled to have crossed the plane of the end zone 14-10 in the second quarter. See story, page 10.
Heavy rains
flood dorms
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
University officials said the Uni
versity avoided severe damage
from the weekend’s flooding rains,
but a group of Rutherford residents
disagree.
Susan Simpson, a freshman
journalism major and Rutherford
Hall resident, said her room and
two neighboring rooms were
flooded Saturday night and Uni
versity officials have done little to
help them.
‘They have promised us every
thing but they haven’t done any
thing. They haven’t treated it like
an emergency, so we have been
walking around with water on our
floor for two days.”
Alisa Mathews, a Rutherford
resident, said a night desk clerk
told her that John Davis, the resi
dent life coordinator for Myers
Community, was out of town. The
clerk said Davis was the only one
who could authorize a work order
to clear water from the rooms.
Davis said he returned to work
Monday after going out of town for
the weekend, but any graduate res
ident can authorize a work order.
Other Rutherford residents who
were affected by the flood include,
Jeanne Schneider, a senior special
education major; Stephanie Mc-
Brayer, a junior English major;
and Natalie Veale, a junior eco
nomics major. They said the
housing staff only offered a study
lounge or a small room for the
women to use while their rooms
were cleared of the water and
stench.
Housing Director Dan Hallen-
beck said, “A couple of residents on
the first floors of Rutherford, Mary
Lyndon and Myers halls were
moved upstairs and to the best of
my knowledge their rooms have
been cleaned up or will be by
(today).”
Physical Plant Director James
TenBrook said he wasn’t aware of
any major damage done to other
campus buildings.
T walked around campus (yes
terday) morning and didn’t find
any major problems. It was no
where near the problems that I
was afraid we’d get into,” he said.
‘The Police Academy, Hardman
Hall and the statistics building
were the worst affected with water
damage to their bottom floors.”
TenBrook couldn’t give an esti
mated cost of the damage.
Area apartment complexes re
ported minimal to no damage from
the flood. Sabra Rockwell, man
ager of College Place apartments
on West Broad Street, said the
complex had some roof leaks and
some ground-floor flooding.
The rainfall between Friday af
ternoon and Sunday night mea
sured at 9.57 inches at the Clarke
County Airport, said Jim Nof-
fsinger, a meteorologist with the
National Weather Service.
Chinese students
mark National Day
with protest rally
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
Chinese government leaders
Sunday watched fireworks sparkle
above Tiananmen Square in cele
bration of four decades of Commu
nist Party rule. But a continent
away, Chinese students from the
University took part in a less jubi
lant rally.
About 3,000 Chinese students —
including 13 from the University —
staged a protest in Washington,
D.C., this weekend to remind the
world that Oct. 1, 1989, marks
more than the 40th anniversary of
the People’s Republic of China.
For them, “National Day” marks
the genesis of a government that
slaughtered hundreds, maybe
thousands, of its own citizens
during a crackdown on pro-democ
racy protests this spring — a crack
down that took place in the same
square lit up Sunday by a fire
works display.
Weihe Guan, an ecology grad
uate student from Beijing who
came to the University a year ago,
went to the demonstration. She
said protesters marched from the
Lincoln Memorial to the Chinese
embassy, where they staged a
rally.
During the march, students car
ried banners showing where they
studied in the United States and
where they came from in China.
Weihe said pictures of the march
might be smuggled into China to
show the Chinese people that stu
dents overseas are keeping the pro
democracy movement alive.
Weihe said she has a friend in
Beijing who took part in hunger
strikes during the spring protests.
Now, the government imprisons or
executes dissidents, so the pro-de
mocracy movement has been forced
underground.
“It’s all terror in China," she
said.
Weihe, who plans to return to
Chino when the current regime
ends, said students have the
freedom to demonstrate in the
United States but aren’t free from
the scrutiny of the Chinese govern
ment. While students protested
outside the Chinese embassy, cam
eras inside the building took pic
tures of the crowd, she said.
Weihe said she doesn’t know
what embassy officials will do with
the pictures. But recent issues of
the overseas edition of the Chinese
People’s Daily newspaper con
tained statements that Chinese
students in the United States who
participated in anti-government
protests would “get what they de
serve" when they came home.
Open container ban back on
but change in enforcement
Only those breaching peace to be cited
By JULIE GARDNER
Staff Writer
The open container ordinance is back on, but viola
tors won’t be cited unless they’re disturbing the
peace.
Mayor Dwain Chambers said the moratorium de
clared on the ordinance last June has been modified
so that only those people who “breach the peace” will
be cited for violating the open container ordinance.
Obnoxious or violent behavior and the potential to
cause property damage would be considered a breach
of the peace, Chambers said.
Judge James Barrow, of Clarke County Superior
Court, announced Thursday that he wouldn’t grant a
temporary restraining order to prohibit the city from
enforcing the ordinance.
The judge hasn’t ruled on the ordinance’s constitu
tionality yet, but Athens attorney Scott McLarty said
he expects the judge to set a date for a hearing rea
sonably soon.
McLarty filed the suit last spring claiming the or
dinance was unconstitutional and forced the city to
declare a moratorium on the ordinance.
He said the modification of the moratorium
doesn’t change the ordinance’s unconstitutionality
because it still allows police officers to pick and
choose who they want to prosecute.
‘The ordinance is clearly directed at students.
They sure don’t enforce it when the alumni come in,”
McLarty said.
Chambers said he knows of no citations issued
this weekend for violating the ordinance.
‘The ordinance is absolutely not directed toward
students,” he said.
Most of the violators of the ordinance haven’t been
students, Chambers said.
McLarty advised those cited for violating the ordi
nance to ask for a jury trial and not have their cases
heard in the Athens Municipal Court. McLarty said
a person cited for violating the ordinance will be
found guilty in the municipal court whether he is
guilty or not.
The ordinance is
absolutely not
directed toward
students.’
Dwain Chambers,
Athens mayor
Hugo relief
Football fans donate $54,000 to Red Cross
American Red Cross volunteers collected
about $54,000 in hurricane-relief donations at
Saturday’s football game in Sanford Stadium,
said Tom Jackson, University public informa
tion director.
Frank Pfennig, executive director of the Red
Cross’ East Georgia chapter, said he was over
whelmed by the money collected for South Car
olina victims of Hurricane Hugo.
This week, the Student Association is col
lecting canned goods, non-perishable items and
blankets at the SA office at the Tate Student
Center, said senior Sen. Djuana Austin.
The Block and Bridle Club, a livestock club
for animal science majors, also is collecting
items.
Laura Johnson, the group’s community
service chair, said The Block and Bridle Club
boxes will be located in the lobbies of the live
stock-poultry building, plant sciences building,
Conner Hall, Aderhold Hall and the College of
Veterinary Medicine.
Despite taunts, police didn’t
search for alcohol, SA says
By RAND PEARSON
Staff Writer
Student Association officers,
who placed themselves by Sanford
Stadium gates on Saturday, said
University police didn’t search
football fans for concealed alcoholic
beverages.
Dean Robinson, SA’s new liaison
to the Athens City Council, said he
saw fans antagonizing police offi
cers to frisk them, but the officers
refused.
Mary Beth Hartlage, SA vice
president, said people were
wearing large ponchos that police
officers didn’t look under.
Asa Boynton, University public
safety director, said officers were
probably more cautious while in
specting for alcohol, but the en
forcement of stadium’s policy
prohibiting alcohol, was basically
the same.
Bovnton said University Police
Chief Chuck Horton had a session
with his officers before Saturday’s
game to re address proper inspec
tion procedure.
Stadium gate inspections came
under scrutiny after the Sept. 23
home game against Mississippi
State University when Paul
Horner, a senior economics major,
filed a complaint against a Univer
sity police officer identified only as
Officer Harper.
According to the complaint,
Harper touched Homer’s genital
area while inspecting for alcohol at
a stadium ticket gate. Later, the
complaint reads, Harper made
Horner drop his pants in a booth
next to the gate.
Horton said he met with Homer
on Sept. 23, the day Horner made
his complaint. Horton conducted
an internal investigation and the
officer now faces disciplinary ac
tion.
After the incident, junior Sen.
Ian Henyon read a letter in the
SA’s Sept. 27 meeting urging the
University to correct its inspection
procedures.
The SA said it would observe of
ficers at Saturday’s game and then
vote on whether to send the letter
to the University Police Depart
ment.
However, Hartlage said that un
less students come to the SA
meeting tonight to discuss this
issue, tne SA will probably not vote
on it. The SA will meet at Pi Kappa
Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Senior Sen. Molly Mednikow
said that enough publicity has
been generated on this issue, and it
won’t happen again.
With a little help from their
Alumnus Edward Arial, of Clarkesville, contributed to help friends in Charleston.
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