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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1989 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 9
INSIDE
In his own special way,
editorial cartoonist Moreu
espies the Jim Bakker
trial.
Weather: What a day for a
daydream. Sunny and mild, nigh
near 80. Keep daydreaming
Thursday as mild weather
continues.
Poultry genetics lab chicken heist
traced to fraternity barnyard social
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
In a scenario similar to one
Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor
might have encountered, Univer
sity Police have been chasing
chicken thieves.
University Police Sgt. Richard
Goodson said no arrests have
been made in connection with a
poultry theft from the Univer
sity’s poultry genetics lab
Wednesday. However, the inves
tigation is ongoing, and has been
connected to Kappa Alpha frater
nity members.
The case will probably be re
ferred to the Student Judiciary
and the Interfratemity Council
after the police investigation is
complete, Goodson said.
University Police didn’t in
clude names with the incident re
port, which wasn’t released until
Tuesday.
Capt. Mitch Jones said police
received a call at 9:45 p.m.
Wednesday from an Athens resi
dent, who, while driving past the
poultry genetics lab on College
Station Road, noticed some
people running across the road
with chickens under their arms.
When officers responded, they
discovered two students outside
the genetics lab, each holding a
live chicken, Jones said.
Police then linked the poultry
pilfering with a “bamyara party
game” going on at the KA house
that evening, Jones said. When
police arrived at the KA barnyard
social at 294 S. Lumpkin St., they
discovered four roosters and six
hens, all of which were stolen
from the genetics lab.
KA President Marcus Sim
mons said a fraternity member
decided to get some chickens for
the social, but only took two from
the genetics lab. Simmons said
they got the other chickens from
Gold Kist Inc.’s poultry plant in
Athens.
Jones said Gold Kist denied do
nating chickens to the fraternity.
Simmons said, “The chickens
were going to be returned.”
Goodson said the chickens
were a part of a research project
at the genetics lab and will now
have to be destroyed. The loss
suffered by the genetics lab
hasn’t been determined yet, he
said.
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Pillars of the community
Stonehenge! Where demons dwell, where
the banshees live and they do live well.
— Spinal Tap, 1984.
No mystery about Stonehenge
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
Near the Pepsi plant off U.S.
Highway 29, a collection of
slate-gray stone pillars stands
in a tall patch of weeds. On one
of the pillars, hewn into the
living rock, is a word: Stone
henge.
But unlike the original Stone
henge monument — located in
Wiltshire, England, and
thought to be about 3,500 years
old — the origins and purpose of
this monument are no mystery.
Built about 20 years ago, the
Athens version of Stonehenge
marks the entrance to a subdivi
sion of the same name across
from Pepsi Cola Beverages of
Athens.
Scholars think the monument
in England served a number of
purposes: It was a place where
people could worship the sun or
perform fertility rites, and it
may have functioned as an accu
rate astrological calendar ca
pable of predicting eclipses and
the coming of the seasons.
But Ernie Mitchell, formerly
of Evans and Mitchell Indus
tries, the company that built the
local monument, said it serves
no mystical purpose.
“We did it just to have some
thing different,’ he said.
As with the English mon
ument, building tne replica
Stonehenge was no easy task.
Each granite pillar had to be
hauled 35 miles in flatbed
trucks from Elberton, The
Granite Capital of the World, to
Athens.
Mitchell couldn’t recall how
heavy each slab was, but he said
they weigh “a tremendous
amount.”
Jim McDonald of Keystone
Quarries in Elberton said the
‘We did it just to
have something
different.’
— Ernie Mitchell,
one of the builders
stones — most about 12 feet
high and 4 feet across — prob
ably weigh about 17,300
pounds.
Nobody knows who the real
builders of the original Stone
henge were, but whoever they
were they faced an even tougher
task.
Stonehenge is made out of a
kind of rock found only in a
place in Western Wales — about
300 miles away from the site.
Most of the slabs in England
weigh about 28 tons.
Video mixes laughs,
safe sex message
By GENE COLTER
Staff Writer
Educating the masses on sexually transmitted dis
eases while still going for laughs may sound impos
sible, yet Eric Hetzler will attempt to do just that with
his new video.
Hetzler, a graduate student in the University’s
drama department, will be filming “Safe Sex is Swell”
this weekend. The video will combine music and a
fresh lesson on safe sex./
Although the video is part of a class requirement,
Hetzler didn’t want to film a run-of-the-mill video.
Instead he decided to write a script based on a song
his band, The Fabric Indicators, wrote in 1987.
Hetzler had already lost two friends to AIDS by the
time the song was written, and the gravity of the dis
ease was still fresh on his mind.
But Hetzler didn’t feel somber song-writing was the
way to reach people.
“We (The Fabric Indicators) wanted to write a fun
song that would make people laugh," he said, “but also
say hey, safe sex is swell.
This spirit will be channeled into the “Safe Sex is
Swell” video.
The video will open with a couple in bed. As the mo
ment of sexual truth arises, the woman puts a halt to
the amorous proceedings because the man refuses to
wear a condom.
Then the man is shown the error of his ways
through several examples, Hetzler said. Finally, he
sees the light and gets on the condom bandwagon.
But the examples of “Safe Sex is Swell” won’t come
near the admonitions of former Surgeon General C.
Everett Koop.
In one scene, Capt. Kirk and Scotty, of Star Trek
fame, will be referred to: “Even Capt. Kirk and Scotty
always kept their lasers on stun.”
Henry Johnson, the drama department’s prop shop
foreman and a member of Hetzler’s cast, said the
video maker’s approach is justified.
Johnson said preaching to people will often make
them stop listening and Hetzler's video is an attempt
to put a message in a context that won’t elicit the “pre
acher reaction.”
There are other judgment calls Hetzler has had to
make while writing his script.
Rumors that Hetzler will use nude actors in his pro
duction have cast a cloud of mystery and danger over
the director’s efforts.
Some actors may have to be partially nude to facili
tate the filming process, but no nudity will be visible
in the video.
Hetzler said visible nudity would redirect the audi
ence’s attention from the real subject matter and ruin
hisproject.
Tne rumors didn’t hinder the video maker’s casting
process. He cast 24 actors in less than a week.
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Eric Hetzler: Director
doesn’t want to preach
Jim Fitzmoms, a junior drama major, said Hetzler
is one of the the department’s best actors and he is ex
cited about working with Hetzler as a director. Fitz-
morris worked with Hetzler last year in the drama
department’s production of “Ephesians 6:1 & 2,” and
is cast in the video as Stud Guy.
The cast wasn’t entirely culled from the drama de
partment, however.
Anne-Marie Fanguy, a senior journalism major,
was cast in the part of Stud Guy’s first partner.
Fanguy said she took the role to leam about video pro
duction.
Freshman class breaks 3 records
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writer
The freshman class of fall 1989
has broken three University re
cords, one of which was set before
most of the students were bom,
according to student statistics.
The class average Scholastic Ap
titude Test score of 1,048 is two
points higher than the record av
erage score of 1,046 set in 1969 and
15 points higher than last year.
The score is 145 points higher
than the national average,
breaking the old University record
of 136 points above the national av
erage in 1980. This year’s score is
201 points higher than the average
for graduating high school seniors
in Georgia, according to the statis
tics.
The number of black freshmen
at the University — 6.2 percent of
the entire class — is also at a re
cord high. The old record was set in
1986 at 5.6 percent, according to
the University Fact Book.
This year’s class of about 3,108
students is 566 fewer than last
year, and it’s the smallest in
coming freshman class since the
1984 class of 2,814.
Dwight Douglas, vice president
for Student Affairs, said the in
crease in the quality of students is
due not only to its increasing aca
demic reputation, but also to its
higher admissions standards.
‘The top high school students
are applying here and, after being
accepted and checking other
schools, they are choosing the Uni
versity,” Douglas said.
‘The faculty admissions com
mittee has chosen to lower the
number of students by raising the
University admission require
ments to reach a projected target of
3,350 freshmen,” he said.
Delmer Dunn, faculty admis
sions committee member, said the
standards went from a 2.0 pre
dicted college grade point average
for fall 1988 to a 2.2 predicted col
lege GPA for fall 1989. The pre
dicted college GPA is based on an
applicant’s nigh school GPA and
SAT scores.
Douglas said extensive recruit
ment has brought the high per
centage of minorities in this year’s
freshman class.
He cited the black buddy system
— a program that pairs new black
students with Dlack upper
classmen for orientation — as one
effort made to attract minorities.
“We repeatedly made calls to
check on tne applicants and we in
creased the number of minority
scholarships,” he said.
Douglas said the increase in the
admissions requirements led to an
increase in the size of the Devel
opmental Studies Program to a re
cord 414 new students to
accommodate those who would’ve
otherwise been accepted into reg
ular curriculum programs.
These students will be added to
the 33 holdover students to bring
the department’s enrollment to 447
students of which only 9.1 percent
of are student-athletes, he said.
Student statistics show the per
centage of student-athletes in De
velopmental Studies has rapidly
decreased from a high of 23.2 per
cent in 1985.
Law professors say game-day searches, lack
of written policy, raise constitutional question
By RAND PEARSON
Staff Writer
Game-day strip-searches at the
gates of Sanford Stadium may be
unconstitutional, a situation ag
gravated by a lack of written
guidelines for conducting the in
spections, say University law pro
fessors.
A Sept. 23 incident involving the
strip-search of a University stu
dent at the stadium raises the con
stitutionality question and law
professors say the lack of written
guidelines led to the student’s in
vasion of privacy.
The incident involved Paul
Horner, a senior economics major,
who said a University police officer
touched him in the genital area at
the student gate of the stadium
and later forced him to drop his
k
pants in a nearby ticket booth.
University Police Chief Chuck
Horton said his officers are trained
in conducting proper inspections
but there’s no written policy gov
erning their actions. However,
verbal instructions prohibit
frisking or strip-searching, he said.
Low Professor Eugene Wilkes
said the lack of written guidelines
governing University police in
their methods of inspection has led
to this incident of pnvacy invasion.
He said student’s lack of knowl
edge about their Fourth Amend
ment rights also contributed to the
incident.
The Fourth Amendment pro
tects people from unreasonable
searches and seizures in their per
sons, houses, papers and effects.
Horton said he’s not sure the po
lice department has to have a
written policy. Verbally instructing
his officers in proper inspection
methods is a good substitute, he
said.
Horton said the University ath
letic department publishes a sta
dium policy and guide brochure
clearly warning students and
others they may be inspected for
alcohol and hard objects to protect
others’ safety. There are also signs
outside the gate warning students
they may be inspected.
However, Wilkes said the in
specting officer must inform the
person that he has the right to re
fuse the inspection. If the person
isn’t informed of his or her rights,
the inspection may be unconstitu
tional.
If Homer’s accusations that he
was forced to strip are true, the
University could be held account
able for a breach on Homer’s
Fourth Amendment rights, he said.
Horton said it’s proper proce
dure for officers to ask game-goers
for permission to inspect them.
Game attendants have the right to
refuse the inspection, but those
who do probably won’t be allowed
into the stadium, he said.
To support his statements,
Wilkes pointed to a case decided in
a U.S. District Court in Houston.
The case, Collier vs. Miller, in
volved a student who sued the Uni
versity of Houston security director
and one of his officers for searching
her purse before entering the uni
versity’s pavilion.
The ruling states that although
there were signs outside
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■ NO BOOZE ALLOWED
UGA POLICE STADIUM POLICY
Officers will be at all gates checking purses, clothing, and
other items for concealed alcohol. Anyone caught inside the
stadium with alcohol will be ejected from the ^ame without a
refund and mav be subject to arrest. Intoxicated persons
won’t be allowed inside tne stadium. If found inside, they will
be ejected from the game.
GAA STADIUM POLICY
Prohibited from the stadium: Food and drink containers, bot
tles, horns, cans, thermos bottles, ice bags, ice chests, hard
surfaced materials or any object deemed hazardous by the
game management personnel.
Crowd control officers are authorized to conduct an inspec
tion of patrons entering the stadium for the sole purpose of
eliminating hard objects and containers of any type from en
tering the stadium. This procedure is conducted for the pur
pose of patron safety.
For more on game cocktails, see FOCUS, Page 5.
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