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Freshman gymnasts look strong in camp — 8
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1989 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 10
INSIDE
Folk/rock artist Michael
Penn right on the mark
with his new album,
"March.”
Weather: Apollo smiles on
Athens again. Sunny and mild
today, high in low 80s. Friday a
repeat performance.
Milledge Ave.
bus stop cut,
may get bays
By JULIE GARDNER
Staff Writer
Milledge Avenue is one bus
stop shorter, but one step closer
to getting bays to accommodate
University buses.
The Athens City Council voted
Tuesday night to conduct a feasi
bility study for installing the
bays and eliminated the first Mil-
ledge Avenue bus stop —
Lumpkin Street at Five Points.
Several sororities and fraterni
ties have protested the proposed
bus bays because they would take
12 feet away from their front
yardB.
Jim Corley, traffic engineer for
Athens und Clarke County, said,
“We’re going to work with the fra
ternities and sororities and not
just take their front yard away
from them."
Council member Mac Coile
said the first bus stop has become
a tremendous saftey hazard be
cause drivers try to pass the bus
in an oncoming lane of traffic.
The stop also causes traffic prob
lems at the intersection, he said.
George Young, the Univer
sity’s vehicle transportation and
maintenance department head,
said the department isn’t plan
ning another stop to replace the
Milledge stop.
That won’t create a heavier
burden on the other bus stops be
cause it's the least-used stop on
the street, he said.
“We have to think of safety
first, even if it involves inconve
niencing some people,” Young
said.
In other business, the council
voted to hold Coile’s request to
review the open container ordi
nance for possible changes.
Council member Calvin
Bridges said the reouest will be
held until Athens Police Chief
Mark Wallace and the city Chief
Administrative Officer Dick
Bolin study similar ordinances in
other cities.
Dean Robinson, University
student liaison to the city council,
said Athens is using the ordi
nance to harass and intimidate
people instead of using it as a
means of controlling potentially
destructive behavior. But Rob
inson said he hasn't had any
input from the students to voice
to the council.
“I can’t have influence by my
self,” Robinson said.
The council also adopted a res
olution to establish a hand
icapped parking enforcement
program which will go into effect
Jan. 1, 1990.
Council member Kathy Hoard
said handicapped citizens will
form a patrol with the authority
to ticket cars parked illegally in
handicapped spaces within the
city limits.
Warren Safter, assistant
C ublic safety director, said the
r niversitv will look into the pos
sibility of handicapped students
forming a similar campus patrol.
The council also approved the
recommendation to install
“Watch for Left Turns” signs and
to strictly enforce the 35-mph
speed limit in the downtown area
of West Brood Street between
Rocksprings Street and Hancock
Avenue.
Coile said the recommendation
was made because of the high
number of traffic accidents in
that area.
Dooley OKs, stadium concert in the works again
By JENNIFER RAMPEY
Staff Writer
Athletic Director Vince Dooley
once again has endorsed the Stu
dent Association’s request to hold a
concert in Sanford Stadium after
last spring’s plane fell through.
Dooley will recommend SA’s
plans for a spring concert to the
Georgia Athletic Association Exec
utive Committee, he said in a letter
to SA President Mark Schisler.
Schisler said a committee has
been created to work with the Uni
versity Union on the proposed con
cert.
The committee is made up of
Schisler, Union President Rob
Nelson, three Union members,
three SA members and Student Ac
tivities Adviser Shawn Wheeler,
Schisler said.
The committee won’t release any
information about possible groups
for the concert until a contract is
signed with a band because of last
year’s problems, he said.
Dooley wrote that the event
would have to be held in accord
ance with the same provisions re
quired when the SA requested use
of the stadium last spring.
In a telephone interview
Wednesday, Dooley said, “Well be
glad to try again because last year
we did give permission on a one
time basis with restrictions and
conditions involved.
‘Those would be the same for
ihis year,” he said.
The provisions last year in
cluded a concert seating capacity of
30,000, no general admission seats
and seating only in the upper and
lower decks — not on the field The
stage location has to be restricted
to tne north or south end of the sta
dium behind the hedges
'We have to be extremely con
scious of the grass,” Dooley said.
There’s over a quarter of a million
dollars in grass there.
“At the same time, we want to be
able to help and provide for stu
dents to use the facility,” Dooley
said.
Schisler said it was too early for
him to address the specifics of the
provisions
“It’s still up in the air,” he said
The SA received permission to
use the stadium for a spring con
cert last year, but was unable to
contract a bund to perform at the
time the stadium was available
...and puppy dogs’ tails
John William Rabon and a friend enjoyed the fickle
fall sunshine Wednesday on College Square.
Swimmer hit by car
suffers broken nose
By NEAL CALLAHAN
Staff Writers
Three-time All-American
swimmer Deanne Burnette suf
fered a broken nose, deep cuts and
bruises after being hit by a BMW
at the intersection of Baxter and
Lumpkin Streets Wednesday
morning.
“I was walking down the side
walk and next thing I know I was
in the middle of the street,” Bur
nette said from her hospital room
Wednesday afternoon. “Now I look
like a boxer."
Carrey Graingers, a freshman
international business major, was
charged with failure to yield the
right of way while turning left and
failure to yield the right of way to a
crosswalk in connection to the acci
dent, according to Athens police re
ports.
Graingers’ BMW was travelling
south on Lumpkin Street at
tempting to make a left turn onto
Baxter Street between 9:45 and 10
a.m when he collided with a Volks
wagen Scirocco driven by Ryan
Wright, reports read. Grainger’s
car then spun into the crosswalk
where Burnette was standing.
Burnette, a senior accounting
mqjor and an assistant swim
coach, was taken to St. Mary’s Hos
pital and held in satisfactory condi
tion for observations overnight.
Burnette said, “They say I have
a broken nose and stitches above
my eye. I don’t know how many,
but they repaired several layers of
skin down to the muscle.
‘The car itself hit me in the hip,
but I remember seeing a bumper.
Maybe that is what caused the
cut," she said.
Head Swimming Coach Jack
Bauerle said he was shocked about
the accident but was relieved that
Burnette is all right. He was at the
scene before even the ambulance
got there, he said.
“She has some pretty tough inju
ries, but she is being a trooper
about it. That is the way she
usually goes about it,” Bauerle
said.
Burnette finished her collegiate
swimming career last spring afler
winning the 1989 Southeastern
Conference Scholar/Athlete of the
Year Award — a $10,000 a year
post-graduate scholarship. She is
now in her last two quarters of un
dergraduate work. She plans to at
tend law school at the University of
Texas next year.
She was the captain of last
year’s team, which finished third
in the SEC and 10th in the nation.
In addition to her three All-
America swimming honors, she
also has been named an academic
All-American twice by accumu
lating a 3.87 grade point average
John Stewart, a junior history
m^jor and passenger in Graingers’
car, said Grainger couldn’t see the
Scirocco coming because of a
Deanne Burnette: In satis
factory condition but kept in
hospital overnight for obser
vation
stopped cor making a left-hand
turn onto Baxter Street
He said he didn’t think it was
Grainger’s car that hit Burnette,
but he wasn’t sure who did
Grainger refused comment for
legal reasons.
Staff Writers Chnstoper Grimes
and Jack Stenger contributed to
this article.
Study: Minority education key to future national success
By GENE COLTER
Staff Writer
The disparity between the incomes of minorities and
whites can be corrected only by a national effort to
strengthen the minorities’ education base, according to a
study by the College of Business Administration dean.
Dean Albert Niemi Jr., who just published the results of
a study on minority education, said that within 20 years,
demographers expect that one out of every three workers in
the United States will be black or Hispanic. Left un
checked, the difference in the education bases of whites and
minorities will cause America to lose an edge on the inter
national marketplace.
‘The key to our remaining u strong, viable, industrial na
tion is educating our minorities,” Niemi said.
Niemi, who came to the University in 1968, said his faith
in government programs to rectify tne problem of minority
education has been changed by a lesson in reality: Govern
ment welfare programs ure not enough.
“(The solution) is not just food for the stomach," he said.
“It’s also food for the mind.
“Our job now is to convince minorities that education is
the real key to economic freedom."
Niemi used numbers to illustrate his point. Since 1975,
he said, the average black family income nas fallen from 62
percent to 56 percent of the average white family income
One in five blacks in Georgia will drop out of high school,
he said.
The problem for Hispanics is worse. In the Southwest,
their high school dropout rate is 40 percent, he said. These
dropout figures correspond to a weak economic base for
Hispanics.
But minorities who seek higher education can strongly
impact the nation’s work force, he said, and even compete
with whites.
Black females who receive a college degree now earn 3 or
4 percent more than white females with a college degree, he
said.
Niemi acknowledged that the edge is slight, but he said
the figures prove minorities can be equal competitors.
Vanessa Williams, assistant director of the department
of minority services and programs, said the slight edge
black college-educuted females are experiencing in earn
ings is probably due to staying power on their part.
“Many blacks go to get an education to get a job, and they
are probably not as selective (in choosing jobs) as their
white counterparts —they can’t afford to be," she said. “But
because they stick it out, they work their way up "
Williams also said the white majority must recognize the
growth of America’s minority populations.
'The majority group is ignoring the fact that people of
color will no longer be a minority by the year 2000,” she
said.
Niemi said changing the overall state of minority educa
tion won’t be easy.
"It’s like getting in the water and kicking your feet to try
and turn a battleship,” he said
He also said politics often hinders the betterment of edu
cation for minorities because many politicians are unwil
ling to gamble on programs that don’t show immediate
results to their constituents.
Many politicians would rather point to new roadways
than to new education programs, he said.
Yet Niemi will continue to call for helping the nation
through equal, quality education.
"I’m waving tne red flag of caution that we need to take
the education of all our citizens seriously.”
Women’s Studies gaining momentum
By GENE COLTER
Staff Writer
Prom its nucleus on the second
floor of the main library, the
Women’s Studies program is
spreading out and gaining a hold in
the University’s conscience.
Program director Patricia Del
Rey and her assistant, Heather
Kleiner, coordinate a program to
increase awareness of women’s
studies on campus.
Last year, the program was res
tarted under the auspices of the Of
fice of Academic Affairs.
Now the University offers nine
interdepartmental courses cen
tering on women's studies. Courses
include an introduction to women
writers, the history and philosophy
of women in science, and biblical
perspectives on women.
The Women’s Studies program
was started in 1977 as part of the
Franklin College of Arts and Sci
ences, Kleiner said. But the pro-
mm faltered in the 1980s and was
defunct by the time Charles Knapp
became University president.
English Professor Fran Teague
said the program is getting
stronger every day.
Teague is on the program’s
steering committee, which helps
instructors across campus develop
women's studies courses that re
late to their area of expertise.
“It’s one of the few things I’ve
been involved in where there are
new ideas that really change peo
ple’s lives,' she said.
'The frustrating thing is that we
have to do the work in our spare
time," Teague said.
But she said the situation is pre
ferable to the program of the
1970s, and she prmsed the Knapp
administration for working with
the current program.
“A lot of women then were junior
faculty members who were under
pressure to get promotion,' she
said. “And there wasn’t any time to
do the (extra) work.”
Teague points out that the
women’s studies program doesn’t
refuse encouragement or partici
pation by males.
Women’s Studies at the Univer
sity is comparable to programs at
other public universities in the
Southeast, such as Georgia State
and Florida State. But compared to
the program at Emory University
in Atlanta, the University’s pro
gram is just getting started.
At Emory, Pulitier-Prixe win
ning writer Betsy Fox-Genovese di
rects a program that offers both
majors and minors in women's
studies, said Fabienne McPhail, a
developer for the program.
“Our program has really come a
long way in the last three years,”
she said. “We even have a Ph.D.
program in Women’s Studies."
Del Rey's office is aware of the
need for improvements. The
steering committee is developing
the first two women's studies
courses that would be independent
of any other department, school or
college.
If approved by the University
Council Curriculum Committee,
the two new courses would be
Women’s Studies 201: Introduction
to Women’s Studies and WS 301:
Introduction to Feminist Theory.
Since the women’s studies
courses at the University are
spread out among six different de
partments, it’s possible to fulfill
core and elective requirements by
taking the classes. Some schools
and colleges allow students to
minor in Women’s Studies.
Students who complete 30 hours
from the program’s curriculum re
ceive a certificate stating they have
concentrated in women’s studies.
Patricia Del Rey: Director of Women's Studies program