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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1989 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 37
INSIDE
Mark Harmon stars in
“Worth Winning," a
winner worth watching.
See the review.
Weather: Wednesday: Temps
dropping, maybe it Is the holiday
season. Highs in the mid 40s.
Thursday a mild 50 degrees. Will
vacation ever get here???
WayiM R«d and Black
Dogs douse Durham
Coach Hugh Durham was 'all wet' after the basketball team's win
over Baptist College. Players helped him celebrate his 200th win by
dousing him with Ice water.
Charter unveiled for united
city, county government
Draft includes plan for single
University voting district
By Kelly Keating
Contributing Writer
The Athens-Clarke County Uni
fication Commission unveiled
Tuesday a working draft of the
charter for the proposed unified
government which includes plans
for a single University voting dis
trict.
Paul Hardy, of the University's
Carl Vinson Institute of Govern
ment, said, 'The specific intent of
the Unification Commission is to
keep the University residence halls
in one voting district. This district
is larger than is normally drawn,
but should be acceptable to the
Justice Department.
Currently, the residence halls
are in four different voting dis
tricts, which dilutes the student
vote in Athens City Council elec
tions.
The new voting districts must be
approved by the U.S. Justice De
partment, said Heidi Davison, Uni
fication Commission executive
secretary. An exact map of the uni
fied government’s districts is ex
pected to be completed by
Thursday.
The Justice Department will en
sure the districts consist of an even
number of county citizens, that
there is eaual minority representa
tion and that districts comply with
the one person/one vote principle.
The proposed charter outlines
the new government, known as
“The Unified Government of
Athens-Clarke County, Georgia,”
and its functions. If passed, the
current county and city govern
ments — including the Athens
mayor and city council positions —
will be dissolved. The provisions
include:
An executive branch with:
• A chief elected officer (CEO)
elected at large serving part-time
for four-years at an annual salary
of $24,000. The CEO can’t serve
more than two consecutive full
terms.
The CEO will make recommen
dations for the offices of manager,
attorney and auditor, with a ma
jority vote by the full commission.
The CEO will also make committee
appointments.
The CEO’s only voting privilege
is in the case of a tie by the com
mission. The CEO can veto any
commission action except the dis
missal of the manager, attorney or
auditor.
• A CEO pro-tempore, serving
for a period of one year, with lim
ited legislative powers will be
elected from the legislative body of
the county.
A legislative branch with:
• A 10-member, part time com
mission serving four-years, stag
gered terms at an annual salary of
$12,000. Eight representatives
from single area districts and two
from multiple area districts will be
elected, Hardy said.
The commission can override the
CEO by a two-thirds vote A mea
sure can only be passed with a ma
jority vote of at least six
commissioners.
An administrative branch
consisting of:
• A full-time manager, in charge
of managing and coordinating op
erations of the various depart
ments, appoint and remove
department heads and prepare the
annual budget, which is approved
by the CEO.
In addition, the charter outlines
services to be provided by the uni
fied government and guidelines for
unification procedures. These in
clude provisions for a sheriff, supe
rior court clerk, probate court
judge and tax commissioner, all re
quired by the Georgia Constitu
tion. Three service districts also
would be formed.
A general service district would
provide basic services currently
provided by Clarke County, and an
urban service district would pro
vide services to higher population
areas currently provided by the
City of Athens. A special service
The specific intent of
the Unification
Commission is to keep
the University
residence halls in one
voting district.’
— Paul Hardy
Carl Vinson Institute
district would provide individual
services available to specific areas
outside of urban districts.
Four years after the effective
date of the charter, water and
sewer rates should be uniform
county-wide. Two or more taxing
districts will be created to fund the
general and urban service dis
tricts.
The proposed charter states the
first-year budget will be capped at
the level of the combined 1991
fiscal year budget for the Athens
and Clarke County governments.
Davison said the Unification
Commission members wrote the
draft this past weekend. The final
charter should be prepared by Dec.
12. She said before the citizens of
Clarke County can vote on ac
cepting the charter, it must be ap
proved by the Georgia General
Assembly during its upcoming ses
sion this January.
Freshman wins Miss T.E.E.N. title, gains fame and fortune
Prizes include $125,000 in cash and scholarships
By RAND PEARSON
Staff Writer
The phone at Kimberly Smith’s
home in Lawrenceville rang
Sunday morning from 8 a.m. until
she left to come back to Athens.
Local television news teams had
been in her driveway all day long.
Smith had become an overnight
celebrity and her hometown wasn’t
going to let her live it down.
The freshman business major
won the Miss T.E.E.N. USA title
Saturday after a week-long beauty
pageant held in Kansas City. As a
result, Smith won $125,000 in cash
and scholarship prizes, a grand
piano, a vacation to Hawaii, jew
elry and clothes,
However, none of it came at a
small price. Smith said the road to
the beauty pageant is a trying but
rewarding one.
Beginning in August, Smith fol
lowed a daily regimen of 12 to 14
hours of activity a day. In the three
months she spent preparing for the
pageant, she massed 1,100 hours of
community service, often requiring
50-60 hours of her time a week.
Community service is one of the
categories in which pageant partic
ipants are judged.
When she started classes at the
University in the honors program
she continued to deliver her “Meals
on Wheels* service route in Law
renceville and started community
service work for Athens Regional
Medical Center.
On top of that she has been able
to maintain ‘A’ averages in her
classes and workout every night.
She admits the daily routine was
stressful at times but she took days
off to relax and avoid overkill.
Most of pageant stress stems
from having to get in front of
people and be judged, she said, but
naving the money to pay for school
makes it all worth it.
Christy Harris, Smith’s room
mate and a former Georgia Teen
Pageant participant said some of
the girls she met during that pag
eant were fake. In contrast, Smith
is an honest and genuine person.
David Smith, her brother, said
when she lived at home she main
tained a hectic schedule and was
an endless source of energy.
“She’s a bubble that never pops,”
he said.
Besides volunteer work, she was
judged on show of talent, interview
skills, beauty and scholastic
achievement. Smith graduated
from Central Gwinnett High
School with a 3.96 grade point av
erage.
This wasn’t the first pageant
that Smith had been involved in.
She has won the Teen Gwinnett
R ageant, Ms. Central Gwinnett
[igh School pageant and the Ms.
Georgia Teen pageant.
Smith said most of her high
school friends entered pageants be
cause it was a way to be together.
piano, a vacation to Hawaii, jew- renceville and started community David Smith, her brother, said school friends entered j
elry and clothes. service work for Athens Regional when she lived at home she main- cause it was a way to
Kohl proposes a German federation,
East Germany’s Krenz opposes idea
The Associated Press spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler leader of the opposition Social architecture of Europe as
She started taking it seriously
when she realized that winning
beauty pageants could pay her way
through college. She said the expe
rience hns taught her a lot about
herself and her ability to be her
best, she said.
Many other universities had
awarded Smith scholarships, but
she chose the University to be close
to home and attend its business
school.
Smith is the oldest of four chil
dren and her brother said their
parents have always cultivated
their individual strengths and pro
vided a devout way of life for them
to follow. He said her drive hns al
ways come from within.
Kimberly Smith
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany —Chan
cellor Helmut Kohl Tuesday pro
posed a German federation as part
of a sweeping plan to reunite the
two countries after four decades of
post-war division.
East Germany has increasingly
discussed the possibility of a con
federation, but the Communist na
tion’s leader, Egon Krenz, ruled
out any talk of reunification.
“A unity of Germany isn’t on the
agenda,” Krenz told West Ger
many’s ARD-TV network in in
sisting on the continued existence
of two "sovereign, independent
German states.”
There are fears among Euro
peans in the East and the West
about the political and economic
power of a reunified Germany with
80 million people.
Kohl, in a speech to Parliament,
sought to allay those fears, saying:
“The Germans ... will be a dividend
for a Europe that is coming to
gether, and never again a threat.”
The United States favors reuni
fication, and State Department
spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler
reiterated that position in Wash
ington on Tuesday. The Soviet
Union has said the idea is "dan
gerous and unrealistic.”
Kohl said he had no timetable in
mind to carry out his ideas and
made it clear it could take years to
form a federation. He is expected to
discuss his proposals with East
German leaders at a summit next
month.
East German government
spokesman Wolfgang Meyer said
Kohl’s plan in general provided “in
teresting starting points for nego
tiations?
But writer Stefan Heym and a
number of other East German art
ists, clerics and intellectuals re
jected reunification, saying they
opposed their country “being pock
eted’ by West Germany. The group
said it would start a petition drive
in support of its appeal.
Kohl's proposals were the most
thorough delineation he has made
yet of his vision of ending the divi
sion of Germany imposed after
World War II.
Earlier, Hans-Jochen Vogel, the
poi
hit
leader of the opposition Social
Democrats, proposed an eventual
confederation as a step toward
unity.
In the past, the Social Demo
crats have cautioned against has-
tening toward German
reunification; Borne in the leftist
party have flatly opposed it.
“We are now standing at the
start of a new period in European
and German history, a period that
lints beyond the status quo or the
itherto political structures in Eu
rope,” Kohl told Parliament.
‘We are prepared ... to develop
confederates structures between
the two states in Germany in order
to create a federation, a federal
state in Germany.”
A federation is a union of states
with a central government; a con
federation is an alliance of inde
pendent nations for a common
purpose.
Kohl also said reunification
must be "bedded in the pan-Euro
pean process and in East-West re
lations. The future structure of
Germany must fit into the whole
architecture of Europe as a whole.”
He said his proposal could only
be carried out if East Germany
holds free elections, as it has prom
ised.
The chancellor proposed cre
ation of joint governmental and
parliamentary committees for
“permanent consultation" between
the Germanys.
He also suggested such commit
tees to deal with economic, envi
ronmental, cultural and scientific
matters, and he said they could be
set up soon after free elections in
East Germany.
Kohl said West Germany is pre
pared to offer "concrete assistance”
to embattled East Germany, where
it is urgently needed.
But he said massive assistance
would be contingent on East Ger
many “irreversibly” setting into
motion "a fundamental change of
its political and economic system."
East Germany has rejected pre
vious demands that it replace its
planned economy with a market-
oriented one.
Proposal could expand visitation at Sapelo
The Associated Press
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The state Department
of Natural Resources wants to increase the
number of people allowed to tour Sapelo Island,
but not without strict controls to prevent
damage.
The objective is more use but controlled
use," said Harvey G. Young, an executive assis
tant with the DNR's Game and Pish Division.
“We don’t want to have this place loved to
death.”
The U.S. Department of Commerce provided
$1.5 million to help Georgia purchase most of
the secluded island in 1976 to establish the Sa
pelo Island National Estuarine Research Re
serve, which is housed on about 7,400 acres of
the 9,000-acre island. The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration administers
the national research program.
Officials said that whether the new visitation
plan is implemented would depend on the state
Legist
$300,000 cost.
The DNR also proposes to expand its involve
ment with research on the island by the Uni
versity of Georgia Marine Institute. Under the
new management plan, DNR would closely
follow the selection and administration of the
institute’s research programs, Young said.
A public meeting on the plan is scheduled for
7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Ida Hilton Free Library
on U.S. 17 in Darien.
City-wide recycling
likely by next year
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
An official with the Athens
Solid Waste Department said
Tuesday that a permanent city-
wide recycling program will prob
ably be set up some time next
year.
‘The public interest is there,”
said Glynn Harrison, department
general manager. “I think it’s
going to be pretty definite."
Harrison wasn’t sure whether
the program would include the
University’ campus. That would
be worked out between city and
University officials.
But city officials aren’t the
only ones working on a recycling
proposal Members of the Stu
dent Association and Students
for Environmental Awareness
are looking into setting up a pro
gram on the University campus.
To find out the best way to
carry out such a program in
Athens, the Solid Waste Depart
ment this summer distributed
500 special trash bins to homes
and other locations around
Athens. The bins were designed
to separate trash into three cat
egories: plastic, paper and alu
minum cans.
The city then collects the trash
and sells it to recycling compa
nies.
Harrison said the test program
hasn’t turned a profit yet. But a
more extensive program would
mean more recyclable trash and
more money for the city.
The department also hasn’t de
cided how the trash will be sepa
rated. The city might distribute
more three-compartment bins or
separate the trash itself.
SA Sen. Todd King said he’d
like to convince the University to
buy bins similar to those pur
chased by the city. These would
be placed in different locations
around campus.
King said recycling companies
would be willing to come to the
University and buy and collect
separated trash.
In addition to King’s efforts,
members of SEA are distributing
a petition calling for the Univer
sity to recycle its trash and
implement other “ecologically
sound” business practices.
However, problems do remain.
Poor people often go through
garbage bins on campus and take
out aluminum cans. Although
they would eventually be re
cycled anyway, separated cans
would be easy for people to collect
and sell.
That creates a problem for the
University if it wants to set up a
program that would pay for itself,
king said. Of common recyclable
materials, aluminum cans are
the most valuable.
At the University of Colorado
they've dealt with that problem.
Daria Leveme, an official with
the recycling department there,
said the school uses plastic bins
with can-sized holes. The bins
are hard to break into, and that
helps the school earn about $20,-
000 a year.
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