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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 42
INSIDE
Coach Ray Goff and his
gridiron Dogs receive a
report card from sports
editor Gene Williams.
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Weather: Today will be mostly
sunny with a high in the low 50s.
Tonight, partly cloudy, low In the
m!d-30s. Tomorrow will be a
slightly depressing Wednesday.
Expelling fraternity
too harsh, IFC says
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
The Interfraternity Council
wants University President
Charles Knapp to change the
Student Judiciary’s decision to
expel Sigma Chi fraternity.
IFC President Tom Greene
said the IFC will write a letter
today urging Knapp to reduce the
sentence, handed down over
Christmas, to a five-year suspen
sion. The IFC also plans to write
a letter of support to Sigma Chi
President Craig Beard.
Greene said the sentence, the
first fraternity expulsion in Uni
versity history, was too harsh.
‘The idea of expelling a frater
nity is like the death penalty to a
person in jail,* he said. “There’s
no rehabilitation.’
On Nov. 30, the judiciary found
Sigma Chi guilty of two disor
derly conduct violations and of
breaking the open party policy.
The violations took place at a
Sept. 23 party where the band A
Flock of Seagulls was to play. As
many as 1,000 people packed the
house, forcing University Police
to kill the party.
Judicial Programs Director
Bill Bracewell said Monday that
Sigma Chi committed the viola
tions while on probation for
breaking other rules.
The judiciary found Sigma Chi
guilty of a hazing violation ayear
ago, he said. At that time, the
court put Sigma Chi on ’probated
expulsion” for five yean.
Under probated expulsion,
“Any act that endangers the
health and safety of University
students results in automatic ex
pulsion,” Bracewell said.
Then, spring quarter, the judi
ciary found Sigma Chi guilty of
disorderly conduct.
The judiciary placed the frater
nity on “probated social suspen
sion” through winter quarter
1990. A similar violation would
then bring a one-quarter suspen
sion of social privileges.
Citing strict disclosure poli
cies, judiciary officials refused to
reveal more about the violations.
Beard declined comment
Monday, but earlier said the judi
ciary might called for expulsion
because of the past violations. He
said Sigma Chi will turn in its
appeal by Thursday.
Whitehall forest gets
improved fire safety
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
After four blazes within the past
year, new fire safety measures are
being implemented in School of
Forest Resources’ Whitehall ForeBt
area. University Fire Marshall
Frank Edwards said.
The buildings in the Whitehall
area aren’t more prone to fires
than the average home, Edwards
said, but fighting fires in the area
can be difficult because of the lack
of water available to firemen. The
nearest water hydrant is more
than a mile away, so that fire-
trucks equipped with water tanks
have to be called in.
The School of Forest Resources
is taking steps to make its build
ings in the area safer by installing
smoke detectors, fire extinguishers
and a new heating system, Ed
wards said.
Edwards said he would like to
see residential sprinkler systems
and a large-capacity water tank in
stalled in the Whitehall area, a
suggestion he has made three
times to the University.
Leon A. Hargreaves, Jr., Dean of
the School of Forest Resources,
said he would follow Edwards’ sug
gestions.
The four fires during the past
year aren’t related and started for
different reasons. Edwards said
the Fisheries and Wildlife Labo
ratory burned last January when
an electrical fire started in an over
head light. Later in the year, a
storage building caught fire when
struck by lightning, and there was
a forest fire of unknown origin, he
said.
The most recent fire occurred
Dec. 28 at a University-owned
cabin at 2535 Pheonix Rd. Left
homeless were Mike Beiruti, Jay
Halprin and Steve Pontzer, all stu
dents in the School of Forest Re
sources who rented the cabin from
the University.
“I came out of the bathroom and
all I saw was smoke,” according to
Pontzer, who was the only one in
the cabin at the time.
“I grabbed a fire extinguisher
and sprayed it until it was used up,
but it was no good,” he said.
Edwards said PontzeFs car also
was damaged when it caught fire
and burned, despite PontzeFs at
tempt to push it out of the
driveway and away from the blaze.
Halprin’s car suffered paint
damage from the radiant heat of
the fire, which reached more than
2,000 degrees.
“It was a cooking accident,” Ed
wards said. “Based on the evi
dence, it was caused by turning on
the wrong eye on the stove and
leaving it unattended.”
Pontzer said, “It’s pretty sad.”
Dept, head search down to 3
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
A aeries of interviews begins today that will
help choose from three remaining candidates
for a director of the University's fledgling De
partment of Minority Services and Programs.
The director's responsibilities will include
planning the upcoming African-American Cul
tural Center.
Leslie Keith Bates, associate dean of stu
dents at Eastern Michigan University, is the
first candidate to begin a two-day round of in
terviews with representatives of students, fac
ulty and administration.
The other two remaining candidates are
Eddie Daniels, associate director for programs
in the Department of Student Life at the Uni
versity of South Carolina, and Brenda J. Rich
ardson, assistant director of housing at the
University.
Bates said the interviews would give him a
chance to hear what different University pop
ulations think the job should involve.
‘The job requires high stamina and energy. I
think that’s the kind of person I am, so I’m
looking forward to it," he said.
Daniels begins a similar schedule Jan. 16.
Daniels held a position as program adviser in
the Department of Student Activities at the
University from 1981-86.
“I’m excited about the opportunity to come
and interview for the position and about the
possibility of coming back to Georgia," he said.
Richardson will complete the process when
she meets with the representatives Jan. 18-19.
“I believe I can create an environment that’s
comfortable and fit for minority students and at
the same time that’s non-threatening for non
black studenta,” she said.
The three candidates were selected from 96
applicants, said Glenn Rosenthal, screening
committee chairman and director of Career
Planning and Placement.
Roy Jones, a fourth candidate, withdrew
when he accepted a position as director of em
ployment for the Charleston County, S.C.,
school system, Rosenthal said.
Members of the faculty and administration
as well as the original screening committee will
conduct the interviews.
Participants will include student representa
tives from the Black Affairs Council, the Com
mittee for Black Cultural Programs, the
African-American Choral Ensemble, the Black
Theatrical Ensemble, the Pamoja Dance Com
pany and the Black Greek Council.
Also included are student representatives
from African American Power, University
Union, the Student Association, Interfratemity
Council, Panhellenic Council and the Residence
Hall Association, among other organizations.
University President Charles Knapp won’t
et to meet with Bates because he’s out of town,
ut is scheduled to meet with the last two can
didates. Jay Pryor, special assistant to Knapp,
will meet with Bates today.
Benjamin Roundtree, BAC president, said he
was impressed with all three resumes and the
interviewing schedules.
*They have a cross-section of representa
tives. One way or another, students are going to
be represented,” he said.
Live soap opera ?
Tanya Zollars, a freshman undecided major,
takes a swing at Andy Day as the two meet at
the Tate Student Center plaza yesterday af
ternoon. The two said they had dated all fall
quarter, but while in Atlanta over Christmas
break, Andy, a freshman chemistry major, re
kindled the flames with his old girlfriend. He
received a punch for his decision. Fires were
cooling minutes later. They somewhat recon
ciled their differences and walked away
smiling.
Photos by Peter Frey
UGA reaffirms agreement to work with African university
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
Most University students probably
have never heard of Burkina Faso or the
University of Ouagadougou. But because
of an agreement extended to the African
school by University President Charles
Knapp during Christmas break, that soon
could change.
While he was in Burkina Faso, Africa
in mid-December, Knapp signed an
agreement with the University of Ouaga
dougou in Western Africa reaffirming the
universities’ pledge to work together on a
long-term basis and to make closer coop
eration a reality.
Dari Snyder, director of the Univer
sity’s Office of International Development
and one of the faculty members who ac
companied Knapp on his trip, said that
under the agreement, graduate students
from the University of Ougadougou will
enroll at the University for graduate
study, poet-doctoral study, or study here
as interns.
University (acuity members will go to
the African university to teach, start re
search programs and develop seminars,
Snyder said. Graduate students will con
duct research there.
He stressed that the program is still in
the planning stages. Representatives
from both schools will be meeting as soon
as March to create specific programs.
Tom Jackson, public information di
rector, said Knapp views this program as
an important part of the University’s out
reach efforts. He said Knapp found it im
portant to see first-hand how the
University could support the program in
the future.
Knapp is in Dallas, Texas, at the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Association
Convention and couldn’t be reached for
comment.
Snyder said the new agreement was an
extension of a cooperative agreement that
was established in 1979 as part of a grant
from the U.S. Agency for International
Development.
Knapp was accompanied on the trip to
the African nation by S. Eugene Younts,
vice president for Services, and Jean Le-
Gall, a research professor in biochemistry
and microbiology.
The University’s involvement with
Ouagadougou has been primarily in the
field of agriculture. In the future it will
assist the African university in natural
resource development, animal produc
tion, sociology and cultural development,
Snyder said.
The University will improve the
school’s library by increasing the book
collections ana helping in staff training,
he said.
The concentration has been on agricul
ture thus far because of the drought the
country is experiencing, Snyder said.
The country’s primary crops are com,
sorghum, cotton, and above all, peanuts.
LeGall noted the importance of foresty to
the African nation due to the country’s
use of wood for its energy needs. All of
these are common agricultural products
in Georgia.
LeGall said a group of faculty at the
University of Ouagadougou has studied
here and several participants have re
ceived doctoral and master’s degrees. One
alumnus of the program is Burkina
Faso’s current minister of higher educa
tion and scientific affairs, Mouhoussine
Nacro. Nacro studied here under LeGall.
Panamanian students recall invasion
By GAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
University students Marinela
and Iris Gallardo didn’t have
Christmas this year.
There was too much fighting in
the streets of their home in
Panama City. All the stores had
been looted days before by the Dig
nity Battalion, a local anti-Amer
ican group loyal to General Manuel
Antonio Noriega. Even offices and
factories were ransacked and bur
glarized.
Holiday shopping and peace on
earth were put on hold during their
visit home, from Dec. 8 to Jan. 4, to
make way for Noriega’s capture.
Marinela is a University junior.
Her sister Iris is a graduate stu
dent in the science department.
Marinela said she was thankful
that the United States intervened.
“It was necessary to get Noriega
out,” Marinela said. “We couldn’t
do anything. We all hated him, but
he had all the power. He forced
people to do what he wanted.”
Though she agreed with the U.S.
intervention, she said it brought on
a great crisis.
“We could hear all the gunfire
and bombs ft-om our house.
Luckily, we lived in a safe place.
No one was hurt, but everything —
the streets, the stores — every
thing is gone now.”
Political Science Professor Loch
Johnson said he sympathized with
the Panamanian plight, but disap-
itea S
proved of the United States’ hand-
of the situation.
’m opposed to any and all over-
i involvement when it’s not ab
solutely necessary for national
security,” Johnson said.
The United States took the posi
tion that Noriega, because of his
past drug dealings, was a threat to
American security. But Johnson
•aid that the drug charges didn’t
give the United States the right to
barge in on Panamanian affairs
"fm sure the Panamanians don’t
like drug dealers any more than we
do,” Johnson Baid. “Whose right is
it legally and morally? Not ours.
The Panamanians alone have that
right.”
University student Greg Joa
chim said he had spent the
summer in Costa Rica as an ex
change student. He said the Latin
American people wanted the
United States to remove Noriega
from power. Though many Central
American countries have publicly
denounced the American act, Joa
chim was confident that the Unites
States had done the right thing.
“Publicly the Latin American
countries have to condemn us,” he
said. “But privately they’re all for
it*