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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1990 « ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 43
INSIDE
A review of director Oliver
Stone’s new movie “Bom
of the Fourth of July,”
starring Tom Cruise.
Weather: Today will be partly
sunny with a high In the upper
50s. Tonight, fair with a low In the
low 30s. Thursday, sunny, high in
the low 60s.
Record
funds total
for grants
in system
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
ATLANTA — The 34 schools in
the state University System set a
new record for total money re
ceived from outside grants and
contracts last year, according to a
report reviewed by the Board of
Regents Tuesday.
The total amount received for
the 1989 fiscal year was $296,-
697,365, an increase of $28,483,-
903 over the previous fiscal year.
Haskin Pounds, vice chancellor of
Research and Planning, sub
mitted the report at the regent’s
January meeting.
The University finally topped
the $100 million mark with
$104,008,565 in total awards.
The increase was by $17,581,463,
or 20.4 percent over the 1988
fiscal year.
Chancellor H. Dean Propst, in
a press release issued from his of
fice, called the new record ■re
markable.’
"The fact that we were close to
the $300 million mark says that a
number of outside agencies and
organizations have great confi
dence in the abilities and talents
of the people at our 34 institu
tions,” the release read.
The total number of grants and
contracts the University received
was 1,717. Most of these awards,
562 total, went to instruction, re
search and related areas; how
ever, the College of Arts and
Sciences received 240 grants and
contracts and the Cooperative
Extension Service received 242.
The University was second
only to the Georgia Institute of
Technology in number of grants
and contracts as well as the total
value of the awards.
Georgia Tech received 840
r rants and contracts worth
136,817,647.
The four universities of the
system reported a collected
$271.6 million in grants and con
tracts, a 10.4 percent increase
from the lost fiscal year. The re
port attributed the increase to
considerable gains in awards to
Georgia State University and the
Medical College of Georgia.
Other figures released in the
report:
• Total research monies
awarded to the University during
1990 totaled $77,514,051.
• Total monies for instruc
tional fellowship and training
awards in various University de
partments came to $26,494,514.
Sale of painting upsets art dept.
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
This week, a 1937 painting by University
art department founder Lamar Dodd is
hanging on a bare wall in the basement of
the Georgia Museum of Art — surrounded
not by other works of art, but by file cab
inets and desks.
The oil-on-canvas painting, “Bargain
Basement,” was taken to the museum base
ment for study by art appraiser Paul Stern
berg. The University of Georgia Foundation
asked Sternberg to assess the value of the
work, which it plans to sell — much to some
museum officials’ dismay — Museum Di
rector Jane Bledsoe said.
Nik B. Edes, vice president for Devel
opment and University Relations, said the
painting is being sold to help complete
funding for an endowed chair in Dodd’s
honor.
‘The established goal of the chair was set
at $500,000, about $400,000 of which we
have received through private gifts,” Edes
said. ‘If the painting is sold, those funds
will be put into the chair to honor Mr.
Dodd.”
The chair will attract the best art profes
sors in the field, as well as cover travel and
research expenses, he said.
But some officials at the Georgia Mu
seum are unhappy with the foundation’s de
cision.
“There’s only one reason to sell a
painting,” Bledsoe said, “and that is if the
proceeds go toward buying another work of
art.
“I’m entirely sympathetic to the need of a
Lamar Dodd chair at the University,” she
said. “But this isn’t the way it should be
done.”
Edes called the chair a "noble and worth
while use of these funds.”
But one museum worker, who requested
anonymity, said the sale of “Bargain Base
ment’ breaks a bond between the Univer
sity and the Georgia Museum.
“It’s not legal, it’s not binding, but it’s a
normal institutional agreement in most
museums that the foundation which owns
some of its paintings only sell art to buy
more art,” the source said.
Dodd donated “Bargain Basement” and
192 more of his paintings to the foundation
in the mid ’70s. Eleven were donated to the
Georgia Museum, Bledsoe said.
Dodd, a professor emeritus in the Univer
sity art department, wouldn’t comment on
the sale of the painting, although he said,
“It’s very unfortunate the way the situation
has been handled.”
Edes said the plan to sell the painting to
fund the chair came last year when a foun
dation trustee emeritus was approached by
an Atlanta art dealer who expressed in
terest in “Bargain Basement.” The trustee
then suggested to University President
Charles Knapp that the money be put into
the chair fund.
Knapp then went to Dodd, who approved
of the plan to sell the work, Edes said.
The foundation board then approved the
plan, and arranged for this Monday’s ap
praisal.
Museum sources said the interested
dealer is David Ramus, and he is offering
$100,000 for the work. Bledsoe said the
work was appraised about five years ago at
$20,000.
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Bargain Basement (1937): This oil on canvas painting by Lamar Dodd will
be sold to fund a position in the art dept, named for the artist
Life is like a yo-yo ...
... that Is, full of ups and downs. Robert Garland, a sophomore agricultural economics major, displays his
expertise with his yo-yo on Sanford bridge on the way to his math class. The trick he is performing is called a
breakaway.
University employees
may face drug tests
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
If HouBe Democratic leaders get
their anti-drug package passed in
the 1990 General Assembly, stu
dents convicted on drug charges
would face suspension and Univer
sity employees would have to
submit to mandatory drug testing.
Under the proposed legislation,
all students convicted of a drug-re
lated offense would be suspended
and lose all credit hours for the
term in which they were convicted,
Barbara Morgan, Gov. Joe Frank
Harris' press secretary, said.
The offenses include trafficking,
possession or manufacturing of il
legal substances, Morgan said.
In addition, all applicants for
state-paid postions — including
those at the University —would
take a drug test.
All current state employees
would be subject to random drug
testing, Blie said.
Arthur Leed, Student Affairs
legal adviser, received a prelimi
nary draft of drug proposals from
Pile
Joe Frank Harris: Pushing
for strong anti-drug package
the Board of Regents Friday, but
these proposals detailed harsher
penalties than the information
Please See DRUGS. Page 3
Students to march
to kick off King week
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
University Btudents will re
member the dream as they march
in memory of Martin Luther King,
Jr. Thursday afternoon. The march
kicks off a week of activities at the
University and in Atlanta hon
oring King.
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is
sponsoring the march at 3 p.m.
Thursday. It will begin at the Tate
Student Center and end at City
Hall where Hamilton Holmes, Sr.,
will speak.
Holmes made history in 1961 as
one of the first two black Btudents
to attend the University.
Before the march, there will be a
rally at 2 p.m. at the Tate Center
with skits and songs reflecting the
theme of the march, “Against The
Odds," said Susan Daughtry, presi
dent of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Civil Rights Activist Tandi Gca-
bashe, who is living in exile from
the South African government, will
speak at the rally.
“Her objective is to relate the
struggle of civil rights in South Af
rica with the struggle of civil rights
in the United States, ” Daughtry
said.
Also beginning Thursday in At
lanta is the fourth annual National
College and University Conference
which centers on King.
Djuana Austin, who’ll represent
the Student Association at the con
ference, said the theme is “Non-vi
olence for a Change.” Speakers will
include Jesse Jackson, Jr., Coretta
Scott King and Maya Angelou.
The international conference,
which goes through Saturday,
brings together students from dif
ferent social and religious back
grounds to learn the principles of
King’s philosophy, Austin said.
Participants at the conference
will try to take what they’ve
learned back to their schools.
“That’s what Tm going to do for
SA. We bring back what we learn,”
Austin said.
Black Affairs Council president
Benjamin Roundtree and council
member Byron Curtis will attend.
King Week celebrations at the
University continue Tuesday at 7
p.m. in the Tate Student Center
theater. Students portraying black
historical figures Eldridge Cleaver,
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mal
colm X will offer a historical per
spective for group discussion.
Brenda Richardson, assistant di
rector of housing and chair for the
events committee, said the week’s
theme is “A Dream Remembered."
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew
Young will deliver the week’s key
note address Wednesday at noon in
the Tate Student Center Theater,
Richardson said.
Norman Harris, an associate
English professor, will moderate a
discussion at 3:30 p.m. in the re
ception hall among professors and
state Rep. Michael Thurman.
Pulitzer Prize-winning King
scholar David Garrow will make
opening remarks.
“The discussion will focus on the
relevance of King’s philosophy to
today’s social issues,” Richardson
said.
A student talent show Jan. 18 at
7 p.m. in Georgia Hall will give stu-
Administration’s role in decision
questioned by fraternity leaders
■MLK EVENTS
Thursday, Jan.11:
• 2 p.m.: Pap rally, sponsored
by Alpha Kappa Alpha so
rority at tha Tata Student
Center plaza. Activist Tandi
Ocabashe will speak.
• 3 p.m. AKA’s march starts
from the Tate Center plaza.
Hamilton Holmes, Sr. will
speak afterwards.
Thursday to Saturday,
Jan.13:
• The 4th annual national col
lege and university student
conference In Atlanta.
Monday, Jan.lB, Martin Lu
ther King, Jr. Day.
• 1-4 p.m. Atlanta's Parade
and March of Celebration
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m.
• Discussion In Tate Theater.
Wednesday, Jan. 17
• Noon - Andrew Young de
livers address In Tate The
ater.
Friday, Jan. It
• Noon Chapel service with
Thomas Slater of the Reli
gion Department.
dents the opportunity to express
King’s philosopy through the arts.
Religion instructor Thomas
Slater will speak at a chapel
service Jan. 19 at noon in the Tate
Center theater.
The University will be closed
Monday, Jan. 15 in observance of
King's birthday.
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
Sigma Chi alumni spent
$140,000 four years ago to save
their old fraternity house, which
needed repairs to meet new fire
codes.
The alumni raised the cash
and saved the house, but that
money —and the University
chapter of Sigma Chi — might
go up in smoke.
That bothers Greek leaders
and the Interfraternity Council,
who say the Student Judiciary
went too far when it voted to
permanently expel Sigma Chi.
“They probably were trying to
set an example,” said Tyler
Smith, Lambda Chi Alpha pres
ident. “They went way out of
bounds.”
The judiciary made the deci
sion last month, after finding
Sigma Chi guilty of two disor
derly conduct violations and
breaking the open party policy.
At the time, the fraternity
was already on probation for
breaking hazing and disorderly
conduct regulations last year.
The most recent violations
happened Sept. 23 at a band
party that was shut down by
University Police after as many
as 1,000 people jammed the
Sigma Chi nouse.
Sigma Nu President John
Hearn said, "It just seems ridic
ulous to completely expel a fra
ternity,” adding that all the
current Sigma Chi brothers will
graduate in a few years.
But Hearn isn’t mad at the
Student Judiciary. He blames
the administration, which he
said wants to protect itself from
the kind of embarassment suf
fered last quarter by Morehouse
College, where a student died in
a hazing incident.
To do that, he said the admin
istration forced the judiciary to
expel Sigma Chi, which would
tell other Greek organizations
that breaking the rules won’t be
tolerated.
Another Greek leader, who
asked not to be named, said the
decision was a reaction to
heavily-publicized hazing inci
dents like the one at Morehouse.
But Judicial Programs Di
rector Bill Bracewell said mem
bers of the all-student court
would “scream bloody murder"
if the administration tried to
tell them what to do. He said the
judiciary “jealously guards” its
meetings and makes its deci
sions alone.
Bracewell said some may
think he tried to influence the
decision because he is tough on
fraternity violations.
It has to do with my own be
lief in what a fraternity is all
about,” he said. “I think we
ought to have a world-class
Greek system and we don’t.
“I met with the IFC last
quarter and I don’t think they
particularly cared for what I
had to say,” Bracewell said “I
was saying that I felt that there
was more for them to do.”
Public Information Director
Tom Jackson said Knapp won’t
do anything until the appeal
reaches him. The seven-student
Judiciary Council and Dwight
Douglas, vice president for Stu
dent Affairs, must uphold the
decision first.
Ron Binder, adviser to frater
nities, said the Greek Life Office
won’t decide whether to disci
pline Sigma Chi until after the
appeals process.
Having met with local and
national Sigma Chi officials,
Binder said the fate of the
$140,000 invested in the house
— taken out in personal mort
gages by alumni —became a
concern.
James Walker, Sigma Chi re
gional director, said the frater
nity’s national chapter won’t
take up the case until after the
appeals process ends. But he
said the fraternity will at least
be put on probation.
At the time of the party,
Sigma Chi was on “probated ex
pulsion," which meant that any
violation that endangered the
health or safety of a University
student would result in auto
matic expulsion. When asked if
the court may have decided the
Sept. 23 party constituted a
dangerous event, Bracewell said
the assumption was “logical.”