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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 44
INSIDE
Guitarist-singer Vic
Varney plays The
Downstairs tonight. Free
preview inside.
Weather: Today, sunny and
warm, high In the 60s. Tonight,
fair, low In the mld-30s.
Tomorrow, partly cloudy and
cooler.
Dogs’ Parker No. 1
in college tennis
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
Georgia’s A1 Parker is the No.
1-ranked singles player and is on
the No. 2-ranked doubles team
with Murphy Jensen in the new
Volvo Tennis collegiate tennis
rankings released Tuesday.
Parker’s victories in the
Southern Collegiate
Championships and the Volvo
Tennis Collegiate
Championships were factors in
the jump from his pre-season
ranking of No. 3.
“I’m very proud of being
ranked No. 1," Parker said. “I
think I’ve been working hard for
the last two years and I’m glad
everything is paying off.”
Being ranked No. 1 is a tre
mendous comeback for the
Georgia junior. Half-way through
his freshman season, Parker suf
fered a serious back injury and
some doctors said he would never
again play tennis competitively.
Fll«
Al Parker: Ranked No. 1 in
nation
“(Doctors) said I may have to
have surgery and may never play
again,” Parker said. “I was
bummed out, but I figured that a
lot of doctors say that. I kept at
rehabilitating myself instead of
giving in to it.”
Parker did recuperate and re
lease See TENNIS, Page 8
State of the University System
Challenges issued for
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
ATLANTA - Chancellor H.
Dean Propst recapped the the
1980s and issued challenges for the
1990s in his State of the System
speech to the University System
Board of Regents Wednesday.
'Do we have the will to achieve
the best?” he asked.
‘That question will be answered
in the ’90s. And the nature of the
answer will be one of the crucial
tests of how confidently the state
can face the dawning of a new cen
tury,” he said.
“If we learn from the past but
are not captive to it, we are more
likely to have the ability to build a
vision for the future that, when re
alized, will lead to making right
those things that are wrong,
making better those things that
are good,” he said.
He said he, the regents, and all
state institutions “must genuinely
aspire to greatness; we must build
upon the tradition of excellence al
ready achieved; we must provide
leadership that measures up to the
goal; we must cultivate, first
within ourselves and then within
those whose support is critical to
our endeavors, the will to achieve.”
Issues Propst said will be impor
tant in the next 10 years are the
deteriorating retention rates of
students in the system, the erosion
of the competitive edge in the sala
ries paid to faculty and the
shortage of faculty in key areas.
Inflation’s effects on the money
available to the system’s institu
tions, the unfinished business of
providing totally equal access to in
stitutions for African-Americans
and the continuation of the
relationship with private enter
prise will also be important in the
next 10 years, Propst said.
Other issues important in the fu
ture are success in the area of re
search, the broadening of
international studies in higher ed
ucation and increasing monetary
and moral support from the state
government, he said.
Propst addressed the changes
that occurred in the system in the
19808. He noted the tremendous
change caused by the 29 people
serving on the board at different
times in the last decade.
He said the first woman and the
first African-American were ap
pointed to chair the board in the
last decade.
The system’s successful change
in the leadership at all four univer
sity-level institutions within a two-
year period began with University
President Charles Knapp’s instal
lation in 1987, Propst said.
The most significant change in
his opinion was the approval in
1989 of a regional university de
signed to address the special
higher education needs of sub-re
gions of the state.
He said he was proud of the in
crease in enrollment by 46,001 stu
dents within the past ten years,
the increase of total revenue by
$951.4 million (127%), the increase
of grants and contracts by $157.6
million (138%), and the increased
involvement of private enterprise.
Propst also confronted the con
troversies that plagued the system
1990s
Chancellor H. Dean Propst:
Delivered address to board
in the last decade.
He spoke of the two major
budget cuts in fiscal years 1983
and 1984 that totaled $23.2 mil
lion, the reallocation of $12 million
Please See PROPST, Page 3
Park Hall
banning
smoking
If you want to smoke while
waiting for an English class, be
ware. Park Hall has joined the list
of University buildings that pro
hibit smoking.
Coburn Freer, head of the En
glish Department, said, ‘This is a
new development and it was ini
tiated as a request of students and
faculty.
“We have had a lot of complaints
over the years from students who
have had respiratory problems and
problems with contact lenses," he
said.
Freer said the signs, similar to
signs in Brooks and Aderhold
halls, were posted a few days ago.
Poor ventilation in the old part
of the building was a main reason
behind the smoking ban, he said.
“When students smoke there, it
takes a long time for smoke to dis
perse, causing problems,” Freer
said.
J. Thomas Bowen, assistant to
the vice president for Academic Af
fairs, said declaring the building
off-limits to smoking is a common
practice, especially in classrooms
that are public areas.
“It’s left up to the department
heads of the building,” Bowen said.
He said if all the heads agree they
can post signs, but if there is a dis
pute they can take it to the dean.
Freer said, “I don’t know what
the reaction is yet ... we’ll know in
another week or two.”
—Elizabeth Dill
Stay at home, please
Phi Delta Theta fraternity has heard rumors of tailback Rodney
Hampton entering the pro draft. Left to right are President Loy
Thompson, real estate major; Richard Russell, political science
major; and Kevin Bunch, consumer economics major, all seniors.
Executive comm, tackles
athletic info, new schedule
■ NEW FALL SCHEDULE
Residence Halls Open...Monday, Sept.10
Orientation...Tuesday, Sept. 11
Schedule Completion Tuesday...Sept. 11
Late Registration (Grad Students)...Wed-
nesday, Sept. 12
Late Registration (All Students)...Thursday,
Friday, Sept. 13,14
Classes Begin...Monday, Sept. 17
Drop/Add...Monday - Wednesday, Sept. 17-19
Midpoint of Quarter...Friday, Oct. 19
Thanksgiving Recess...Saturday - Sunday,
Nov. 17-25
Classes Resume...Monday, Nov. 26
Classes End...Friday, Nov. 30
Final Exams...Monday-Thursday, Dec. 3-6
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
The University Council’s Com
mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics
will ask for University Council ap
proval to request in-depth informa
tion on certain football and male
basketball players.
The committee is responding to
U.S. News and World Report’s re
cent cover story on the graduation
rate of players on the University’s
1980 championship football team.
The council’s Executive Com
mittee released details about the
request at its Wednesday meeting.
The full University Council will de
cide whether to approve the re
quest at its Jan. 25 meeting.
Information asked for includes:
• The names of all football and
male basketball players who
signed a grant-in-aid agreement
with the Georgia Athletic Associa
tion between 1975-89 and were en
rolled in the University.
• The race of each player.
• The year each player signed
and the circumstances under
which he signed.
• Incidences of academic proba
tion or dismissal of the players.
• The graduation date, major,
degree and school from which each
player graduated, or the major and
number of credit hours earned if
the player didn’t graduate.
• The current employment
status of players out of school.
This request comes afler the
negative national attention fo
cused on the University Athletic
Department as a result of the Jan.
8 article.
The athletics committee will use
the information to propose im
provements in the academic pro
grams for the student-athletes.
In other business, the committee
approved a new schedule for fall
quarter of 1990. The previous
schedule didn’t conform to the
Board of Regents’ policy because
the first day of classes tell on the
Jewish holiday Rosh Hashana.
Because of the urgency of ini
tiating the change, the committee
approved the new schedule
without full council approval.
The Executive Committee
placed other items on the Univer
sity Council’s agenda, including a
proposal for a new Agribusiness
degree for the University.
It also approved a list of nomi
nees for the new Staff Benefits
Task Force, which will examine
health insurance and other bene
fits. The nominees will be voted on
by the full council Jan. 25.
Minority services dir. candidate
talks to student groups, faculty
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
The University seems ripe for change with regard
to minority affairs, Leslie Bates, a candidate for di
rector of the Department of Minority Student Services
and Programs, told an open forum Wednesday.
“I get the impression that students are now
pressing for change — as well as faculty, staff and ad
ministration,” Bates said.
He called the idea that the department is separatist
a fallacy, citing examples of similar departments
which focus on particular groups, such as the Univer
sity’s Honors Program.
As associate dean of students at Eastern Michigan
University since 1985, Bates said he has had a range
of experience including work in minority affairs. Since
1988 he has coordinated Greek Life at EMU and man
aged international student programs.
A Northern native, Bates said he sees no problems
unique to Southern minorities.
“I know what it’s like to feel that 'this is a racist act
or that’s prejudiced.’ I think 1 have an appreciation for
the feeling that black students have when they go to a
predominantly white school," he said. Bates, who is
black, has spent about eight years at the predomi
nantly white EMU.
He also said he defines the term “minority affairs”
in relation to African-American, Native-American and
Hispanic students.
Bates was interviewed Tuesday and Wednesday by
administrators, faculty, staff and students rep
resenting campus organizations.
Vernon Wall, search committee member and resi
dence education consultant in University Housing,
said there was concern over the low turn-out at one of
A Northern native, Bates said he
sees no problems unique to
Southern minorities.
the student group interviews on Tuesday.
Organizations such as the Black Affairs Council,
Minority Assistants, the Interfraternity Council, Af
rican-American Power, the Residence Hall Associa
tion and University Union were invited to send
representatives.
Djuana Austin, the Student Association’s represen
tative who attended, said only four of the 13 organiza
tions invited sent representatives. The four groups
represented were SA, African-American Power, Abe-
neefoo Kuo Honor Society and BAC.
“I believe that students who were there represented
opinions on what students want from the minority
services director,” she said.
She commended the screening committee on its at
tempt to involve student* in the process.
“If (students) would like to take part, this is the
time. Don’t wait until after the fact to complain," she
said.
Two other candidates for the position will go
through interviews in the next two weeks. Students
may attend open forums in Room 137 of the Tate Stu
dent Center to meet the other candidates.
A forum with candidate Eddie Daniels, associate di
rector of programs in the University of South Caro
lina’s Student Life department, will be held Jan. 17.
One for Brenda Richardson, the University’s assistant
housing director, will be held Jan. 19.
UGA professors offer views
on U.S. invasion of Panama
By GAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
So far, Gen. Manuel Noriega
has been depicted as a drug
dealer, a murderer, a Cuban
agent, a Satan worshipper, a psy
chopath, a sadistic dictator, and
— according to Newsweek — a bi
sexual who likes to walk around
in yellow shoes.
Who is thiB man, really? When
the United States declared him a
national security threat, what
did they mean?
Yes, he’s been accused of drug
dealing, but consider Colombia.
Yes, there are accounts of torture
and harrassment, but consider
South Africa. These are the argu
ments of government specialist
Loch Johnson and Latin Amer
ican expert Lester Langley, both
of the University.
Johnson, a CIA expert, re
cently had published his book
“America's Secret Power: The
CIA in a Democratic Society."
He said reasons for the U.S.
spotlight on Noriega appear to be
numerous. Panama came across
as an easy target and past rela
tions with the United States
seemed to justify intervention.
Panama also appeared rather
agressive in denouncing the
United States. It even declared
war only days before U.S. troops
landed off the Panama coast,
Johnson said.
'1 think George Bush had per
sonal reasons for the attack,” he
said. “Noriega really got under
Bush’s skin, and he had to do
something."
Even behind bars, Noriega has
offered threats to Bush directly,
saying he had top-secret informa
tion that could seriously damage
the president’s reputation.
Though Bush scoffs at such ac
cusations, Johnson said there is
some truth in Noriega’s claim. In
the 1970s, Noriega was a CIA in
formant and had access to highly
sensitive information.
Not only could he blemish
Bush’s character, but, Johnson
said, he could jeopardize all pre
sent covert operations.
Noriega was taken off the in
formant list when the United
States realized he also was
working for Cuba.
"The key to this is that Noriega
had proved to be very useful for a
number of years. Now that he is
not, we want to eliminate him,”
Johnson said.
“Bush knew about Noriega’s
drug dealings years and years
ago, and yet nothing was done
until now,” Johnson said.
Should Noriega be considered
a national threat?
Lester Langley, history pro
fessor, questioned the idea of
"gunboat diplomacy." He did,
however, offer comparisons.
“This Texas rough-housing
calls to mind Lyndon Johnson
and Vietnam" he said. “Both
were acts made to divert Ameri
cans from the real crisis at home.
What we have is an American so
ciety that refuses to realize the
real problem.”
Many cannot face up to the
reality that the problem with
drugs in our country is actually a
problem within ourselves.
Pointing at an outside evil and
tacking the blame on particular
countries or people gives way to
simple answers, he said.
‘The real problem no one has
an answer for." he said. "It’s the
problem of forgetting what it
means to be an American."
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