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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 46
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INSIDE
A review of “Gumby,” a
green album that’s really
nothing to get bent out of
shape over.
Weather: Today, partly cloudy,
high in the mld-60s. Tonight, low
in the mid-40s. Wednesday,
about the same as today. "I am a
transparent eyeball" —RWE.
Experts: UGA expenses high related to scholarship funds
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
Copyright 1990, The Red and Black
Part 2 of 2
Although the University may be
having trouble raising money, it’s not
having trouble spending it.
While experts say the University’s
fund-raising expenses are excessive, ad
ministrators are concerned with the lack
of funds available for scholarships and
the University’s ability to meet its schol
arship commitments.
“One of the mtyor challenges facing us
is to keep supporting our scholarship
commitments. University President
Charles Knapp said.
Knapp was referring to the Univer
sity’s Alumni Scholarship. In the past
three years, more and more University
students have become eligible for the
scholarships. As a result, the program
requires more and more funding.
Nik Edes, University vice president
for Development and University Rela
tions, said that two years ago the pro
gram required $200,000 in funding. Last
year, that amount increased to $800,-
000, and Edes said he expects the pro
gram to cost $1.25 million this year.
“This money must come from the un
restricted funds budget, that's why un
restricted funds are so important,” Edes
said.
The University of Georgia Founda
tion, a non-profit private organization,
administers most of the University’s
non-state funds. These include gifts,
grants, donations, trusts and endow
ments.
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said a primary objective of the
foundation is to raise money for schol
arships.
According to the foundation's finan
cial statements for fiscal 1989, it gener
ated $1,534 million in scholarship funds
last year. That was a 6 percent increase
from the $1,443 million for scholarships
in fiscal 1988.
"The major foundation expenditure is
for scholarships,” Knapp said.
According to foundation financial re
cords, its expenses (excluding schol
arships) for 1989 totaled $5,339 million.
For every $100 given to scholarships,
$348 is spent on foundation expenses.
Fiscal 1989 foundation expenses in
cluded: scholarships, $1,533,767; enter
tainment, $592,295; administrative
charges, $262,879; printing, photog
raphy and artwork, $248,845; travel,
$197,439; and postage, $174,026.
Some experts feel that though schol
arships are the largest expenditure, the
foundation doesn’t commit enough funds
to them in relation to total expenses.
Scott Cutlip, former dean of the Uni
versity’s College of Journalism and
Mass Communication and noted expert
on fund raising and public relations,
said the foundation expenses were high.
“1 think that figure is excessive,”
Cutlip Baid.
The foundation’s cost-to-revenue ratio
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total revenue by total expenses. includes contributions, funds from the
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Saturday night live
Georgia's star forward Alec Kessler goes up over a Vanderbilt defender for two of his 25 points in the 108-
81 victory. It was the first SEC loss of the season for Vanderbilt. Complete coverage on page 6.
SA to vote on mandatory PE
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
The Student Association is expected to vote on the
necessity of the University’s physical education re
quirements at its 7:30 p.m. meeting tonight in Phi
Kappa Hall.
The University Council’s Curriculum Committee is
considering making changes to the mandatory PE re
quirement for undergraduates and has asked SA for
input. Stan Brassie, head of the University’s PE de
partment, will present his report on PE requirements
at the meeting.
“Georgia is one of the few major universities that
still has PE requirements," Rob Nelson, student rep
resentative to University Council, said. “I imagine
that the reason (for the policy review) is that it’s some
what outdated.”
Currently, all undergraduates must complete five
credit hours of PE. Although the requirement isn’t
part of the core curriculum, it is added to all degree
programs.
The University System Board of Regents doesn’t re
quire physical education classes, although all but two
institutions in the system require from four to six
hours of PE, according to a report compiled by
Brassie. „
“I don’t think the program we have is at all anti
quated,” Brassie said. “It’s true that many of the
larger universities have dropped the requirement, but
the reason for this is that as enrollment increases,
they haven’t been able to keep pace.
“One of the advantages we have is that the Univer
sity has put a ceiling or lid on its enrollment. That has
helped us,” he said.
SA President Mark Schisler said his main concern
with the current policy is the limited availability of
classes to freshmen and sophomores.
Brassie attributes this problem in part to the rapid
increase in freshman enrollment that occurred a few
years ago. Because of the increase, a backlog of stu
dents needing to finish such requirements developed,
he said.
Until recently, this backlog has caused PE courses
to be filled with juniors and seniors, making it diffi
cult for freshmen and sophomores to enroll.
But they are now starting to catch up with this
backlog, and are getting more freshmen and sopho
mores in these courses.
A shortage of indoor facilities has posed limitations
for the PE department. Brassie said the SPACE-
NTER, the proposed new recreational facility, will
help solve the problems.
Wen Williams, curriculum committee chair, said he
referred the matter to the SA so it can determine the
student consensus.
“We have no preconceived ideas as to whether it’s
effective, or should be changed or what,” Williams
said.
Nelson said the review of the current policy is still
in its early stages and the nature of the changes
hasn’t been determined.
Brassie said that at schools where PE is elective, 27
percent of the students take at least one PE course.
The problem is that those students who don’t enroll in
PE, the remaining 73 percent, are the ones who would
most benefit from it. They tend to be the ones who
otherwise wouldn’t engage in much physical activity,
he said.
Proposed law to keep
underagers from bars
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
The lights may indeed go out in Georgia for night
club owners if the state Senate approves a bill that
passed the state House of Representatives Friday.
The bill prohibits anyone under 21 from entering bars
even if they aren’t drinking.
State Representative Frank Redding, D - Atlanta,
who sponsored the proposal, said he believed the mea
sure would pass in the Senate as well.
Redding said he drafted the bill this summer in re
sponse to complaints he’d received from parents of
drinking minors and after observing several night
clubs himself.
The practice of stamping hands to allow underage
patrons into bars promotes the exploitation of young
women by enticing them into the establishments to
promote business, he said.
The recent murders of two minors at Sam’s Disco in
Atlanta prompted Redding to push the measure now.
He also said he didn’t think the bill would have a
large impact on the Athens community.
State Hep. Lawton Stephens of Athens said Monday
that he failed to vote on the bill Friday, along with 75
other members of the House, because Friday is tradi
tionally a light day for legislation.
“I was out in the hall when the vote was taking
place. Had I been aware of it I would have voted
against it,” he said.
Other local representatives couldn’t be reached for
comment.
Ken Fulghum, owner of O’Malley’s Tavern, was
quick to respond to the measure.
“His problems and his solutions belong in Atlanta,”
Fulghum said Monday, speaking of Redding.
“How do you exploit women in a college town?” he
said. “Who is this guy in Atlanta?”
Stephens said several Athens businesses called him
about the matter. The legislator said he was con
cerned with where the large population of minors
would go in Athens without the clubs.
‘The clubs have had a history of acting respon
sibly,” Stephens said.
Stephens said he wanted to see the bill amended in
the Senate to exclude only those under age 18.
“If they go to a public place, their behavior is going
to be controlled. Without that, you have the situation
of them going to a private residence, which is harder
to control,” he said.
Fulghum said, “Alcohol is such a sensitive issue it’s
greatly observed.
“I want to know why he didn’t come down here and
look at our procedures. We serve the largest number
of 18,19 and 20-year olds in the state,” he said. “He is,
as my grandfather used to say, a ball in high weeds —
lost. If it’s not brought to the attention of the students,
it will pass,” Fulghum said.
Conference disappointing to some
Pursuing The Dream.
MLK birthday marchers in Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Students attending the Na
tional College and University
Conference at the King Center
Friday and Saturday said they
were disappointed with the con
ference on Martin Luther King
Jr.’s teachings.
Amy Sterner and Renee Davis,
students at Antioch University in
Yellow Springs, Ohio, said
Monday at the King Day march
in Atlanta that the workshop was
not what they expected.
Sterner said she was disap
pointed because the conference
focused on past protests.
“We need to concentrate on
who’s going to carry on the
dream," Sterner said.
In addition, many of the stu
dents were unhappy that author
Maya Angelou canceled her
speech, Sterner said.
Davis said the informal inter
action among the students was
the best aspect of the conference.
“It wasn't in the plan to just sit
and talk,” she said, “but it hap
pened naturally.”
University representative
Benjamin Roundtree said the
conference concentrated on
King’s philosophy and non-vio
lent protests.
Roundtree, Black Affairs
Council president, said “One
thing was quite evident. It was
more of a commemorative event
instead of a learning experience.
‘The speakers took a historical
perspective, and I want to know
what’s going on today,” he said
He said he enjoyed a speech by
Shen Tong, a pro-democracy
Chinese student who demon
strated in Tiananmen Square.
“It was very descriptive and
very emotion-filled,” Roundtree
said.“It was an actual example of
how non-violence wasn’t suc
cessful.”
Many of the students stayed in
Atlanta until Monday for the
march to celebrate King’s
birthday.
Hundreds lined the streets
downtown. With the crowds came
vendors selling King T-shirts,
buttons and postcards, African
clothing and jewlery and “Free
South Africa’ bumper stickers.
Also at the march were a group
of runners from Selma, Ala. The
group joined forces with another
from South Fulton County to
honor King with a marathon
from Selma to Atlanta, said
Sherman Thomas, a member of
the South Fulton group.