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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 47
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Sigma Chi
not guilty
of hazing
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
Sigma Chi fraternity wasn’t
found guilty of hazing spring
quarter as was previously re
ported.
Judicial Programs Director
Bill Bracewell made a mistake
when he told The Red and Black
that the fraternity was found
guilty of a hazing violation.
Bracewell said Tuesday that
Sigma Chi had been charged with
hazing in the spring of 1989 but
was found innocent. The frater
nity was found guilty of a disor
derly conduct violation.
Bracewell realized his error
after digging up files on the case.
The incorrect information first
appeared in the Jan. 9 edition of
The Red and Black in a story
about the Student Judiciary’s de
cision last month to expel Sigma
Chi for other violations.
The information also appeared
that day in an unsigned editorial
and in a story on Jan. 10.
Sigma Chi President Craig
Beard was unavailable for com
ment by presstime Tuesday.
Beard said Monday that Sigma
Chi doesn’t haze its pledges and
that he was surprised to read
that it had.
The Student Judiciary voted
last month to permanently expel
Sigma Chi for disorderly conduct
violations that took place during
an overcrowded partv.
The party featured the band A
Flock of Seagulls and drew as
many as 1,000 people. It was shut
down by University Police.
Before being expelled last
month, Sigma Chi had been put
on probation for the spring viola
tion and for another disorderly
conduct violation that took place
last year.
Sigma Chi is now preparing to
appeal the expulsion, which
Greek leaders have called an un
duly harsh sentence.
Professor
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
A Profile
Charles Crowe came to Athens
in 1965, not only to teach American
history at the University, but to
fight in the struggle for equal
rights for black Americans.
When he was first asked to come
to teach here, he was hesitant be
cause of the racial violence in
Athens.
In 1964, Crowe said Lemuel
Penn, a black assistant superinten
dent of schools in Washington,
D.C., stopped on Broad Street to
ask for directions in Athens and
was taken to Daniel sville Road by
Ku Klux Klansmen and gunned
down.
“I came to UGA with reserva
tions and doubts,'"he said.
Crowe, who was in Ohio at the
time, said the murder of Penn and
the known violence in the South
Bcured him, but he knew he would
be closer to the civil rights
movement.
“If I was in Georgia, I could just
drive to those demonstrations,”
UGA refutes expenditures article
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
A Red and Black report on Uni
versity of Georgia Foundation
spending “misrepresented” founda
tion expenditures, Nik Edes, Uni
versity vice president for
Development and Alumni Rela
tions, told reporters Tuesday.
Edes then released portions of a
C reviously confidential analysis of
fniversity expenditures for fund
raising, alumni relations and other
constituent relations activities to
counter the report.
Edes said, “The article, as I in
terpret it, as the media from
around the state interpreted it and
as the Associated Press interpreted
it, suggested that the University of
Georgia Foundation spent $5,339
million on fund raising and related
administrative expenses.
‘The article does not reflect the
the facta,” he said, “because it is
based on the cumulative addition
of all expenses for all purposes.
“By doing so, it left the impres
sion that all those expenditures
were for fund raising," Edes said.
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said the University ad
ministration didn’t dispute the
story’s figures, but was upset about
the story’s presentation.
The article, titled “Experts: UGA
expenses high related to schol
arship funds," compared the foun
dation’s total expenditures to its
revenue and to the scholarship
funds the foundation generated in
fiscal 1989.
Edes said the article as a whole
left the impression that it was a
comparison of fund-raising figures
and called attention to the article’s
second paragraph which stated,
“While experts say the University’s
fund-raising expenses are exces
sive...”
The excerpts from the confiden
tial report Edes released Tuesday
were part of an analysis of expendi
tures for fund raising, alumni rela
tions and other constituent
relations activities at 51 universi
ties and colleges across the nation
during fiscal 1986, 1987 and 1988.
Edes came to the University in
September 1987.
The report, confidential because
it wasn’t scheduled to be released
until spring, was conducted by the
Council for the Advancement and
Support of Education, Edes said.
According to the study, the Uni
versity’s fund-raising expenses av
eraged 8 cents for every $1 received
in donations in the past three
years.
The average figure for the par
ticipating institutions was 16 cents
per dollar, and the middle 50 per
cent of the institutions fell between
8 and 16 cents.
CASE is a national organization
which studies support to higher ed
ucation. The University, along
with 50 other institutions across
the country, voluntarily partici
pated in the study.
“I regret to break the confiden
tiality of the (CASE) report," Edes
said. “But, because of tne serious
ness of the article, I have to."
Editors Note: The Red and Black
stands by the facts of its story as
presented.
Nik Edes: Says article a
misinterpretation
‘PitirTniyTrFwT^edand^iack
Leavin’ ’em in the dust
Rapider Transit: This University student found a way to not only “beat the traffic" but beat the University's
buses, which claim to do just that.
fought for civil rights in 60s
Crowe said.
Crowe remembers those violent
times and how different Athens
was.
“Back in the 1960s, Klansmen
rode down Broad Street shotgun
patrol looking for black students
holding any white girl’s hand,”
Crowe said.
Many faculty members didn’t
approve of his activities. During
one faculty meeting Crowe said an
administration official directed the
threat, “Can we fire this Commu
nist nigger-lover without getting
on the front page of The New York
Times?” to him.
People don’t seem to remember
how difficult it was to defy a preju
dice which most held like a reli
gious belief, he said. A black
Athens minister at the time was so
scared that he turned his bedroom
“into an arsenal.”
During the period, Crowe went
to churches in surrounding coun
ties a9 well as Athens to speak to
large black congregations and to
encourage them in their struggles.
He said he wa9 only doing what
needed to be done, not trying to be
another white leader.
Pursuing The Dream
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968
“Blacks were just learning how
to lead themselves,” Crowe said.
In 1970, violence errupted in
Athens during the Black Identity
March which began at Hill Street.
Crowe said that as the marchers
came down Pulaski Street,
Klansmen were seen on top of
Charles Crowe: Came to
the University in 1965
buildings on Broad Street. The Na
tional Guard was called and hun
dreds of marchers and Klansmen
were arrested.
“I was arrested then, not for
mally booked, but put in the Clarke
County jail," Crowe said.
Please See CROWE. Page 3
Students, club owners
react to underage bill
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
A bill that passed in the state
House of Representatives Friday
has various student groups and
nightclub owners up in arms as
they contemplate a huge change
in Athens nightlife.
The bill will keep all those
under the age of 21 from entering
nightclubs where alcohol is
served, even if they aren’t
drinking.
State Sen. Paul Broun, D-
Athens, said he had received
Tuesday a large number of phone
calls from Athens.
“I have enough phone calls to
return on my desk to choke two
horses,” he said.
The bill was drawn up with
good intentions in mind, he con
tinued, but didn’t address the
problem well.
State Rep. Frank Redding, D-
Atlanta, sponsored the proposal
in response to complaints he’d re
ceived from parents and to the
deaths of two minors at Sam’s
Disco in Atlanta.
Broun said, “As I have looked
at it, it is ill-conceived. How it got
F assed is beyond me. I will do all
can to stop it or amend it.”
The earliest the bill could come
before the Senate is Jan. 24 or 25,
he said. The bill would more than
likely go into effect July 1.
Student groups have been
quick to respond.
“We’ve got several senators
working on it, it’s very serious,”
Student Association President
Mark Schisler said Tuesday.
“We’ve got a current system that
works. These bills are not sensi
tive to the current system."
He added that he didn’t want it
to seem that the SA promotes un
derage drinking, but he didn’t be
lieve the state legislature was
going about solving problems the
right way.
Interfratemity Council Presi
dent Tom Greene echoed his sen
timent and said Tuesday he had
called Broun and was urging stu
dents and fraternity members to
contact their senators in their
home districts.
Greene said, “He’s only got one
vote," speaking of Broun. “If we
get enough people from other dis
tricts, it will be killed.”
The bill would be the end of
Greek activities at local night-
J.R. Green: Thinks bill is out
of touch with Athens
spots, he said, and it would affect
the entire student body.
Greene said the end of club
bing for those under 21 might
turn out to be students driving
around Athens, possibly con
suming alcohol, as they look for
something to do.
Jared B.ailey, co-owner of the
40 Watt Club, said he was wor
ried about how the bill’s effect on
the Athens music scene.
“It’s gonna have a very drastic
effect on the local music scene —
less bands and less people going
to see bands,” he said.
Bailey said underage patrons
make up as much as 50 percent of
the business on some nights, de
pending on which band is
playing. The drop in the audience
would definitely put a new limit
on area bands, he added.
“It’s going to make it tough,”
he said.
J.R. Green, owner of the
Rockfish Palace, said he felt the
measure was out of touch with
the Athens community. He said
he hopes to be classified ns an au
ditorium if the bill passes.
According to Redding, audito
riums, such as the Georgia
Theatre, wouldn’t be affected by
the proposal.
Jim Gerstung, owner of Papa
Joe’s, said Monday the situation
of having minors on the premises
was always vague and unclear.
“I expected it, I really did. Ev
eryone tries to do their best, but
it was always in question,” he
said.Tt’s not realistic to say 100
percent (of the under-21 -year-
olds) are not going to drink.”
Campeau bankruptcy
has diverse effects
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Although
Campeau Corp., Rich’s parent
company, is keeping its coast-to-
coast department store empire
running while it reorganizes its
shattered finances, the bank-
ruptcy case could have far-
reaching consequences beyond
the retail business.
Experts say the financial im
broglio eventually could en
danger jobs of some of the
100,000 employees at Campeau’s
258 stores around the country,
lessen the immediate trend to
ward price-cutting competition
among department stores, and
prompt investors to be more crit
ical of proposed retailer buyouts.
One 30-year veteran of the re
tail trade, who asked not to be
named, said “The ramifications
are so widespread. The domino
effects are remarkable and diffi
cult to conceive.’
By seeking bankruptcy court
shelter from creditors on
Monday, Campeau's Federated
Department Stores Inc. and Al
lied Stores Corp. can continue op
erating, covering payrolls and
meeting suppliers' bills while re
structuring their debts.
The chains’ fate depends on
solving balance-sheet problems.
In the largest retailing case ever
under Chapter 11, Federated and
Allied said their liabilities total
$7.7 billion while their assets
amount to $9.1 billion.
Fresh start for environment task force
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
University President Charles
Knapp will detail the objectives of
his recently appointed environ
mental task force at the group’s
first meeting this morning.
Henry King Stanford, former in
terim University president, will
head the group, which was ap
pointed to review the University’s
academic offerings and organiza
tion in terms of environmental con
cerns. It will include faculty, staff
and one student —Ian Henyon, a
junior pre-journalism meyor.
The task force pulls together a
cross-section of 13 representatives.
It includes members from the Of
fice of Judicial Programs, the Col
lege of Agriculture, the School of
Forest Resources and the law,
ecology, zoology and botany
schools, among others.
John Gratzek, head of the med
ical microbiology department in
the College of Veterinary Medicine
and task force member, said, “One
could construe an environmental
problem across several discipline
lines. There are very few things it
would leave out.’
Stanford was interim University
president from July 1986 to July
1987. He took the position after the
resignation of former President
Fred Davison and left it when
Knapp took office.
'Tm not exactly idle, but because
I love the University of Georgia I
felt a responsibility to do whatever
President Knapp asked me," Stan
ford said.
The entire range of environ
mental activities at the University
would be reviewed so that the task
force can make recommendations
for the future, he said.
Stanford retired as president of
the University of Miami in 1981
He was post president of Georgia
Southwestern College, Georgia
State College for Women and Bir
mingham Southern College.
The task force’s formation fits in
with Knapp’s State of the Univer
sity address this fall, in which he
detailed the environmental agenda
he wishes the University to take.
Knapp said the University must
take a stronger leadership role in
dealing with the environment.
In the speech, Knapp said the
University has long been a leader
in environmental teaching and re
search. He cited the work of the
University's Marine Institute on
Sapelo Island and the work of the
Institute of Ecology under director
emeritus Eugene Odum.
However, he asked in the speech
if the University was meeting its
obligation to educate students
about the state of the world.
“With regard to curriculum, 1
submit to you that we can no
longer afford to grant degrees to
Henry King Stanford: Will
head task force
students who are environmentally
illiterate," Knapp said in the ad
dress.