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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 51
INSIDE
The Georgia Museum of
Art begins an African art
exhibit on Saturday. See
inside for a preview.
Weather: Today, rainy, high In tne
mid-50s. Tonight, 20 percent
chance of rain early, clearing and
colder later, low In the low 30s.
Friday, sunny, upper 40s.
SA lobbies at House;
drug bills put on hold
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
ATLANTA — Two drug bills
which were supposed to be dis
cussed Wednesday by the state
House of Representatives’ Uni
versity System Committee were
put into a subcommittee to be dis
cussed next Wednesday.
Rep. Thomas Buck, D — Co
lumbus, chairman of the Univer
sity System Committee, said the
two bills, which will affect the
University, need “polishing.”
He said he would like a sub
committee, led by Rep. Bob Lane,
D — Statesboro, to meet with the
leaders of the University’s Stu
dent Association to discuss the
bills on Wednesday.
Four SA members, including
President Mark Schisler, at
tended the University System
Committee meeting to lobby leg
islators about the bill.
Buck told the SA members,
“We want to work with you, not
against you.”
University President Charles
Knapp said he was impressed
with the SA and thought their
presence at the meeting was in
fluential. The University was the
only school that sent student rep
resentatives to the University
System Committee meeting.
The two bills to be discussed
are House bills 1225 and 1231,
which call for the expulsion of
students convicted of drug
charges and the expulsion of stu
dent organizations for drug use
or for violating underage
drinking laws.
Sophomore Sen. Laura Bourg
told Lane she basically agreed
with the bills, but in the Univer
sity’s case she said the Student
Judiciary should continue hand
ling student appeal cases on such
issues.
Bourg will meet with Lane
today to discuss the bills.
Chinese student bill up in air
From staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON - The House
voted overwhelming Wednesday to
override President George Bush’s
veto of legislation protecting
Chinese students from deporta
tion, while Bush appealed to Re-
ubliean senators to resist and
elp him keep open ties to the
world’s most populous nation.
The House vote of 390 to 25 sent
the matter to the Senate, where
both sides said the outcome of
Thursday’s scheduled vote was in
doubt.
House Speaker Thomas S. Foley
declared, “I don’t think what’s
most on the minds of the members
of Congress is the sensitivities of
the present Chinese leadership.
This is a leadership that has in our
judgment failed to respect the
rights of its own citizens.
“On the issue of China, the pres
ident has lost his credibility,” said
Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y.,
chairman of the House Foreign Af
fairs Asia subcommittee.
Bush pinned his hopes on the
Senate, where both Democratic
and Republican senators predicted
a cliffhanger.
Bush was publicly appealing to
GOP senators to support him in
the face of what he termed “crass
politics” played by some supporters
of the override.
The legislation would affect as
many as 32,000 Chinese students
now in the United States on “ex
change visitor” visas. The bill
would waive a legal requirement
that those students return home
for two years after their visas ex
pire before returning to the United
States or going elsewhere.
In addition, the bill would
permit any Chinese student whose
visa has expired — as many as 8,-
000 others — to remain in the
United States as long as danger ex
ists at home, and would allow
Chinese students to work here.
Bush vetoed the measure on
Nov. 30 after it had passed unani
mously in the House and by a voice
vote in the Senate. Chinese stu
dent groups have lobbied hard for
an override of the veto, saying
many of them would face political
persecution at home because they
supported the pro-democracy dem
onstrations that brought a violent
government crackdown last June.
At the time Bush vetoed the bill,
he ordered government agencies to
adopt what he contends are essen
tially the same safeguards. The
veto was simply an effort to pre
serve executive branch foreign
policy prerogatives, he said, and to
keep open the door for future stu
dent and cultural exchanges.
“I will not break faith with the
Chinese students here. They were
safe then, and they are safe now,
and they will be safe in the future,”
Bush told a White House news con
ference Wednesday.
To 37 GOP senators at a break
fast at the White House, Bush Baid
that a veto override would mean a
total cutoff of the flow of students
to the United States.
Bush listed steps the Beijing
government has taken which he
said justified his policy toward
China: the lifting of martial law in
the capital; the release of jailed dis
sidents; a promise not to sell me
dium-range missiles to Syria;
acceptance of Peace Corps volun
teers, Fulbright scholars and a
Voice of America correspondent
back into the country, and the
muting of anti-U.S. propaganda.
Reaction to the override in the
University community was favor
able. Hong Kai Lu, a psychology
graduate student, said, “It’s very
traumatic for the Chinese govern
ment. This shows that the Amer
ican people disagree with the
Chinese government."
Lu Wang, an ecology graduate
student, said “I think it’s very kind
to let the Chinese students stay
longer. In mainland China, older
students who supported the dem
onstrations are considered bad el
ements.”
Chinese History Professor
Thomas Ganschow said, “It’s not
only a sign to Chinese students,
but also to people of other countries
who are fighting for democracy.
*Tm very pleased and hope the
Senate will do the same tom-
morow,” Ganschow said.
Would you please cut it out?
University sophomore Candice Bennett learns howto cut and shape with a saw. but a hole must be made first to give the saw a place to
brass for her first project in Jewelry 252. Designs are put on brass start cutting, she said.
Dooley looking into
lighting Univ. track
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
Athletic Director Vince Dooley
said he is investigating the possi
bility of installing security lights at
the track on Lumpkin Street fol
lowing a request by the Student
Association.
Junior Sen. Todd King wrote in
a letter to Dooley that many stu
dents have approached SA sen
ators and expressed their concerns
about safety at the track after
dark.
Dooley said the Georgia Athletic
Association is looking into adding
one or two strategically located
floodlights, but one of the major
concerns to the GAA, which fi
nances the the track, is the pro
ject’s expense.
Dooley said the cost of installing
floodlights to illuminate the track
for nighttime use has not been de
termined yet.
The primary reason for having
the track is so the University inter
collegiate track teams can use it,
he said.
“We’re pleased we can let it be
used by students and faculty when
it’s not being used by the track
teams, but many other schools
don’t allow that,” he said.
The additional use increases
wear on the track, and Dooley said
the GAA recently spent $500,000
to resurface it so it would meet
standards for collegiate competi
tion.
Public Safety Director Asa
Boynton said the track is the re
sponsibility of the athletic office
and it decides when it will be avail
able to the public.
‘If it’s been determined that it’s
going to be used after dark, the
issue of safety needs to be ad
dressed,” he said.
“If they’re not going to make it a
secure area, then they need to
make it off limits,” Boynton said.
University Police Sgt. Richard
Goodson said, “It seems like a good
idea to have lights up there, but I
can’t recall any criminal incidents
there.”
Michelle Garber, president of
Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, located
across from the track, said she is
concerned that lighting the track
will increase noise and activity
there late at night.
She said she thinks it’s a good
idea for security reasons, but plans
to ask Dooley to take some mea
sures to keep people from using the
track at odd hours if the lights are
installed.
Garber said she may suggest that
the lights be turned off or that the
area be closed for public use
around 11 p.m.
Dooley said the GAA will discuss
this at its meeting Saturday if
enough information has been com
piled to properly address the issue
of lighting the track.
SA senator proposes
school, college voting
Council to decide on athletics study
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The University Council will decide this af
ternoon whether to give the green light to a
study of athletes’ academic progress to be con
ducted by its Committee on Intercollegiate
Athletics.
The study involves all football and basket
ball players who signed grant-in-aid
agreements with the Georgia Athletic Associa
tion between 1975 and 1989. The council will
meet in the law school auditorium at 3:30 p.m.
University President Charles Knapp, in a
letter to the Executive Committee dated Jan.
8, expressed concern about whether it was ap
propriate for the University Council to react
directly to the U.S. News and World Report
article about the 1980 Championship football
team.
On Jan.8, U.S. News and World Report pub
lished an article entitled “The Price of Victory”
which detailed the poor graduation rate of the
starting offense of the 1980 team.
“I do not believe that the Council should
dignify this particular article by undertaking
analysis in response to it,” Knapp states in the
letter.
‘These issues should be studied carefully,
thoroughly and over a reasonable time frame
within the existing structure of the Council,”
he stated in the letter.
Peter Shedd, chairman of the council’s Ex
ecutive Committee, said the council may de
cide to ask Knapp to secure the information
from Athletic Director Vince Dooley by Feb. 9.
The committee is asking for the following
information:
• The names of all football players who
signed a grant-in-aid agreement with the GAA
between 1975 and 1989 and who enrolled with
the University.
• The names of all male basketball players
who signed a grant-in-aid agreement with the
GAA from 1975 to 1989 and who were enrolled
in the University.
• The race of the athletes.
• The year in which each of these athletes
signed the grant-in-aid agreement and the cir
cumstances under which each signed — for ex
ample, whether the athlete was recruited as a
student or transfer or signed as a walk-on.
• The incidences of academic probation or
dismissal of any of the athletes.
• The dates of graduation, major, degree
and the institution from which each of the
players graduated.
• The major and the number of credit hours
earned toward a degree of each ungraduated
player.
• The current place of employment and po
sition or job responsibility of each player,
whether or not he graduated.
Shedd said Knapp had told him that getting
all of the information may take more time
than the Feb. 9 deadline allows.
Knapp should give the council an idea of
how long the information gathering will take
at the meeting, he said.
Other items the council will discuss include
a resolution to ask the Board of Regents to in
crease the basic life insurance program for
University System employees from $25,000 to
$40,000.
The council also will consider the final pro
posal for an agribusiness meyor under the
Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture.
to cost $10 billion in 1991
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
During debate over Student As
sociation constitutional changes
Tuesday, an SA senator proposed
electing representatives from the
University’s 13 schools and col
leges instead of from each class.
Junior Sen. John Piedrahita
said the elections would provide
the SA with more senators and
candidates from schools and col
leges with higher enrollment.
The proposal calls for a presi
dent, vice president and 34 sen
ators.
SA President Mark Schisler said
he agreed with Piedrahita but
would like to amend the proposal
to include 53 senators.
SA tabled further action on Pie-
drahita’s proposal as well as pro
posed revisions to freshman
election procedures outlined in the
constitution.
Debate was sparked when Presi
dent Pro Tern Andrea Naterman
read proposed revisions which
would create a freshman advisory
board and eliminate the six
freshman senate seats.
The six freshman board mem
bers, selected in interviews by the
Internal Affairs Committee, would
have no vote in the SA.
Freshman senators are elected
early in fall quarter because the
class is not on campus for the reg
ular SA elections in the spring.
Discussion about the problems in
volved with conducting a separate
freshman election began last
quarter and gave way to the pro
posal to form the advisory board.
“It’s a lot of time and effort for
students to participate when such
a small percentage turn out to
vote," Naterman said.
Turnout was 3 percent at this
year’B freshman election.
She also said students on
campus aren’t interested in
helping SA run the election.
Tom Cochran, vice president for
Student Affairs, said his office
oversees both SA elections and it is
a big responsibility.
Junior Sen. Pete Allen said the
proposal to deny a freshman advi
sory board of voting rights was an
attempt to distinguish senators
elected by the student body from
representatives selected by the SA
Internal Affairs Committee.
"It’s not in any way designed to
rob the freshman class of a vote in
the senate,” he said.
But junior Sen. Todd King dis
agreed. “If you do not allow them to
have a vote in this House then ba
sically it’s a joke to even have them
here.
Freshman Sen. Samantha An
derson proposed allowing
freshmen selected by the Internal
Affairs Committee to remain sen
ators with voting rights.
"I don’t think that as a whole the
freshman class would object to
being elected by senators,” she
said.
Anderson said freshmen might
object to their SA representatives
being disenfranchised.
Drug war
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The second
hase of the National Drug Control
trategy, to be unveiled today by
President Bush, will call for
spending more than $10 billion on
the war against drugs in 1991, at
least $1.2 billion more than this
year, sources said Wednesday.
Money for the Pentagon’s effort
to battle drugs would rise about 50
percent, from $880 million this
year to $1.2 billion in fiscal 1991, a
draft of the strategy said.
Congress has allocated about
$8.8 billion for the drug war this
fiscal year, about $900 million
more than the $7.9 billion sought
by Bush in the strategy unveiled
last September.
The new strategy will also inten
sify federal anti-drug efforts in five
areas, said the sources, all of whom
requested anonymity.
Those areas — metropolitan
New York, Miami, Houston, Los
Angeles and virtually all of the
Southwest border — will be desig
nated as high-intensity drug-traf
ficking regions and will benefit this
year from $25 million previously
approved by Congress and from as
much as $21 billion from the fed
eral asset-forfeiture hind,. the
sources said.
By and large, the strategy’s
focus will remain as it was in the
original plan:
—Harsh, state-imposed penal
ties for drug users.
—Intensified treatment and pre
vention efforts.
—Bigger budgets for law en
forcement at all levels.
One source said that the tar
geting of five areas in the war
against drugs this year will not
mean more money for local govern
ments. Rather, they will get in
creased cooperation from federal
agents.