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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 52
Council decides not to investigate athletics
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
After lengthy debate Thursday, the
University Council voted 55 to 51 against
the resolution by its Committee on Inter
collegiate Athletics to study the academic
progress of University student-athletes
Thursday.
The resolution asked University Presi
dent Charles Knapo to secure informa
tion from Athletic Director Vince Dooley
on the academic progress of University
football players and male basketball
players from 1975 to 1989.
U came in response to U.S. News and
World Report’s Jan. 8 cover story, which
highlighted the poor graduation rates of
the 1980 championship football team’s
starting offense.
The council’s decision left Peter Shedd,
chairman of the council’s Executive Com
mittee, "numbed."
“I’m concerned about how this vote will
be interpreted. I hope this doesn’t mean
that the University Council was saying
that the faculty, in general, and the Com
mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics, in
particular, should not look into the aca
demic performance of athletes,” Shedd
said.
“One of my goals is to open up ex
change between faculty and the Georgia
Athletic Association. We’ve got to break
that barrier down. They’ve got to feel the
information we want won’t endanger the
University or its programs," he said.
However, Shedd said Knapp’s final
comment to the council was "heartening.”
Knapp closed the meeting saying he
thought the Georgia Athletic Association
will help study the issues the committee
wanted to research. He also pledged aca
demic reform for athletics.
The president earlier in January sent a
letter to the Executive Committee ques
tioning the appropriateness of a study in
direct response to the news magazine’s
negative publicity.
Mary Easier, an associate professor of
educational psychology, told the council
she doubted the suitability of the data the
committee requested.
In a phone interview after the meeting,
she said, “I was saying if you are going to
look for viable solutions you must look at
everything — not just the negative but
the positive as well.
“I think asking those questions is a
moral invasion of privacy,” she said.
Frasier also disagreed with the resolu
tion because it called for the race of each
athlete as part of the information.
Bruce Shutt, University Council secre
tary, said afler the meeting he was angry
the resolution even came up.
He said, “I object to the plowing of old
ground. The study should take place from
1986 afterward because that’s when
change really took place. We already
know it was bad from 1975 to 1985."
As registrar, Shutt would have had to
collect tne data. He said the Feb. 1 dead
line the committee had placed on the data
collection was unrealistic.
“I don’t even think we could have
gotten the committee the information
they needed by the end of spring quarter,”
he said.
But Shedd said, “We needed to get the
resolution passed so the committee could
go ahead and get the data. We needed it
soon because four members on the com
mittee leave after this year."
Faculty committee members serve for
only two years on a certain committee.
Every year, four members leave to make
room for new faculty.
Reactions differ on
conspiracy allegation
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
University President Charles
Knapp refused to comment
Thursday on allegations by his
public information director of a
clandestine effort to undermine his
administration.
In a letter to The Red and Black,
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson complained that Scott
Cutlip, former College of Journa
lism dean who was quoted in The
Red and Black’s article on founda
tion expenditures, was "planting
seeds of discontent” and “taking
great painB to undermine” the
Knapp administration.
Jackson’s sentiments were re
peated in an Associated Press wire
story, published Saturday in the
Athens Banner-Herald, and in an
information package distributed to
University vice presidents, deans,
senior division managers, the Uni
versity of Georgia Foundation
Board of Trustees and the Alumni
Society Board of Managers.
The package contained copies of
letters sent to the media and the
University’s response to a series of
articles about lagging fund-raising
statistics and foundation expendi
tures.
The second article of the series
outlined the foundation’s total ex
penses related to its revenue and to
the scholarships it generated in
fiscal 1989. Cutlip, who has au
thored a book on fund raising,
served under former University
President Fred Davison. He was
quoted in the story saying the foun
dation’s total expenditures were
excessive.
In the package, Jackson said,
'To have (Cutlip) comment on fund
raising by this administration
amounts to letting the fox into the
henhouse.”
The series ran first in The Red
and Black and then in the Banner-
Herald from the AP.
Jackson said he distributed the
package because "it’s very impor
tant the trustees see the facts of
the story and not just the wire
service copy of a Red and Black
story.”
He also charged in the package
that for the AP to run the story
without first verifying it with the
University was “equivalent to
giving Boy Scouts access to nuclear
weapons.”
In the wake of two weeks of neg
ative publicity and conflict with
the media, University deans say
they hope better times are ahead.
“I don’t think there is a con
spiracy,” one dean said. “You al
ways have detractors, but that’s
part of the job.”
Another dean said he didn’t
think the whole issue would
greatly affect relationships with
alumni.
"I would have thought the ad
ministration was above some of
this, but in the long run I don’t
think it will matter.”
Another dean said that although
the articles and the information
package have “raised some ques
tions, most people are quite loyal to
the present administration."
BurnirV up the airwaves
Chris Decherd, a journalism major, broadcasts new and alternative
music over the airwaves from a control booth at WUOG, located high
atop Memorial Hall.
Senate upholds Bush
in Chinese bill veto
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate
on Thursday narrowly upheld
President Bush’s veto of a bill pro
tecting Chinese students from de
portation, leaving his China policy
intact and giving him a victory in
the year’s first test of strength with
the Democratic-controlled Con
gress.
Senators voted 62 to 37 to over
ride Bush’s veto, four short of the
two-thirds necessary.
The action came a day after the
House had voted overwhelming to
reject Bush’s veto, and followed an
intense White House lobbying blitz
that included telephone calls from
Bush and former President
Richard Nixon.
Before the Senate roll call,
Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine, said that while
Bush has voiced support for demo
cratic reform in Eastern Europe,
“this veto sends a contrary mes
sage to the millions of students and
workers in China who are strug
gling for democracy in their
country.”
But Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., the
Minority Leader, said the congres
sional showdown was the equiva
lent of “throwing out the first ball”
of the 1990 election season and was
being used by Democrats to force
GOP senators to cast “a tough po
litical vote” to support the presi
dent.
Just before the vote, Bush had
publicly renewed his promise that
the 40,000 Chinese students in the
United States would be fully pro
tected even without the legislation.
“No student, as long as I’m presi
dent, will be sent back,” he said.
And in a televised appearance
just afler the vote, Bush added,
‘We will continue to urge China to
respect the human rights of its citi
zens." He hailed the vote as “reaf
firming our commitment to
Chinese students in this country as
well as the goal of improving rela
tions with China.”
The 390-25 House vote on
Wednesday prompted immediate
criticism from the Chinese foreign
ministry in Beijing.
Senators who supported the
override said it was important to
maintain U.S. leadership for
human rights and to demonstrate
disapproval of the Chinese govern
ment’s bloody crackdown on pro-
democracy demonstrators last
June 4. Hundreds and perhaps
thousands of demonstrntors were
killed in Beijing.
Beyond protecting some 40,000
Chinese students from being sent
home to face possible persecution,
said Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine,
the bill represented "America’s
symbol to a world that is struggling
to throw off the chains of dicta
tors."
Another Republican, Sen. Slade
Gorton of Washington, said that
letting the veto stand sends “the
signal that they can get away with
what they have done and retain
their power. And I think that’s
wrong.”
New drug slows AIDS virus
in different way than AZT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A synthetic
compound has been shown in labo
ratory experiments to prevent re
production of the AIDS virus in a
way different than AZT, the only
anti-viral drug now approved for
use against AIDS, researchers an
nounced Thursday.
The compound, a manmade pep
tide called U-81749, appears to
block the final stage of a process
the AIDS virus uses to reproduce
itself in human cells. AZT, or zido
vudine, attacks an earlier stage in
the life cycle of the virus.
“It (U-81749) drastically slows
down and reduces the number of
mature viral particles you get in an
infection,” said Leonard Post, di
rector of infectious disease re
search at the Upjohn Co., where
the compound was developed.
Post said the compound works
by inhibiting the action of protease,
an enzyme used by the AIDS virus
to process proteins during the final
stages of its reproduction. The re
sult, he said, is that the virus
cannot make mature copies of it
self, and this prevents the spread
of infection to other cells.
He emphasized that the com
pound has been used only in test
tubes on cultured cells and that it
will be years before it will be ready
for human tests.
AIDS, or acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, is caused by the
human immunodeficiency virus, or
HIV. When this virus invades a
human cell, it takes over the cell’s
protein-making machinery to re
produce itself. During this process,
the virus directs the creation of a
number of different proteins. Pro
tease is an enzyme tne virus uses
to chop up a large protein molecule,
called p55, into different types of
smaller protein molecules needed
to make a mature HIV particle.
Dr. Bernard Moss, cnief of the
laboratory of viral diseases at the
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, said the Up
john research has demonstrated a
new vulnerable point in the AIDS
virus.
SEA to present petition to Univ.
calling for environmental safety
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Members of Students for Environmental Aware
ness will present a petition to the University today
calling for environmentally sound business prac
tices.
SEA President Melissa Bowen and members
Corrie Bryant and Ali Jones will give the petition to
David Coker, executive assistant to University Presi
dent Charles Knapp, in a brief meeting.
Bryant said the petition, drafted early fall
quarter, lists three major objectives:
• Minimizing the amount of material and energy
wasted by the University
• Recycling otherwise disposed-of materials
• Using disposable materials with the least neg
ative environmental impact
After pushing petitions across campus and posting
them in the downtown Athens area, SEA came up
with over 3,000 signatures.
Bryant said, "We’d hoped for more but I think the
number that we’ve gotten is very much indicative of
student support for what’s going on."
Drafted early fall quarter, the petition preceded
Knapp’s Nov. 2 State of the University address,
which called for an increase in University awareness
of environmental issues.
It also preceded the formation of a University Re
cycling Task Force, which begins a solid-waste recy
cling program Thursday, putting bins in 15 campus
locations to collect paper, glass and aluminum.
Bowen said, “We’re really excited that they’ve
gone ahead and moved on a recycling program here
at the University. We just want it to continue."
She said she hoped to see the University pur
chasing recycled products and trying to conserve en
ergy in response to the petition.
Health center offers AIDS testing, counseling for students
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
The Gilbert Health Center not
only offers anonymous testing for
anyone concerned about AIDS, but
also has a variety of treatment pro
grams and counseling available for
students who test positive for the
Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Dr. Florence Winship, assistant
director for physical health at the
health center, said any student
who comes to be tested is counseled
before the test is administered.
In two weeks, the Btudent re
ceives the results and a poet
testing counseling session regard
less of the outcome. If a student
tests positive for the HIV virus, a
program involving medical help,
mental care, nutrition and educa
tion counseling as well as a recom
mendation for a support group will
begin to help the student cope with
the disease, Winship said.
Students are allowed six free
visits to the mental health clinic,
she said. Other visits are offered at
a low fee. There ore no charges for
medical and nutritional counseling
and no physician fees. The HIV
and both pre-test and poet-test
counseling sessions cost $15 total.
Dr. Paul Peteet, a staff physi
cian at the health center, said the
health service is trying to provide
information for the students and
offer treatment and counseling for
those infected with the virus.
“We see more and more people
that are concerned about HTV and
their risk. It's such a wide-scale ep
idemic that we're seeing more
people who are concerned about it
and want to be tested for it," he
said.
There are several myths about
contracting AIDS that students
still believe, he said. People believe
they can catch the virus by living
with someone who has AIDS in a
residence hall or that it can be
spread like the flu or common cold.
But the most common wayB to
become infected with the virus are
through sexual transmission, blood
transfusions, sharing contami
nated needles and intravenous
drug use, Peteet said.
Women carrying the virus can
infect their children through child
birth, he said.
Although each individual case of
AIDS must be cared for separately,
the disease does have stages with
specific treatments, Peteet said.
The first stage is a flu-type illness
which is treated by monitoring a
person's immune system.
If the immune system is having
problems, then that person may be
a candidate for the drug AZT.
The second stage, which has no
symptoms, is referred to as a latent
phase. AZT is known to prolong
this latent phase and to slow down
the progression of the virus over
time, Peteet said.
The later phase or a “full-blown"
case of AIDS is diagnosed by both a
positive HTV test and an infection
or cancer of some sort, he said.
People should be aware of the
disease’s early symptoms which in
clude fever, weight loss, lymph
gland swelling and skin rashes, Pe
teet said.
“We’re trying to get people to
find out if they’re positive early on
so that they can get whatever
treatment, preventive or thera
peutic, that’s available as soon as
possible,” he said.
'They need to get into coun
seling and some type of mental
health treatment, too," he said.
Nancy MacNair, health educator
at the health center, is also in
volved in many support groups for
people with AIDS.
“It’s important to be with other
students in the same boat,” Mac-
\IDS AWARENESS
This Saturday, AIDS Education, Awareness and Action Day will
give students and faculty the chance to meet with AIDS experts
and those Infected with the virus. Co-sponsored by the grass
roots organization AIDS Athens and University Health Services,
the workshop will be held at the Tate Student Center from 8:30
a.m. to S p.m. To register call 542-AIDS today. Fees are $2 for
students and $15 for non-students.
Nair said.
UGAIDS is a support group on
campus which meets twice a
month.
'They share information on
medicine, nutrition, diet, new
drugs, feelings and depression,"
she said. “It’s an open discussion
and people can sit and listen if they
do not want to talk.”
David Mattox, UGAIDS facili
tator and University graduate stu
dent, said, “We’re hoping testing
on campus will give people more
freedom to come to our group and
know that we’re there."
For confidentiality, UGAIDS
doesn’t publish times of meetings,
but interested students can call
Nancy MacNair at 542-1162.