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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA « VOLUME 97, ISSUE 53
INSIDE
Georgia men’s and
women’s swim teams
trounced Auburn on
Saturday. Details inside.
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Weather: Today, mostly sunny,
high In low 60s. Fair tonight,
upper 30s. Sunny Wednesday.
mld-60s. Enjoy our early spring
while it lasts.
Univ. student raped
sets new class policy
A 21-year-old University woman
wae raped in her home at knife
point Sunday night, according to
Athens police reports.
The attacker, described as a
black man 6 feet 3 inches tall,
170 pounds and between 25 and
30 years old, knocked at the vic
tim’s door, then forced his way in.
He put a knife up to the woman’s
neck and raped her, reports read.
The victim received minor cuts
to her chest area, reports read.
Athens police said the incident
occurred in the southwest part of
Athens but to protect the victim's
privacy wouldn’t specify the
exact location.
The case has been turned over
to the criminal investigation de-
E artment of the Athens Police
lepartment.
—Christopher Grimes
Dooley
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Staff Writer
Athletic Director Vince Dooley
told the Georgia Athletic Associa
tion at it* quarterly meeting Sat
urday that a modified version of
his athlete class attendance pro
posal will go into effect spring
quarter.
The first proposal, written in
November of last year as a
“working document,” drew much
criticism from athletes. Dooley
promptly met with athletes,
coaches and faculty and refined the
policy.
The rule, a result of some six
months of study by the GAA, sus
pends from competition for up to 10
percent of the season any athlete
who obtains four or more unex
cused absences in a class during
any one quarter.
The GAA policy is designed as a
University-wide catch-all rule af
fecting programs in which coaches
don’t already have tougher class
attendance policies.
“Student-athletes must miss
some classes as a result of travel
and scheduled competition,” the
policy reads ‘These are antic
ipated and are generally allowed.
However, excessive unexcused ab
sences cannot be permitted as they
The rule is weaker than the one
first proposed in that the suspen
sion isn’t automatic with the four-
thabsence
Instead, after the fourth ab
sence, the athletic director meets
with the athlete’s head coach and if
necessary, the student-athlete, to
determine the amount of the sus
pension
Please See ATHLETICS Pago 3
AIDS patients share
feelings with crowd
By LAURA ROE
Staff Writer
See related story, page 2
David and Rick, two people with
AIDS, shared their stories, hopes,
pet peeves and fears with over 120
people at AIDS Education and
Awareness Day Saturday.
“I’m not a victim, I’m just me,”
David, a University student, said.
“It affects everybody differently.
It’s a part of me, but it’s not me.
David was diagnosed with AIDS
two years ago. He said he went to
et tested after a friend went to the
ospital for the flu and died.
"I never thought AIDS could
touch me,” David told the crowd in
a conference room at the Tate Stu
dent Center.
“You hove to take control of it
and make a positive effort to take
your life bock.
'The youth of America has the
strange idea that we’re going to
live forever — nothing con touch
usi” David said.
People with AIDS shouldn’t give
up hope, he said.
“Make the most of every day.
Every hour is precious,” David
said. “Help them find that fire
within them. There is so much to
live for.”
Both David and Rick, who isn’t a
University student, said friends
should snow concern, but also
should allow people to be de
pressed from time to time.
“Depression is a need,” Rick
said.
Rick said friends who are con
stantly saying "How ARE you
doing?” bother him a little, but
people who treat him differently
because of irrational fears of the
disease really upset him. For in
stance, Rick’s brother-in-law will
not eat or drink after him.
Rick recommended that people
get tested for the virus, but that it
was up to each individual.
"If they’re practicing safe sex,
there is really no need to get
tested,” he said.
People need to learn more about
the disease and how it can be
spread, both said.
David pointed out that AIDS
was first introduced in the media
during the 1980s and there’s still a
lot of misinformation.
“People are scared to know,” he
said.
Both David and Rick said their
families were supportive, but the
costs for treatment were high.
David estimated that he spent
about $12,000 a year for treat
ment. He said the lowest price for a
month’s dose of AZT, the only FDA-
approved drug to treat the disease,
was about $536.
Rick said that five days after he
teBted positive for the Human Im
munodeficiency Virus, he was diag
nosed with AIDS. He couldn’t
estimate his costB because he has a
good insurance program and is in
volved in a free study for a new
drug, but he still spends more
money than he would like to on
treatments. For example, he said
two days in the hospital coat him
$1,100.
Rick said AIDS patients should
always examine their hospital bills
carefully and a3k questions.
Karen Geney, a University
alumna from the Department of
Human Resources AIDS Unit,
said, “There is no one experience
about AIDS. When you do know
someone affected, the disease is
more real.”
S#Ur Fr»r/Th* Red and Black
Knapp plans task force
for athletics studies
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Staff Writer
Bring it on home
Rod Cole goes up for two during the victorious Saturday night home
game against Tennessee. For full coverage, see page 3.
University President Charles
Knapp said Saturday he plans to
commission a special task force to
study issues involving student-ath
letes.
“My intention is to put together
a task force that would include
Georgia Athletic Association mem
bers, Athletic Director Vince
Dooley, and a number of faculty
members,” Knapp said in his Presi
dent’s Report to the GAA at Satur
day’s quarterly meeting in the
Georgia Center for Continuing Ed
ucation.
“We need to look at the issues
that are on the table — doing ev
erything we can for the student life
of the student-athlete. Secondly,
we need to decide what data may
be necessary to best address the is
sues,” he said.
The call for the task force came
only two days after the University
Council rejected a proposal by its
Committee on Intercollegiate Ath
letics to study the academic pro
gress of University student-
athletes.
Some faculty members said they
voted against the proposal out of
fears that it was an overreaction to
a recent U.S. News and World Re
port article which they believed
misrepresented the status of Uni
versity athletics. Other faculty
said at the University Council
meeting that the study, which
would’ve focused on football and
male basketall players from 1975-
1989, wouldn’t have examined any
thing not already well-docu
mented.
“I don’t believe the University
Council’s study would’ve been an
appropriate response to the cheap
shot by the U.S. News and World
Report article,” Knapp said in an
interview after the meeting.
Knapp said his task force will be
different from the University
Council’s committee in that it will
study a wider base of issues in a
more in-depth analysis.
“Academic progress is only part
of the issues involving student-ath
letes. I think we need to look at all
the issues involving the life of the
student-athlete. We ought to take a
look at the issues in a careful way
in a reasonable time frame,”
Knapp said.
Boyd McWhorter, special consul
tant to the president, said that
Knapp’s idea is an excellent one
‘The athletic department is
under frontal assault,” he suid in
an interview after the GAA
meeting. “Doing this kind of self-
study is a good way to answer some
of the criticism we’ve received la
tely.”
No timetable was established for
the formation of the task force.
Charles Knapp: Plans to in
vestigate student athletes
Hampton opts for NFL draft
Demonstration rocks
Romania on Monday
By GENE WILLIAMS
Sports Editor
Georgia junior tailback Rodney
Hampton said he has no preference
as to what team drafts him or any
idea how high he will go in the
NFL’s April draft.
“I really don’t know how high I
will go,” Hampton said Friday. “I
would like to play for a West-Coast
team like the Rams, 49ers or the
Raiders, but whoever I play with
111 do my best.”
Pro scouts have indicated that
Hampton could go in the draft's
first round and a recent Sports Il
lustrated article predicted that
Hampton would be selected to the
1995 NFL All-Pro team.
Hampton will be amoung sev
eral other excellent running backs
in the draft, such as Indiana’s An
thony Thompson, Minnesota’s Dar
rell Thompson, Tennessee’s Reggie
Cobb, Penn State’s Blair Thomas,
and Arkansas’ Barry Foster. Like
Hampton, Foster and Cobb
skipped their senior season to turn
pro.
Friday afternoon, Hampton an
nounced that he would forego his
senior season at the University
and would petition the NFL to
enter the April draft.
'This is the decision I have to
make. I won’t look back even
though it is hard to leave,”
Hampton said. "I will miss ev
eryone.”
Hampton leaves as Georgia's
third all-time leading rusher with
2,688 ykrds and is the fourth junior
this season to enter the pro draft.
Ho is the third starting junior run
ning back to leave Georgia in the
last two years, the first two being
Keith Henderson and Tim Worley.
Hampton indicated that the
final decision was tough, and the
fact that his parents wanted him to
stay in school made it even
tougher.
“I talked to my mom and dad a
lot and both wanted me to come
back,” Hampton said. “But I de
cided that I didn't want to give up
this opportunity. Playing in the
NFL has always been a dream of
mine and my parents said they
would support any decision I
made.”
Hampton has suffered various
injuries during his career at
Georgia — two arthroscopic knee
surgeries, a knee sprain, a
shoulder injury and sprained an
kles — and he indicated that the
risk of injury during his senior
season factored into his decision.
“Injuries can come about at any
time and if I come back here, get
injured, then there is no (NFL)
money,” Hampton said. “But if go
to the pros and get injured, at least
I have signed a contract.”
Hampton was scheduled to an
nounce his pro intentions on Jan.
12, but he cancelled in fear of a
legal challenge by the NFL pre
venting underclassmen from en
tering the draft. On Jan. 16,
Alabama junior linebacker Keith
McCants announced his decision to
turn pro, prompting Hampton to
follow suit.
“1 didn’t want to be the first ju
nior to leave. If there are any legal
problems, I’ll deal with them.
Hopefully, they won’t try to stop
Rodney Hampton: Hopes to
play on the West Coast
us," Hampton said.
Hampton said his plans are to
“finish winter quarter and then get
in shape” for the NFL combines,
where teams conduct workouts of
prospective players for evaluation.
Head coach Ray GofTsaid he was
sorry to see Hampton go.
The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — The
government accused opponents
Monday of attempting a coup and
supporters rallied behind it, occu
pying the offices of one opposition
party and forcing another’s leader
to flee in an armored car.
More than 15,000 people rallied
in Bucharest to support the self-ap
pointed government that took over
when Communist dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu was deposed and exe
cuted last month. News media re
ported similar demonstrations in
several other cities, but gave no de
tails.
On Sunday about 15,000 people
protested in the capital, de
manding the resignation of the
government that is running the
country until elections planned on
May 20.
After initially declaring its only
purpose was to guide Romania
through the immediate post-revo
lutionary period, the government
recently said it would enter candi
dates in the elections.
That decision angered the fledg
ling opposition, which says the gov
ernment — 150 intellectuals,
technocrats and former Commu
nists —has an unfair advantage.
Many opposition politicians
have pointed to the Communist
pasts of leading members and sug-
f ested it is really the Communist
arty in disguise.
As the thousands of pro-govern
ment demonstrators gathered
Monday outside the party’s head
quarters in Victory Square, three
of Ceausescu’s henchmen pleaded
guilty in court to complicity in gen
ocide.
Former Interior Minister Tudor
Postelnicu, former Central Com
mittee secretary Emil Bobu, and
former Politburo member Manea
Manescu, along with Ion Dinca, a
former Politburo member who
pleaded guilty Saturday, admitted
supporting Ceausescu’s order to
shoot demonstrators at the revolu
tion’s outset.
About the Sunday protest, gov
ernment member Silviu Brucan
said it was organized by the Peas
ants Party, which was a dominant
presence in Parliament before
world War II and is thought to be
the strongest opposition party now.
Brucan. a ranking Communist
who fell out with Ceausescu after
criticizing his dictatorial methods,
told reporters the rally was an at
tempt to overthrow the govern
ment.
Their shock troops came close
to the main entrance of the
building,” he said. The whole
event amounted to a putsch, a coup
d’etat.”
Peasants Party spokesman Ion
Ratiu said of Brucan’s allegations:
‘The whole thing was turned
around to justify their actions
today.”
He spoke at a news conference
called in the hotel room he has
called home since returning last
week from decades of self-exile in
Britain.
Ratiu, a wealthy shipbuilder and
real estate investor, accused the
ruling party of staging Monday’s
demonstrations. Many protesters
arrived at Victory Square in buses
and trucks.
Another pro-government rally
formed around the building that
houses Peasants Party headquar
ters, about two mile from the
ruling party’s building.
“We won’t leave until you dis
solve the party!” demonstrators
chanted as they forced their way
into Liberal headquarters. Peas
ants Party leader Comeliu Copoeu
was evacuated by soldiers in an ar
mored car.
No injuries were reported at ei
ther headquarters. Brucan said
three people suffered stab wounds
to the back during Sunday’s pro
test, but that none was in serious
condition.
Veto won’t affect many Chinese here
By STEVEN M. SEARS
Staff Writer
Because of passport classifications, a ma
jority of Chinese students in the United States
won't be afTected by the Senate's failure to over
turn President Bush’s veto of legislation which
extended their visas.
Students with P-1 passports aren’t afTected
bv the Senate’s failure to overturn Bush’s veto.
The F-l passport identifies students who didn’t
receive financial aid from the Chinese govern
ment and may seek jobs in the United States
after graduation, according to several Chinese
students at the University.
One Chinese student estimated that 75 per
cent of hie fellow students have F-l passports.
The J-l passpor. identifies students wno re
ceived money from the Chinese government to
study in America. These students will be forced
to return to China if Bush doesn’t continue to
protect them.
‘The Chinese government has already in
vested a lot of money in them, and will not let
them go abroad again,” said one Chinese stu
dent who requested anonymity for fear his
family in China would be persecuted because of
his participation in Athens demonstrations.
Hong Kai Lu’s visa expires in June of 1991,
but he isn’t worried that his studies will be in
terrupted and that hell be forced to return to
China as a result of the Senate vote. The 33-
year-old psychology graduate student said he is
more concerned for his fellow Chinese.
“We not only want protection, we want to
protest. Human rights don’t exist in China,” he
said.
Lu said he is a little disappointed that Bush’s
veto wasn’t overturned because it would have
encouraged Chinese students in the United
States.
“We do not want to oflend President Bush.
We appreciate his directive,’ he said.
Weihe Guan, an ecology graduate student,
One Chinese student estimated
that 75 percent of his fellow
students have F-l passports.
said Bush’s offer to protect Chinese students is
almost as good as an overturned veto.
“I'm happy to see the administrative protec
tions are strengthened,” she said. "He assured
us that his administrative protection will not be
easily overturned."
The student who requested anonymity
stressed the need for Chinese students to con
tinue the democracy movement.
‘The resistance is not totally crushed,” he
said. “We in America should do everything pos
sible to help our countrymen.
“It is our sacred duty," he said, “a Herculean
task.”