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An up-close interview with Seven Simons
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 57
INSIDE
The Gym Dogs scored a
fall-ridden victory against
Ohio State here Sunday.
For a report, see inside.
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Weather: Today, sunny, mid-60s.
Becoming cloudy tonight, 30
percent chance rain, mid-40s.
Wednesday, a cloudy morning,
clearing later, high 60.
18-year-old student
reports being raped
An 18-year-old student re
ported she was roped Sunday
about 1 a.m. at her Southeast
Athens residence. The attack is
the third assault against a fe
male University student in less
than three weeks.
No arrests have been made for
any of the recent attacks, which
law enforcement officials soy are
unrelated.
The victim of Sunday’s attack
reported that she exited her
bathroom and was pushed back
into the room by an attacker
known to her. The attacker then
roped her, according to Athens
police reports released Monday.
Because the attacker was
known to the victim, details of his
description weren’t released.
No new leads have developed
in connection with a rape that oc
curred Jan. 28 in Southwest
Athens, or in the assault that oc-
urred Jan. 16 at Willow Mist
apartments. The victims in these
cases are also University stu
dents.
Clarke County police have said
the attack at Willow Mist apart
ments may have been an at
tempted rape, but Clarke County
The attack is the third
assault against a
female University
student in less than
three weeks.
Police Cpl. Greg Paul said the at
tack didn’t seem premeditated. It
probably resulted when the at
tacker was surprised during a
burglary, he said.
Paul said the number of recent
assaults was “not a suprising
amount."
Hilda Spratlin, Athens Police
public information officer, agreed
and said the rapes were unre
lated. She noted that the most re
cent rape was different from the
Jan. 28 attack because the victim
knew her attacker.
“Rapes, by their nature, are
hard to predict," she said.
-Michael W. McLeod
Keeping under-21-year-olds separate
Barriers might
By DARA F. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Just when you thought segrega
tion was over, students under 21
could find themselves separated
from those over 21 by a physical
barrier in Athens nightclub.
Rep. Frank Redding, D-Decatur,
said he is considering amending or
changing his original bill, which
prohibits anyone under 21 from en
tering bars. The proposal would re
quire nightclubs to construct a
physical barrier to separate their
underage patrons from their over-
21 patrons.
The original version of the bill
was expected to be brought up
Monday in the Senate Consumer
Affairs Committee meeting. Red
ding said the bill wasn’t called be
cause Athens Rep. Mike Thurmond
“asked, ordered, begged and de
manded” that Redding be sensitive
to the bill’s possible effects on
Athens.
Redding said, “It seems like the
students at the University of
Georgia want to be able to buy
whiskey if they’re underage. A
number of students have told me
that they do go in bars and buy
whiskey.”
Redding said he recently visited
Athens bars where he witnessed
“obviously underage” people
drinking.
Phil Smith, a Young Democrat*
member, said the possible changes
are equally unfeasible. The Young
Democrats have lobbied against
the original bill for the past three
weeks.
In a written statement, Smith
said, “I hope this is some kind of
sick joke. Does he actually believe
his idea to be feasible? His igno
rance of the college atmosphere is
overwhelming.”
Redding said he has received nu
merous complaints about the orig
inal bill from students and clubs in
Athens, but only one complaint
from an Atlanta club. That club, he
said, has already agreed to the bar
rier proposal.
Thurmond said he understands
the bill in its orignal form is dead.
He wouldn’t discuss the possible
changes requiring that underage
patrons be separated from others,
because he hasn’t discussed it with
Redding and because the amend
ment or substitute bill hasn’t been
drawn up vet.
Ken Fulghum, owner of O'Mal
ley’s Tavern, said, ‘The whole so
go up in bars
cial unit in Athens is between 18
and 22, and they do things in
groups — vet he would have me
build a wall to keep the freshmen
and sophomores on one side and
the juniors and seniors on the
other.”
Jim Geretung, owner of Papa
Joe's, said he could see how some
establishments could auarter off
the dance floor, but ne doesn’t
think it would work for him.
“I can’t see how I could do that.
It would be the same as not letting
them in. It would be almost like
two bars side by side," he said.
Athens Police Chief Mark Wal
lace said he thinks the club owners
do a good job of not serving un
derage people, but that doesn’t stop
underage people from drinking in
the clubs.
Redding said with the current
situation, there’s no way to prevent
older people from giving alcohol to
underage people.
“I’m asking the club owners to
abide by the law. Their primary
reason for wanting underage cus
tomers is money,” he said. “They
want to have underage girls so that
older males will come in. It’s ex
ploitation of females.”
Redding said he hasn’t made up
Ken Fulghum: O’Malley’s
owner doesn’t want barrier
his mind as to the exact changes to
the bill and how they will be imple
mented. He said he is also consid
ering other changes to the bill.
Redding will be visiting some
Athens nightclubs in the coming
weeks to ascertain the problem and
make a final decision on what
changes should be made.
A challenge for kids
Instructor Brenda Cobb works with a group of three-year-olds In the Snap, Crackle, Pop! Saturday Discove
ries class at Aderhold Hall. The kids are finger-painting with chocolate pudding.
Program gives kids chance
to discover joys of science
By GAYL BARRETT
Staff Writer
While most 11-year-olds were watching cartoons
last Saturday morning, Courtney Kemp was getting
ready for her chemistry class at the University.
She’s one of 13 middle school students chosen to
participate in a six-week pilot program offered by the
Torrance Center for Creative Studies.
Armed with goggles, lab coats and manuals, these
students get a taste of what a career in chemistry may
hold.
‘The whole idea is to get them excited about chem
istry,” Assistant Professor Michael Duncan said.
“Chemistry is fun. It has bright colors, makes loud
noises, ofTers strange surprises. We want to generate
the curiosity so they will go further with it on their
own,” Duncan said.
The class meets every Saturday from 9 to 11 a m.
with the program ending Feb. 24. The program costs
$80 per student.
Students are chosen according to their interest in
science and are taught by Duncan and graduate stu
dents Brenda Colegrove and Kristie Kiick. Chemicals,
supplies and lab space have been donated by the Uni
versity’s chemistry department.
Duncan said, “We’re really concerned with the fact
that fewer and fewer people are going into science.
When they think ‘science’ tney think dull and difficult.
‘The truth of the matter is, many parts of the world
are really extending their fields of science and tech
nology,” he said. “We’re getting left in the dust.”
Program Director Robin Shy said children have
shown such an interest in science that the program
may attempt to expand to other deportments here at
the University.
“I think kids are just craving knowledge of science
and they’re just not getting it," Shy said.
“I feel like we should get all over this campus —
physics, vet school, pharmacy, all areas,” she said.
The chemistry program is an extension of the al
ready existing Torrance Center’s Challenge program
called Saturday Discoveries, which is offered at the
same time.
Saturday Discoveries ofTers a variety of hands-on
learning courses for children between the ages of
three and 10. In the Saturday Discoveries program,
children learn about Japanese folk art, Egyptian cul
ture, oceanography science and painting. All activities
are geared to stimulate academically and creatively
talented children. The Torrance Center is located in
Aderhold Hall.
The program is solely dependent on each child’s fee,
Shy said. Unfortunately, this weeds out many of the
students who are talented, but unable to afford the
costs. She said often these children are the ones who
most need the classes.
“Many people feel that just because the kids are
bright, they’re going to make it. Statistics have proven
that to be false. Look at the people that are in prison,
people that die of drug overdoses, suicides in high
school, dropouts — a large percentage of them are in
that gifted range,” she said.
‘They drop out because they can’t cope and they’re
not appreciated for who they are and what they know.
We, in our program, say ‘it’s O.K. to be different,’ and
‘go as far as you want to go,” she said.
“We’ll be there to support you every step of the
way."
Teenager arrested in auto break-ins
Stereo, compact disc player,
3 radar detectors recovered
University police arrested an 18-
year-old Athens resident in the
Russell Hall parking lot Friday
night in connection with local auto
break-ins, according to University
police reports.
Reginald Lanier Fears, who isn’t
a University student, was charged
with carrying a concealed weapon,
possession of tools for the commi-
sion of a crime, possession of stolen
property and financial transaction
cara theft, the report read.
University Police Sgt. Richard
Good son said officers stopped
Fears’ car because it matched the
description of a car connected with
earlier auto break-ins in the com
muter parking lot facing Oconee
Street. The car wasn’t registered
with parking services, he said
Monday.
In Fears’ car, University police
found four knives, two pellet guns,
a hammer, ratchet and glass cut
ting tools, Good son said. Also
found in his car were three radar
detectors, a car stereo, a car cas
sette player, a car compact disc
player, checks, keys, University
identification cards and a Mac/s
department store credit card.
Good son said two of the items, a
radar detector and a car stero, had
been reported stolen according to
the Athens Police Department. He
also said the pellet guns could be
used to break auto windows.
University Police Chief Chuck
Horton said Monday the police
haven’t officially determined
whether the rest of the property
was stolen, or whether it belonged
to University student*. However,
he said the incident was “certainly
suspicious."
—Michael W. McLeod
Young at UGA for first campaign stop
From staff and wire reports
Andrew Young, the former civil rights leader,
ambassador, congressman and mayor, will tour
the University Center for Complex Carbohy
drate Research today on the first day of his
campaign for governor.
Young will begin the tour at 8:46 a.m. and
will meet with the press afterwards.
Peter Albersheim, the center’s co-director,
said, “He’s interested in agriculture and high
technology and we are connected with that.”
After visiting the University, the gubernato
rial candidate will make brief stops today in El-
berton, Augusta and Savannah. The stops are
part of a frenetic four-day, 1,260-mile driving
tour of 17 Georgia cities, emphasizing one-on-
one meetings with politicians and journalists
from the North Georgia hills to the Southern
coast.
Young officially announced his intentions to
run Monday in Atlanta. In his announcement,
he touched on two controversial topics, vowing
to protect abortion rights and calling for a
statewide vote on a lottery — something that’s
been bottled up in the Georgia Legislature for
years.
Young left office last month after eight years
as Atlanta’s mayor and has worked for months
planning his Democratic campaign.
Young, who would become Georgia’s first
black governor and the nation’s second, spoke
in his kickoff speech of a coalition campaign,
with ‘young and old, rural and suburban folks
... residents of our cities and towns.” He has tra
ditionally eschewed direct racial messages, and
he continued that strategy in his first official
campaign speech, not referring to the historic
nature of his campaign.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll last fall
showed Young with 38 percent of the Demo
cratic vote — enough to lead the pack, but not
enough to avoid a runoff. Lt. Gov. Zell Miller
was second at 30 percent. Political observers
say Young's toughest challenge may be picking
up white support against a white candidate in
the Democratic primary runoff.
Young indicated he’ll run on a platform of
economics and new industry, stressing his ac
complishments in presiding over Atlanta’s
business boom of the ’80s. More business, not
tax hikes, should fuel Georgia’s growth, he said.
“I am opposed to raising taxes,” he declared.
“What we need is more taxpayers, not higher
taxes.... I am the only candidate who can create
the economic growth that will hold taxes down.”
He addressed the abortion and lottery issues,
vowing “leadership that will protect a woman’s
right to choose, and protect your right to vote on
a lottery." If the lottery wins, Young said, he’ll
work to make sure all proceeds go to augment
— not replace —current education funding.
Miller, seen as Young’s chief challenger, said
Monday, “He’s going to be a very formidable
candidate.” Young’s stature will result in inter
national news coverage of the 1990 governor’s
race, bringing “a different dimension to this
race than we’ve ever seen,” Miller said.
Young, a key player in the civil rights
movement, represented Atlanta in Congress
from 1973-77. He was ambassador to the
United Nations under President Carter.
Flyin’ the flag
No, It’s not another protest march. Kyle Ellis, a freshman prejoutrva
llsm major, practices Monday for flag line tryouts coming in April.