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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 58
INSIDE
A preview of the musical
“Evita,” playing this
weekend at Clarke
Central High School.
Weather: Today, decreasing
cloudiness as the day wanes,
high In mld-60s. Tonight, fair, low
40. Thursday, sunny, high in the
mid-60s. Get out in the sun!
Gubernatorial hopeful visits UGA
addresses club
bill, drug war
‘I think our police
should have the right to
stop and search cars.’
—Andrew Young,
gubernatorial
candidate
about 60 people,” he said.
The International Olympic Com
mittee, which has 93 members,
won’t make a final decision until
September.
Young represented Atlanta in
Congress from 1973-77 and was
ambassador to the United Nations
under President Carter.
Supreme Court case
affects tenure review
Andrew Young
Bars, drugs
hot topics
at capital
this session
By DARA F. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Athens Sen. Paul Broun said
Tuesday that Rep. Frank Red
ding’s proposal requiring bars to
construct barriers to separate
under-21 and over-21 patrons is
as ridiculous as Redding’s orig
inal bill prohibiting anyone
under 21 from entering bars.
'He’s just blowing smoke as far
as I’m concerned. He can’t make
changes to it, the Senate has to
do it," said Broun, D-Athens.
However, Redding, D-Decatur,
said he’s confident the bill will
pass in some form before the end
of the legislative session.
Redding said,“Even if (the bill)
does have faults, in an election
year you won’t have many people
vote against it."
He said there are several
Athens clubs that are guilty of
serving alcohol to minors. He
wouldn’t identify which clubs.
Redding plans to meet with
Rep. Mike Thurmond, D-Athens,
to hear his concerns. Then he will
ask the Senate Consumer Affairs
Committee to introduce a substi
tute bill.
The substitute bill would have
to be placed on the committee’s
agenda, approved by the com
mittee then voted for in the
Senate and the House before the
end of the session.
Redding Baid that could be
done in just one day. However,
Broun said he considers the orig
inal bill to be dead already, and
he doesn’t think a new bill could
make it out of the Legislature be
fore the end of the session, which
is 19 days away.
The House overwhelmingly
passed Friday two other substi
tute drug bills affecting students,
after the University’s Student
Association successfully lobbied
for changes to the original ver
sions of the bills.
Bill 1231, which calls for the
expulsion of college students con
victed of felony drug charges, will
be eligible for a Senate vote in
about three days, Sen. W. W.
Fincher, D-Chatsworth, said.
Bill 1225, which calls for the
expulsion of college organizations
which knowingly permit the use
of controlled substances, is being
held in the Senate Higher Educa
tion Committee until its next
meeting, said Broun, who serves
on the committee.
Alcohol isn’t considered a con
trolled substance.
“We needed to know more
about (the bill)," he said. “I per
sonally didn’t want to do any
thing unjust to the fraternities or
sororities."
Broun said he wanted to make
sure there were no ambiguous
clauses in the bill. He said he’s
basically for the bill but still has
a few questions about it.
Fincher, the committee
chairman, said the committee
discussed whether the courts —
rather than the Board of Regents
—should decide on the expulsion
of a campus organization. The
Board of Regents has the power
to make such decisions now.
Young
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Gubernatorial candidate An
drew Young said Tuesday he op
poses a bill being discussed in the
state House that would prevent
underage patrons from entering
bars.
“I can see that that basically is
pushing things too far,” Young said
during a campaign stop at the Uni
versity.
Rep. Frank Redding, D-Decatur,
said he is now considering
amending the bill, which he pro
posed, to require a barrier to sepa
rate underage and over-21 patrons
in nightclubs.
Young made the comments in a
press conference after touring the
University Complex Carbohydrate
Athletics
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The University Council’s Com
mittee on Intercollegiate Athletics
decided Tuesday to continue its
study of the academic progress of
student-athletes.
The committee decided to go
through with the study despite the
narrow defeat of its resolution be
fore the University Council on Jan.
25. The resolution asked for per
mission to obtain the information
they needed from Athletic Director
Vince Dooley.
The committee will receive some
of its information from Assistant
Athletic Director Hoke Wilder.
Wilder already has been receptive
to information requests made by
the athletics committee’s subcom
mittee on student life, according to
the subcommittee’s chair, Nancy
Rubin.
Peter Shedd, Executive Com
mittee chair and Intercollegiate
Research Center.
However, Young said he sup
ports a proposed bill that would
expel a university student con
victed for a drug felony. He said he
thought the best thing a student
involved with drugs could do would
be to leave school and get help.
‘They’re just on the campus
wasting money when they’re on
drugs,” Young said.
The former civil rights leader
said he feels the need for law en
forcement to have tools in fighting
the war on drugs.
“In war, you do have the need to
suspend civil liberties. I think our
police should have the right to stop
and search cars,” he said.
The visit to the center was the
first stop on a four-day, 17-city
statewide tour to kick off Young’s
Athletics Committee member, said
he felt the committee should re
sume its study partly because the
eyes of the faculty and the media
were on it. He asked the Student
Life Subcommittee to resume the
study and see if the student-ath
letes are getting the necessary aca
demic support.
Rubin, associate director of the
classics department, said that to
get a total picture of performance,
the subcommittee will look at year-
by-year date on football players
and male basketball players re
ceiving scholarships. She said the
key will be the admissions office
prediction of academic success as
compared to the final outcome.
The subcommittee niav look as
far back as 1964 but will concen
trate on the span from 1986 on, she
said.
The race of the athletes could be
an important issue but is only part
of the bigger picture, she said. The
chief concern is improving student-
campaign for governor.
Alan Darvill, the center’s co-di
rector, gave Young a tour of the
center, which recently received a
$3.8 million grant to investigate
the role of complex carbohydrates
in medical research. Darvill said
the former Atlanta mayor was in
terested in biomedical and agricul
tural research.
Young told reporters,“We know
all about the Georgia Bulldogs yet
we know almost nothing about
UGA research.”
Touching on other subjects,
Young said he is confident Atlanta
will get the 1996 Olympics.
“We have felt that if we can get
75 to 80 percent of the delegates
just to visit, we won’t have trouble
getting 50 percent of the votes. At
the end of April, we will have had
athlete academic performance. If
black athletes’ perfomances are
low, the study should help provide
answers to help solve the problem.
The go-ahead was given despite
University President Charles
Knapp’s formation of a special task
force to study issues involving stu
dent-athletes. Task force members
include Georgia Athletic Associa
tion members, Athletic Director
Vince Dooley and an unspecified
number of faculty members. Knapp
announced the task force Jan. 28 at
a GAA quarterly meeting.
Knapp said then that the coun
cil’s study wouldn’t have been an
appropriate response to the U.S.
News and World report article.
Shedd said at Tuesday’s meeting
that he had a conversation with
Knapp about the special task force.
He said he had Knapp’s assurance
the task force wasn’t designed to
hinder the committee’s efforts to
look into student-athlete academic
progress.
By PATRICIA CURTIN
Contributing Writer
A Supreme Court decision al
lowing confidential peer review let
ters of a professor to be subpoenaed
in tenure discrimination cases has
made a delicate issue even more
sensitive.
“Most universities have been
fearing that something like this
would occur,” said Clarissa
Myrick-Harris, assistant professor
of journalism.
‘There have been some wrongs
in the past,” she said. As more mi
norities have come into tenure-
track positions, they have been
“running up against the good-old-
boy network.”
William Prokasy, vice president
for Academic Affairs, said “One
possible consequence, the affirma
tive consequence, is that people
who write letters of evaluation will
write them more carefully.”
The decision stems from a case
filed with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission in 1985
by Rosalie Tung, then a University
of Pennsylvania professor.
Tung claimed she had been
denied tenure based on national
origin and on a negative review
letter written by the head of her
department, whose sexual ad
vances she rejected.
EEOC subpoenaed the records,
but the University of Pennsylvania
refused to release them, claiming
that universities deserve First
Amendment freedoms agninst dis
closure of confidential papers and
that making them public would
hurt the review process.
The Supreme Court ruled
agninst the university in January,
rejecting both arguments.
Justice Harry Blackmun, in his
summary opinion, stated, “Oflen,
as even petitioner seems to admit,
disclosure of peer review materials
will be necessary to determine
whether illegal discrimination has
taken place.
“Indeed, if there is a ‘smoking
gun’ to be found that demonstrates
discrimination in tenure decisions,
it is likely to be tucked away in
peer review files.”
In her second year at the Uni
versity and three years from the
start of tenure proceedings,
Myrick-Harris sees tenure as a
“very subjective process.”
“As long as it is closed, it will
continue to be based largely on how
people feel about a person and not
on their accomplishments." The de
cision “will make the process more
honest and more objective,” she
said.
Prokasy stressed that the Su
preme Court ruling “is a very
narrow decision,” representing
only a minor shift in the tenure
process in that administrative
agencies now are able to subpoena
confidential records.
“Some people will take the deci
sion and broaden it. That would be
an unwise step,” Prokasy said
Myrick-Harris stressed that mi
nority groups are not the only ben
eficiaries of the decision, a view
echoed by Judy Meyer, a tenured
zoology professor.
“I see it as something that does
not just benefit women,” Meyer
said. “Men have totally unfair
charges made against them.
“It’s going to make people make
sure that the process is fair, that
they go by the book.”
Meyer said some tenure deci
sions she would’ve liked to have
seen out in the open, where people
were treated unfairly.
“If you have just been denied
tenure it is a very personal thing,
you have a stigma on you," she
said.
Gordhan Patel, dean of the grad
uate school, said “I would venture
to say that very few people (at the
University) lost their jobs over
tenure.”
At Harvard, however, tenure de
nial is a hotly contested issue, be
cause 90 few appointments lead to
tenure-track positions.
“When someone gets an assis
tant professorship at Harvard,
(professionals) say he got a folding
cnair at Harvard because in five
years the position is going to fold,”
Patel said.
However, Patel, acknowledging
that tenure is a delicate issue, said
it was possible that professors at
the University would he more re
luctant to be candid in their peer
reviews.
Where is everybody?
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An unidentified Bulldog baseball player gets an early start on the ribbon-cutting ceremony that will
officially dedicate the new baseball diamond at Foley field on April 7.
study to continue
State House dodges
abortion discussion
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Abortion, an
issue many legislators don’t want
to touch this session, almost
made its way to the floor of the
Georgia House Tuesday, but law
makers saw what was about to
happen and effectively dodged a
vote.
The development came as the
House neared the end of debate
on a measure intended to provide
new funds for indigent care in
Georgia by making counties re
sponsible for the emergency med
ical bills of their poor.
An amendment filed by Rep.
Mike Barnett, R-Lilbum, would
have stipulated that abortions
could not be considered medical
emergencies under the legis
lation, except to save the
mother’s life.
Before the House reached the
point at which proposed amend
ments would be read and de
bated, one legislator asked
Speaker Tom Murphy, D-
Bremen, if an abortion amend
ment had been filed and was told
it had. Then Rep. Bill Dover, D-
Clarkesville, moved to table the
entire bill.
The motion passed 100-71, and
debate on the issue was stopped.
Barnett, author of a separate
bill prohibiting the use of public
money or facilities for abortions,
said he offered the amendment
because it appeared that his bill,
assigned to the House Judiciary
Committee, was going nowhere.
Neither Barnett nor Murphy
would offer an opinion on
whether the abortion amend
ment damaged the indigent care
funding bill, or whether the bill
already was in trouble.
Before the amendment’s pres
ence became known, the bill al
ready had attracted opposition.
Student shot, wounded while in auto
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By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
A University student was shot
through his open car window
Monday night, receiving wounds to
his neck and hand, according to
Athens police reports.
The incident occured about 100
yards from the graduate student
parking lot at the corner of Wad
dell Street and Florida Avenue.
JefTery Charles Davis, a junior
anthropology major, said from his
St. Mary’s Hospital room Tuesday
that he had fractured bones and
severed nerves in his hand along
with puncture wounds in his neck
and shoulder. He said he would be
released no later than Friday.
“It really isn’t as bad as it
could’ve been,” Davis said.
Davis was taken to St. Mary’s
Hospital by David Henry Dullard,
a history major and Russell Hall
resident. Dullard was also in the
car but wasn’t injured, the report
rend.
Davis said he and Dullard were
on their way to the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity at about 11 p.m. As he
turned onto Waddell from Newton
Street three people, two males and
one female, stood in the street,
blocking his way, he said.
“I veered to the left around them
and someone kicked my car," Davis
said. "Normally I would’ve kept on
going, but 1 had just had work done
on the car.”
He said he backed up and one of
the men was ranting and raving.
The man then produced a small
caliber pistol from his coat and
fired through an open window, he
said.
Dullard ducked. When Davis put
up a hand to protect himself he
said he was shot through the hand.
The bullet also grazed his neck and
shoulder.
Dullard couldn’t be reached for
comment.
Hilda Spratlin, Athens police
public information officer, said the
incident was being investigated,
but no arrests have been made.
The incident occured in front of
Parkview Homes, a public housing
project, but police and housing offi
cials say students shouldn’t worry
about violent crime stemming from
the projects located near several
fraternity houses and residence
halls.
Rick Parker, Athens Housing
Authority executive director, said
Tuesday the incident was “uncha
racteristic” and that information
he received from Athens police in
dicated the projects were less dan
gerous than other areas in Athens.
“I’m not sure there is a special
need for concern," he said. “I would
hope this to be an isolated incident
without a need for alarm."
University Police Sgt. Richard
Goodson said Tuesday that similar
assault cases were rare.