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The Red and Black • Wednesday, February 7, 1990 • 3
JUDICIAL REPORT
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
Judicial Programs received six complaints last week, including a
disorderly conduct/damage to property charge against a student orga
nization.
Here are the other complaints, obtained from Judicial Programs
Counselor Roger Lee. They were filed from Jan. 31 through Feb. 2
against individual students:
• One driving under the influence.
• One disorderly conduct.
• One contempt of court.
• Two academic dishonesty.
Although filed with Judicial Programs, the complaints won't nec
essarily be heard by the Student Judiciary. Some may be dropped be
fore then.
Also last week, the judiciary suspended a student for one quarter
for cheating. That case may be appealed.
This week, Lee said the judiciary will hear four academic dishon
esty cases, two contempt of court cases, two falsification of records
cases and a disorderly conduct case.
Falsification of records may include forging student IDs, doctor’s
excuses, checks or other documents. Contempt of court violations may
include lying to the judiciary, unruly behavior toward a judiciary offi
cial or failure to follow a court order.
According to federal law, the judiciary can’t name students charged
with breaking University regulations.
Judicial Programs won’t name fraternities, sororities or other orga
nizations involved in cases until after they’ve been sentenced.
Lee said the judiciary delayed hearings in several drug cases last
week.
Pen pal athletes urge sixth-graders to
study harder and persevere in school.
By SHANNON SAVAGE
Contributing Writer
Fight over skin-tone
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Testimony ended
Tuesday in a trial involving
charges of discrimination by one
black woman against another, but
the judge indicated he would not
reach a verdict until after an April
30 deadline for written briefs.
Tracy Lynn Morrow contends
she was fired from her job as a
clerk with the Internal Revenue
Service because her supervisor,
who also is black, resented her
lighter-colored skin.
Her former boss, Ruby Lewis,
denied the charge and said Ms.
Morrow could not type or do other
duties basic to her job. Mrs. Lewis
and others also claimed Ms.
Morrow was insubordinate and
had a bad attitude.
Ms. Morrow was fired from her
$14,000-a-year job in March 1986.
In her federal lawsuit, she seeks
$60,000 in back pay plus reinstate
ment. The non-jury trial before
U.S. District Judge Charles A.
Moye Jr. started Jan. 30.
If Ms. Morrow wins, she will be
the first black to collect damages
from a black supervisor for dis
crimination based on skin tone dif
ferences, according to attorneys
and federal Equal Employment
Opportunity Act specialists.
The trial was marked by directly
contradicting testimony over
whether Mrs. Lewis demeaned Ms.
Morrow over her lighter skin color
and whether Ms. Morrow had
brought on animosity by making
remarks insulting to Southern
black people.
Mrs. Lewis testified that Ms.
Morrow’s work was rife with er
rors. “She had a very negative re
sponse when we tried to help her
and give her instruction. She
would not accept instruction,” she
testified.
Ms. Morrow countered that
many of the errors attributed to
her were made by other employees
and that Mrs. Lewis knew it.
On Tuesday, Moye advised law
yers on both sides to substantiate
any claims as to the reliability of
opposing witnesses, noting that
each party accused the other of
wholesale lying.
For the past six months, mem
bers of several athletic teams at
the University have been involved
in a conspiracy — a conspiracy to
get sixth graders at Hilsman
Middle School to read.
Since Sept. 23, male and female
student athletes have participated
in a volunteer pen-pal program in
which the athletes write 12 year-
old students encouraging them to
stay in school and motivating them
to make good grades.
The program forces the children,
who are in the lowest level reading
class, to read and to write.
‘This was a sneaky way to get
them to read and write since they
have to read the letters and then
work to construct letters to their
pen pal,” Michelle Simpson, asso
ciate professor of Developmental
Studies and program co-coordi
nator, said.
The athletes were able to meet
their pen pals for lunch Tuesday at
McWhorter Hall, where most male
athletes live.
The students presented their
pen pal athletes with certificates of
appreciation and shared scrap
books the children made that in
cluded newspaper articles about
their athletes and the letters they
had exchanged.
Simpson said the athletes, who
WHI R e<l Black
LeMonte Tellis and Eimitri Goolsby: the two Georgia athletes participated in a pen pal
program with students at Hilsman Middle School aimed at keeping the kids in class.
has shown measurable success. terest in the program on the side of
“It has improved the children’s the athletes as well, said Glada
attitude toward reading. They’re Gunnells, adviser to women ath-
respresent a variety of sports from
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track to golf to basketball, have to
be positive role models and willing
to commit themselves.
‘They would have to be consis
tent and follow through so that
they wouldn’t let the children
down,”she said.
Athletes are chosen to represent
an attitude that reflects the impor
tance of scholarship, college and
finishing high school, Simpson
said.
Jennifer Griffeth, a freshman
diving team member, said she tries
to emphasize the importance of
school to her pen pal.
“We try to motivate them,” she
said. “They’re slow learners and a
lot of them drop out or get preg
nant, and we tr^ to keep them in
school.”
The volunteers don’t have to be
outstanding students, they just
have to be willing to try to under
stand and work with 12-year-olds,
Simpson said.
“Not everyone can talk to 12-
year-olds and put up with 12-year-
olds that are impatient," she said.
They have to be patient and giving
— altruistic really.”
Simpson coaches the athletes on
what to write to their pen pals.
Topics may include encouraging
the sixth graders to follow rules, to
hand in homework and to take
pride in their work.
The program, which began three
years ago as a combined effort by
Simpson and her husband Tom,
reading less comic books and more
real books,” she said. “Some of the
athletes even give the kids copies
of one of their favorite paperbacks
and sign them.
“If we can change their attitude
about reading and can get them to
read more books voluntarily, then
we’ve done something magical,”
Simpson said.
The program has become such a
success that Tom Simpson has re
ceived a grant from Southern Bell
that will give the children a chance
to write a book about their
relationship with the athletes. The
students are hoping the book will
be bound and published by April,
Simpson said.
There has been a growing in-
letes.
‘This year we had more athletes
wanting to participate than we had
students to match them up with.
It’s not like we’ve had to rope them
into it,” she said.
Gunnells attributes the athletes’
interest in the program to a gen
eral desire to help.
“It gives them a chance to realize
that the kid’s are looking up to
them, even if they think people
aren’t paying attention to them.
There’s no tangible reward,” she
said.
Griffeth said it is a good balance
between her sports and classes.
“It was a good way to get in
touch with the community and to
help the children.”
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