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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 60
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Happy birthday Boy Scouts!
Bill may limit number of education classes
By ANNE MARIE FANQUY
Staff Writer
The Senate Education Committee agreed
Thursday to discuss with the Board of Re
gents the possibility of limiting undergrad*
uate course work in education and teacher
preparation programs.
The action comes afler the committee
unanimously approved Monday a bill which
would require education majors to take
more courses in what they’re going to teach
and limit courses on how to teach. Senate
Education Chairman John Foster, who
sponsored the bill, has called Borne tea
ching-method classes “Mickey Mouse”
courses.
The bill would limit students at Georgia’s
public colleges and universities to six edu
cation courses, except for special education.
Don Schneider, head of the social science
department in the University’s College of
Education, said, “I think what they may be
aiming at is what they perceive as an overly
large number of education courses in early
childhood education.”
Foster said Thursday he will work with
the regents to re-evaluate curriculum for
prospective teachers.
“If the Board of Regents will agree to ad
dress a problem without legislation, that’s a
better way to do it,” he said.
Foster, who has been involved with the
Southern Regional Education Board, said
there’s a national trend to put a cap on the
number of students’ education courses.
Universities like Texas and Virginia have
limited them to 18 semester hours and leg
islatures in North Carolina, Tennessee and
Mississippi are in the process of revamping
their course requirements, he said.
The board agreed to put together a group
to look at the committee’s grievances,
Foster said.
Peter Gareis, a University English in
structor who has also taught high school,
said he found some of the education courses
he took at Georgia Southern useful. Gareis
took the classes as a supplement to the
bachelor’s degree in English he earned here.
However, he said he found that some of
the classes were bogged down with busy-
work.
Ann Beth Strelec, a senior English educa
tion major, said she thinks some education
courses could be combined.
"I think they could have covered the same
amount of material in a shorter period of
time. Instead of taking six courses, I could
have taken four,” she said.
Schneider said he thinks it’s a dangerous
precedent for legislators to dictate curric
ulum.
“If the legislature can decide what occurs
in one program, they could do the same in
others, he said.
Schneider said legislators have been pre-
mnture in discussing the issue and that the
committee failed to contact the regents be
fore drafting the bill. A college-wide com
mittee is involved in making any decisions
on required courses.
School of Education Dean Alphonse Buc
cino agrees with Schneider. He said the bill
is indiscriminate because it doesn’t take
into account the differences among teaching
methods at different levels.
'There should be different approaches to
accommodate each,” he said.
Buccino said that because elementary
school teachers must teach all subjects and
don’t specialize, many preparation pro
grams are content-based and do not just ad
dress teaching theory.
He said for students who want to teach
math education in high school, there are re
quired computer application courses that
could easily be called math courses because
of the amount of math content they contain.
Alphonse Buccino: Educa
tion dean disapproves of bill
Pump it up
Physical Plant employee George Mulroney unhooks a compressor from a bus. The bus' compressor
died, causing its brakes to lock. The mobile compressor was used to pressurize and unlock the brakes.
CSA wants image improved
By MIKE TERRAZAS
Contributing Writer
The Culture of the South Association’s new presi
dent, Fred Greer, vows to improve the image of a club
he feels has been wrongly criticized by some students
in the past.
'Teople seem to think that perhaps some of the
people in the organization are stuck in what happened
200 years ago,” said Greer, a graduate student in En
glish, “but that’s not what I’d like the organization to
be.”
The club was founded in the fall of 1986 as a vehicle
to defend and preserve the Confederate flag. It has be
come an organization dedicated to giving loyal South
erners a chance to express their affection and
appreciation for their heritage, Greer said.
He said he would like to steer away from the contro
versy that brewed over the Confederate flag when the
group started.
‘The positive characteristics of Southern culture
far outweigh the negative,” said past president Wil
liam Cawthon, who is working on a doctorate in his
tory. “And Southerners themselves have not realized
the uniqueness and value of their culture.”
The club would like to throw some new light on as
pects of Southern culture such as slavery, Cawthon
said.
Although slavery is a negative aspect of Southern
history, he said it and other negative events have
been “blown out of proportion” and Southerners have
been “brainwashed" into believing a “jaundiced view
of their own history and heritage.”
“Considering what Southerners were faced with,
the burden that they had with slavery, I think they
did pretty well,” said Cawthon.
Another stereotype the club would like to discredit
is that Southerners are dumb.
“We’d like to dispel the perception of the South and
Southerners that they talk slowly therefore they
think slowly,” explained Greer.
John Jackson, a junior history mtyor, also sees sig
nificance in the organization.
His parents are from New Jersey and Chicago, but
he joined CSA because he was enthralled with
Southern life. Jackson said the fact that he joined the
club even though he’s not a native Southerner ex
plains a lot about the club representing the Southern
values he respects.
The club’s membership fluctuates from 10 to 15
people, with as many as 25 people showing up for
some meetings. The members are students whose ma
jors range from English to business to chemistry.
The organization sponsors a billboard commem
orating Robert E. Lee’s birthday, holds meetings that
feature English professors speaking on Southern lit
erature and gives an annual dinner celebrating Lee’s
and Stonewall Jackson’s birthdays.
In the future, the group’s events will be more
geared toward increasing membership. Cawthon sug
gested the club sponsor a symposium at the Univer
sity with the major gubernatorial candidates.
“I’d like to direct a lot of the energy into drawing
more people into the organization by letting them see
the significance of Southern culture," said Greer.
African-American studies viewed
Judicial Programs now able
to release details of cases
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
As director of Judicial Programs,
Bill Bracewell has picked up a few
horror stories over the years, like
the time fraternity brothers
dumped excrement on a pledge,
then added to the humiliation by
urinating on him.
But Bracewell, restricted by ju
diciary policy, has been forced to
keep specific details of such stories
confidential.
That will change today, afler the
judiciary makes final revisions on
a policy that will allow the release
of more information when student
organizations break University
codes of conduct.
Under the old policy, if a group
was found guilty of a violation, Ju
dicial Programs would release four
things: the name of the organiza
tion, the charge, the verdict and
the sentence.
That policy started after the
Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act, or Buckley amend
ment, became law in the 1970s.
The Buckley amendment pre
vents judiciaries from releasing in
formation about students involved
in coses, but it lets schools make
their own rules regarding organi
zations.
The new policy — along with the
four items of information — allows
a more detailed description of what
happened in each case.
Under the old rules, for instance,
Judicial Programs could say that a
fraternity was found guilty of a dis
orderly conduct violation. Now it
will be able to say what that disor
derly conduct was.
“It will basically give a sense of
what’s going on on campus," said
Judicial Programs Counselor
Roger Lee. “It’s not destroying any
of the confidentiality.”
Lee said Judicial Programs will
print the new policy in its Conduct
Regulations and Procedures
booklet, which should be available
in a few weeks. He said no other
major rule changes will be made.
In the past, reporters have de
pended on police reports and wit
nesses to find out details in
possible rule violations.
But in a hazing case, for ex
ample, the only witnesses may be
members of the fraternity.
Under the old system, details on
such a case weren’t available from
Judicial Programs, so finding out
what happened from an objective
source was difficult.
Bracewell said he felt a “chronic
frustration” at not being able to re
lease more information. He said
the University wasn’t getting a
clear picture of the kind of infrac
tions taking place.
The policy might help cut down
violations, Bracewell said, because
organizations may be more cau
tious knowing their actions will be
open to greater scrutiny.
‘There were two motives for
doing this," he said. “One, to make
these decisions more understand
able to the general public. The
second is working toward that gen
eral deterrence.
“I hope it is a solution to a long
standing problem,” he said.
The biggest difficulty Judicial
Programs faces in releasing such
Bill Bracewell: Able to re
lease more details on cases
information lies in making sure the
rights of individual students are
protected, Bracewell said.
But there are other concerns.
Mary Kathryn Todd, director of
the Defender Advocate Society,
said it’s possible the new policy
could affect the way appeals courts
decide cases.
If the judiciary releases details
of a case that cause it to get atten
tion in the media, she said, the
next appeals court might feel pres
sure to rule for or against the orga
nization.
“If you’re human, it’s going to
make a difference," she said.
But Bracewell and Art Leed, stu
dent affairs legal adviser, both said
they doubt the change will affect
future decisions.
Slick stalls off Calif, coast
The Associated Press
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.
— A drifting oil slick threatened
miles of benches and estuaries
Thursday after a tanker appar
ently was punctured by its own
anchor and spilled 295,000 gallons
of Alaskan crude oil.
But favorable offshore wind held
the slick stationary against an
onshore current about a mile out to
sea from this popular Southern
California recreational area. And
calm sens eased the effort to skim
the oil from the surface.
The 811-foot tanker American
Trader, which had been fully
loaded with 21 million gallons, lay
off the coast surrounded by a
floating oil containment boom and
Coast Guard vessels.
The purple slick covered an area
measuring 2Va miles by 4 miles,
said Coast Guard Lt. Vincent
Campos. Three skimmer boats
were at work and five more were en
route to the aren, off the Orange
County coastline about 35 miles
southeast of Los Angeles.
Along the shore, booms were laid
to protect the environmentally del
icate estuaries at the Santa Ana
River mouth, Anaheim Bay, Bolsa
Chica Wetlands and upper New
port Bay — all teeming with wild
life.
Biologist Esther Burket said oil
coming ashore on a sandy beach
would be less harmful than in an
estuary such as Bolsa Chica, where
birds would ingest the petroleum
with the plants they eat.
“Once it gets onto vegetation, it’s
a nightmare,” Burket said.
Six oil-soaked sea birds were
cleaned and cared for by volunteers
at a lifeguard headquarters. Six
other birds were dead.
Curt Taucher, a Fish and Game
spokesman, said there was some
initial concern about migrating
gray whales but that was not the
biggest worry. “The concern is for
the furbeunng animals, harbor
seals, animals like that," he said.
The broad, sandy beach at this
city of 180,000 in northern Orange
County, plus Bolsa Chica State
Beach to the northwest and Hunt
ington State Bench to the south,
draw millions of sunbathers and
surfers during summer.
'BLACK HXSTOft.ll nONTH
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Students and faculty members
from Georgia universities and col
leges will examine the progress of
African-American studies in
Georgia at a special one-day con
ference starting today at 8 a.m. at
the Tate Student Center.
The conference is sponsored by
the University’s Institute of Af
rican-American Studies.
Norman Harris, director of the
institute, said the conference will
include workshops on cultural
studies, social and behavioral sci
ences, student issues in African-
American studies and hiBtory.
Participants from Georgia State
University, Georgia Southern Uni
versity, Clark/Atlanta University
and Augusta College will attend
the conference.
Harris conducted a survey of
local colleges and universities with
African-American studies fall
quarter. He said he asked the in
structors in African-American
studies to provide course
guidelines from their classes.
During lunch, participants will
view three excerpts from
“Blackout," a play directed fall
quarter by Tom Ellis, assistant
professor of drama.
Ellis said the material in the
play was written by students.
The three excerpts from the play
address drug abuse, religion and
how block actors ore treated in pro
fessional theater.
Ellis said he’s happy the Univer
sity is putting forth resources and
technical support for the institute.
“I think the University of
Georgia is really attempting to
make our African-American
Studies program up to par with
other University programs,” he
said.
University students Eric Wise
and Sharron Jackson will be dis
cussion leaders in the ‘Student Is
sues in African-American Studies”
workshop at 1:45 p.m.
Jackson, a junior journalism
major, said she will speak on the
need for African-American studies
in curriculum.
Charles Toombs, assistant pro
fessor of English, will report on the
status of African-American studies
in the cultural studies workshop at
9:30 a.m.
Rooney suspended for remarks
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - CBS News suspended Andy
Rooney for three months without pay today after
confronting the TV humorist about racial remarks
attributed to him by a gay magazine.
CBS News president David Burke, who took the
action after a meeting with Rooney, declined to com
ment on his reasons but said in a statement he made
it clear to Rooney that CBS News “cannot tolerate
such remarks or anything that approximates such
comments.”
Rooney, who earlier drew criticism from homo
sexual and lesbian groups for remarks he made in a
December TV special, “A Year With Andy Rooney:
1989," denied making the racial comments, con
tained in an article in The Advocate
The Los Angeles-based magazine quoted Rooney
as saying that “most people are bom with equal in
telligence, but blacks have watered down their genes
beennse the less intelligent ones are the ones that
have the most children."
‘They drop out of school early, do drugs and get
pregnant," Rooney was quoted as Baying.
CBS’ Burke said Rooney “has expressed his
dismay that the values of CBS News have been
called into Question and offers his deepest apologies”
to anyone who took offense at the remarks attributed
to him.
“I wouldn't be surprised if I got fired," Rooney had
told the New York Dailv News on Wednesday night
But he denied making the remarks attributed to him
in what he says was a conversation with the article’s
author, Chris Bull.
Bull said Wednesday that the quotations were ac
curate. He said he had not tape-recorded the conver
sation, which took place several weeks ago, but took
notes.