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A review of “Stanley and
Iris,” a new drama
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 65
Bill may expand UGA search warrant power
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
A bill that would give University police
the power to serve search warrants out
side their jurisdiction passed the state
Senate Monday and now faces a House
vote.
Sen. Paul Broun, D-Athens, who
helped draft the bill, said he expected it to
pass the House as well but wasn’t sure
when it would come to a vote.
Broun said he was convinced the bill
was needed after speaking extensively to
University Police Chief Chuck Horton,
who has vocally opposed a recent state
appeals court aecision prohibiting
campus police from serving such search
warrants.
According to the bill, any currently cer
tified peace officer employed by a univer
sity, college or school engaged in the
course of official duty would be allowed to
serve search warrants. The bill also re
peals all laws in conflict with it.
The bill would nullify a 1970 law
opinion by the state attorney general that
states search warrants served by campus
f iolice "must be confined to the territorial
imits of campus.”
This opinion was used by the Georgia
Court of Appeals Oct. 10, 1989, in a deci
sion that determined University police
had acted out of their jurisdiction when
they served a search warrant off campus
in May 1988.
The bill wouldn’t change the limits of
University police jurisdiction set in the
decision at within 500 yards of the
Georgia Board of Regents’ property, but
would allow them to serve warrants out
side their jurisdiction.
This would close the Pandora’s box of
confusion Horton said the October ap
peals decision opened.
“I don’t have any problems with our ju
risdiction. I’ve always known we don’t ar
rest people except within that 500 yards,”
Horton said.
But he said he had always thought that
as “certified pence officers” University po
lice had the power to serve a warrant in a
case involving the school. Horton said a
police force is less effective if it isn’t al
lowed to serve warrants outside its juris
diction.
“If you are going to have a police de
partment, have a police department,” he
said. "I can’t tell you how many times we
had to tiptoe around to avoid hurting any
body’s feelings and I surely don’t want to
hurt any criminal’s feelings.”
Athens Police Chief Mark Wallace also
said he hopes the bill passes.
Just joking around
It was a gathering of Georgia governor hopefuls, but no issues were discussed. Instead, jokes were the
topic. When Sen. Roy Barnes, Rep. Johnny Isakson, Judge Greely Ellis, Lt. Gov. Zell Miller and former gov
ernor Lester Maddox (I to r) showed up Saturday morning at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education,
they were expecting a political debate. But moderator David Boyd, a syndicated political cartoonist, asked
them to tell their favorite jokes instead of discussing issues. Each candidate got two chances. Isakson
and Maddox drew the most laughter from the audience of mostly student and professional journalists.
Rep. John Mobley of Winder sat in for Rep. Lauren McDonald, who was unable to attend. According to
Boyd, former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young declined to attend because he thought the event might be "friv
olous." Refering to the definition of frivolous, Boyd said, "I hope what we do here lacks seriousness." It
did.
Panel to discuss pregnancy
BIRTH STATISTICS FOR CLARKE COUNTY WOMEN-1988
The population of Clarke County at this time was 82,520. and the number of
live births during this period was 1130. While these statistics show the re
corded number of Clarke County women who have had abort Ions, Atlanta
is the closest location to Athens where abortions are available.
total
Davis OK—Wa/The Red and Black
ages 18-19 aces 20-24
(source: Go. Births Vital Statistics Report-1988)
By KEVIN C. HALL
Contributing Writer
In response to the problem of un-
f ilanned pregnancies among col-
ege-age women, Hill Community
is preparing a panel discussion on
the subject titled “It’s Not a Baby
Shower.”
According to the Georgia Births
Vital Statistics Report 1988, one-
third of the 1,834 pregnancies re
corded for Clarke County women in
1988 ended in abortions. Of those,
438 involved women 18 to 24 years
old.
The program will be held today
at 8 p.m. in the first floor lobby of
Oglethorpe House. Linda Rounds,
the graduate resident organizing
the program, said four experts will
speak to students on topics in
cluding birth control, the conse
quences of an unplanned
pregnancy and campus and com
munity resources to aid pregnant
women.
Nancy MacNair, a health edu
cator for Health Services, and Rick
Dunn, adolescent health coordi
nator for the Northeast Georgia
Health District, will discuss con
traception and the services their
organizations provide.
Two Athens attorneys, Richard
and Laura Jack, will describe legal
roblems, such as paternity suits,
rought on by unplanned pregnan
cies.
“We’re hoping to create an
awareness of what can happen,”
said Rounds, who is a doctoral stu
dent in education.
The program, which will em
phasize education, will take a
middle-of-the-road attitude toward
the problem, Rounds said. It will
focus on responsible decision
making and not try to answer
moral dilemmas.
“We’re not advocating birth con
trol or abortion,” she said. “Absti
nence is still a possibility.”
John Moeller, sophomore inter
national business major and resi
dent assistant in charge of
advertising for the program, ex
pects 75 to 100 people to come to
the discussion.
“One of the main things we want
to focus on,” Moeller said, “is that
(the program)’s not just for
women.”
Rounds agreed, “Men have a re
sponsibility too.”
When Rounds held the program
at the University of Alabama on
April 18, 1989, she said men made
up a large part of the audience. The
Alabama program was planned for
one hour, but lasted two because
the students asked so many ques
tions.
MacNair praised the program’s
concept.
“We see a great number of un
planned pregancies (at the Gilbert
Health Center),* she said, “and we
have for years.
‘The message is not getting
across to enough students.”
Even though the number of
young Clarke County women
having abortions appears high,
Cindy Short, the clinic manager of
the Athens Feminist Women’s
Health Center, said Atlanta is the
closest location where abortions
are performed. Clarke County
doesn’t prohibit abortions; how
ever, no clinics in this area choose
to offer them.
Jungle invades Family Housing
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
A tiger, a king cobra, an elephant and other ani
mals from the jungle appeared at the University
Family Housing office Saturday morning.
Read Diket, a graduate teaching assistant, com
bined the talents and skills of the students in her ART
513/713 class with those of 13 children in family
housing to bring the characters from the play, “The
Calico Tiger," to life.
The children in the play were between the ages of 6
and 13. In it, a tiger pretending to be fierce becomes
friends with the rest of the animals in the jungle.
The art class involved is designed to teach educa
tion majors to combine art with education. But the
class is open to all majors.
In the class, Diket shows students how art can be a
part of theater experiences and how important it is to
use resources efficiently, she said.
The play gave Diket’s students an opportunity to
work with the young people they’ve learned about.
She said she felt she needed to have real children in
volved in the clasB.
“I wanted to give them (her students) something
real-life," Diket said.
Scottie Foss, co-director of the play and a graduate
art student, said this group of young people brought a
lot of natural theater talent to the play.
■They’re some of the best I’ve worked with,” Foss
said.
The children designed the costumes, which were
made from street clothes, paper and other materials,
Diket said.
No one was allowed to purchase costume and prop
materials, Diket said. Instead, students used
materials from a stocked art studio in the art depart
ment as well as their own resources.
Joseph Ladapo, 11, who played the starring role of
the not-so-fierce tiger, said he liked playing the part
and working and exchanging ideas with other people.
“I like the way he’s so fierce and frightens everyone
away," Ladapo said.
Kellea Mitchell, a junior therapeutic recreation
major and play co-director, said the children have
learned to cooperate with each other and work as a
group.
And was stage fright a problem? Not for Sydney
Fortner, 8, who said she practiced her lines in front of
her stuffed animals.
Denise Fortner, Sydney’s mother, said the children
had a fantastic time and the play was a good experi
ence for her daughter.
From the audience there were accolades. Martha
Wisbey, a graduate resident in family housing, said
the play was tremendous.
She said she was excited to see the students, the
community and the professors come together.
BAC, Hillel hold discussion,
try to begin firm relationship
BLACK HISTOUU MONTH
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Members of University Jewish
and black communities initiated a
relationship Sunday night that
Black Affairs Council and Georgia
Hillel leaders hope will become a
strong bond between the two mi
nority groups.
“Misconceptions,” a discussion
sponsored by the BAC and Hillel,
was attended by 25 black and
Jewish students who discussed the
problems of maintaining their cul
tural identities while trying to be a
part of a predominantly white
campus.
BAC President Benjamin
Roundtree said, “Jewish people
and black people have histories of
oppression which give us a
common bond and make it seem
natural for us to come together and
get to know each other.”
Modern racism differs from the
traditional prejudices that are
usually tied with racial and ethnic
tensions, Roundtree said.
“It used to be that people
thought minorities were inferior in
intelligence and skill,” he said.
“But now that minorities are
achieving at higher levels in so
ciety, racism has competitive
roots."
Maxine Thomas, School of Law
associate dean of student affairs
and a moderator of the forum, said
1960s legislation helped minorities
legally, but did little to improve
public attitudes.
“Law cannflt go ahead of so
ciety," she said. “People of the
1990s aren't as open about their
discriminations, but they still
exist.”
Thomas Harrison, a senior risk
management insurance major, said
when he lived in the dorms as a
freshman, racism wai blatant.
“People would see my roommate
and me walking down the hall and
try to put more distance between
us and them,” he said. “I’m sure
the reason was solely because we
are black.”
Stacey Beth Shulman, a senior
ceramics major, said the Univer
sity’s social structure is a constant
reminder of divisions between stu
dents. Sorority and fraternity rush,
during which the organizations se
lect new members, introduce in
coming freshmen to the
consciousness of racial and ethnic
differences on campus, she said.
*The Greek system is big here
and so you have hundreds of
freshmen going through rush and
right there the first impression one
gets is that different groups just do
not interact," she said.
Harrison said he went through
fraternity rush and, in most
houses, was met by rudeness and
told that black fraternities had
their own rush.
Hillel President Linda Mann
said future BAC-Hillel activities
will be aimed at increasing interac
tion between Jewish and black stu
dents in hopes of setting an
example for the entire campus.
A committee will be formed in
coming weeks to plan food and
music exchanges as well as a
march through campus to demon
strate the groups’ unity.
Lady Netters finally beat Gators
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
•**
“Beating Florida is probably the
biggest win in our program’s his
tory. ”
— Georgia women’s tennis coach
Jeff Wallace said after Friday’s 5-4
victory over Florida.
"Beating Georgia is the most re
warding win Duke women’s tennis
has had.”
— Duke women’s tennis coach
Jane Preyer said after Sunday’s 6-3
victory over Georgia.
***
While Georgia women’s tennis
coach JefT Wallace heralded his
team’s 5-4 victory over Florida
Friday as the most important in
the program’s history, Duke
women’s tennis coach Jane Preyer
repeated Wallace’s words Sunday
after her squad’s upset victory.
“Georgia has such a strong team,
with good depth and tough players
at the top,” Preyer said. “For us to
beat them is a big, big win.”
Wallace said, “We went out and
played really well, but we got beat
by a team who played a career
match against us.
The 6-3 loss to 12th-ranked
Duke, however, is outshined by the
enormity of the performance Wal
lace’s netters turned in against the
third-ranked Gators on Friday.
Friday’s victory over the Gators
snapped Florida coach Andy
Brandi’s 45-match SEC unbeaten
streak, and was also Georgia’s first
victory over one of the recognized
“Big Two”(Stanford and Florida).
“We’ve risen to a level where we’re
not only on par with Florida, but
we’re beating them,” Wallace said.
Last year, Wallace’s squad lost
two 5-4 decisions to a Florida
squad but turned the tide on the
Gators in capturing the SEC crown
29 points to 25.
“We beat them in the conference
tournament last year but that
wasn’t in a dual match,” Wallace
said. “We’ve been working really
hard to beat the University of
Florida for the five years that I’ve
been here.”
“JefT has done a tremendous job
with his team,” Brandi said. The
University should be very proud of
him and feel very lucky tnat he’s
there. He’s done a tremendous job
of building the program with a lot
of enthusiasm and a lot of hard
work.”
In 1987, when Georgia’s Stacey
Schefflin and Jill Waldman were
freshmen, Florida trounced
Georgia 8-1 in their regular season
dual-match outing. As seniors,
both netters contributed four of the
five Georgia points in their first
victory against Florida.
■Rii
Shannan McCarthy: A
winner at No. 1 doubles
“I think for me and Jill, we
wanted to beat Florida more than
anything," Schefflin said. “After so
many close matches with them and
now finally it went our way.”
Schefflin, Waldman and Caryn
Moss all won singles matches as
Georgia and Florida tied 3-3 after
singles play. Schefflin and
Shannan McCarthy won at No. 1
doubles for Georgia’s fourth point
while Moss and Waldman clinched
the match for the Dogs at No. 3
doubles.
The Calico Tiger: (I to r) Joseph Ladapo as the not-so-fierce tiger, Ricardo Abad as the
Wise One and Hatim Elhasson as the Big Monkey