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An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 66
INSIDE
Joey Alfonso and the rest
of the Diamond Dogs
soared over the Ga.
Southern Eagles Tuesday.
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Weather:lncreasing clouds today,
low In low 60s. Tonight, 80
percent chance of rain, low of 50.
Rain likely Thursday, high in upper
50s. Congrats, Coach Goff.
Hiring minority faculty
getting more difficult
despite UGA’s efforts
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The University in finding mi
nority faculty for hire to be more
and more ecarce.
Delmer Dunn, Academic Af
faire associate vice president,
said the situation can be attrib
uted to the decrease in black can
didates with doctoral degrees and
the increase in competition
among universities to hire mi
nority teachers.
"We’re dealing with a situation
in which the competition is very
keen,” he said.
The Office of Academic Affairs
handles the University’s mi
nority recruitment program.
Dunn heads the program.
In 1988, the first year of its mi
nority faculty hiring initiative,
the University hired 22 minority
faculty to start that fall. Nine mi
nority faculty members were
hired for 1989-90, which is about
half the number of minorities of
fered jobs. This year, Dunn said
he haB only interviewed five mi
nority candidates.
Dunn attributes much of the
initial success to the Minority
Hiring Initiative Fund, money
set aside from state appropria
tions to the University. The first
year of the initiative the fund
paid 100 percent of the Balary for
each new minority faculty. Nor
mally, a faculty member’s salary
comes out of the budget for the
individual college or deportment.
Last year, the fund paid 50
percent of the salary costs for
new minority faculty. The college
or department which hired the
new teacher paid the other 50
percent.
Dunn said the initiative fund
contributed $237,600 for mi
nority hiring last year.
The fund will continue to pay
all or half of the salary for each
new minority faculty member
hired. It also will continue to pay
for each ono hired under the ini
tiative until each member retires
or auits to work elsewhere, Dunn
said.
To increase the availability of
minority faculty, University
President Charles Knapp said he
would like to see a federally
funded program to increase! the
number of minorities seeking
doctoral degrees.
Knapp said the program would
be similar to the National De
fense and Education Act. Created
in the late 1950s, after the So
viets fired their first rocket, the
act encouraged technical and sci
entific training.
Knapp said the act persuaded
many people, including himself,
to pursue a doctorate. A similar
program aimed at minorities
could be just as successful and
would be inexpensive, he said.
However, Knapp said, "It
doesn’t seem to be a top issue on
Bryndis Jenkins: Key
player at start of initiative
anybody’s agenda.”
Dunn said that in the past few
weeks, minority juniors and se
niors have been contacted in
person about their opportunities
for graduate study. The Grad
uate School has been actively re
cruiting minorities, he said.
Knapp and Dunn, as well as
Bryndis Jenkins, vice president
for Legal Affairs, stressed the
University’s need to retain
existing minority faculty.
"Wo've got to avoid the re
volving door syndrome,” said
Jenkins, who was a key player in
the initiative when it first began.
When minority fnculty receive
outside offers, Dunn said the
University will match or signifi
cantly onhance the salary with
money from the Minority Hiring
Initiative Fund.
The matching of salary offers
is true for all faculty and is han
dled on a case by case basis,
Knapp said.
Knapp made increasing the
number of black faculty a priority
when he first arrived at the Uni
versity in fall 1987 because such
an increase was necessary to en
courage more black students to
attend the University, he said.
This increase is important to
all students because blacks and
other minorities are growing in
population and importance.
‘The University needs to re
flect the cultural diversity of the
state,” he said.
Both Knapp and Dunn noted
the growing role of minorities in
national and international af
fairs. They stressed the need for
University students to come in
contact with minorities because
of this burgeoning role.
Dogs sign Andre Hastings
By GENE WILUAMS
Sports Editor
That loud roar you heard around
7:00 p.m. was the sound of Bulldog
fans around the South rejoicing as
Morrow High School wide receiver
Andre Hastings finally reached a
decision and announced that he
will attend the University this fall.
Hastings, 6 feet 2 inches tall,
180 pounds, selected Georgia over
Notre Dame and Florida State,
ending a fierce recruiting battle.
Hastings is the best prep receiver
and 12th-rated player in the
country. The talented Hastings
osnesses blazing speed and great
ands and was nign on the wish-
list of every school in the country.
He orginallv said that he would
announce his intentions last
Thursday, a day af*r the first day
a prep athlete can officially sign a
college letter of intent. However,
he postponed that decision until
yesterday evening.
Over the weekend, Hastings
traveled to Ohio to receive a na
tional Player of the Year honor and
Georgia coach Hay Goff sent the
entire offensive coaching squad to
Ohio to further convince Hastings
of their sincerity in wanting him to
come to Athens.
Why all the fuss? Well, Hastings
is not the average high school
player. Hastings is a USA Today
first-team All-American and was
predicted by Sports Illustrated to
be on the 1995 NFL All-Pro team.
He is already in the eye of most
rofessional football scouts and he
asn’t even strapped on a helmet
as a collegiate yet.
The signing of Hastings boosts
Georgia’s signee total to 25, whith
is the most allowed under NCAA
rules. The signing gives Goff the
crown jewel on the most talented
recruiting class in the South and
among the three best, along with
Florida Suite and Notre Dame, in
the country.
Georgia’s recruiters signed the
top three prospects in the state of
Georgia (Garrison Hearst, Steve
Roberts and Andre Hastings), the
top player in Alabama (Mitch
Davis), Tennessee’s top prep player
(Bernard Williams) and All-Amer
ican Toshe Williams from Colo
rado.
Judicial Council rules on Sigma Chi expulsion
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
The Judicial Council has ruled on Sigma
Chi’s expulsion appeal, but neither the council
nor members of the fraternity would say
Tuesday how the council ruled.
Katie Mitchell, chief justice of the Student
Judiciary and acting head of the council, said
the court will not release details of the case be
cause Sigma Chi may appeal the decision
again.
Judicial Council policy prevents the Bevnn-
member student panel from releasing informa
tion on cases until the appeals process has been
exhausted, she said.
"Well release the information after the ap
peals nre over,” Mitchell said.
If Sigma Chi does appeal the case, the next
person to review the ruling would be Dwight
Douglas, vice president for Student Affairs,
If Douglas upholds the decision — or if Sigma
Chi chooses to appeal his sentence — Univer
sity President Charles Knapp would hear the
final appeal.
Douglas wasn’t available to comment
Tuesday.
Sigma Chi President Craig Beard refused to
comment, as did several other members of the
fraternity.
They were contacted in front of the Sigma
Chi house, where they stood under a tree
looking up at fellow member Mike Schatz.
Sitting in the tree, Schatz Baid he was pro
testing the Student Judiciary’s decision to
expel the fraternity.
“I’m not coming down until our next party,”
the junior Bpeech major said. ‘This is the first
time in my life I've stood up for something I be
lieve in.”
However, Schatz wasn t in the tree at about
5:30 Tuesday afternoon.
The Student Judiciary voted in December to
permanently expel Sigma Chi from the Univer
sity for a disorderly conduct violation. The vio
lation occurred while the fraternity was on
probation for three other infractions
The disorderly conduct took place Sept. 23 at
a party at the Sigma Chi house where the bond
A Flock of SeagullB was to play.
The party was shut down by University po
lice after 800 to 1,000 people packed the house.
Although Judicial Programs recently
changed its policy so that it can release more in
formation in cases involving student organiza
tions, the Judicial Council, which hears cases
appealed from the Student Judiciary, has its
own set of rules.
Mary Kathryn Todd, director of the Defender
Advocate Society, said the Judicial Council re
fused to release the information even to officials
in Judicial Programs.
Whether Sigma Chi has filed an appeal of the
Judicial Council’s ruling or plans to file an ap
peal couldn’t be determined Tuesday. However,
one source said the fraternity would appeal the
ruling.
Mike Schatz: Protesting the Sigma Chi
expulsion decision from the treetops
Students may qualify for food stamps
By MARY 0. RATCIIFFE
Contributing Writer
Roughly 100 University stu
dents receive federal food stamps
— commonly thought to be for wel
fare mothers and destitute families
. only — estimates the Athens Food
Stamp supervisor.
Sid Jessup of the Clarke. County
Department of Family and Chil
dren Services said students ore
"classic” candidates for food
stamps because they oflen have
difficulties making ends meet.
The federal Food Stamp Pro
gram began in 1969 to provide cou
pons to needy persons to increase
their food-purenasing power. The
coupons may be used in partici
pating retail stores to buy any food
tor human consumption.
Student applicants must meet at
leust one of six requirements in ad
dition to basic income and resource
criteria, Jessup said.
The DFCS, at 1125 Boulevard,
defines a student as a person aged
18 to 59 who isn’t disabled and who
is enrolled at least half-time in an
institute of higher learning, he
said. Most of the disabled qualify
for other programs.
Every single-person household
must prove it receives less than
$648 in income a month, before
taxes, and has resources of $2,000
or less to qualify for food stamps,
said Robin Chakmanian, a training
specialist with the School of Social
Work. Income includes wages, so
cial security benefit* and student
financial aid. Resources include
cash, checking and savings ac
counts, property and cars.
Eligibility is determined by case
workers during in-depth inter
views with applicants at the local
DFCS.
The School of Social Work oper
ates a statewide training unit that
teaches case workers how to deter
mine eligibility for welfare, Medi
care and food stamps, Chakmanian
said.
"Students might find everything
too much to handle financially,"
she said. "If they meet one of the
six special requirements, they may
be potentially eligible for food
stamps."
Student might qualify if they:
• Have a paid job for at least 20
hours per week.
• Participate in a federally
funded work-study program
• Receive an Aid to Families
with Dependent Children welfare
check.
•Have been placed in school by
the Job Training Partnership Act
• Have a child under six living
at home.
• Care for a child between six
and 12 when no other adequate
care is available.
Chakmanian said that proving
eligibility is not an easy process.
Receipts, paycheck stubs, income
tax returns and bank statements
must be shown to the case worker.
The interview process is thorough,
personal and sometimes ■embar
rassing.”
"It lowers self-esteem incred
ibly," she said. "It's difficult to say
i need help.’"
Many people wait until they are
desperately hungry to apply, but
approval can take up to 30 days,
she said.
Ogden Allsbnxik, economics pro
fessor, said some students may
need to apply for food stamps be
cause costs of living and tuition
have steadily risen while the min
imum-wage, though scheduled to
increase this year, hasn’t changed
since the enrly ’80s.
Allsbrook questions the effi
ciency of the food stamp program,
but said, "People who qualify
would be foolish not to take advan
tage of it."
Graduate students may be can
didates for food stamps, he said,
because ossistantship allowances
often don’t cover all expenses.
Graduate student visiting Nicaragua to view free election
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
Contributing Writer
Chris Brown, a political science
graduate student, has traveled to
Nicaragua where he said he will
witness the “most monitored elec
tion in history," referring to the
country's presidential election
Sunday.
Brown went with Casa Nicara-
guense de Espanol, a language pro
gram responsible for a cultural
exchange with Nicaragua, to mon
itor the historic election, the first
general election in that country
since 1984. He arrived Monday and
will observe the election until
March 3 while living with a barrio
family in Managua, the country’s
capital.
A barrio is a working-class
neighborhood, but unlike compa
rable American neighborhoods, the
standard of living is much lower.
During his stay, Brown will at
tend Spanish language classes in
the morning and political rallies in
the afternoon. He will eat break
fast and dinner every day with his
host family.
“I think HI get a better view of
how the common man in Nica
ragua views the election,” Brown
said. “I’ll be staying a week after
the election. Most of the media will
leave a few days after it's over.”
The two key factions in this
heated political battle are the pre
sent Sandinista government,
which has been in power since the
overthrow of Anastasio Somoza
Debayle’s dictatorship in 1979, and
the United Nicaraguan Opposition
party. UNO is a combined group of
14 splinter opposition parties
ranging from ultra liberal to the
ultra-conservative.
President Daniel Ortega Saa
vedra is the candidate for the
Sandinistas and Violeta Barrios de
Chamorro is the UNO candidate.
Chamorro is the 60-year-old widow
of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro,
former editor of La Prensa, the
leading opposition newspaper.
The Nicaraguan National Guard
assassinated Chamorro right be
fore Somoza was deposed in 1979.
Chamorro’s widow was chosen as u
candidate because she’s relatively
unbiased. She doesn’t belong to
any of the 14 groups of the UNO
and she has a national appeal.
The elections are being mon
itored by several international
groups including The Council of
Freely Elected Former Heads of
State, which is led by former Presi
dent Jimmy Carter. Other groups
include a UN observation team,
the Organization of American
States, Hemisphere Initiatives and
Casa Nicaraguense de Espanol.
Formed in 1983, Casa Nicara
guense de Espanol arranges for
participants to live with barrio
families and advance their Spanish
Chris Brown: Going to view
Nicaraguan elections
language studies.
Brown had planned to go to Ni
caragua for the elections when he
heard of the group through his
mother, Sallie, a graduate student
in history at Georgia State Univer
sity. One of her classmates had
traveled to Nicaragua through the
language program.
Brown contacted several former
professors about the legitimacy of
Casa Nicaraguense de Espanol and
many of them gave him “glowing”
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reviews of the program.
After he decided to go, Brown
contacted The University of
Georgia Research Foundation For
eign Travel Program. The program
offers travel money for graduate
students, post-doctoral students
and faculty to attend international
conferences.
“His purpose was so different
but we felt it would fit into our pro
gram,” said Patsy Songer, a budget
analyst for the vice president of re
search.
Brown said the travel program
agreed to pay for his plane ticket,
which is approximately two-thirds
of the cost for the trip.
“I think it will be very beneficial
to Chris’ study of Latin America,”
said Han Park, professor of polit
ical science and Brown’s major pro
fessor. This visit will give him
first-hand experience of the polit
ical process which he’s been
studying. It will help him as a re
searcher and a teacher."
The outcome of the Nicaraguan
election will be watched not only by
Brown but the rest of the world.
“No matter what, the other side
will probably cry fault," Brown
said, commenting on the possible
outcome of the election.
Most reports out of Nicaragua so
far have called the election prepa
rations fair. Brown said the United
States has given the UNO $9 mil
lion, but half of this money has to
go to the Supreme Electoral
Council, the neutral government
body which runs the election
process.
A ftirther complication is that
the UNO doesn’t want to be con
strued as a U.S. puppet if they use
the money and then win the elec
tion, he said.
There are several key issues at
stake in the election. Since Somoza
was deposed, the standard of living
has dropped 90 percent, Brown
said. The economy is devastated
and will have to be dealt with in
some way by the victor.
In addition, the Sandinista gov
ernment is trying to gain interna
tional legitimacy. They might gain
this legitimacy if they win a fair
election, he said.
Regardless of the outcome,
Brown is guaranteed a front-row
seat to this volatile situation.