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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1990 « ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 76
INSIDE
It's Jennifer Carbone and
the Gym Dogs vs. UCLA
in a rematch of last year’s
national championship.
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Weather: Today. 50 percent
chance of rain, high near 60.
Tonight, upper 40s, 20 percent
chance rain. Saturday, high 70.
80 percent chance of Corona.
Senate passes bill on
expulsion for drug use
The Georgia Senate passed a bill 48 to 1 Wednesday that requires
the suspension or expulsion of any university organization which “kno
wingly permits” the use of illegal drugs on its premises.
The Student Association lobbied earlier this quarter against the
original version of this bill which would have required the expulsion of
organizations which condone the illegal use of drugs or alcohol.
Last week, the Senate also passed unanimously a bill requiring the
suspension or expulsion of university students convicted of felony drug
charges.
SA also lobbied for changes to this bill in its original form, which
required the suspension or expulsion of students convicted of felony or
misdemeanor drug charges.
SA President Mark Schisler said Georgia’s legislators were respon
sive to the SA’s views during this session. Schisler said he hopes the
next SA administration will continue to work with the Legislature to
let the student voice be heard.
Another bill which would have prevented anyone under 21 from
entering bars, or would possibly have required bars to separate their
under-21 patrons from tneir over-21 patrons, died in the Senate Con
sumer Affairs Committee. UGA Young Democrats lobbied against this
bill.
-Dara McLeod
Knapp reportedly in Virginia
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The search committee for a new
University of Virginia president
was expanded to include all of the
school’s Board of Visitors
Thursday, the same day the com
mittee was reportedly scheduled to
interview University President
Charles Knapp for the job.
Knapp was scheduled to intro
duce u guest speaker at a lecture in
the pharmacy auditorium
Thursday, but School of Pharmacy
Dean Howard Ansel said Knapp
was in Virginia and couldn’t fulfill
the commitment.
The president’s office said
Knapp had taken two days per
sonal leave.
The search committee held an
executive session Thursday from 9
a m. to 9:30 a.m., according to
Louise Dudley, UVA news secre
tary. Edward Elson, search com
mittee chairman and rector pro
tern of the board, announced after
the meeting that Gov. L. Douglas
Wilder’s seven new appointees
were admitted to the board and
will take part in the presidential
search, Dudley said.
Larry Sabndo, a UVA political
science professor and noted expert
on Virginia politics, said Wilder’s
appointments of seven new mem
bers to the 16-member board “will
change the dynamics” of the presi
dential search.
Three of the seven replaced
members were on the Board of Vis
itor’s search committee.
Dudley said the new committee
will be interviewing candidates
during the next 15 days. The times
and places of the interviews were
not disclosed.
The purpose of the committee is
to find a replacement for current
UVA President Robert O’Neil who
is leaving to join the Thomas Jef
ferson Center for Protection of
Freedom of Expression in Char
lottesville.
Knapp is one of three candi
dates. The other two are Richard
Merrill, a UVA law professor and
former law school dean, and John
Casteen, University of Connecticut
president.
Casteen was UVA Admissions
dean from 1975 to 1982 He was
Virginias secretary of education
from 1983 to 1985.
Merrill is popular with faculty
and Casteen is the alumm’s fa
vorite, Sabado said.
Elson said any mention of candi
dates is speculation. He said the
search is completely private He
has refused any further comment
on the board’s search
The president is the chief exec
utive officer of UVA. The provost is
the second in command and is the
chief academic officer, according to
William Fishback, UVA’s public in
formation director Last spring,
most of the vice presidents were
placed under the provost.
Fishback said the position of
provost was handed much of the
president’s responsibilities so the
president could concentrate on
fund-raising.
Sabado said faculty know
nothing about Knapp except for
what they’ve heard from the press.
He said local media have presented
a mixed picture of him.
On the one hand, he said, Knapp
has been called an excellent ad
ministrator. On the other hand, he
said there have been reports of the
administration’s inability to reach
fund-raising goals and dissatisfac
tion by University faculty.
She's got the Wright stuff
All-around champ
matured this year
Corrinne Wright: The champion gymnast performs best
when in a pressure situation
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Writer
If she wants it, shell win it.
Georgia gymnastics senior
Corrinne Wright is the defending
national all-around champion.
Talk to everyone who knows her
and they'll say that she’s the
most talented gymnast in the col
legiate ranks, and all she has to
do is set her mind to winning the
prestigious title again and the
deed is as good as done.
But unlike last season when
Wright made the all-around title
one of her missions from the be
ginning, Wright isn’t thinking so
much about herself these days.
She hasn’t even thought about
repeating yet; she wants to be
come a four-time All-American
and be a part of a third NCAA
team championship.
Why? Maturity.
Wright was benched for the
Ohio State meet five weeks ago
because of a brief bout with ego
tism. A clash erupted when gym
nastics coach Suzanne Yoculan’s
demands that Wright provide
more team leadership went head
on with Wright’s career-long
practice of minding her own busi
ness.
The coaches wanted her to al
ways present a positive attitude
because underclassmen follow
the examples set by seniors
Wright and Andrea Thomas, the
Lady Dogs’ ruler of the balance
beam.
“I hated it,” Wright said. “I
don’t mind being a team leader
now but I had to learn to adjust to
it. I get attitudes a lot of the
times. Being the defending all-
around champion meant that 1
had higher expectations and I
wasn’t accomplishing them and
was getting mad. I felt like I
could never have a bad day. I was
always supposed to be setting an
example.
“I got in a fight with Suzanne
about it. I said I didn’t want ev
erybody looking at me.
“I had to take on a new role.
Now I can handle it. I’ve got it in
perspective and it’s not a problem
for me to watch my attitude.”
Yoculan said that since Wright
arrived at Georgia in 1986 an in-
dependent-thinking two-time
member of the U.S. national
team, the two have had a battle
of wills.
“It’s like a bulldozer and a
brick wall,” Yoculan said. “Cor
rinne was the bulldozer and
wasn’t backing up. I was the
brick wall and I wasn’t moving.”
Yoculan told Wright that her
ability was so great that it was
imperative she assume the role of
a team leader
“I looked at her in the eye and
told her she had no choice,” Yo
culan said. “I said, ‘You’re the
number one gymnast not only in
this gym but in the entire
country.’ ”
Wright responded immedi
ately
“Now she’s the first to go give
advice and to support everyone,”
Yoculun said.
Adds assistant coach Doug
McAvinn, “She came back with a
work attitude and worked hard,”
Please see GYMNAST. Page 8
Candidates participate in closed-door session
The Associated Press
DULUTH, Ga. — Candidates for the 1990
Georgia governor’s race took their campaign be
hind closed doors Thursday and ended up de
bating whether they should be debating
privately.
One Republican candidate, Bob Wood of Nor-
cross, said he left the meeting to protest the me
dia’s exclusion.
“I just can’t condone that,” Wood said. “You
had elected officials in there.”
The gathering, sponsored by Leadership
Gwinnett, was an “off-the-record” forum for the
candidates — off-the-record, that is, until the
campaign of one candidate, Sen. Roy Barnes, D-
Mableton, recorded the forum and later re
leased a tape of the candidates’ discussion.
“1 generally think all public discussion, all
joint appearances should be public,” said
Barnes, who participated in the event.
The only m^jor candidate not attending the
private function was Lt. Gov. Zell Miller, a
Democrat.
As former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young —
another Democratic candidate for governor —
entered the meeting room, he said he disap
proved of debating in private. But Inter, Young
told the Gwinnett County residents: “If you
want to ask us questions in confidence, that’s
your right, and that’s what I said to the re
porter outside.”
Another candidate, Rep. Lauren “Bubbn”
McDonald, D-Commerce, said: “I have no
problem with the press being any place at any
time. I wasn’t aware it was a closed meeting,
but I am going to attend.”
Other gubernatorial hopefuls participating
in the private forum were Rep. Johnny Isakson,
R Marietta; Republican Greeley Ellis of Cov
ington; and foimer Democratic Gov. Lester
Maddox
“I accepted the invitation not knowing, but
that’s their choice,” Isakson said as he entered
the private room at the Marriott at Gwinnett
Place near Duluth.
Before the meeting began, Peter Boyce,
spokesman for the business group, said private
gatherings are a standing rule. ‘That nas al
ways been the tenet of Leadership Gwinnett,
and it will be today, he said.”
The debate’s moderator, Elliott Brack, asso
ciate publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Consti
tution’s Gwinnett Extra, told a reporter he had
qualms about participating And Brack con
ducted the forum over the protest of an Atlanta
Journal-Constitution reporter.
Prosecuter calls
Poindexter a liar
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - John M
Poindexter lied to Congress and
ripped up a key presidential docu
ment to “rewrite the history of the
Iran-Contra affair," a prosecutor
declared Thursdny in the opening
argument of Poindexter’s trial.
Prosecutor Dan Webb also told
jurors that Oliver North, Poin
dexter’s former aide, will testify
that “he lied and he lied and he
lied” to Congress on Poindexter's
instructions.
As the proceedings got under
way, U.S. District Court Judge
Harold Greene dealt the defense a
setback, ruling that the prosecu
tion could put North or. the stand
and ask him about Poindexter de
stroying the finding. The judge
suggested that North had changed
his story on that subject since his
own trial last year.
The case is about “coverup, de
caption and concealment,” Webb
told the jurors who will decide on
the five felony charges facing the
retired Navy rear admiral who
served as President Reagan’s top
adviser on national security mat
ters from late 1985 to late 1986.
Poindexter and National Secu
rity Council aide Oliver L. North
tried to cover up a 1985 shipment
of U.S. arms to Iran and the diver
sion of profits to the Nicaraguan
rebels to “avoid tarnishment of the
Reagan administration," Webb
said
“John Poindexter and Oliver
North decided to rewrite the his
tory of the Iran-Contra afTair,” he
said, after it was exposed in the fall
of 1986 by the crash of a plane de
livering arms to the Nicaraguan
Contras and a subsequent Leb
anese newspaper report that de
tailed the arms sales to Iran.
“Oliver North and John Poin
dexter did not like what the true
historical facts were” because they
showed that Reagan broke his
pledge not to sell arms to Iran for
the release of U.S. hostages, Webb
said.
‘They did not want the Iran
Contra events as they occurred to
be revealed,” Webb said.
Poindexter is charged with con
spiracy, obstruction, and making
false statements to Congress about
the U.S.-Iran arms sales and the
Reagan administration’s covert
support of the Contras at a time di
rect military aid was banned by
Congress. His trial is expected to
last six to eight weeks.
Webb told jurors North will tes
tify that on Poindexter’s instruc
tions he lied to the House
Intelligence Committee on Aug. 6,
1986, when questioned about
whether the White House was se
cretly helping arm the Contras.
The lies "worked like a charm” to
falsely reassure congressmen that
the White House was not circum
venting the ban on U.S. military
aid to the rebels, Webb said.
“Once Admiral Poindexter found
out how successful North was in
lying, what did he do? He congratu
lates North,” Webb said. “He sends
him a note that says ‘Well Done.”’
North, at his own trial last year,
admitted that he lied dunng the
Aug 6 meeting, but said he did not
know he was breaking the law
when he did so.
Webb told jurors North
will testify that he lied
on Poindexter’s
instructions
He wus acquitted of a charge
pertaining to tne meeting, but was
convicted of three others: aiding
and abetting an obstruction of Con
gress, altering and destroying Na
tional Security Council documents
and accepting a $13,800 home se
curity system from Richard Secord.
Before opening arguments
Thursday, Judge Greene ruled that
North could testify about watching
Poindexter rip up a Dec. 5, 1985,
presidential document, a “finding”
that had authorized a shipment of
Hawk missiles to Iran.
The defense had tried to sup
press that testimony, arguing that
North did not have an independent
recollection of the episode but only
learned about it when Poindexter
testified during 1987 congressional
hearings on the Iran-contra affair.
Webb told jurors that while
North “does not want to testify
against his boss” he is expected to
come into court and recall the day
he was in Poindexter’s office when
the finding was destroyed.
“Oliver North will tell you it was
destroyed and tom up,* it wns
ripped in two,” Webb said. He
pointed at Poindexter and said,
“He destroyed it, ripped it up.”
Alumnus accused of exposing self
in front of UGA library employees
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
A former student was arrested
Wednesday night and charged
with exposing himself to a female
employee of the science library and
another at the law library,
according to University police re
ports.
Anand Rob Menon was arrested
at 10:30 p.m., after leaving the law
library, University police Sgt.
Richard Good son said.
Menon earned a master's degree
in business administration from
the University in June 1985, and
now lives in College Point, N.Y.
The law school library employee
told police that Menon asked her to
help him find a book and then ex-
The law school library
employee told police
that Menon asked her
to help him find a book
and then exposed
himself to her
posed himself to her, Goodson said.
He left the library when the em
ployee said she was going to call
the police, Goodson said. Menon
was arrested shortly after the inci
dent in the main library parking
lot.
He also was indentifted in con
nection with an earlier indecent ex
posure incident that occurred at
about 9:30 p.m. in the science li
brary, Goodson said.
Menon was charged with ind-
cent exposure and was transported
to Clarke County Jail, where he
wns released Thursday afternoon
on $600 bond, according to jail offi-
cals.
Goodson said the case would
come before the Clarke County
State Court, but he wasn't sure of
the exact date.
This is the second indecent expo
sure incident to occur on campus
within the last two weeks. A sim
ilar incident was reported by a fe
male employee of the science
library Feb. 24, according to Uni
versity police reports.
Patar Fray/Tha fled and Black
Them bones
These old dinosaur bones In the lobby of the science library still look hungry after all those years. Wouldn't
you be if you hadn't had a decent meal in eons?