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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 82
INSIDE
A review of “Pretty
Woman” starring Georgia
native Julia Roberts
opposite Richard Gere.
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Weather: Today, partly cloudy,
low 50s, 20 percent chance rain.
Tonight, fair, low near freezing.
Fair Wednesday, upper 50s.
Welcome back Bulldogs!
Phone solicitor sought in Athens rape case
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
A University woman reported
that she was raped the Saturday
before finals by a man she met with
to discuss selling Avon products,
according to Athens police reports.
The victim, a 19-year-old Uni
versity housing resident, told po
lice she received a telephone call
from a man who asked if she would
be interested in selling Avon prod
ucts, the report read.
The man then set up an appoint
ment at his residence in Northeast
Athens, the report read.
The woman told police she went
to his house and was raped and de
tained Saturday night, March 17.
She reported the incident to Uni
versity police around 8 a.m.
Sunday morning, said Sgt. Richard
Good son of the University police.
She was referred to Athens po
lice because the incident didn’t
occur on campus.
The male suspect fled his resi
dence shortly after the incident
and is wanted by Athens police,
said Sgt. Alan Brown, supervisor of
the Athens police persons unit.
If caught, the suspect will face
rape and kidnapping charges, he
said. The kidnapping charge would
be added because the suspect re
portedly detained the victim,
Brown said.
Pam Clark, a district sales man
ager for Avon in Athens, said she
talked to the suspect, a white man
about 40 years old, about working
for Avon during the first week of
March. She said he didn’t want to
be an independent representative
selling Avon products.
She said she offered him the op
tion of soliciting potential recruits
over the phone to become indepen
dant representatives. He was then
supposed to refer their names and
phone numbers to her.
For all recruits he referred to
Clark who paid for their first order
of Avon products, he would receive
$20, she said, but at no time was he
offically an employee of Avon or au
thorized to set up appointments at
his home. He was only to call her
with names and phone numbers of
interested persons, she said.
“I hate to say he was a recruiter,
because he wasn’t,” Clark said. “I
don’t know how you would describe
it. It was just a ploy he used; it is a
real sad situation.”
Sgt. Brown said Athens police
have received help on the case from
University police.
Sgt. Goodson said University po
lice have received about 25 reports
of calls made to female students
from a man asking if they would be
interested in selling Avon prod
ucts.
Housing reacts quickly to rape report
By MICHAEL McLEOD
Staff Writer
University Housing officials were quick to react to the news of the re
ported rape of a female resident.
During exam week, fliers, hall meetings and word-of-mouth circu
lated information throughout residence halls, warning residents to be
wary of telephone solicitors.
Once the incident was reported to University police, it was reported to
housing officals within hours, Sgt. Richard Goodson said.
With the help of housing officials, the police received about 25 reports
of female residents receiving calls from a man soliciting salespeople for
Avon, he said.
Assistant Director of Housing Brenda Richardson said, “We were ex
tremely concerned and shocked when we found out about the incident.”
All residence halls were alerted that a male caller had been involved
in a reported rape, she said.
“We asked the residence life coordinators to inform the graduate resi
dents who informed the resident assistants," Richardson said.
The reaction and the way the information was distributed differed
Please See REACTION, Page 3
Couple gives UGA
$5 million pledge
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
For a Florida insurance exec
utive and his wife, Bulldog busi
ness majors are worth the bucks —
$5 million to be exact. Herman and
Mary Virginia Terry of Jackson
ville, Fla. have made the largest
cash gift and individual contribu
tion in University history.
The couple signed a trust
agreement and a pledge agreement
to fund a program designed by
business school Dean Albert
Niemi. The agreements provide the
College of Business Administration
with $1 million this year, $1 mil
lion in 1991, $1 million in 1992 and
$2 million in 1993. This is in addi
tion to the $1 million the couple
gave in 1985 for the Bicentennial
campaign.
Niemi, who has negotiated with
the l'errys since 1987, said they
gave the college the 1990 gift last
January but the trust agreement
made the transaction official. He
said the Terrys gave $1 million in
stocks but only half of that has
been converted into money. The
other half will be converted when
the price of the stock improves, he
said.
He said the Terrys found the
program appealing because it of
fered benefits to everyone — estab
lished and younger faculty as well
as students.
Niemi said the 1990 gift will go
toward the creation of the C.
Herman and Mary Virginia Terry
Fellows Program to assist 10 to 15
young faculty in their research pro
jects.
The Terrys’ $1 million gift made
between 1985 and 1987 estab
lished three endowed professional
chairs. Niemi said by 1993 four
more professional chairs at $500,-
000 each, a scholarship fund of
$1.5 million and $1.5 million for
the fellows program will have been
established.
Niemi said the endowment indi-
Please See FELLOWS. Page 5
Sigma Chi suspension
requirements eased
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
University students can always count on long lines to domi
nate their lives during the first few days of a new quarter.
Don’t worry - the wait will soon be over • until next
quarter, that is!
While sophomore pre-forestry major Patrick Flanagan
sends cars away from the Tate Center’s full upper level
parking deck, a lunchtime rush causes long lines at the Uni
versity Bookstore.
photos by Peter Frey
They’re Baaack!
Some things never change
Law students win international honors
The vice president for Student Affairs has decided to ease the terms of
the Judicial Council’s five-year suspension of Sigma Chi.
Dwight Douglas, vice president for Student Affairs, eliminated two
requirements for the fraternity’s return to campus.
Douglas eliminated requirements that the fraternity be on probated
expulsion during its first year of reinstatement, and that a National
Sigma Chi consultant live in the fraternity’s house that year.
Douglas also will allow the national organization to make a case for
its early return to campus in the spring of the suspension’s third year.
If Sigma Chi were reinstated after three years, then the fraternity
wouldn’t be entirely purged of its current membership, as it would’ve
been after five years.
Sigma Chi was on probation for three other incidents when the Stu
dent Judiciary’s Organization Court voted to expel the fraternity for a
disorderly conduct violation in December.
Sigma Chi sent its appeal of the Judicial Council’s decision to Douglas
March 5. He said the fraternitv will have five days from receipt of his de
cision to appeal to University President Charles Knapp, who can grant an
extension if requested.
Bracewell said the University has the right to rid itself of organiza
tions “if what they’re doing is an anathema to what this institution rep
resents.”
Sigma Chi members refused to comment on the case.
Forum held on alma mater
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
Three wins in three days —
that’s the record set by University
law students who won three moot
court competitions during the
weekend bringing home interna
tional, national and state
championships.
One team of five University law
students representing the United
States won an international law
moot court championship Saturday
in Washington, D.C., after de
feating Boston College Thursday to
capture the national
championship. This marks the first
time any team from this state has
taken the international title.
Another team of three Univer
sity law students won the Intra
state Moot Court Championship in
Athens Saturday.
The five-member team defeated
Duke University, the University of
Notre Dame, Ohio State University
and the University of North Caro
lina before defeating Boston on the
national level.
They also defeated six teams
from other countries before beating
Canada in the final round of the
1990 Phillip C. Jessup Interna
tional Law Moot Court
Championship.
This is the first time the United
States has won the international
title since 1987 when Georgetown
University won.
Moot court teams argue hypo
thetical cases that simulate real
world situations, said Jere More-
head, the moot court faculty ad
viser. The teams must argue both
sides of the case at various times.
They’re judged on both the content
and presentation of their argu
ments.
The team argued a hypothetical
case involving hazardous waste in
Antarctica. Morehead said the stu
dents have worked on the case
since October. They filed written
arguments in January, he said.
The second-year law students
who won the international compe
tition are Charles Gernazian, Myra
Creighton, Michelle Vaughan,
Mike Sharp and Doug Smith.
Smith was named second-best
oralist for the competition.
“Going into the final round we
were more calm and more confi
dent than we had been all the way
through. We were sort of on a roll, I
guess,” Sharp scud.
However, he said they had to
wait 45 minutes after the competi
tion ended for the judges to an
nounce the winner.
‘The longer they stayed out, the
less sure we were. We had more
time to think about the things we
did wrong,” Sharp said.
In the Intrastate Moot Court
Competition in Athens, the Uni
versity’s two teams took first and
second place, defeating Emory Uni
versity, Georgia State University
and Mercer University. The Uni
versity has won first place in this
competition for five consecutive
years, Morehead said.
In this competition, the students
argued a hypothetical wrongful
birth suit. In this case, a mother
was suing her doctor for failing to
inform her that her unborn child
was at high risk for Down’s Syn
drome.
The students who took first
place in this competition are also
second-year law students. They are
Shawn Holtzclaw, Jeff Wamcke
and Traci Green. Green was
named best oralist for the competi
tion.
The runner-up team included
second-year law students Kurt
Thomas, David Goodchild and
DeeAnn Boatright.
“It was a phenomenal three days
to win national, international and
state championships,” Morehead
said. “It was the best three days of
moot court I’ve experienced as ad
viser.”
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
It can safely be assumed Bull
dogs will always wear red and
black and fans will never tire of the
age-old cry, “Go, Dawgs, sic ’em,
woof, woof, woof!” But one Univer
sity tradition may be revised in the
future to address the student body
more literally.
A task force appointed to study
the University alma mater held an
open forum Monday to discuss a
possible change in the song’s lyrics,
said David Muia, alumni affairs di
rector.
Since early last year, the task
force has examined a resolution
proposed by Nancy Rubin, classics
prolessor, which focuses on a line
in the first verse — “and the sons of
Georgia rising with sacred vow...”
The proposal suggests it would be
appropriate to revise the wording
to represent female students who
now make up more than half of the
student body.
In addition to Rubin, two alumni
addressed the task force Monday.
Several letters also were submitted
to the group by alumni. Four of the
eight letters voiced strong opposi
tion to changing the lyrics, Muia
said.
The song was written by J.B.
White, a 1912 graduate of the Uni
versity. No women attended the
University at that time, Muia said.
Three members of the 13-
member task force were unable to
attend the public hearing or the
subsequent task force conference.
In a letter to the group, absent
member Swann Seiler Brannon,
University Alumni Society second
vice president, said, “I believe our
alma mater is an ancient piece of
University heritage that should
not be tampered with!”
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said the group will consult
with the absent members before
submitting a proposal to Univer
sity President Charles Knapp. No
date has been set for the proposal's
submission.
After Knapp reviews the pro
posal the University Council will
review possible solutions and de
cide on revision or replacement of
the standing alma mater.
Nominee for minority services named
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Leslie Bates, a candidate for director of the
University’s new Department of Minority Serv
ices and Programs, will be appointed if given a
final stamp of approval by the Board of Regents
this month, according to Dwight Douglas, vice
president for Student Affairs.
Bates said he hopes to begin working May 7.
During spring and summer quarters, Bates
said he will spend time acclimating himself to
the University and getting to know students
and faculty. In the fall, he hopes to initiate pro
grams to bring freshmen together with upper
classmen, faculty and administrators.
Tm looking at a long-term relationship with
the University of Georgia so I’m going to take
my time and do it right,” Bates said.
Associate dean of students at Eastern Mich
igan University since 1985, Bates said his pro
fessional experience has centered around
minority students and minority affairs.
Since 1988 he’s been coordinator of Greek
Life at EMU and manager of international stu
dent programs.
As one of three candidates interviewed from
a field of 96 applicants, Bates came to campus
in January for two days of interviews with stu
dents, faculty, administrators and the
screening committee.
Student organizations invited to send rep
resentatives to the interviews included the
Black Affairs Council, the Black Greek Council,
African American Power, University Union, the
Student Association, Interfraternity Council,
the Committee for Black Cultural Programs
and the Residence Hall Association.
Anissa Jones, who represented the Black
Greek Council in the interviewing process, said
she thought Bates was the best candidate for
the job.
Beryamin Roundtree, who represented BAC,
said he was impressed with Bates’ credentials
and his interview.
“He seemed genuinely concerned about other
minorities besides blacks,” he said. Roundtree
said Bates showed a willingness to devote time
to other minority students on campus, such as
Hispanics, during his interview.
Bates said he wanted the department to be a
student office, not a “black” office.
Douglas said a decision in the search for di
rector was made based on evaluations sub
mitted by those who participated in the
interviews and information obtained from the
institutions where they are presently em
ployed.
Bates has worked for a number of years in
the position he will fill here, Douglas said.
Tne director’s responsibilities include coordi
nating the development of minority student or
ganization leaders, advising the organizations
and building minority student retention pro
grams. Bates also will be in charge of planning
the African-American Cultural Center.