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UGA saxophonist wins national title
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 85
INSIDE
Editorial cartoonist Mike
Moreu finds a bit of South
America in President
Bush’s front yard.
Weather: Put away those shades!
Friday, mostly cloudy, high in 60s,
70 percent chance of showers.
Friday night, cold, low In low 30s.
Saturday, sunny, high upper 50s.
SA penalizes Henyon
and Lathem for fliers
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
One of the three tickets for
Student Association president
and vice president violated cam
paign regulations, according to
findings at an Elections Subcom
mittee hearing Thursday.
Junior Sen. Ian Henyon and
University junior Misty Lathem,
who are running for president
and vice president respectively,
were found guilty of campaigning
before the official campaign
dates. The subcommittee im
posed a 25 percent cut to the $400
campaign expenditure limit
An opposing ticket, Pat Dolan,
a junior political science mqjor,
and Kelly Corley, a junior public
relations major, brought the
charges against Henyon and La
them because four fliers were
posted in the Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority house Monday
night.
President Pro Tern Andrea Na-
terman announced at a candi
dates meeting the same night
that campaigning wasn’t to begin
until Tuesday.
Naterman said she meant that
campaign materials weren’t to be
posted until Tuesday.
All tickets are required to get
300 signatures to qualify to run;
some consider that campaigning,
she said.
Last year’s SA didn’t leave any
written campaign regulations.
"I guess it was my fault. I
should have anticipated a million
problems, but I didn’t," Na
terman said.
Henyon said the penalty is ex
tremely unfair.
‘Taking away $100 hurts our
campaign far more than four
fliers could have hurt theirs,” he
said.
Henyon delivered sealed enve
lopes containing a letter and
fliers to particular members of
several sororities Monday. He
told them that campaigning
didn’t officially begin until
Tuesday, but didn’t tell them spe
cifically not to post the fliers until
Tuesday, he said.
Naterman said she doesn’t
think Henyon and Latham vio
lated the rules themselves, but
the people who posted the fliers
aren't candidates and can't be pe
nalized. They have to be respon
sible for thoee people, she said.
'1 don’t think there was an in
tentional attempt to cheat
anyone," she said.
Dolan said Henyon and La
them should have been expelled
from the race and considers it
very unfair to his campaign.
“It’s another example of how
SA won’t stand by rules they’ve
made, and that’s one of the big
gest problems with SA lead
ership,” he said.
Henyon said this was a delib
erate attempt on the part of the
other candidates to find some
way to hurt his and Latham’s
campaign.
“I just feel badly for the organi
zation and I hope everything
turns out alright,” he said.
Go for it
Yoculan’s Dogs vie
for the Super Six
By CHRIS LANCETTE
Sports Writer
The gymnastics season doesn’t
officially end until the NCAA
championships in two weeks, but
it’s this weekend’s five regional
championships that determine
whose baggage gets checked
through to Corvallis, Ore. — site of
this year’s nationals.
With these competitions
counting two-thirds of teams’ Na
tional Qualifying Scores and
largely determining the 12 seeds,
every coach and athlete knows the
national championship meet starts
now. And each knows being in the
top six is tantamount to victory.
If a team doesn’t score nigh
enough in regionals to earn one of
the top six seeds — the Super Six
— that competes in the evening ro
tation, history says it won’t win the
crown.
Teams seeded seven through 12
— the Second Six — compete
during the day rotation and even if
a powerhouse team blows regional
and lands in day rotation, it will
have problems scoring very high.
Judges must hold back scores to
prevent being “boxed in” — unable
to credit the Super Six for better
routines because the highest scores
have already been awarded.
The fourth-ranked Georgia Lady
Dogs, in particular, understand the
pressure of regionals. Last season,
they seemed destined for a Second
Six seeding when they departed for
regionals in Lexington, Ky.
The team bus even broke down.
But the Gym Dogs didn’t — scoring
a whopping 193.20 and boosting
Andrea Thomas: ranks
second in nation
themselves to the fifth seed and
sparking their momentum to win
the championship two weeks later.
Georgia coach Suzanne Yoculan
said the team has practiced well
this week, giving her firm reasons
to be confident about her team’s re
gional competition (Southeast) in
Gainesville, Fla., Saturday night.
“I think well make the Super
Six,” Yoculan said before boarding
the bus with the team Thursday af
ternoon. "I think the entire team is
pumped up and confident because
we’ve had real good practice this
week.”
Senior Andrea Thomas may
have turned in the best practice
week. Thomas, winner of SEC
beam championship in Athens two
weeks ago, is ranked second in the
nation
Please See GYMNASTS, Page 8
Driver sought in rape
attempt on student
A student reported an at
tempted rape to Athens police
early Thursday morning,
according to polios reports.
The 20 year-old woman told
police the accepted a ride from a
man in a white car at about 1:40
a.m. The man drove her to a resi
dential area in Southwest
Athens, parked and tried to re
move her clothes, choking her.
The victim told police she was
bruised while struggling with the
man during her escape. The man
was dscribed as 5-foot, 7-inches
tall, black with a medium com
plexion and short hair. He was
wearing a red shirt at the time of
the incident.
An attempted rape charge car
ries a punishment of no less than
ons-year imprisonment and no
more than 10 if convicted, said
Hilda Spratlin, spokeswoman for
Athens police.
- Michael W. McLeod
Semester vote to be in May
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The Executive Committee of the University
Council voted unanimously Thursday to hold
off a council vote on the change to a semester
system until the end of May.
The committee decided to delay the vote so
the council could discuss the change at its April
19 meeting.
The committee decided not to place the pro
posal on the council’s agenda after David
Coker, executive assistant to University Presi
dent Charles Knapp, and William Prokasy, vice
president for Academic Affairs, suggested that
Knapp wouldn’t take a general request for a
change, without a specific program outlined, to
the University System Board of Regents.
Coker said the president would probably
deny the request because it could be taken as a
sign that the faculty is divided on the change.
Knapp wouldn’t want to make such a request to
the regents if he wasn’t certain the council
would be behind the decision.
Coker said the best way to show support
would be to have a complete program that was
ready to be presented to the regents.
However University System Chancellor H.
Dean Propst said, “The proper course of action
would be to get the principle approved (by the
regents) first, before time and effort is spent on
a specific program.”
Propst said he didn’t know if the regents
would approve a University request to change
to semesters.
“Any proposal would receive very, very
careful consideration from us,” he said
Paul Kurtz, law professor and Executive
Committee member, said at the meeting that
faculty need to receive a go-ahead from the re
gents on a Bwitch. He said it would be hard to
recruit anyone to do further studies if the fac
ulty thought all the hard work involved in de
veloping a semester plan might be instantly
killed by the council, Knapp, or the regents
Coker said a compromise could be reached,
but agreed with Kurtz’s post-meeting sugges
tion that such a compromise would involve
asking the regents for approval of a specific pro
gram and not the general principle of a change
McCarter said at the meeting that faculty
haven’t taken much interest in the changeover.
Kurtz and Coker suggested that word be sent to
faculty that the council is seriously considering
the switch.
Such an action would probably move the
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Chancellor H. Dean Propst
planned starting date from fall 1993 to fall 1994
or even 1995 due to the increased discussion.
Propst noted that the regents must consider
the effects of such a change on the entire
system, especially the factor of cost.
SA ticket to make lobbying a priority
P*t«r Fr*y/Th« Red and Black
Heath Garrett and Ben Calhoun: Candidates for SA
president and vice president, respectively
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Lobbying for student concerns
will be a priority for sophomores
Heath Garrett and Ben Calhoun if
they’re elected president and vice
resident, respectively, for the Stu-
ent Association’s next term.
“When the Student Association
was reestablished in 1987, it was
established as a voice of students.
But they don’t take the voice where
it needs to be going," Garrett, a po
litical philosophy meyor, said.
As executive officers, they would
lobby for student concerns among
University faculty and administra
tors, the Athens City Council and
the state legislature, he said.
It's their plan to lobby the legis
lature for educational issues such
as funding for parking decks, new
buildings, faculty pay raises and
student financial aid. They would
work with University President
Charles Knapp and members of the
Board of Regents.
They would try to rearrange the
SA’s meeting schedule so they
could attend Athens City Council
meetings, Garrett said.
Calhoun, a biology major, said
this year’s SA could have had an ef
fect on local issues of concern to
students, such as the city’s open
container ordinance, if it had mon
itored council meetings.
Garrett said he thinks students
will become more involved in SA if
they realize officers are working
closely with University adminis
trators, the city council and the
legislature.
The pair’s campaign platform
also includes building communica
tion between the SA and student
organizations.
‘We feel that SA as a newly es
tablished organization has the re
sponsibility on its shoulders to
initiate contact with vital campus
organizations,” Garrett said.
They would go to meetings of the
10 most vital organizations on
campus about once a month. Gar
rett said he would have time to de
vote to the SA because he'll take
two academic classes and one phys
ical education class each quarter
next year, he said.
Calhoun said students have told
them the SA doesn’t seem aware of
which issues are important to the
different campus organizations.
Also, delegation of authority to
senators is an element of their
platform.
‘This means that senators are
going to have to do their jobs and
help us in initiating contact with
all of these organizations," Garrett
said.
SA’s major problem now, he
said, involves leadership and stu
dent apathy. This year’s organiza
tion sometimes lost focus on right
or wrong issues in efforts to please
The Red and Black or factions of
the University, he said.
“Ben and I think we will be able
to please the majority of the
campus, but we think we have the
strength to endure the rough
times,” Garrett said.
A freshman SA senator during
the 1988-89 school year, Garrett
said he didn’t run for a seat for this
term because of his frustration
with the leadership.
Garrett and Calhoun are mem
bers of the Honor’s Program. Gar
rett is also a Big Brother in the
Comm university program.
Frustrated residents
seek parking solution
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
Fed up with the parking
problem around the University of
Georgia Foundation Building on
Milledge Avenue, several residents
from a surrounding neighborhood
are taking their case directly to
University officials.
About 13 residents of Clo-
verhurst Avenue will meet this
morning with Larry Weatherford,
associate vice president for Devel
opment and University Relations,
and Dexter Adams, campus land
scape architect, to try to find a so
lution to the parking overflow.
“We’re not trying to be antago
nistic toward the University,”
Sarah Lacher, a Cloverhurst resi
dent, said. “But we have hundreds
of thousands of dollars invested in
our homes.
The parking overflow from (the
foundation building) is infringing
upon our neighborhood,” she said,
“and residential property cannot
be used for public parking."
The problem is that there aren’t
enough parking spaces in the
building’s lot to accomodate the 44
people who work there. Often the
development office, which is
housed in the building, holds meet
ings that create a greater demand
for parking.
The development office moved
into the building last auarter. The
foundation bought the building for
$850,000 and rents the office space
to the University for $104,500 a
year.
Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said on a normal business
day the lot overflow should be lim
ited to eight cars in the street along
Cloverhurst.
However, Father Ralph Marsh
of the University Episcopal Center
said a larger overflow is more
common. He said almost 20 cars
lined the street Thursday morning
and blocked traffic.
Other Cloverhurst residents,
such as Patricia Waldrip, are con
cerned for the safety of their chil
dren who ride bicycles and play
around the now crowded street.
‘There hasn’t been an incident
yet,” Waldrip said, “but we’re con
cerned an accident may happen
and we want to solve this proDlem
before then.”
Last week, the Cloverhurst resi
dents, Athens City Councilmember
Nathan Williams Jr. and City Tra
ffic Engineer Jim Corley met with
Weatherford and Adams.
Most of the residents said they
felt Weatherford is trying to solve
the problem as quickly as possible.
However, some are waiting to
make a judgement.
“Well have to see what happens
Friday," Marsh said. “Everything
hangs on what happens at the
meeting."
Williams, who plans to attend
today’s meeting, said the residents
left the last meeting with two is
sues to settle: whether or not the
foundation must comply with the
city ordinance requiring a parking
space for every 300 square feet in
the building and what to do about
the current overflow.
The residents suggestions in
cluded having workers park on
campus and bus to the foundation
building, increasing the size of the
lot by cutting into the front yard of
the property and numbering the
spaces in front of the Cloverhurst
houses and issuing permits.
Adams said he is investigating
realigning the building's parking
lot The landscaping and space
layout could be redistributed to
create more spaces.
Because the foundation owns
the property, it would have to pay
for Uie renovations.
Weatherford couldn't be reached
for comment.
the neighborhood . . .
Inspired by the beauty of spring on North Campus, Leigh Kichter, a
sophomore journalism major, sketches during a break from
classes. Lisa will have to wear a coat if she decides to sketch out
side this weekend. Temperatures in the low thirties are expected in
Athens tonight.
It’s a beautiful day in