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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 87
INSIDE
Editorial cartoonist Mike
Moreu takes a look at
Sigma Chi’s appeal to
President Knapp
Weather: Sorry, no good news
Today, mostly clear, high around
65, Tonight, clear, low In the low
30s. Thursday, sunny, high
around 60.
SA presidential candidates all male - again
Student Association election follows national precedent
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
Why are they all men? Since 1987,
when the Student Association was re
instated at the University, every Student
Association presidential candidate has
been male.
This year the SA presidential election
will continue to follow the national prece
dent of electing men to executive office
since there are no women in the running.
But most believe a female SA presidential
candidate could win here.
The only two women candidates on
presidential tickets this year are running
for vice president. Both presidential ana
vice presidential candidates from a third
ticket are male.
"I think this is a trend starting from
the national and state levels," said Misty
Lathem, a junior political science m^jor
and one of the two female vice presi
dential candidates.
However, Lathem said she chose to run
for vice president because her running
mate, junior telecommunications mqjor
Ian Henyon, is more experienced and
qualified for SA president. Henyon was
an SA senator last term.
The other female candidate, Kelly
Corley, a junior public relations major,
said she is running for vice president
rather than president because her run
ning-mate initiated their campaign and
asked her to run on his ticket. Corley is
running with presidential candidate Pat
Dolan, a junior political science major.
The last time a woman ran for presi
dent of the University's student gov
erning body was in 1978, about a year
before SA’s predecessor, the Student Gov
ernment Association, was abolished.
Nancy Neal, who was SGA vice presi
dent the previous year, was defeated in
the 1978 presidential race. Also in that
year, the only female candidate for vice
president was defeated.
SA adviser Tom Cochran said he’s very
surprised that there have been no female
presidential candidates since SA was re
instated.
"We’ve had very strong leadership from
females within the senate," he said.
Heather Kleiner, assistant director of
Women’s Studies, said the lack of a
formal women’s organization on campus
might be a factor in this trend. Campus
politics reflect national politics, and stu
dents have traditionally seen men in
leadership roles.
‘The women’s movement is just begin
ning to reawaken on campus,” she said.
“It may be three or four yeurs before
women take these roles."
Andrea Naterman, SA President Pro
Tern, said she expects to see a woman run
for SA president next year and thinks
there’s a definite possibility that a woman
presidential candidate could win.
Henyon and Dolan both said they con
sider their running mates to be equal
partners and expect to see a female SA
president in the near future.
Cheap concertgoers out of luck
Concern for safety of concert crowds
prompts construction of new fence at
Legion Field covering hill next to pool
By STEPHANIE—LEA SMITH
Staff Writer
Student* who prefer to enjoy
bond* at Legion Field without
buying ticket* to the show are now
out ofluck.
A new fence is being constructed
to include the hill beside the pool
house at Legion Field and, weather
permitting, should be in place by
Thursday.
Student Activities Director Wil
liam Porter decided the fence sur
rounding Legion Field needed to be
extended to prevent a "hazardous
situation."
"Large crowds congregate in the
area. We are concerned that people
would perhaps create a dangerous
situation,” he said.
At a B-52’s concert during fall
quarter, more than 1,000 people
who couldn't get tickets to the sold-
out show sat on the hill.
“During the concert people were
pushed up against the fence. We
don’t want anything to happen
here. The University would be
liable,” Porter said.
University Union President Rob
Nelson said the new fence also will
include three gates.
“We want to avoid anything like
The Who concert in Cincinnatti,
when people were trampled. The
B-S^s concert had The Who-poten-
tial. We hope the new fence and
gates will help to avoid such a
problem,” he said.
However Caroline Kohn, a soph-
omore English major who listened
to the B-52’s from the hill, said she
didn’t think there was a problem.
‘The crowd was tame. I wasn’t
scared that 1 would be crushed,”
she said.
Davis Frank, incoming concerts
coordinator of the University
Union, said the fence extension
will allow Legion Field capacity to
increase from 3,200 to 4,000
people.
‘The area the new fence will en
close will allow 800 more people in
side. The fire marshall limits the
area essentially because Legion
Field is a location with walls,” he
said. Because the field is fenced in,
it has limited exits.
Frank said the University Union
is planning to have more big-name
entertainment in the future.
Sonstock is postponed
Son's of Italy's annual Sonstock festival was postponed due to un
predictable weather. But don't despair - you can enjoy the tunes of
Smash Fantastic, Lime Lemon Pie and Debt of Nature, among others,
next Monday when Sonfest will finally get underway. Here "Hank"
plays for the crowd Monday before the postponement is announced.
Home Ec. awaiting a
decision on new dean
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Students and faculty in the Col
lege of Home Economics are
awaiting the selection of a new
dean.
Gordhan Patel, dean of the
Graduate School and chairman of
the home economics dean search
committee, said the committee re
ceived about 25 applications and
has narrowed the list to eight can-
di dates.
Patel said the committee adver
tised nationally, sending about 300
letters to academic leaders in home
economics and encouraging faculty
to nominate candidates for the po
sition.
"We also contacted all of the
home economics extension services
throughout Georgia," he said.
“We're looking for someone who
has an academic record of excel
lence plus leadership qualities and
vision for the field of home eco
nomics,” Patel said.
The search committee will meet
on April 18 to select three candi
dates who will be invited to on-
campus interviews, he said. The
two-day interviews will be held in
May.
"During those two days, the can
didates will get to talk to faculty,
students and the administration,”
Patel said.
'We’re trying to give wide expo
sure of candidates to the interested
constituencies on campus,” he said.
Richard Lewis, an assistant pro
fessor in home economics and a
Computer equipment valued at
$10,035 was reported stolen from
Dawson Hall, according to Univer
sity police reports. The theft
caused the loss of months of re
search by the College of Home Eco
nomics.
Home Economics Dean Emily
Pou said a tremendous amount of
data, the result of many months of
research by associate research pro
fessor George Baughman, was lost.
According to police reports, sev
eral computer components were
stolen throughout the building be
tween Friday afternoon and
Monday morning.
Roger Swagler, Housing Con
sumer Ecomonics department head
said the value of the equipment is
“much more’ than $10,035.
“Whoever did it was good. They
only took the best ones,” he said.
The thief or thieves took only
computer keyboards and other
We're looking for
someone who has an
academic record of
excellence plus
leadership qualities.
Gordhan Patel
graduate school dean
committee member, said the com
mittee has a good slate of candi
dates. He also said the input of
faculty members in the selection
process is important.
“Faculty, staff, administrators
and students should have an op
portunity and will hnve an oppor
tunity to speak with the
candidates,” he said.
Emily Pou, the present College
of Home Economics dean, is re
tiring but will remain on the job
until a replacement is selected. She
has been dean for 19 years.
Pou said it is important for a
person in this position to be able to
foster development in the college’s
diverse curriculum. She said many
of the scholarships and programs
such as fashion merchandising and
consumer economics didn’t exist
when she came to the department.
William Prokasy, vice president
of Academic Affairs, will make the
final decision in the selection
process. He couldn’t be reached for
comment.
components, leaving the monitors,
said Alison Brister, the adminstra-
tive assistant in charge of the com
puter laboratory in Dawson Hall.
Other computers on the second
floor were taken, but none from the
lab, which is also on the second
floor.
“We were lucky. Right now we
are trying to make them so ugly
that no one in their right mind will
want them," she said, referring to
the large red identification num
bers being engraved on the com
puters.
Mark Toombs, who works in the
lab, suggested that the clear line of
sight into the lab from the hallway
spared the lab. •
University police Sgt. Richard
Good son said police had leads but
no suspects. There was evidence
that individual rooms had been
pried open.
- Michael W. McLeod
Sam Nunn
resigns
from all
male club
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Georgia
Sen. Sam Nunn confirmed
Tuesday that he has resigned
from the all-male Burning Tree
Club in Bethesda, Md., a move
that is certain to fuel speculation
about his presidential ambitions.
“I have dropped out for per
sonal reasons/’ Nunn said in a
statement released by his office
in response to questions about
his membership status in the golf
club.
Nunn, who considered running
for the Democratic nomination
for president in 1988, did not
elaborate on his reasons for re
signing from the club, whose
members include some of the na
tion’s most powerful political
leaders.
“My priority is to run for re-
election to the U.S. Senate,”
Nunn said in the statement. “As I
have said many times, I have no
plans or inclination to run for
president. At no time have I ever
established a pre-set time frame
for contemplating a decision on a
future presidential campaign."
Nunn, chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, was
the favorite son of Southern and
conservative Democrats during
the early part of the 1988 cam
paign, but he twice refused to
jump into the race, citing family
Apressures and his Senate duties
The Burning Tree Club, which
has been an all-male bastion
since its founding in 1922, last
year lost a court battle to regain a
tax break the Maryland Legis
lature had taken away from it in
1986 because of the club’s refusal
to admit women as members.
The club had a long-standing
agreement with the state to pre
serve its open spaces in return for
favorable property tax treatment.
But the legislature, responding to
pressure from women’s groups,
canceled the agreement, forcing
the club to choose between admit
ting women or losing its tax
break.
The club challenged the new
law in court, but the Supreme
Court last fall let stand a lower
court ruling that the law did not
violate the club members’
freedom-of-association rights.
Robert Zarnock, a Maryland
assistant attorney general, said
Tuesday the private club has not
re-applied for the tax break.
Computer equipment
stolen from Home Ec
Pulitzer winning playwright
is surprised by new status
‘No matter how many awards you win or how
much purple you wear, you still have to get back
to writing'
Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright
Wasserstein
delights UGA
audience
By MARGARET WESTON
Entertainment Editor
Wendy Wasserstein, Pulitzer
Prize winner, never thought ehc
would be a fashion consultant.
But The New York Times appar
ently felt she had reached this
point when they asked her for her
advice. The unpretentious play
wright recounted her surprise at
her new status Tuesday at the Fine
Arte auditorium. Wasserstcin’s
genuine personality and fashion
advice — wear purple — which did
appear in the Times, delighted the
nearly 200 people gathered to hear
her deliver the last speech of the
Charter Lecture Series.
Wasserstein’s advice to writers
— young and old, male and female
— was "no matter how many
awards you win or how mucn
purple you wear, you still have to
get Pack to writing."
Wasserstein graduated from
Mount Holyoke College and re
ceived a master’s degree in drama
from Yale University. She has re
cently published a collection of es
says, "Bachelor Girls," that
originally appeared in New York
Woman magazine, where she is a
contributing editor. Wasserstein
received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize
and 1989 Tony award for her ploy
“The Heidi Chronicles," which was
praised for its honest portrayal of
women and comic quality.
Wasserstein intrigued listeners
with her explanations and feelings
toward writing. She noted the dis
tinct difference between the play
wright and the screenwriter; the
fact that a playwright is the sole
owner of her or his work. She
showed that as a playwright, the
idea or conception doesn’t come to
life until the characters that one
has created come to life through
people playing them.
A screenwriter must face the
fact that his or her story will un
doubtedly be altered. While most
films are the "director’s medium,”
the playwright has a direct hand in
the production and may preserve
her or hie work and leave it as it
was originally conceived.
The playwright's control ie a
high priority to Wasserstein and
something she achieved with an
early play, “Uncommon Women,"
wliich she sold to public television
for a "four-figure” sum.
Wasserstein's desire to preserve
her work rather than go for the
“hit* is part of what makes her in
triguing.
The author talked about the dif
ference between many types of
writing, including essay writing
and screenplays. Wasserstein isn’t
biased against other forms of
writing. On the contrary, she
showed how each form is inter
esting in its own way and that a
person who desires to write must
exlore and try new things.
Wasserstein explained how she de
velops her plays through charac
ters first and then concentrates on
the story, letting it come through
after editing the characters. She
explained the complicated nature
and length in play writing and
compared it to the relative ease of
writing essays.
Wasserstein told her audience of
her inhibitions and the fact that all
creative people have them. The in-
decisiveness and doubts that
writers are plagued with are a part
of their being. She told of changing
her mind when she graduated from
college and picking dramatic
writing over law school.
She explained her choice by
saying that “the concept of doing
something you love is great" and is
what intrigued her. Wasserstein
identified with the idea that al
though one may feel that she or he
may not have anything to say, the
autobiographical aspects one
brings to writing can give that
work a voice that speaks with reso
nance.
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