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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 89
INSIDE
A review of Jody Grind’s
new album“One Man’s
Trash is Another Man’s
Treasure.”
Weather: Today, mostly sunny,
high mid 60s, tonight, cloudy, low
mid 40s. Saturday, mostly cloudy
with a chance of thundershowers,
high mid 60s. Happy bunny day.
Debate focus: Leadership, race relations
By MARLA EDWARDS and
DARA McLEOD
Staff Writers
Students confronted presi
dential tickets on the Student As
sociation’s overall efficiency, past
leadership problems and minority
relations at a debate Thursday.
Candidates espoused the need
for leadership that will bring
much-needed reform to the SA be
fore a referendum to abolish the or
ganization comes up next spring.
Presidential candidate Pat
Dolan and running mate Kelly
Corley called the SA an inefficient
organization. They will push for its
abolishment if they can’t reform it
by next spring, Dolan said.
“Leadership is the key. We have
no vested interest in letting this in
effective organization go on," he
said.
Although candidate Heath Gar
rett and running mate Ben Cal
houn also called the SA ineffective,
they disagreed with the aboli
tionist stand of their opponents.
“If you’re going to give up before
ou start, you’ve already lost,” Cal-
oun said.
Presidential candidate Ian He-
nyon said he would fight to keep
SA on campus because he believes
it’s necessary to have some sort of
organized student voice.
He believes the SA was effective
this year and that problems came
from leadership.
The SA’s accomplishments in
clude establishing an escort van
service, lobbying for changes in
state drug bills and lobbying at the
Capitol for increased spending on
education.
This term’s SA president, Mark
Schisler, came close to impeach
ment due to senate dissatisfaction
with his leadership, said President
Pro Tern Andrea Naterman.
“Because we were part of SA we
were able to see the mistakes SA
did make and therefore we will not
make those same mistakes," He-
nyon said. He was a junior senator
this term and his running mate,
Misty Lathem, was a genera] com
mittee member.
Dolan said Henyon’s experience
was part of the problem and not its
solution.
Garrett also was a senator in the
1988-89 term. He didn’t run for of
fice last term because of his dissat
isfaction with leadership. His
absence from the senate allowed
him to objectively observe SA’s
problems, he said.
Calhoun, Garrett’s running
mate and a member of Kappa
Alpha fraternity, was asked about
his ability to represent minorities
because his fraternity displays as a
symbol the Confederate flag.
Calhoun said the accusation was
an unfair generalization.
His response sparked hostility
from other audience members who
questioned hi9 ticket’s commit
ment to improving the University’s
racial unity.
Benjamin Roundtree, president
of the Black Affairs Council, said
Thomas Glanton of the Black Affairs Council questions SA vice presi
dential candidate Ben Calhoun’s ability to represent minorities in
light of his membership in the Kappa Alpha fraternity. KA flies the
Confederate battle flag from the front of its house. Calhoun, right,
said the implication that his fraternity affiliation would affect his
judgement on SA was unfair. The confrontation took place at the SA
presidential debate Thursday night.
the three tickets showed little in
terest in minorities before they
began campaigning for elections.
About 50 students, including a
large number of minorities, at
tended the debate co-sponsored by
the Young Democrats and the
Black Affairs Council.
Phil Smith, co-president of
Young Democrats, said competi
tion in this election is more intense
than it’s been since SA’s reinstate
ment and he hopes student apathy
won’t affect voter turnout.
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University Council will have competitive races
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
Most of the University’s schools and col
leges will have contested races in the Univer
sity Council student elections Tuesday.
Tom Cochran, assistant to the vice presi
dent of Student Affairs, said, “We’ve gotten
quite a bit of interest — we’ve got petitions
from all nine schools we handle the election
for.”
The Office of Student Affairs had to extend
the deadline for turning in petitions to
Wednesday because of an earlier lack of re
sponse.
Cochran said they received 12 petitions
from the College of Arts and Sciences, four
from the College of Architecture, six each from
the College of Business Administration and
the Graduate School and three from the Col
lege of Education.
The Office of Student Affairs received one
petition each from the School of Environ
mental Design, the College of Journalism and
Mass Communication and the School of Forest
Resources. These schools have uncontested
races.
The College of Arts and Sciences has four
student positions on the council to fill; the Col
lege of Business Administration, the College
of Education and the Graduate School each
have two, and the remaining nine schools and
colleges each have 1.
University Council elections will be held in
conjunction with Student Association elec
tions Tuesday. Polling locations are the fol
lowing: Caldwell Hall, the main library, the
journalism school, the chemistry building, the
graduate studies building, the physical educa
tion building and the bus stop near Russell
nnd Brumby halls.
Cochran said the original lack of response
was due primarily to the time of the deadline
to qualify which was the end of winter
quarter.
Rodeo draws
opposition
from SLEAP
Amid the hundreds who
flocked to the Coliseum Thursday
night to witness a rodeo spon
sored by the University Block
and Bridle Club, a small group
quietly raised its pamphlets in
protest.
As rodeo enthusiasts walked to
the Coliseum, several members
of the Student League for Envi
ronment and Animal Protection
calmly passed out pamphlets
citing rodeos as cruel and inhu
mane to animals. The group also
will pass out the pamphlets on
Friday and Saturday nights be
fore the rodeo, said Doug Owens,
SLEAP community liaison.
“Rodeos hark back to the
Roman days when gladiators
used to fight each other. It tea
ches callousness toward animals
by using them strictly for enter
tainment,” he said.
Animals endure extreme
stress in a rodeo, Owens said,
nnd SLEAP is interested in edu
cating people in rodeo’s abuses.
He likened calf-roping to a trip to
the gallows as the animal reaches
speeds up to 27 miles an hour
nnd is lassoed.
The carnival-like atmosphere
of the rodeo undermines its
cruelty to animals, he said.
Laura Klug, a zoology sopho
more who attended the rodeo
with two of her friends, said, “I
like horses. It’s not like they ore
killed or anything.
‘They only buck for about 15
seconds; they aren’t hurt. It’s no
worse than football, when the
players are knocked down.”
University police Officer Rufus
Camp said police weren’t con
cerned so much with SLEAP’s ac
tions as with others who might
hassle them.
University Sgt. Mike Sproston
spoke with the protestors at the
Coliseum.
“I guess they’re are doing what
they feel is right and its a free
world,” he said.
— Michael W. McLeod
Ruggers find way of life in
the ‘sport of gentlemen’
By MARY 0. RATCUFFE
Contributing Writer
The game is a way of life — it’s passionate, primeval
and powerful. Anything can happen. There are thou
sands of possibilities.
This game of life is rugby.
The University of Georgia Rugby Football Club has
been living and playing out these possibilities since
1967. Georgia Rugby has a nationwide reputation for
excellence, a strong alumni base and a determination
to play hard and party harder.
Ruggers all over the world talk about the unique
camaraderie of the sport, a quality that enables
players to compete as friends, not enemies.
'The game itself is the unifying thing,” club presi
dent Eric Fornier, a 27-year-old graduate student in
geography, says.
The squad boasts players from Australia, England
and Ireland and a coach from Zimbabwe —proof posi
tive of world brotherhood. So what is it about rugby
that bonds players around the planet?
Englishman Nick Metcalfe, a 21-year-old interna
tional business major and outside center on the
squad, grew up playing rugby. He says he loves the
sport because it offers an individual challenge that's
never boring.
“It’s the thrill of breaking through and achieving.
Anyone can do it,” Metcalfe says with contagious en
thusiasm.
Australian David Johnston, a 24-year-old Ph.D.
candidate in animal breeding and genetics, is also a
lifelong rugger. Johnston, a wing forward, describes
his passion for the game in simple terms.
“It’s great fun, it’s a great way to meet people and it
relieves tension," he says. “And I love the physical
contact.”
Rugby football, created in the 1800s by a schoolboy
in England who picked up a soccer ball and ran with it
during a match, is incredibly physical. Ruggers en
dure a rigorous fitness program, including running,
aerobics and weight-training. The intense physical
preparation is absolutely necessary.
“If you’re fit and agressive, you're less likely to get
injured,” says Metcalfe.
Fornier says ruggers tend to suffer from disloca
tions, bumps and bruises. Broken bones are a rarity,
especially with fit and experienced players.
Club social chairman and second row (offensive
tackle) Mark Risse, a 25-year-old graduate student in
agricultural engineering, says that injuries occur
mainly in younger, inexperienced players with mis
placed aggression and older players with aches and
pains.
The aggression factor in rugby football has caused
an image problem for the sport, Fornier says. The
game does have a reputation for being brutal and
Todd “Capt. Redneck" Moffett and Blair
"Irish” Murray: Mauling for the rugby ball
bloody, but Georgia Ruggers beg to differ.
“It’s not anarchy out there,” Fornier says. “It’s the
epitome of sportsmanship."
But is it a gentleman’s sport?
Metcalfe claims that the Georgia rugby club's atti
tude of play is “very responsible,” and is adamantly
opposed to stretching the rules into uncontrolled vio
lence.
“As in any sport, there are gentlemen and hooli
gans," he says. “But there are two ways to play rugby:
hard but fair or unnecessarily violent. Georgia plays
remarkably fair.”
Risse agrees that the Georgia Ruggers prefer to
leave conflict on the field and shake hands. After
every home match, win or lose, the club hosts a party
for the opposition.
Please See RUGGERS, Page 8
Ul: Prokasy acted
outside statutes
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
William Prokasy, University
Academic Affairs vice president,
acted outside the bounds of his au
thority while serving as dean of the
University of Illinois College of
Arts and Sciences,according to a
UI faculty senate investigation.
The campus newspaper, The
Daily filini recently reported that
Prokasy, who served as UI arts and
sciences dean from 1980 until he
came to the University in 1988,
nnd another UI administrator vio
lated UI’s procedural statutes in
1987 by terminating one of UI’s
academic departments.
Stephen Douglas, UI director of
undergraduate studies said in a
phone interview Thursday that a
UI faculty senate ad hoc committee
investigating the situation found
that Prokasy and former director of
UI’s School of Life Science Samuel
Kaplan acted in a “unilateral
Tile
William Prokasy: Acted on a
faculty decision
fashion” to terminate the depart
ment of genetics and development.
“(Kaplan and Prokasy) bypassed
Please See PROKASY Page 3
Tax filing deadline
approaches fast
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
The sands are moving quickly
through Uncle Sam’s hourglass as
the April 16 deadline for filing tax
returns approaches.
Local post offices will accept re
turns until midnight on Monday so
procrastinators who haven’t done
their paperwork will have the
chance to use every dwindling mo
ment to its fullest.
Athens Postmaster Dwayne
Pearson said post office stations,
located on East Hancock Street, in
Beech wood Shopping Center on
Alps Road and the Annex station
on Miles Street, will give returns
received by midnight the desired
nnd necessary April 16 postmark.
“You can always guarantee a big
rush on deadline night,” said
Pearson, who has worked in postal
services for 29 years.
Most Georgians have already
made it under the wire. The In
ternal Revenue Service in Atlanta
reports that two-thirds of
Georgians, about 2.6 million, filed
their returns during the last week
of March.
Hester Donziger, IRS public af
fairs officer, said most of the re
maining third have filed since
April 1, but approximately 400,000
will wait until the last day.
Postal workers won’t be avail
able past regular business hours,
with the exception of East Hancock
Street personnel, who will have
window service until 7 p.m. How
ever, tax forms in the mail drops by
midnight will be picked up by
postal workers and taken to the
Annex station.
Pearson said though “tax day” is
the busiest of the yenr, next to Val
entine’s Day, no extra temporary
staff is hired and few postal em
ployees have to put in extra hours.
In 1989, 5 percent of Georgians
were unable to make the deadline
and filed for extensions. About the
same number is expected this year,
Donziger said.
Even if a taxpayer knows he will
be unable to file or pay owed money
on time, he needs to take action by
Monday night, she said.
"Debts will only get worse be
cause any money owed to the gov
ernment will have to be paid
eventually with interest,” she said.
Donziger said if a person doesn’t
have the full amount owed he
should call or visit IRS headquar
ters in Atlanta.
“We’re reasonable people," she
said, “and well work out some
method of payment plan to keep in
terest payments down.”
Delinquent filers can submit a
Form 4868, which grants an auto
matic four-month grace period.
Donziger explained that money
not paid by April 16 begins accu
mulating interest immediately and
eventually has to be paid in full.
The extension forms merely spare
tardy filers from additional penal
ties.
Donziger said on-time filers can
expect their refunds in eight to 10
weeks.