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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 90
INSIDE
A review of country singer
Loey Nelson’s refreshing
debut album “Venus
Kissed the Moon.”
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Weather: Today, partly cloudy, 20
percent chance of
thundershowers, high low 80s.
Tonight, mostly cloudy, low 50s.
Wednesday, high mid 60s.
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Student killed, one injured in auto wreck
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Jan Hester: Was killed in ac
cident on Sunday
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Two members of Alpha Chi
Omega sorority were involved in
an auto accident Sunday that left
one dead and the other in critical
condition.
Jan Elaine Hester, a senior ac
counting major, was killed and
Sarah Elizabeth Harvey, a junior
recreation miyor, was taken to the
Macon Medical Center after the ac
cident.
Funeral services will be held for
Hester at 2 p.m. at Bethlehem
Baptist Church in Clarkesville,
Ga., Alpha Chi Omega president
Laura Whaley said. The sorority
plans to hold a memorial service at
the University.
Samantha Meacham, Alpha Chi
Omega member and senior in
drawing and painting, said Harvey
had a fracture at the base of her
skull, a broken pelvis, and injuries
to her internal organs complicated
by internal bleeding.
Harvey was still in critical con
dition Monday afternoon, but
seemed to be responding to stimuli,
she said. Harvey has squeezed her
mother’s hand and responds to
noise.
“It sounds a lot more hopeful
than it has been sounding,” Mea
cham said. “We all have our fingers
crossed.”
Both students were returning
Clowns and cowboys make
for fun at Coliseum rodeo
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
While the clowns goofed off for
the crowd and the next cowboy set
tled into the saddle, a big bull
named Sidewinder let out a snort
and slammed his horns into the
gate. For a moment, the sound
echoed through the Coliseum.
Heads turned. There was silence.
Then, as the clowns got ready
and the announcer yelled into the
microphone, the gate swung open
and Sidewinder was free.
The crowd cheered. The bull
bucked, and for a few precious sec
onds an unlucky cowboy was riding
high — but only for a few seconds.
Thrown from the bull by one
buck too many, the rider dangled
from the saddle, his hand caught in
a rope. The cowboy got away, but
only afler the big bull rammed him
with his horns and stomped him
with hoth back legs.
"It’s a rush. It’s somethin’ else,”
said Robert Pohly, a bull rider from
South Florida who rode Saturday
night in the 16th Annual Great
Southland Stampede Pro Rodeo,
sponsored by the UGA Block and
Bridle Club.
“Every ride is so different from
the other and there’s so many close
calls, I guess it could be dan
gerous,” he said. “But I don’t think
so myself. Just sit up there, tuck
your chin, stick your chest out and
keep your eyes open.”
Now on the professional circuit,
Pohly, 25, rode his first bull 10
years ago.
“I just got on for the first time,
got a broken arm and realized I
was hooked,” he said.
The rodeo, held Thursday
through Saturday, drew about 16,-
000 spectators, many of whom
showed up in cowboy boots,
Western shirts and ten-gallon
hats.
The audience watched riders
from all over the South fight for
$25,000 in prize money and points
Ridin’ High: A cowboy hangs tough during rodeo
toward national and regional racing, calf roping, team roping
championships. Events included and bull riding,
saddle bronc riding, bareback
riding, steer wrestling, barrel Please See RODEO. Page 8
from the engagement party of
Alpha Chi Omega alumna Bonnie
Hazard in Orlando, Fla. The acci
dent occurred at about 3:15 p.m. on
1-75 near Tarvesville. Ga.
Hester’s small hometown of
Clarkesville, with a population of
less than 2,000, was aevastated by
the news of the senior’s death,
according to a close family friend.
Hester was looking forward to a job
with the Arthur Anderson ac
counting firm in Atlanta after
graduation.
She also was engaged to Michael
Kaudell, a first-year medical stu
dent at the Medical College of
Georgia and member of Phi
Gamma Delta fraternity.
Cars delivering flowers came
and went outside Alpha Chi
Omega sorority house Monday. A
wreath was placed on the front
door. Whaley said the Hesters have
established a memorial schol
arship fund at Habersham Bank.
Alpha Chi Omega member Mich
elle Sambella, a close friend of Hes
ter’s, said, “Everyone’s in shock;
it’s hitting us pretty hard. People
are becoming numb, but we’re
keeping each other strong. Sarah’s
is in critical condition and we’re
praying for her.”
Officals at the Macon Medical
Center said Harvey was still in
critical condition Monday af
ternoon.
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Sarah Harvey: Is in critical
condition in Macon
Knapp opens Earth Day celebration
With his hand on a shovel and
a grin on his face, University
President Charles Knapp offi
cially started the week-long cele
bration of Earth Day Monday by
placing soil on a 12-foot Lacebark
elm in front of Moore College.
But Knapp didn’t spend the
whole ceremony in the dirt. He
also issued a proclamation urging
faculty and staff members to par
ticipate in the festivities.
In his proclamation, Knapp
said the University recognizes
Earth Day as a time to “reaffirm
commitment to environmental
stewardship,” and urged all stu
dents, faculty and staff members,
“to participate in this global cele
bration of the Earth’s majesty.”
In an interview afler the event,
Knapp said the Earth Day ce-
lebntions are important for
alerting and educating individ
uals to the environmental prob
lems of the earth.
Asked what the University is
doing, Knapp pointed to the En
vironmental Task Force headed
by ex-president Henry King
Earth
Day
1990
Stanford and the Recycling Task
Force headed by Physical Plant
Director James TenBrook.
Knapp said, “The University
needs to be a better environ
mental citizen.”
Katie Reich, Students for En
vironmental Awareness campus
coordinator for Earth Day, also
said the University’s depart-
Odum ‘pounds heads’ for Earth
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Eugene Odum says sometimes
people need to be hit over the
head — hard and continuously —
to get the picture. The head
pounding he delivers comes not
on an offensive note, but on a de
fensive one in the name of
Mother Earth.
The time has come for society
to “pull itself out of the quicksand
before we get in any deeper” into
environmental distress, he said.
When Odum talks about
Earth's environmental health,
people listen. He is, after all, the
founder of the Institute of
Ecology, an interdisciplinary unit
of the University, and the author
of the most widely-used ecology
text in the world, “Fundamentals
of Ecology.”
The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences awarded him the Cra-
foord Prize in 1987, which has
been compared to the Nobel
Prize.
His message isn’t new, but the
anniversary of Earth Day has
brought his concern for ecological
balance to the “front burner.”
‘The Earth is resilient and can
repair itself to a point,” he said.
“But we can’t depend on that for
ever, so we need to start helping
the rejuvenation process now,
while we still know how to get out
of that quicksand.”
Earth Day 1970 was highly
publicized as is this Sunday’s
event. But when the hype died
after the event, so did the
ments need to become more envi
ronmentally aware. The
recycling program needs to be im
plemented soon and environ
mental awareness needs to be
taught in University classes.
She said Knapp has made
“commendable efforts. We really
appreciate his support.”
— Walter Colt
movement to save the environ
ment, he said.
“Everyone got preoccupied
with the Cold War,” he said. “The
‘Evil Empire’ was considered our
number-one enemy, but now that
global relations are improving,
our number-one threat is waste.”
With the distraction of political
threat gone, Odum said it’s time
for society to “grow up ”
“Society has been acting like a
destructive child and now we
need to become responsible, re
spectful adults,” he said.
The adolescent period, the
time it will take for America and
the rest of the world to go from
wasteful to respectful, might
hurt for a while — in the pocket-
Please See ODUM Page 5
Macintosh labs expanded
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
For all of those students sick
and tired of waiting hours for a
Macintosh at the main library,
help is on the way.
Efforts to relieve the pressure
on the main library Macintosh
lab began Monday when a new
schedule was implemented for
the computer lab in Room 305 of
the journalism building.
The lab in Room 305 is now
open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m.
to 8 p.m. on Saturday and noon to
8 p.m. on Sundays. The lab is
open to all majors.
The terminals that used to be
in the lab have been replaced by
19 Macintosh SE PCs and a laser
printer. The PCs are linked to the
University’s mainframe, thus
making programs such as
PLATO and MUSIC still avail
able at the lab.
Tom Anderson, a magazines
graduate student, said, ‘The new
lab will relieve some over
crowding, but they’re late in
doing it.
University President Charles
Knapp, in a letter to The Red and
Black, wrote that the main li
brary lab will be further relieved
by eight Macintosh PCs. They
will be installed in the science li
brary computer lab.
Knapp wrote that a new fa
cility also will be opened in the
basement of the graduate studies
building and will contain eight
IBM-compatible PCs.
Walter McRae, interim di
rector of University Computing
and Network Services, said there
probably will be two printers in
the graduate studies building.
Knapp also wrote that a laser
printer will be added to the com
puter lab in Aderhold Hall. The
15 Macintosh PCs and 17 IBM-
compatible computers in the lab
will be networked, creating
greater efficiency, he added.
Knapp said that by the end of
the quarter the University will
have a total of six public Macin
tosh labs, including one in the Bi
oscience Learning Center in the
Biological Sciences Complex,
which will be the only one not
served by an on-site laser printer.
The University will nave a
total of 19 public access computer
facilities with the addition of the
lab in the graduate studies
building, he wrote.
McRae said there were too
many factors in the project to de
termine an exact date for the ad
ditions to the computer network.
Knapp, in an interview
Monday, said funding will come
from amendments to the fiscal
year 1990 budget and the fiscal
year 1991 budget.
McRae said the Macintosh’s
cost about $1,500 each and the
printers about $2,200 each.
Six men attack University freshmen;
one is hospitalized following assault
BY MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Two University students were
the victims of an attack Sunday
night that left one hospitalized,
according to Athens police reports.
Blake Dalton, a freshman En
glish major, and William Alex
ander Jones, an undecided
freshman, said they were walking
to Jones’ house when they were at
tacked at about 11:15 p.m. on
Boulevard Street by six men. They
were described as black and be
tween the ages of 18 and 20 years
old.
Dalton was taken to Athens Re
gional Medical Center where he
was treated for a concussion. He
was released around 11:30 a.m.
Monday and said he plans to go
back to class today. Jones escaped
with scratches ana bruises.
“It’s pretty irritating,” Dalton
said, “just to think these guys came
from out of nowhere and jumped us
for no reason."
Both said they were walking
from downtown to Jones’ house at
86 North Chase St. and weren’t
paying much attention to the group
that was walking toward them.
Once they passed the men, they
were jumped from behind.
Jones said the men knocked
Dalton to the sidewalk and then at
tacked him.
“I turned around and two people
grabbed me,” he said. “It was
pretty much the whole beat-up
scene. I was knocked down and
kicked in the head. I looked up and
Blake was face up on the street.”
Dalton said he remembered
little of the attack due to his head
injury.
“It’s kind of fuzzy, I was pretty
much out of it. They just knocked
me over and jumped on my friend,”
he said.
Neither could give police a very
good description of their attackers.
“We were in the midst of conver
sation. I guess we were kind of
oblivious, which was obviously a
mistake, to what was going on
around us. There was nothing that
would’ve given us a sign of what
was to happen,” Jones said.
The assailants took Jones’ watch
and wallet but had no other ap
parent motive for the attack, he
said.
“I don’t understand it. I sit down
and try to think; I try to put myself
in their position and I just can’t. If
they had wanted the money they
could’ve had it. There were six of
them; they didn’t have to beat us
up,” Jones said.
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Hilda Spratlin, public informa
tion officer for Athens police, said
finding suspects would be hard due
to the lack of descriDtions.
Alex Jones, left, and Blake Dalton: The two were attacked
by six men Sunday night on Boulevard Avenue