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The Red and Black • Thursday. April 19. 1990 • 3
Fraternities improve
GPAs, service records
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
Fraternity service hours for
winter quarter are up 20 percent
over winter quarter 1989, and Beta
Theta Pi reported the highest fra
ternity grade point average on Uni
versity record, Ron Binder, adviser
to fraternities, said.
“We place a high emphasis on
grades, Beta Theta Pi President
James Brittle said. The fraternity
holds an academic seminar once a
quarter and stresses scholarship
among its members. Beta Theta Pi
also reported 112 service hours
winter quarter.
However, the all-fraternity GPA
of 2.62 fell below the all-men’s GPA
of 2.63. Sororities topped fraterni
ties with an average of 2.86 that
also beat the all-women’s average
of 2.77, according to a report re
leased from the Greek Life office.
Fraternities reported more than
2,600 service hours in the Athens
area last quarter.
Sorority service hours weren’t
included in the report.
Chi Psi and Omega Psi Phi tra
iled the fraternity pack with GPAs
of 2.38 and 2.33, respectively.
Sigma Nu’8 record for service
hours topped all fraternities with
377 hours among its 107 members,
but its GPA fell to 2.40, the fourth-
lowest among fraternities.
Members of Alpha Phi Alpha
seemed to strike a balance between
academics and community service.
The 13-member organization re
ported 241 service hours and had
the fourth-highest fraternity GPA
of 2.76.
Although it is working on its
scholarship program, Sigma Nu
made community projects a top
priority winter quarter, with in
volvement in Adopt-a-Highway,
Earth Day and blood drives, Lee
Andrews, president of the frater
nity, said.
The eight undergraduate mem
bers of Omega Psi Phi contributed
298 service hours, the most re
ported among the smaller fraterni
ties. They had the lowest fraternity
GPA of 2.33.
‘We made it our motto last
quarter that we were going to try
to be seen more in the community,”
Eric Brown, keeper of records and
seal for the fraternity, said.
In response to negative atten
tion often given fraternities locally
and nationally, Omega Psi Phi is
trying to build a positive image of
fraternities in general, Brown said.
The group provides regular do
nations to the United Negro Col
lege Fund and the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People,involves itself in
community progams such as the
Athens Assualt on Illiteracy and
the Athens Bovs Club, and pre
sents an annual scholarship to an
area high school senior.
Although Omega Psi Phi has no
programs to improve its academic
erformance, Brown said, ‘We
ope that each brother will take it
upon himself to improve his GPA.”
Sigma Tau Gamma, with 17
members and an average GPA of
2.66, recorded only 12 service
hours.
Tau Epsilon Phi’s 75 members
had a group GPA of 2.84, the third
highest among fraternities, al
though it too reported only 12
service hours. The organization is
involved in community service de
spite the numbers, said Joey
Hirsch, vice president for TEP.
The discrepancy, he said, occurs
because service hours often aren’t
recorded accurately. He cited a
benefit for Leukemia Research as
evidence of the fraternity’s com
mitment to the community.
“Publicity is not our main con
cern. What we’re trying to do is
help out,” he said.
Lawyers to battle over
ban on klans’ hoods
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Thirty-nine years
after the sight of hooded Ku Klux
Klansmen in Georgia was legis
lated into the history books, law
yers are set to argue Thursday
whether the state law violates the
First Amendment right to free
speech.
A hearing is scheduled in Gwin
nett County State Court on a chal
lenge to the 1951 law that makes it
a misdemeanor offense to wear a
mask or hood in a public place. The
case stems from tne February ar
rest of a Klansman who was ar
rested for wearing a mask and
hood during a one-man demonstra
tion in Lawrenceville.
The attorney for Klansman
Shade Miller, who is trying to have
the charges dismissed, contends
the anti-mask law violates the
Constitution’s guarantee of free
speech by taking away from KKK
members their anonymity.
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pated at once.
Singleton’s family declined to
talk about his disappearance.
Singleton teaches calculus, tri
gonometry and developmental
math full-time at GCC while
working on his doctoral disserta
tion.
Chip Pritchett, a former student
of his, said Singleton likes the out
doors and often talked about his
collection of arrowheads.
Edward Davis, a University pro
fessor of mathematics education
who was Singleton’s academic ad
viser for seven years until 1986,
agreed that Singleton is a “big out-
doorsman” who likes trout fishing
in the North Georgia mountains.
He said Singleton is an excep
tional student who compiled a 3.9
GPA through his graduate year at
the University and a 4.0 during his
first two years at Young Harris
College.
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But it's still not the lighting system at the new and improved Foley Field. Baseball fans at yesterday s 15-3 victory over the
Western Carolina Catamounts gape at the sky and wonder: whose windshield got smashed? Will the Diamond Dogs ever be
able to play a night game?
Kidney stones will be shattered by
division vice president of Siemens,
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
An Athens area clinic will soon
receive state-of-the-art medical
equipment that will offer local resi
dents who suffer kidney stones the
easiest, most cost-efficient and
most innovative treatment avail
able without leaving the city.
Top officials of Siemens Medical
Systems, Inc., announced plans
Wednesday to install the first “Li
thostar" in the state of Georgia. It
will be the first privately located
one in the world at the soon-to-
opened Georgia Urology Clinic in
Athens.
The “Lithostar,” a new type of li-
thotriptor which uses sound shock
waves to shatter kidney stones, is
faster and more cost-efficient than
other lithotriptors, Lee Rankin, a
said.
“We are very pleased to an
nounce another first for Siemens
and a first for Georgia,” Timothy
Ketchmark, product manager of
the Lithotripsy Systems Group of
Siemens, said.
It is a revolutionary im
provement over other lithotriptors
because it is safer and doesn’t re
quire the use of anesthesia or a
water-bath, said Ketchmark.
‘The significant advantage is to
the patient,” he said. The process
makes outpatient treatment pos
sible.
Dr. David Allen of the Georgia
Urology Clinic said the procedure
can usually be performed in less
than 90 minutes, so patients can
return to their normal activities
the next day.
‘Truly it is a marvel of
technology.’
—Lee Rankin
Siemens, Inc.
Costs should be significantly
less than other lithotripsy proce
dures because the clinic setting
doesn’t incur the costs hospitals do,
Allen said.
‘Truly it is a marvel of tech
nology,” Rankin said. “It’s a win-
win situation.”
“We believe that Athens has
some of the finest medical profes
sionals and hospital resources you
can find anywhere, and we’re
‘Lithostar’
pleased to add to and, we believe,
enhance that capability," a pre
pared release read.
“Because of the singular nature
of this installation, the Georgia
Urology Clinic will be a national
reference point," the release read.
“It will serve as a teaching facility
for doctors, nurses and technicians
from across the nation and the
world.”
Dr. Robert Cowles, who has a
urology practice with Dr. Allen,
said his office treats roughly 25
University students for urology
problems each week.
The Georgia Urology Clinic, cur
rently under construction on
Trinity Place across from the
Athens Country Club, should open
by June 1 and the “Lithostar”
should be in use sometime that
month.
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