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FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1990 « ATHENS, GEORGIA » VOLUME 97, ISSUE 93
Tickets to be issued on Baldwin
UGA Police Chief Chuck Horton:
Warnings were "paper tigers"
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
University police will begin ticketing
motorists who refuse to obey the pas
senger pick-up and drop-ofT ban on
Baldwin Street Monday.
Officers are applauding the decision to
begin fining motorists $25 for disobeying
the Baldwin Street ordinance. Many offi
cers hope it will end the frustration they
felt at not being able to stop repeat of
fenders, who often laugh when receiving
a warning.
The city ordinance, which has been in
effect since July 1989, prohibits pas
senger pick up/drop off on Baldwin
Street. Previously, offenders received
written warnings with a map showing the
pick up/drop off zones located at each end
of Baldwin. They now will be fined $25 or
required to appear in Athens City Court.
Allen Marlowe, a former officer who
was assigned to Baldwin Steet winter
quarter, said University police were re
luctant to be posted on Baldwin because
it did no good to warn motorists who just
kept coming back.
The job also could be viewed as a good
assignment — to stand on the street and
do nothing, he said. It seemed like a
waste of the University’s money to pull
two officers off day shifts to simply stand
on the street.
Police Cpl. Mark Fussel never worked
on Baldwin, but supervised several offi
cers who did.
“I never enjoyed assigning officers out
there. They were supposed to hand out
warnings, but it was so ineffectual that I
imagine a lot of them didn’t bother to
hand them out,” he said.
However, Marlowe sad officers were
told not to react to anything or hand out
warnings.
“Yeah, I’d see violations and I was told
not to do anything about it, just to ignore
it,” he said.
University police Chief Chuck Horton
said of the warnings, “It’s like a paper
tiger; who’s afraid of it when they know
its teeth are made out of paper?”
Public Safety Director Asa Boynton
said he hopes police eventually won’t
have to stay posted all day at Baldwin.
The traffic problems now occur primarily
when classes change, and eventually offi
cers might simply patrol Baldwin periodi
cally.
Although the street belongs to the city,
the University decided to use University
police to enforce the ordinance, he
said. This was because Baldwin lies
within University police jurisdiction and
most incidents tnere involve University
students and faculty.
Please See BALDWIN, Page 3
Andy Rof*r*/The Red and Black
Gubernatorial face-off
Lett: standing — Rep. Lauren McDonald (D-Commerce);
seated (l-r) — Gwinnett businessman Bob Wood (R), Sen. Roy
Barnes (D-Mableton), Former Gov. Lester Maddox, former Atlanta
Mayor Andrew Young and Rep. Johnny Isakson (R-Marietta). Right:
Young.
Each candidate got four minutes to take a stand on issues
such as education, a regional airport, a commuter rail system, a
lottery referendum, highway expansion, and economic devel
opment versus environmental funding Thursday night at the down
town Holiday Inn. About 300 people attended for the standing room
only verbal match sponsored by the Northeast Georgia Chamber
Roundtable.
Barnes, Maddox and McDonald participated in a separate de
bate Thursday afternoon on Channel 34's "Rapid Fire." The show
will be broadcast at 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday. Lt. Gov. Zell Miller was
unable to attend either event due to two previously scheduled en
gagements Thursday — a fundraiser in Royston, Ga., and a ban
quet at Emmanuel College in nearby Franklin Springs.
University Council
will poll faculty
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
The University Council ap
proved by a 63 to 20 vote a motion
to poll the faculty on the semester
conversion issue.
States McCarter, chair of the
Educational Affairs Committee
said at the council’s Thursday
meeting that such a poll would be a
“slap in the face” to the Semester
Feasibility Task Force, the group
that put together the Semester
Feasibility Study.
McCarter said one of the task
force’s purposes was to collect fac
ulty input.
The motion was brought forward
by Betty Jean Craige, a compara
tive literature professor, on behalf
of the Faculty Conference. The con
ference is a forum in which faculty
on the council discuss issues.
On April 12, the conference, with
approximately 25 faculty present,
voted to submit the motion.
Peter Shedd, legal studies pro
fessor and chairman of the coun
cil’s Executive Committee, was one
of the members in favor of a poll.
At the meeting, Shedd saia, “In
deed, I think we might be remiss
not to conduct a poll in light of
what I sense as a great stirring of
feeling on campus to have a poll.”
He said as chairman of the Exec
utive Committee he has found a
broad-based desire to get as much
input as possible from the faculty.
University President Charles
Knapp has said in previous inter
views that he wants a faculty con
sensus on the issue before he
submits a semester conversion pro
posal to the University System
Board of Regents.
Carol Fisher, a language educa
tion professor, proposed that the
poll be taken only from faculty in
colleges and schools on the quarter
system. Also, she requested that in
addition to overall results, subto
tals for each school and college and
results from faculty who are bud
geted 50 percent for teaching be
given. Both parts of her amend
ment were defeated by the council.
Paul Kurtz, a law professor, was
one of those who found the first
part of the amendment dis
agreeable. He said faculty from all
schools should be represented by
the poll. Although the law school is
already on the semester system, he
said there would be law faculty
who would be in favor of the
quarter system.
In other business, the Univer
sity Council voted 58 to 46 to re
turn proposed amendments to the
University’s guidelines for appoint
ment, promotion and tenure back
to the council’s Faculty Affairs
Committee.
The council approved a proposal
from the University Curriculum
Committee for the new James M.
Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper
Management. The institute will be
in the College of Journalism and
Mass Communications and will be
headed by Conrad Fink, a journa
lism instructor. All that stands in
the institute’s way is approval from
Knapp and the Board of Regents.
G-Dav football preview
Injured players keep
football staff busy
By GENE WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
Georgia head football coach
Ray Goff said that he and his
coaching staff had a tough time
spliting the team for Saturday’s
intrasquad G-Day spring game in
Sanford Stadium.
“We tried to divide the team as
evenly as possible, but it was ex
tremely difficult because of our
lack of depth,” Goff said.
This spring, the trainers and
doctors have been just as busy as
the Bulldog players this spring as
several players suffered injuries
throughout the two weeks of
spring practice.
The most serious came on
Tuesday when tight end Jason
Palmer, recently moved to the po
sition from quarterback, suffered
a severe knee injury. He under
went surgery on his right knee
Thursday and will most likely
miss the entire 1990 season.
“Jason Palmer is probably out
for the year,” Goff said. “And
tight end is the one position we
can’t afford to lose anyone else.”
Palmer’s injury further compli
cates Georgia’s situation at tight
end for the upcoming season.
Last year’s starter, Kirk Warner
has departed and there is little
experience or depth at the posi
tion. Going into the spring, senior
Chris Broom, and sophmores
Nicky Pitts and Paul Etheridge
were listed on the depth chart.
Broom, who caught four passes
for 31 yards last season, went
down with a knee injury during
the first week of practice and re
turned to practice for the first
time this week.
Pitts was declared academi
cally ineligible and will not be a
Bulldog this season. In last Sat-
Coach Ray Goff: Says
team lacking depth
urday’s scrimmage, Etheridge
was sidelined by a knee irvjury,
but has since returned to the
gridiron,
Goff" then moved Roy Van
Harten from nose guard, offen
sive lineman Jeff Kaluk and
Palmer for some help, until
Palmer went down.
“No one has stepped forward,
but the main reason for that is
that all of them have been hurt at
one time or another during the
spring," Goff said.
Defensive linemen Casey
Barnum, George Brewer, Robert
Bell, linebacker John Allen, de
fensive back Chuck Carswell and
Jeff Finch, and offensive linemen
Scott Rissmiller and Richard
Dombroski have been declared
Please See G-DAY, Page 8
Earth Day 1990 culminates months of
global planning aimed at saving Earth
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Sunday will be the first day of
the rest of Mother Earth’s life ... or
such is the hope of global environ
mentalists trying to breathe life
into an ailing Planet Earth.
Earth Day 1990 is the culmina
tion of months of global planning
aimed at sounding an alarm that
will resonate from Hungary to
Uruguay to Athens, Ga.
Owen Burd, national Earth Day
student coordinator, said the day
has been billed as a celebration in
many cities, but actually there’s
nothing to be elated about.
‘This is a demonstration,” he ex
plained. “If things were really so
great we wouldn’t have to be put
ting this thing together.
“But the need is there and the
time is right and we’ve got to do
something before it gets too late to
have an Earth Day at all,” he said.
Organizers have been directed
by Earth Day Chairman Dennis
Hayes, a San Francisco lawyer,
who at age 25 dropped out of Har
vard Law School to help Sen. Gay
lord Nelson plan Earth Day I.
From its headquarters in Palo
Alto, Calif., a staff of 40 people has
been tuning the voices of 140 coun
tries in preparation for one grand
serenade to the planet. Earth Day’s
slogan dares people to mobilize:
‘Who Says You Can’t Change the
World?”
‘There will be 100 million people
— five times the number in 1970 —
listening to speakers and really
paying attention to what’s going on
in the environment,” Burd said.
Laura Lunsford, Atlanta Earth
Day coordinator, said this will be
the Earth’s opportunity to grab the
world’s attention.
“Humans have screwed up the
environment and now it’s up to us
to look at what we’ve done and try
to fix the damage we’ve done,” she
said.
Coordinators and environmen
talists are hoping this culmination
of months of* planning will have
staying power, a auality the orig
inal Earth Day lacked.
Not that Earth Day I didn’t set
the stage for environmental im
provements. The decade following
the environmental “teach-in”
brought the creation of the Envi
ronmental Protection Agency and
the National Oceanic and Atmo
spheric Administration.
The Legislature’s doors swung
open for the passage of a Clean
Water Act, a tougher Clean Air Act
and the Endangered Species Act.
But the road to environmental
bliss and ecologic harmony was in
terrupted by problems that lurked
in the political shadows. Oil short
ages, inflation, drugs, educational
woes became the concern of poli
ticians and citizens alike.
‘The Cold War was the big thing
in the 1970s and most of the 1980s,
but now the political atmosphere is
conducive to encouraging environ
mental concern," said Katie Reich,
Northeast Georgia Earth Day
campus coordinator.
Environmentalists contend that
the Reagan years aggravated
Mother Earth’s health also. Under
that administration the White
House Council on Environmental
Quality was cut from 50 members
to 8 members. Incentives giving
taxpayers breaks for environment-
oriented home improvements, like
the construction of solar rooms and
walls, were abolished under
Reagan.
James Watt, Reagan’s secretary
of the interior, fought to open
western land for development de
spite environmental arguments.
"Ronald Reagan did more harm
to the environment than anyone I
can think of throughout history,”
Burd said.
Eugene Odum, founder of the In
stitute of Ecology at the Univer
sity, said the threat of the “Evil
Empire,” a nickname frequently
used by Reagan in his references to
the Soviet Union, justified heavy
defense spending.
‘That ‘Evil Empire’ was consid
ered our number-one enemy, but
now that global relations are im-
Please See GLOBAL. Page 6
Teen crooks judged by kids their own age in
new Gwinnett County juvenile court program
The Associated Press
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -
Youthful offenders in Gwinnett
County will get a chance to face a
jury of their peers, rather than risk
the sentence a juvenile court judge
might give, under a new program
known as Teen Court.
Teen-agers will serve as pros
ecutors, defense attorneys and ju
rors who recommend a sentence for
juveniles who have broken the law
as part of the new program sched
uled to begin April 28.
Juveniles who have admitted to
the crimes of shoplifting, truancy
or curfew violations may choose to
come to Teen Court ana fulfill the
sentence of a teen jury rather than
going to juvenile court.
The teen-agers will fill the roles
of court officers and jurors on a vol
unteer basis. Donna Smith, a ju
venile court employee, will
coordinate the new program.
“We use positive peer pressure
and it’s less harsh than going
through the juvenile court," said
Layla Hinton, one of the prosecu
tors at a mock trial held
Wednesday night at the Gwinnett
courthouse.
The trial gave teen-agers a
chance to see what it would be like
to actually become part of the
process of trying a peer who has
committed a crime.
“I think it will be very useful for
the first-time offender,” said
Charles Gianelloni, a ninth-grader
at Brookwood High School. “Peers
get a chance to help other teens."
Gianelloni was one of the de
fense attorneys at the mock trial of
Brian Browning, a student at
Meadow Creek High School.