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A review of the Town and
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production of “You Can’t
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GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 96
Fourth campus measles case confirmed
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Kenya Jackson: The freshman pre-law major is given her measles vaccination Wednesday
by RN Rita Bryant
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
With a fourth confirmed case of
measles on campus, Health Serv
ices is reiterating the importance
that any person born after 1956 or
who hasn’t been vaccinated twice,
with the second dose being a
booster since 1980, needs to be in-
noculated.
The fourth student, a Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority member, be
came ill early this week and went
home to Atlanta. Her family doctor
there identified her symptoms as
being associated with measles, said
Health Services Director Jac
quelyn Kinder.
The case was confirmed
Wednesday afternoon by the
Northeast Georgia Health District.
Health Services has instigated a
mass vaccination program to head
off a full outbreak on campus. More
than 1,000 students and faculty
were given shots Wednesday at the
Tate Student Center and the Gil
bert Health Center. Health service
workers will be vaccinating stu
dents at the Tate Center from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m Thursday and Friday
and at the health center from 9
a.m. to 9 p.m.
‘This is a disease that people
need to take seriously because it
does keep students from going to
class and can cause them to have to
drop out for the quarter," she said.
"Serious complications are rare,
but measles can lead to other ill
nesses."
Susceptibility to secondary bac
terial infections, such as middle
ear infections, bronchitis and
pneumonia, increases because the
body’s resistance is lowered during
a bout with measles.
Initial symptoms are coughing, a
runny nose and a temperature of
101 degrees or higher. Next a rash
develops around the ears and neck
and spreads down the body.
The Gilbert Health Center re
ceived another 5,000 doses from
the Georgia Department of Health
to ready health sevices for another
two days of mass vaccinating.
Students don’t have to pay to get
an innoculation, which also safe
guards against mumps and
German measles. The cost of the
measles vaccination, $15, is cov
ered primarily by Georgia tax
money, Kinder said.
Daphne Parker, a junior ac
counting major, said she was
turned away by health service em
ployees when she tried to get a shot
at the Tate Student Center.
“It was about five or so minutes
until 5 p.m. and I went to get a shot
and they said they were stopping
vaccinations,” she said.
T haven’t had a vaccination
since 1971 and so I’m concerned I
really could end up with the mea
sles."
Kristen Clark, a junior telecom
munications major, said she had
been turned away about 10 min
utes earlier.
Kinder said because some of the
workers at the Tate Center are
Georgia Department of Health em
ployees assisting health services
with the vaccinations, vaccinating
must cease promptly at 5 p.m.
“But we can give vaccinations at
Gilbert until we close at 9 p.m. and
we’ll be available there again this
weekend,” she said
Two Lipscomb Hall residents
were the first to be diagnosed with
measles on Sunday and Monday.
The third infected student, a
Kappa Delta sorority member, be
came ill Tuesday.
“As far as I know all of the in
fected students have left campus
and’have gone home,” Kinder said.
Two students have been diag
nosed this week with chicken pox.
Kinder said those cases are
probably unrelated to the reported
measles cases.
Kelley Barrett, a junior history
major, got her shot at the Gilbert
Health Center.
“My mom heard about the out
break in the news and called me
and told me to get a vaccination,”
she said.
Police resume Saturday
parking citations downtown
Many unsuspecting University
students could end up with a $3
fine this weekend.
After nearly a year of allowing
motorists to park free in metered
spaces on Saturdays in down
town Athens, police began tick
eting again last Saturday.
About 400 tickets were issued,
an unusually high number, said
Athens police public information
officer Hilda Spratlin.
Athens police Sgt. James
Dos ter, head of the Parking Con
trol Unit, said that no tickets
have been given to motorists on
Saturdays for the last year at the
request of the Athens Downtown
Council.
Joe Burnett, secretary and
treasurer of the Downtown
Council, a group of downtown
business and property owners,
said the council asked police to
suspend Saturday ticketing be
cause it seemed there were
plenty of parking spaces avail
able on weeker is.
Previously, ticketing during
the week prevented students and
office workers horn parking in
spaces all day, but it wasn’t a
concern on Satu days, he said.
Downtown mployees and
others parking 11 day on Sat
urday in metered spaces
rompted the council to ask that
aturday enforcement begin
again, Burnett said. There were
few spaces left for customers.
Motorists who don’t pay up
this weekend could be fined $3
and those who pay but stay
longer than their alotted hour,
could get $5 tickets, for parking
beyond the meter limit, Doster
said.
Doster also sai 1 that the new
parking meters eing installed
downtown arer self-winding
like the ones the epla~e. Motor
ists who forget wind the new
meters will re the $5 ticket.
— i *1 W. McLeod
Sigma Chi national suspends chapter
UGA charter revoked indefinitely
From staff and wire reports
The international office of Sigma
Chi fraternity ended its allegiance
to the University’s Delta chapter
Wednesday by suspending the
chapter’s 117-year-old charter ef
fective immediately.
The group will cease to operate
as a fraternity chapter for an indef
inite period, the international of
fice said in a statement released in
Atlanta by its Evanston, HI., head
quarters.
The international office left the
fate of the Sigma Chi house at 590
S. Lumpkin St. in the hands of
University officials, effective at the
end of this quarter.
The statement cited Sigma Chi’s
violations of University conduct
regulations and said they contrib
uted to an overall negative image
that has caused the fraternity “to
be held in low esteem.”
In addition, the chapter failed
“to compile a significant record of
positive achievements” and was
delinquent in its financial obliga
tions.
“A number of its members were
delinquent in paying their bills,
and the chapter house had been
kept in unacceptable condition,”
the release read.
‘The situation at this chapter
isn’t typical of chapters of the
Sigma Chi Fraternity,” said Sigma
Chi International President Robert
Joseph of Portland, Ore.
In a decision that upheld Stu
dent Affairs Vice President Dwight
Douglas’ original sanction, Univer
sity President Charles Knapp on
Friday suspended the fraternity
for five years with a provision al
lowing the national office to make
a case for Sigma Chi’s return in the
spring of 1993.
Judicial Programs Director Bill
Bracewell said the University will
wait until the appeals process is
over before moving members out.
The chapter has until May 10 to
apply for a case review by the Uni
versity System Board of Regents.
“At that point we’re dealing with
students without housing,” he said.
‘The University isn’t going to be
dumping people out into the street.
‘The action (of the international
office) changes things a little bit. I
would read it as support of the Uni
versity’s position,” Bracewell said.
The suspension of Sigma Chi’s
charter answers questions that
would have come up later in the
appeals process, like how viable
the fraternity would be off-campus
while suspended from the house,
he said.
He said that revoking the local
chapter’s right to use the Sigma
Chi name will enable the national
office to make a better case for
Sigma Chi’s return to campus than
it could if it condoned the frater
nity’s existence while suspended.
“A portion of the presentation in
spring of *93 would be evidence
that there had been a clean break,”
Bill Bracewell: Says action
could help later appeal
Bracewell said.
Chapter President Craig Beard
said Wednesday the details of the
charter suspension weren’t clear to
him, and he intends to contact In
ternational Sigma Chi.
University Cc icil’s poll is criticized
Issue not well-dt led professor says
By WALTER COLT
Staff Writer
Some faculty members feel the University
Council poll on semester conversion issue
mailed to them Tuesday is a poor one.
Ed Davis, a mathematics education pro
fessor, is one of these faculty members.
Davis said he approves of having a poll, but
the one before the faculty has three serious
flaws. First, the poll lacks a breakdown of fac
ulty preference on semester conversion by
school or college.
Davis said the second serious flaw is that the
poll wouldn’t identify the views of research and
administrative faculty, some of whom are off-
campus.
“Who knows how the researchers in Tifton or
on the coast are going to vote?" he said.
The final flaw is that the semester issue isn’t
ined to the faculty. Faculty are being
t oout a semester system they don’t know
n bout, he said.
r Shedd, chairman of the council’s Exec
utive Committee, said the reason the com
mittee isn’t asking for a breakdown of the votes
by school is that the council didn’t ask them to
find that information. The committee is strictly
sticking to the wording of the council’s motion.
Davis, vice president of the University’s
branch of the American Association of Univer
sity Professors, said the campus chapter of
AAUP plans to conduct its own poll of faculty if
the council decides not to conduct a new one at
its May 21 meeting. The AAUP poll will try to
make up for the flaws of the council’s, he said.
The AAUP is a national organization de
signed to protect the freedom of professors.
Membership is voluntary, Davis said.
The question on the ballot is “Should the
University Council request President Knapp to
ask for the Board of Regents’ approval for The
University of Georgia to begin implementation
of a Semester System?"
The ballots were mailed to instructors, assis
tant professors, associate professors and full
professors Tuesday. Shedd said the deadline for
turning in the polls is noon May 14. The ballots
will be countea that afternoon and the results
will be announced at the committee meeting
May 15.
Faculty are supposed to answer yes or no to
the question and send the ballot to Shedd.
He said the ballots are on a special paper to
prevent electronic duplication. The respondent
won’t put his name, school or college on the
ballot.
The poll was approved by the University
Council 63-20 at last Thursday’s meeting.
Birdhouses help build Habitat homes
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Homes built for Athens area bird
families will help an Athens family
have a home of their own.
A birdhouse, which is a replica of
the University Chapel, was given
to University President Charles
Knapp by Henry King Stanford.
Stanford, who was interim presi
dent of the University from 1986
until 1987, purchased the 50-
pound avian mansion at an Athens
Area Habitat for Humanity auc
tion.
Rita Manning, activities director
for the president's office, said there
ore plans to mount the birdhouse
on a lamppost that was located in
front of the chapel in the 1840s.
The roost will stand in the back
garden at the president’s house on
Prince Avenue. It will have to be
placed 15 feet in the air to attract
martins, and has enough space for
a six-bird family.
“I think it (the lamppost) adds a
lot more significance to the bird
house,” Manning said.
The chapel birdhouse is one of 74
auctioned at the State Botanical
Gardens by the Athens Area Hab
itat for Humanity on April 7 to
raise money for the construction of
a fifth Habitat house.
Meg Mann, a senior social work
major and Habitat treasurer, said
about $20,000 was raised from the
auction.
"We've had a lot of support and
no negative feedback from the com
munity,” Mann said.
She said they are hoping to start
work on a house for a family in
about two months.
Bill Baggs, a media specialist at
Athens Technical Institute and
board chairman of Habitat, said
applications for these houses are
approved by the Family Selection
Committee and the Habitat board.
When selecting a family, need,
character of the family and ability
to make house payments are con-
sidered.
Baggs said the family has to
make a $500 down payment and
spend 500 hours working on the
house.
‘They’ve actually put in time
building their own house,” he said.
“We can work side by side with
the person we’re helping,” Mann
said.
Baggs said families rent the
Habitat houses for a year and then
a 19-year mortgage is set up.
‘The mortgage is interest-free
Families rent Habitat
houses for a year and
then a 19 year
mortgage is set up
and profit-free," he said.
House payments are about $200
a month and the money goes back
into the fund for building more
houses, Mann said.
“Not only are thev paying back
their loan, they’re helping other
people get a home," she said.
Mann said the market value of a
Habitat house is more than $45,-
000 to $50,000.
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What a card
Ga. Netter’s
Jim Childs
excels on
and off court
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Writer
As the Georgia men’s tennis
team practices late one af
ternoon, a voice vibrates out of
the loudspeaker at Henry Feild
Stadium.
“Attention Please. Tennis
practice has been temporarily
canceled, and will reconvene
shortly at the UGA golf course,"
the voice utters.
Bulldog tennis team members
and other bystanders chuckle
and smile as senior co-captain
Jim Childs emerges from the
courtside locker room with a grin
that gives him away as the cul
prit PA announcer.
It’s looseness like this that has
kept Childs a spirited, central
figure on Georgia’s tennis team
for the past four seasons. The
jesting and joking senior and the
rest of the Georgia men’s team
will be seeking their fourth
straight SEC team title at the
SEC Team Tournament this
weekend in Knoxville, Tenn.
“Jim has always got a funny
comment ready," Childs’ team
mate and good friend A1 Parker
said. “He loosens up everyone in
the team and provides great lead
ership."
“It’s more my personality than
Jim Childs: Helps loosen
his teammates up with
good-natured pranks
me deliberatley trying to loosen
everyone up,” Childs said. “All
four years that I’ve been here I’ve
been the light-hearted kind.
When I’m on the court, I feel I’m
as intense as anybody, and off the
court, I think I do loosen every
body up a little bit."
The senior from Dunwoody,
Ga. has had a stellar career for
the Bulldogs playing on three
SEC championship teams and
the 1987 NCAA Championship
squad.
After going 54-24 in singles his
freshman and sophomore sea
sons, Childs posted an impres
sive 41-11 record last year,
including an SEC No. 5 singles
crown and an undefeated 4-0 run
at the NCAA Team Tournament.
Also in 1989, Childs and partner
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