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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 101
Harassing phone call reports double
■ WHAT TO DO
• Don’t talk to anyone unless you
want to.
• Verify official callers or survey
callers by asking for their
number and business and calling
them back.
•* Females should list only their
first initial and last name in the
phone book.
• If you receive an obscene phone
call, hang up immediately. Don’t
panic, get angTy, or trv to play de
tective over the telephone.
• Don’t try to be clever. A witty
response may well be interpreted
as encouragement.
• Never volunteer your number
to a wrong number caller.
• Always notify the University
police if you have continual prob
lems with annoying phone calls.
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Many students are being
reached out to and touched, but not
the way they’d like to be.
University police have received
more than twice the number of re
ports of harassing or obscene
phone calls this year than in 1988
or 1989. As of April 1, 42 reports
had been received and more are
coming in.
Sgt. Richard Goodson said,
‘They fluctuate; we usually av
erage about 20 to 30 a year. I don’t
know why we’ve had so many this
year. Maybe people are just re
porting them more. Maybe our
crime prevention unit is doing a
good job at getting the message
out.”
Most of the calls are to females
in residence halls, he said, al
though male residents and office
numbers at the University have re
ceived a few of the calls.
“We’ve had a lot at Oglethorpe,
Creswell, and Brumby. Oglethorpe
has had a disproportionate
amount,” he said.
Police don’t release the victims’
names, but police reports from the
last three weeks show the fol
lowing cases:
• A 19-year-old female reported
she received repeated harassing
calls in her dorm room from a man
who claimed to be in one of her
classes.
• A 20-year-old male reported a
man called him in his dorm room
and threatened to kill him.
• An 18-year-old female re
ported she repeatedly received
calls in her dorm room from a man
who said he was coming to visit
her.
Goodson said, “Just hang up;
what they’re looking for is a reac
tion and if you don’t give it to them
they might not call back.”
He said he couldn’t recall any
cases when the phone threats were
carried out, but it’s important to
report the calls to police.
“At least you have a report made
if something does happen; it’s the
only way we can realize if there’s a
problem,” he said.
Lt. Lisa Boone, head of the
Crime Prevention Unit, said she
knows exactly how u victim feels.
She was on the receiving end of ha
rassing phone calls in 1978 when
she was an undergraduate at the
University.
There’s no physical harm done,
but a lot of emotional harm,” she
9aid. “It’s a real scary thing. It’s so
frustrating, there’s nothing you
can do. I felt like they were control
ling me. You get where you don’t
want to answer the phone.
There’s not much you can do to
prevent it and a lot you can do af
terward," she said.
Southern Bell District Manager
Ron Manaon said customers who
receive harassing phone calls can
subscribe to call tracing and call
blocking services for $4 a month.
None of the services are avail
able to students who live in resi
dence halls because of the way
phones are connected, but students
should contact the Southern Bell
business office about harassing
calls, he said.
Security personnel will investi
gate the call using different elec
tronic techniques, Manson said.
Students who live off-campus
can subscribe to call tracing and
Southern Bell security offices in
Atlanta will receive a printout of
the number and time of their calls,
he said.
Security won’t release the
number that harassing calls are
coming from to customers, but they
will call the number and warn
whoever is calling that he is
breaking the law and that his
phone may be disconnected
If further harassment continues,
security officers will work with
local police to prosecute the callers,
Manson said.
Another service, call blocking,
allows customers to use a special
code to block harassing calls.
Pressing the code afler a call will
cause all other calls from that
number to be blocked. Anyone
calling from that number will hear
a recording By pressing another
code customers can unblock num
bers.
Making telephone calls to annoy
or harass another is a misde
meanor according to Georgia law.
Punishment for the offense is de
termined by circumstances of the
case and the maximum sentence
can be a year in jail and a $1,000
fine, according to Athens State
Court officials.
Exiled professor will speak
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
A Chinese professor, exiled for
his participation in the Tiananmen
Square pro-democracy movement,
will speak today on “Rethinking
Marxism in the Light of China’s
Reforms” at 11 a.m. in Room 115
ofPeabody Hall.
Su Shaozhi, an economist and
research professor from Beijing,
will speak at a two-day conference
sponsored by the Humanities
Center and the Asian Studies Pro
gram.
“He has a long history of having
different ideas from the govern
ment,” said Guan Weihe, a grad
uate student in ecology from
Beijing. ✓
Mark Selden, a sociology and
history professor at the State Uni-
\ersity of New York at Bing
hamton, will speak at 2:15 p.m.
about "Reassessing Marxism in the
Light of the Democratic Movement
in China.”
Su is also a strong supporter of
the Federation for Democracy in
China, an international pro-democ
racy group that recently reached
Athens.
The FDC was started last fall
by the exiled lenders of Tiananmen
Square,” FDC member Guan said.
“It’s a federation, not a party," she
said.
The current goal is to end the
one-party system dictatorship in
China. Afler that, it’s to establish a
new system of government," she
said.
The first FDC Congress was
held in Paris last September, and
in February, two Chinese Univer
sity students represented the
FDC’s Georgia branch at a na
tional meeting in San Fransisco.
Xu Jiaolin, a doctoral candidate
in physics, said he helped form the
FDC manifesto and voted on a na
tional council at the conference.
“We’re an organization to study
democracy and try to find a system
for China,” Xu said. “In China no
body has the freedom to do this.”
In April, about 35 University
students went to Atlanta for a
meeting of the FDC’s Georgia
chapter. At the meeting, Xu was
elected president of the chapter.
Guan said the FDC is one of sev
eral Chinese pro-democracy orga
nizations in the United States and
the world.
The Independent Federation of
Chinese Students and Scholars in
the United States supports the
FDC and is the primary lobbying
group in Washington for student
visas.
‘We’re trying to cooperate with
one another and gain support. The
movement needs more communica
tion," Guan said. “There’s a lot
more work to be done on what’s
really good for China.
‘There’s a general under
standing that the U.S. takes the
current government as the only
people they can talk to,” she said.
That’s not true. The pro-democ
racy movement outside and inside
China is the future force for the
country.”
In April, President Bush issued
an executive order that may lift the
hopes of some Chinese students
discouraged afler he vetoed a bill
extending student visas.
The order guarantees:
• Chinese citizens in the U.S. at
the time of the order wouldn’t be
asked to leave until January 1,
1994.
• Job permits for Chinese stu
dents would be available.
• If students have trouble get
ting a passport extension, the
American government will provide
legal documents for them to travel
abroad.
However, Thomas Ganschow, a
University Drofessor of Chinese
history, said he has doubts the gov
ernment will be able to follow
through on insuring students’
travel abroad.
That’s a difficult one," he said.
“I’m not sure how much the gov
ernment will do."
Sing, sing a song ...
The sisters of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority sing for Beta Theta Pi fraternity's annual Chorale Cup charity
event. University sororities pay an entry fee for the singing contest which, in combination with a dona
tion from the fraternity, benefits the Athens Boys Club.
Rep. Karen Irwin: Discussed University funding in
light of Georgia Southern's new status
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
Karen Irwin, D-Athens, told
about SO students at a Young
Democrats forum Thursday that
increased revenues are the key to
improving the quality of educa
tion in Georgia, from the pre
school level to the university
level.
Irwin, a member of the House
Higher Education Committee,
said she receives phone calls
every couple of weeks from
people letting her know that out
standing University professors
are seeking jobs at other univer
sities in states that ofTer higher
salaries.
Irwin, and the four other
freshman Democratic state legis
lators attending the forum, dis-
cussed education, the
environment and ethics — issues
that dominated this past legis
lative session and are expected to
remain at the forefront of
Georgia politics.
“As long as people can run and
win campaigns on the ridiculous
pledge of no new taxes, as long as
they can mnke that pledge and
win, you’re going to get what you
pay for,” said Rep. McCracken
Poston, D-Ringgo'd.
Irwin said University funding
could be adversely affected by a
recent decision by the University
System Board of Regents al
lowing Georgia Southern College
to gain university status by July
1992.
Rep. Ron Fennel, D-Bruns-
wick, a graduate of GSC, said it’s
important to the state that a re
gional university for South
Georgia be established.
Irwin said she hopes Univer
sity System funding will become
a big election issue this year.
Also at the forum, Rep. Doug
Teper, D-Atlanta, told students
that his political career dates
back to his campaign in the 1979
University Student Government
Association presidential election.
After placing third, Teper en
dorsed Harold Mulherin, the abo
litionist candidate in the runoff.
Mulherin won and the SGA was
abolished within two months.
Former professor returns from Soviet Georgia
By STEPHANIE-LEA SMITH
Staff Writer
Don’t call a Soviet Georgian
“Russian” unless you want him to
call you Yankee.
‘You can’t call everyone in the
Soviet Union ‘Russian.’ We don’t
want to be called ‘Yankee.’ Well,
they feel even more strongly about
being called ‘Russian,’ ” said
Phyllis Barrow, assistant professor
emeritus in sociology, afler she re
turned from the Friendship Force’s
Georgia to Georgia exchange
Tuesday.
“Everything leads to another
story; I left home talking and came
back garrulous,” Barrow said
Thursday.
Her trip lasted two weeks,
during which she became very
close to her host family and Soviet
Georgian friends she met on the
exchange.
Barrow repeated family history
56 years later by traveling to the
Soviet Union as her parents did in
1934.
She plans to compare the journal
she kept on her trip with the one
her mother recorded. The differ
ences in the two women’s experi
ences will be the topic of one of
Barrow’s two scheduled speeches.
Tbilisi, to have over a million
people in it, felt like a small town,”
she said. The people were sweet,
generous and kind."
Soviet Georgia has its own lan
guage and alphabet. “Georgians
are bilingual. They speak Russian
and Georgian," Barrow said.
She said the effects of glasnost
have been felt in Soviet Georgia.
There were once 12 statues of
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Alumnus writes score for ‘Designing Women’
By CRAIG HESTER
Contributing Writer
Even before he left Athens, Ga., with his
hands on a diploma, Steve Dancz was sailing on
a cruise ship out of Athens, Greece, with his
hands on a keyboard as a jazz pianist.
But Dancz returned for a diploma and has
since become a composer for the television and
film industries. His most recently aired work
was the score for last Monday night’s episode of
CBS-TV’s “Designing Women.”
Dancz, now living in Los Angeles, is a 1980
honors graduate with a degree in music. The
son of Roger and Phyllis Dancz of Athens, he
grew up surrounded by music, and said his par
ents had a strong influence on his musical
growth.
His father is an associate professor of music
and director of the University bands and his
mother was choreographer of the Redcoat
Marching Band for several years.
Dancz was destined, his mother said, for a
musical career because she could feel him
kicking in time before he was born.
However, Dancz said his parents never
pushed him to become a professional musician.
Also, he has worked to keep a perspective on his
music to prevent it from consuming his life.
Part of this effort has been to combine music
and fun, thus his jaunts away from school to
travel the globe as a jazz pianist.
“It was quite an education," Dancz said. He
traveled for about three years and then re
turned to get a bachelor’s degree.
Dancz’s father said, “He finally decided he
had his fun seeing the world and it was time to
get down to business.”
Afler graduation he went back on the cruise
circuit, but this time as a director as well as pi
anist. Then, six years ago, he moved to Los An
geles to try and make it as a composer. The
first year, I just tried to figure out which end
was up and did a lot of club and session work,”
he said.
In 1985, he was chosen to be one of the 20
musicians — from thousands of applicants —for
an eight-week workshop for composers funded
by Broadcast Music Inc. From there, Dancz fo
cused his career on film and television com
posing and had to set aside his first love of
playing jazz piano.
“It became obvious, if I was going to crack the
nut of composing in L.A., I had to cut every
thing else loose and concentrate on scoring. The
way to establish yourself as a composer is to
narrow your field of concentration."
It worked. His music is featured in “Black
bird,” which will soon be playing in the Smith
sonian’s Air and Space Museum, and he has
just finished the score to a full-length feature
film to be released sometime in August called
“Grim Prairie Tales” stanng James Earl Jones.
He also has done work for numerous television
commercials and is working on an album.
Another facet of being a composer Dancz has
come to accept is compromise. Composing for
television and film, he said, is a collaborative
effort where “the picture is king” and everybody
from executives to directors have input.
“If you think it is a place where your soul will
sing at its highest level of expression, you will
probably commit suicide within a year,” he
said.
That’s why composing is not a business that
ou can just give a couple of years and see what
appens, he said.
‘You have to give it a lifetime ”
County reports first off-campus measles cases
The Clarke County Health De
partment reported Thuraday what
look to be the county's first two
mealies cases outside the Univer
sity, and Gilbert Health Center re
ported another apparent case.
Two students in the Clarke
County achool system, one 10 years
old and the other 16, have been
tested for measles after showing
typical symptoms, Ray Peterson of
the Clarke County Health Depart
ment, said.
There is no connection between
the two Clarke County students,
but both were at the University’s
Tate Student Center on April 21,
he said.
The female University student
lives in Creswell Hall and has
shown typical symptoms of the
virus, said Health Services Di
rector Jacquelyn Kinder. This
makes the Uth reported measles
case on campus since April 21.
Clarke County health workers
will try to immunire classmates of
the two students, Peterson said.
Immuniration efforts at the Uni
versity will continue Friday from 9
a m to 4:30 p.m. at the Tate Center
and the health center. Vaccina
tions next week will be given at the
health center from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. each day.
— Peggy McGoff