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TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 102
DHR declares measles emergency
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
The Georgia Department of Human re
sources declared a medical emergency at
the University Monday afler the number
of reported measles cases on campus
jumped to 26.
The DHR notified University President
Charles Knapp Monday morning that the
University now must establish a manda
tory immunization program on campus.
All University faculty, staff and stu
dents born on or after January 1, 1957,
must receive a measles vaccination or
show proof of immunity by Friday, May
18, Knapp said ut a press conference
Monday.
By Monday afternoon, 26 cases had
been reported at the University and two
others were reported in the Athens area.
As of Thursday, only 11 cases had been
reported on campus. These figures, the
lab tests confirming the measles virus
and low attendance at the University’s in-
noculation clinics prompted state health
officials to require vaccinations.
University Public Information Director
Tom Jackson said computer records have
been flagged for an estimated 22,000 Uni
versity students and 6,000 employees
who were bom afler the 1957 cut-off dote.
Of these people, about 20,000 will need
vaccinations, he said.
“Ninety-five percent of people who are
not immune and are exposed to the mea
sles virus will contract it,” University
Health Services Director Jacquelyn
Kinder said.
Individuals who think they are exempt
from the vaccinations must present evi
dence of immunity to one of the two vacci
nation booths at the Tate Student Center
and Memorial Hall by May 18.
Proof of immunity is considered either
a statement signed by a physician that an
individual has had measles or an official
immunization record showing proof of
two measles vaccinations since age one.
Afler May 18, the University will con
sider sanctions against those in the target
age group who haven’t shown sufficient
proof of immunity or haven’t received a
vaccination, Knapp said.
Gilbert Health Center’s in-patient
services won’t be in operation until
Monday, May 21, due to the large staff
commitment required by the vaccina
tions. Health Services will treat only ur
gent cases and will refer all others to local
hospitals, Jackson said.
Since the first campus measles diag
nosis April 21, about $90,000 has been
spent on 6,000 vaccinations. The innoc-
ulations cost about $15 per dose, Jackson
said.
An additional $10 per person for sy
ringes, record-keeping and cleanup costs
could boost the final costs for the 20,000
expected vaccinations up to $500,000, he
said.
Free innoculations will be available to
all students, faculty and staff at the Tate
Center and Memorial Hall May 9 through
May 18 from 9 a m. to 6 p.m. Hours will
be extended Wednesday and Thursday
until 7:30 p.m. Vaccinations will be given
on Saturday at the Tate Center only. No
innoculations will be given on Sunday,
May 13.
Demolition of Hull
House delayed
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
The owners of the historic Hull-
Snelling House are taking their
time before they arrange to have
the house demolished.
The Christian College of Georgia
which owns the house, and the
downtown Holiday Inn which
wants to build a parking lot on the
site at 198 S. Hull St., agreed to
allow anyone to buy the house if
they could match the $400,000 of
fered by the hotel.
The downtown Holiday Inn
agreed to withhold its offer until
May 1 and allow a third party to
match the hotel’s contract price,
and although this deadline has
passed, final plans for the house’s
destruction still haven’t been
made.
Christian College President
Morris Wood said the original
asking price was $450,000.
The antebellum house’s con
struction date isn’t certain — any
where between 1842 and 1853. It
was built by Asbury Hull, who was
the University’s first honor grad
uate in 1875. University Chan
cellor Charles Snelling lived in the
house, and Herbert Hoover once
visited there.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
bought the house in 1947 and re
stored it to its original condition,
adding stained glass windows. The
fraternity then sold the house to
the Christian College.
The college didn’t determine a
need to sell the house until July
1989, afler a full-time academic
dean was hired and a two-year
graduate program was initiated.
The house’s sale was expected to
eliminate a $3,500-a-month debt
the college had incurred in the
form of interest payments.
Preservationists tried to have
the house designated an historic
landmark, which would have pre
vented the owner from destroying
it. The city council was deadlocked
at 5-5 when the issue came before
it March 6, and Mayor Dwain
Chambers cast a tie-breaking vote
barring the designation.
Ray Austin, chairman of the col
lege’s Board of Trustees, said the
board will meet soon to decide how
to go about selling the house and
applying for a rezoning of the prop
erty from residential to commer
cial.
He said they were trying to give
anyone who hadn’t raised enough
money by the cutoff date an extra
chance despite the college’s
growing financial problems.
Wood said the college’s original
•rezoning request was denied by the
city council in a 7-3 vote because
the house was still standing. The
house will need to be demolished
before the college reapplies.
Shelia Hackney, director of the
Athens-Clarke Heritage Founda
tion, said the six weeks given po
tential buyers to make a bid wasn’t
realistic.
‘"You can hardly buy a regular
house in six weeks,” she said.
Acacia fraternity considered
buying and refurbishing the house,
but Chapter President Ron Mc
Carthy said the asking price plus
restoration costs made it unaffor
dable.
Lotsa bucks for ‘Lotsa Records
j.r. Green, auctioneer for the Fifth Annual Human Rights Festival Art
Auction, auctions off R.E.M.’s autographed "Lotsa Records" album
award. Paul Butchart, a Festival organizer, paid $500 for the piece. The
auction raised more than $9,000 to benefit the Athens Rape Crisis
Line and NO HARME, an animal rights and environmental organization.
For more festival coverage please see p. 6.
Former student runs for Congress:
Barnard not ‘acting like Democrat’
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Scott Starling: Challenging 10th District Congressman
Doug Barnard, Jr.
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
A former University student is
running against Doug Barnard for
his 10th District seat in the U.S.
House of Representatives because
he says Barnard isn’t acting like a
Democrat anymore.
Scott Starling, 26, who grad
uated from Valdosta State College
with a degree in biology and spent
two quarters in a University an
thropology and linguistics grad
uate program, announced his
candidacy Monday at the Arch to
handful of onlookers.
The 10th District includes
Athens, Augusta, Madison,
Monroe and parts of Gwinnett
County.
Starling, a native of Donalson-
ville, Ga., qualified for the race on
the April 27 deadline by paying
$3,000, said his campaign manager
Robert Cooper.
Starling said he has spent an ad
ditional $500 organizing his cam
paign. Both Cooper, a sophomore
political science major, and Star
ling left school to concentrate on
the race.
Starling said Barnard’s voting
record isn’t consistent with the
Democratic Party platform.
He criticized Barnard’s stand on
major issues like abortion and said
he would work for reform of Polit
ical Action Committees and cam
paigns.
“1 couldn’t support Doug Bar
nard as a Democrat because he is
anti-choice and heavily financed by
PACs,” he said.
Starling said the Democratic
f ilatform is pro-choice, and he be-
ieves traditional contraceptives
and RU486, the "abortion pill"
legal in Prance, should be made
more available to women.
He attacked Barnard for ac
cepting campaign contributions
from PACs, saying politicians
funded by PACs are pandering to
big business interests and losing
touch with their constituents.
In a later interview, Starling
said he wants to use the federal
government’s “overarching” struc
ture to influence change at the uni
versity level by offering financial
incentives to schools that reduce
their student-teacher ratios.
Starling come to the University
in 1982, left in 1985, transferred to
VSC in 1986 and graduated with a
biology degree in 1987. He spent
two quarters as a graduate student
at the University, and during that
time was a Student Association
senator.
He stayed out of school for 15
months, three of which he worked
at a Krystal restaurant. He then
worked for the research and devel
opment office of a local manufac-
turer of veterinary
pharmaceuticals until he decided
to run against Barnard.
UGA Greeks remain segregated
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
Segregation didn’t end at the
University when Hamilton
Holmes Sr. and Charlayne
Hunter-Gault, the first two black
students to attend school here,
stepped on campus in 1961. In
the University’s Greek system,
segregation remains a reality.
Of the 28 fraternities and 22
sororities on campus, four of each
are traditionally black organiza
tions.
There are no black members of
the traditionally white sororities
on campus, and no white mem
bers of traditionally black ones,
Claudia Shamp, adviser to sorori
ties, said.
Other minorities, such as
Orientals and American Indians,
are represented in the tradition
ally wnite sororities, she said.
Ron Binder, adviser to frater
nities, said there are now one or
two black members of tradition
ally white fraternities on
campus, although he wouldn’t
say which fraternities. There are
no non-black members of the four
traditionally black fraternities.
In summer quarter 1988, Jo
seph Alexander, a black student,
transferred to the University
from Seton Hall University, a pri
vate college in South Orange,
N J., with a student population of
about 10,000.
A member of Tau Kappa Ep
silon fraternity at Seton Hall
during his freshman and sopho
more years, Alexander planned
to affiliate with the TKE chapter
here but changed his mind when
he came to campus.
Alexander said he went to the
TKE house and met some of the
members. “I think I would have
affiliated if I had felt more com
fortable with it,” he said.
Alexander said he decided not
to affiliate because of remarks he
heard some of the TKE members
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make. ‘They said things that
showed me that they’re not too
open-minded when it comes to
race,” he said.
His black friends reacted
strongly to the idea of his affil
iating as well. “It just blew me
away that they would be so taken
aback by me being in the frater
nity,” he said.
Having time for his studies
was also a factor in his decision
not to affiliate, Alexander said,
since he plans to attend law
school afler graduation.
He said black members make
up 20 to 25 percent of the TKE
chapter at Seton Hall, while
white members totalled 35 to 40
percent. The chapter has a large
number of other minorities as
well.
“I do think there is such a
thing as a Southern mentality.
Both races have been brought up
not to deal with the other," Alex
ander said.
TKE member Wendell McMur-
rain said he remembered
meeting Alexander during the
time Alexander considered affil
iating. “Personally, I would like
to have seen something like that
happen, but I speak for myself. I
don’t want to represent the views
of my entire fraternity," he said.
Dia Davidson, a black student
who transferred from Emory
University, affiliated with the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
chapter here during fall quarter
1986. She has since graduated.
Shamp said that on a national
level, many fraternities and soro
rities with chapters at the Uni
versity are integrated. “I don’t
know that they have the national
perspective on their membership
that they should,” she said of the
University’s chapters.
Greek system integration is a
reality on some campuses. The
extent of that integration varies
from campus to campus, how
ever.
Mark Gelsinger, a Greek ad
viser at the University of Cali
fornia, Berkeley, said there are
black members in the tradition
ally white Greek system there, as
well as Hispanic and Asian mem
bers. There are three tradition
ally black fraternities and
sororities there.
U.C. Berkeley also has two
predominately Asian groups and
a gay fraternity now is being
formed.
That integration stems from
the diversity of the campus itself,
he said. His office has a Greek
Multi-Cultural Awareness Com
mittee, which works to reach out
to minority students.
Auburn University’s Greek
system isn’ integrated.
Debbie Shaw, a Panhellenic
adviser at Auburn, said there
have been two or three black stu
dent members of traditionally
white fraternities there in the
past four years, but none pres
ently.
“I think probably the South is
a little more hesitant to integrate
than our Northern institutions
are. However, we’re anxious to
see that change," she said.
Brad Vaughn, fraternities ad
viser at Florida State University,
said traditionally white fraterni
ties at FSU have black members.
However, FSU also has tradition
ally black fraternities and sorori
ties that aren’t integrated.
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