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The Red and Black • Thursday, May 10, 1990 • 3
Phi Eta Sigma modifies membership
Honor society raises its standards
By KERRY HATHAWAY
Contributing Writer
Though the customs and tradi
tions of Phi Eta Sigma Honor So
ciety have virtually remained the
same since its founding, the so
ciety has modified its mem
bership.
The once all-male freshman
honor society, now in its 51st
year at the University, tradition
ally was made up of the top 20
percent of male freshmen. Now
it’s 75 percent female.
“We are trying to provide a
unique service, something that
will recognize all freshmen to
have opportunities academically
and to give them incentive to
maintaining a 3.5 GPA or better,”
said Chip Gasler, a junior inter
national business major and so
ciety member.
The co-ed society started se-
We are trying to get
ourselves on a track
that will make us
more active.’
—Geoffrey Dillard
President of Phi Eta
Sigma
lecting the top 1 percent of the
most qualified freshmen with a
3.5 GPA or better out of the 20
percent who were eligible in
spring of 1989.
The national chapter’s written
constitution states that only the
top 20 percent of freshmen be se
lected.
However, the University
chapter aims to be different.
"Selecting the 1 percent makes
us a unique organization,” said
President Geoffrey Dillard.
“We have raised our standards
and the 1 percent makes us dif
ferent from Alpha Lambda Delta,
which is another freshmen honor
society,” he said.
However, this mokes the mem
bership smaller, which decreases
funding.
‘The society is not a money
making machine," Gasler said.
Instead, the honor society is
trying to become more active on
campus.
The society is planning to have
more dinner seminars and local
recognition programs. The so
ciety also plans to build a schol
arship program.
Dues for members are $20 and
include a lifetime membership.
City Council adds one extra police
clerk to combat rising crime rate
The Athens City Council has
given police another typewriter to
fight the rising crime rate in
Athens.
During a City Council budget
workshop Tuesday, it was deter
mined that the 1990 budget will in
clude funding for a new clerical
worker in the Athens Police De
partment’s uniform division, City
Clerk Jean Spratlin said.
Public Safety Chairman Kathy
Hoard said that in Chief Mark
Wallace was asked in February to
appear before the committee to
suggest ways to combat a rising
crime rate in Athens.
He suggested upgrading existing
positions, replacing two officers
who were reassigned to the Clarke
County Drug Task Force, and cre
ating new clerical positions for po
lice.
The committee then recom
mended that funding be provided
for all three suggestions to Mayor
Dwain Chambers, Hoard said.
The mayor’s office replaced the
two officers internally, she said.
Chambers’ budget originally
called for no new position upgrades
for the force, but funding was pro
vided for one clerical worker after
two budgeted but unfilled city posi
tions were eliminated.
In other business, the council
discussed the cost of collecting city
taxes with the Clarke County Tax
Commissioner’s Office. The latest
figures show that the city tax office
has asked for about $64,000 to bill
city property owners, Spratlin said.
The city has budgeted $53,300 to
set up its own tax collection office,
less than it would cost annually to
pay the county office, which cur-
Mayor Dwain Chambers:
Approved the extra police
help
rently collects taxes for the city,
she said.
— Michael W. McLeod
New music warning label unveiled
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON- The recording
industry on Wednesday unveiled a
uniform warning label for albums
with explicit lyrics and expressed
hope that an improved voluntary
system will halt campaigns in
some states for mandatory la
beling.
The black-and-white stickers —
reading “PARENTAL ADVISORY
- EXPLICIT LYRICS” - will ap
pear on the lower right-hand
comer of the front of albums that
might be objectionable because of
lyrics dealing with sex, violence,
suicide, drug abuse, bigotry or Sa
tanic worship.
The decision whether to affix the
labels will be left up to the record
companies and their individual
artists, said Jay Berman, president
of the Recording Industry Associa
tion of America, whose members
produce more than 90 percent of
the records sold in the United
States.
Berman said the warning labels
will begin appearing in July.
“We believe the uniform logo will
enhance the existing voluntary
system and better respond to the
legitimate concerns of parents,”
Berman told a news conference
Wednesday.
“Now that we have agreed on
this new logo, it will be up to par
ents to use it as they see fit," he
said.
Under a 1985 agreement be
tween the record industry and the
Parents’ Music Resource Center
and the National PTA, which have
led the fight against explicit lyrics,
individual record companies were
free to devise their own warning
stickers or print lyrics on albums.
But erratic compliance and the
‘Now that we have
agreed on this new
logo, it will be up to
parents to use it as
they see fit.’
— Jay Berman
President of the
Recording
Industry Association
lack of a standard label led to pa
rental complaints, and bills were
introduced in several states to re
quire warning labels on albums
containing explicit lyrics.
By Berman’s count, 16 of the 21
state legislatures considering such
bills have backed down since the
industry announced plans in late
March for a standard voluntary
warning label.
“Our members hope that this
voluntary step by the recording in
dustry will put the nightmare of
governmental regulation behind
us,” said Mickey Granberg of the
National Association of Recording
Merchandisers, the trade group of
retailers and distributors.
Conceding “this will not satisfy
some people,” Berman said most
Americans favor a voluntary
system of warning labels, contrary
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to the belief among some state leg
islators that “a national movement
of outraged parents is afoot."
The new labeling system was ap
plauded by the Parents’ Music Re
source Center headed by Tipper
Gore, wife of Sen. Albert Gore Jr.,
D-Tenn., and Ann Lynch, presi
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urged an end to state efforts to re
quire album labels.
‘The music industry has af
firmed its responsibility to alert
consumers to graphic material in a
way that fully protects the rights of
the artists to express themselves
freely while recognizing the rights
of consumers to know the content
of music products before pur
chase,” Gore said.
Gay 101: Fostering understanding
About 37 people attended a
workshop entitled Gay 101 held
in the Myers Hall lobby Tuesday
night, said Daniel Early, one of
the program organizers.
Early, a junior genetics and zo
ology major, and Terrance Heath,
a junior English major, are edu
cators in the Peer Sexuality Edu
cator Program, which sponsored
the workshop. The program is
provided by Health Services.
Early said the purpose of the
program is to increase under
standing, acceptance and toler
ance of homosexuality among
University students.
“We thought we could do some
thing to foster further under
standing,” he said.
The workshop addressed is
sues of concern to the students,
including whether homosexual
couples should be allowed to
adopt children. Some students
argued that a child needs both
male and female role models
while others countered with the
premise that many children are
raised in single-parent families.
Other issues discussed in
cluded society’s easier acceptance
of lesbians than acceptance of
gay men and whether homosex
uals are capable of developing
long-term relationships.
‘The two facilitators did a g<x>d
job of presenting (the program) in
a non-threatening way,” said
Mark Turpen, a resident assis
tant in Myers.
He said the program reduced
‘We thought we could
do something to
foster further
understanding.’
— Daniel Early
a program organizer
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often sees nmong residents.
‘The workshop was conducive
to creating new attitudes in
people who were intimidated by
homosexuality,” he said.
— Peggy McGoff
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