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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1990 « ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 112
INSIDE
A preview of the Georgia
Museum of Art’s exhibit of
works by famed artist
Andy Warhol from the
Cochran collection.
Weather: Most non-triumphant.
Today, cloudy, near 80, tonight,
cloudy, low near 60. Friday,
cloudy, high mid 80s.
Georgia athletic program is named all-sports points leader
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
I
The Georgia athletic program has won
a Southeastern Conference
Championship that University teams
competed for for 10 years.
The University’s men’s and women’s
athletic programs combined to be the
SEC all-sports points leader for the
1980s, edging out the University of
Florida.
The University finished as the SEC
first-place combined all-sports leader for
1989-90 and won the SEC first place
Women’s All-Sports Trophy.
In the past 10 years, the University
was the combined all-sports leader six
times and the women’s program won the
all-sports trophy six times. The men’s
program won the all-sports award once.
“While we have a long and rich tradi
tion, it’s certainly a point of pride that our
athletic program has been especially suc
cessful during the past decade,” Athletic
Director Vince Dooley said in a released
statement.
Programs are awarded points based on
how their teams finish in SEC standings
for each sport.
“I think it’s fantastic,” women’s tennis
coach Jeff Wallace said. “It’s a tribute to
Liz Murphey (assistant athletic director
in charge of women's athletics).”
Wallace said the awards show the Uni
versity can be competitive athletically
and still maintain high academic stan
dards.
“It’s good the University has taken a
stand on academics,” he said. “(Athletes)
are here to be students first then good
athletes. It says a lot that they can do
both."
Assistant Athletic Director Lee Hayley
said he hoped the University’s compet
itive success with an emphasis on aca
demics would encourage other SEC
schools to follow suit.
“I believe we have shown the way for
some other schools who would like to
strengthen their athletic programs acade
mically," he said. “I sure hope they do.”
Students at the Tate Center Plaza on Wednesday were treated
to a performance by the Jazz II band.
Blowing their own horns
Allocation to be cut in half
Some renovations will be delayed
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
Due to a proposed 50 percent University
budget cut for handicap-accessible renovations,
many projects planned to increase accessibility
will have to be postponed, Handicapped Stu
dent Services Coordinator Karen Kalivoda said.
The University’s 1990-1991 fiscal-year
budget, which begins in July, allocates $100,-
000 for renovations to improve campus accessi
bility to handicapped students. The $100,000 is
half of the amount allocated each of the past
two years.
Prior to 1988, there was no budget specif
ically for handicap projects, Kalivoda said.
Handicapped Student Services was allocated
$200,000 to fund its priority-project requests in
both the 1988-1989 and 1989-1990 fiscal years,
after a group of students in April of 1988 dem
onstrated for increased awareness of hand
icapped student needs at the University.
Committee members feel the budget cut is an
indication that the University is becoming re
laxed in its commitment to handicapped stu
dents.
“When a budget is cut in half, that tells you
that you are not very important,” committee
member Daniel Bell said.
He, like several handicapped students, feels
the University has in the last few years taken
some big steps to recognize the needs of the
handicapped, but must continue to push for fur
ther responsiveness.
The allocation cut doesn’t reflect a lack of
commitment, but stiff competition for renova
tion funds among all University departments,
Physical Plant Director James TenBrook said.
The University System Board of Regents al
locates between $2 million and $3 million each
year to the Mcyor Repairs and Rehabilitations
fund, which must be divided among all depart
ments that request renovations. TenBrook
makes funding recommendations to the State
Allocation Committee based on project priori
ties.
TenBrook said the University considers
handicap accessibility a high priority. He rec
ommended the $200,000 spent for accessibility
renovations in each of the last two years. In ad
dition, he said Physical Plant has spent roughly
$1 million of its own maintenance budget for
handicap renovations during the last five to six
years.
This year, government regulations have
pushed other projects to the top of the funding
priority list, he said. Such regulations require
the University to install provisions to keep its
sewer water separate from drinking water, pro
vide emergency telephones in elevators, im
prove air quality in several campus buildings
and make repairs to meet fire safety standards.
The allocation of funds is a balance of all
campus renovation needs, TenBrook said.
Next year’s budget cut will restrict the suc
cess of handicapped students in gaining further
accessibility on campus. The Student Advisory
Committee will be forced to prioritize more ex
tensively, committee member David Bliss said.
Preservationists mourn
By STEPHANIE-LEA SMITH
and SUSAN HILL
Staff Writers
Before.
loss of historic Hull-Snelling House
and after
Historic preservation graduate student
Connie Malone looked Wednesday
through the rubble of what was once the
antebellum Hull-Snelling House, just
hours after the landmark was torn down.
With eyes still moist from crying, she ex
plained she was looking for a keepsake
brick for one of her professors.
The Hull-Snelling House was torn
down Wednesday at 11 a m. after a year
of controversy between the owners, his
toric preservationists and developers over
the fate of the house and the land it sits
on.
Jennie Johnson, an Athens-Clarke
Heritage Foundation board member, and
Malone are part of a large contingency
that fought against the demolition of
Hull-Snelling House. They said they will
continue to battle requests that the site
be re zoned for business purposes.
“I’m just waiting for the application to
rezone,” Malone said. “I will be there with
bells on.”
Johnson and Malone encouraged stu
dents to block the rezoning that would
allow commercial business on the prop
erty.
The Holiday Inn, which is located
across the street, has for some time ex-
f tressed a strong interest in buying the
and from the property’s present owners,
the Christian College of Georgia, to build
a parking lot.
The college has been trying to sell the
house for the past year because of the fi
nancial burden it incurred in relation to
the 147-year-old house.
Bertis Downs, president of the Athens-
The antebellum Hull-Snelling house (right) was demolished at 11 a.m.
Wednesday after a year of controversy. The landmark building was demolished
to allow its owner, the Christian College of Georgia, to sell the land to devei-
Clarke Heritage Foundation said he was
“disappointed and saddened by the ac
tion/
The foundation has worked ‘long and
hard for a half-year to get the public in
volved, and trying to help find a buyer for
the house," Downs said.
The Athens City Council denied re
zoning of the property last fall from a res
idential to commercial business district.
The sale of the property to Holiday Inn
is contingent upon the property’s re
zoning.
Hotel manager Lewis Shropshire said
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Satan HIM/Th« Red and Black
opers. The college says that it could not bear the financial burden that the 147-
year-old house was causing it. The Holiday Inn, which is across the street from
the property, will purchase the land if the city council rezones it.
Holiday Inn “has not purchased the
house. We are under the same agreement
that we have been for the past six to eight
months. The property has to be zoned
properly in order for us to buy it.”
The city zoning ordinance states that if
a piece of property is denied re zoning, 12
months must pass before it can be recon
sidered.
“How well do they sleep at night?”
asked Johnson in reference to the board
of the Christian College and the Holiday
Inn officials.
Hoyt Street
plagued by
car break-ins
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Students in a hurry to enjoy Zoo
Night at T.K. Harty’s or a batch of
hot wings at The Flying Buffalo
would do well to spend a moment
thinking about the safety of their
cars.
Hoyt Street and nearby streets
where many students park to go to
T.K. Harty’s Saloon, The Flying
Buffalo and The End, have had an
average of about one auto break-in
a week since fall quarter.
Since September, 34 auto break-
ins have occurred on Hoyt Street.
The break-ins reached a peak in
January when 15 were reported,
according to Athens police.
Although he said it’s hard to rate
certain places as being more dan-
gerous than others for auto break-
ins, Sgt. Mike Turner of Athens po
lice said Hoyt Street is one of the
worst places to park in the city.
“I know the area well," Turner
said. "I’ve worked stake-outs there
before..! would put Hoyt Street in
the top five. It’s very secluded, sur
rounded by woods and low-income
housing.”
Curtis Foster, owner of Globe
Security which has been employed
by T.K. Harty’s for more than a
ear, said the neighborhood is to
lame.
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Party on dudes
Council drops social suspensions
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Kappa Alpha and Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternities were spared
an antisocial fall quarter after an
appellate body of the Student Judi
ciary this week removed the orga
nizations’ social suspensions.
The two fraternities’ social sus
pensions have been reduced by the
Judicial Council to social probation
for fall quarter, but the summer
quarter suspension from campus
and one-year probated suspensions
remain.
The social suspension would’ve
precluded KA’s traditional fall
quarter post-football game parties.
KA and SAE went before the Or-
anization Court of the Student
udiciary April 19 to answer to
charges stemming from an annual
football game they sponsored Feb.
10 at Dudley Park in Athens.
The event, which attracted 500
observers and some underage
drinkers, wasn’t registered with
Student Activities.
The fraternities were found
guilty of alcohol misuse, disorderly
KA and SAE went
before the Organization
Court of the Student
Judiciary April 19 to
answer to charges
stemming from an
annual football game
they sponsored.
conduct and violating social event
regulations. A city ordinance pro
hibits alcohol consumption at city
parks.
KA President Scott Davis and
SAE President Richard Swift were
cited by police with violating city
ordinances against intoxication,
noise and disturbing the peace.
An entire shift of police officers
were occupied with controlling the
crowd for 45 minutes.
About 150 people “descended
upon” police when they confiscated
the football. When police asked
spectators to pour out their alco
holic beverages, they refused to
comply.
Athens police Sgt. Mike Turner
said that after police had removed
about three-fourths of the crowd
from the field, a man ran across the
field and tackled another man with
whom he appeared to be familiar.
Turner said he told the man,
Gerry Carson, an SAE mem her
from Emory University, to leave
three times before placing him
under arrest. At that point, Carson
struck Turner in the face and ran.
He said that after the crowd had
been cleared away, Davis and some
other KA members stayed to help
police clean trash from the field.
Davis said he received his copy
of the decision from Chief Justice
Rebecca Bell Wednesday, but
hasn’t decided whether to appeal to
Student Affairs Vice President
Dwight Douglas.
Swift, who received his copy of
the decision Tuesday, was unavail
able for comment.