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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
INSIDE
An interview with the
band 5—8 who’veretumed
to Athens from their East
Coast tour. They’ll play
tonight at the Rockfish.
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Weather: Its looking up. Today,
partly cloudy, high In low 80s,
tonight, fair, low in upper 50s.
Wednesday, sunny, high low 80s.
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 114
Thieves take six
UGA computers
Splendor in the grass
Todd Protrowski, sophomore art major, and Karen Sweeney, freshman Monday afternoon on the old North Quad beside Meigs Hall. Protrowski
Journalism major, enjoy a bit of afternoon sunshine between classes and Sweeney soaked up the last rays before the rain.
By ROBERT TOOD
Staff Writer
Thieves removed six computers
with a total value of about $12,000
from the Journalism/Psychology
Complex sometime this weekend.
Bill Jackson, Office of Instruc
tional Development associate di
rector, said he came into his office
about 8 a.m. Monday and realized
a Zenith lap-top computer was
missing off his desk. The theives
also removed five Apple Macintosh
computer systems from OID.
“It appears the robbers were fo
cusing on Apple equipment,”
Jackson said. ‘They bypassed sev
eral IBM-compatible machines and
took all our Apple systems."
A system includes a computer
monitor, keyboard and mouse,
Jackson said. No printers were
taken.
Most of the stolen equipment
was University property, but two of
the computers were on loan from
Apple. Jackson said it was too soon
to tell how the computers would be
replaced or how long that will take.
Shortly after 7 a.m. Monday,
custodians in the journalism
building discovered an air ventto a
room which had been broken and
some doors with tampered locks,
building manager Chuck Fields
said. The custodians, who were
opening the building for the day,
reported the damage to University
police immediately.
Glenn Patterson, College of
Journalism and Mass Communica
tion business manager, said the
only thing known to be missing
‘It appears the robbers
were focusing on Apple
equipment.’
—Bill Jackson
from the journalism building is a
computer from newspaper depart
ment head Albert Hester’s office.
The journalism school is checking
all locks and taking an inventory of
equipment.
Hester said he heard about the
break-in when he arrived Monday
morning. He entered his office, and
realized the Apple Macintosh com
puter was missing. The computer
is the property of the University.
“You really feel funny," Hester
said. “Fm so used to working with
the computer, I don’t really know
what to do. I spent the whole day
with an IBM electric typewriter.”
University Police Chief Chuck
Horton said University Police
hadn’t made an arrest in connec
tion with the break-m.
Monday’s break-in may be re
lated to the theft of $10,035 worth
of computer equipment from the
College of Home Economics in
April, he said. But he doesn’t have
anything concrete.
Fields said vandalism is usually
involved in break-ins like this.
However, he said there were no
signs of vandalism Monday. He
said he couldn’t estimate the costs
of repairing damaged doors and
locks.
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Schlottoman was taken to Clarke
County Jail and released Sunday on a
$700 bond, according to jail officals.
Additional charges probably will be
filed against Schlottoman after an inves
tigation and accident report are com
pleted, University police Sgt. Richard
Goodson said. A possible charge is serious
injury by vehicle, which carries a max
imum fine of 10 years in jail.
“I’d say this young man’s in serious
trouble right now,” Goodson said.
Schlottoman declined to comment.
Roberts, a sophomore at Stephens Col
lege in Columbia, Mo., was transported to
Athens Regional Medical Center and
treated for head injuries after she was hit
and knocked over the car. Goodson said.
Kennedy said Roberts was unconscious
most of Sunday and underwent three
hours of surgery.
“At first we were really worried," he
said, “but she made a lot of improvement
(Sunday); she really looks gooa now.”
Although still on a respirator, Roberts
was conscious and responding to others
Monday, Kennedy said. She will be in the
hospital for at least a week. Doctors told
Kennedy they didn’t think she would
have any permanent disabilities, he said.
Sucan, a junior accounting major who
transferred from the University to
Georgia State University in the spring of
1989, was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital
and was released Monday about noon,
Kennedy said. His leg was broken in two
places and he will have to wear a cast for
six months.
Sucan may undergo surgery on his leg
later, but shouldn’t suffer any permanent
disabilites, Kennedy said.
Kennedy, a junior finance major, was
hit by Schlottoman’s side mirror and re
ceived a bruise on his hip, he said. He was
examined at St. Mary's emergency room
and was released early Sunday morning.
Schlottoman’s 1981 Toyota Corola
drove up behind them at about 35 miles
per hour, Kennedy said.
Goodson said, “The girl busted her
head on the windshield and she flew over
the car — he was going pretty fast.”
Schlottoman didn’t stop immediately,
but drove to the Kappa Sigma parking lot
and parked and then walked to the acci
dent scene, Goodson said.
Kennedy called an ambulance and po
lice from the Sigma Nu fraternity house.
“It all happened so fast, it was over be
fore I realized what had happened,” Ken
nedy said.
Sucan, Roberts and Kennedy are best
friends, according to Kennedy. They all
attended North Springs High School in
Sandy Springs. Kennedy and Roberts
were roommates at the University # their
freshman years.
Sucan and Roberts have been dating
for about two years and were staying with
Kennedy for the weekend to attend the
Alpha Epsilon Pi Wild West party Sat
urday night, Kennedy said.
Sorority is cleared of
April hazing charges
Diamond Dogs headed for world series
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Delta Sigma Theta sorority
was found innocent of hazing,
shared responsibility and disor
derly conduct Monday in an ad
ministrative hearing conducted
by the Office of Judicial Pro
grams.
There was nothing about the
case to justify proceedings
against the organization, said Ju
dicial Programs Director Bill
Brace well, who heard the case.
Delta Sigma Theta was
charged with hazing in connec
tion with a physical and verbal
assault complaint received in late
April by Claudia Shamp, adviser
to sororities.
The sorority also was charged
with shared responsibility, which
means every member stands to
bear the consequences of indi
vidual members’ actions.
The complainant claims to
have observed a Delta Sigma
Theta member striking a pledge
and verbally abusing ner be
tween Reed community and
River Mill apartments.
Please See SORORITY. Page 3
By ERIC GARBER
Sports Writer
Everybody said that the Georgia
baseball team had peaked too early
and the season was over after the
team’s immediate exit from the
SEC tournament.
Everybody, that is, except the
players.
While baseball writers and fans
reasoned that time was up for the
Diamond Dogs — the team had lost
five straight before this past week
end’s NCAA double-elimination
Northeast Regional in Waterbury,
Conn. —- players were taking it in
stride.
“I still don’t think we’ve peaked,”
designated hitter Brian Jester said
last week.
Apparently, Jester knew what
he was talking about. Georgia (48-
18) outscored its opponents 36-18
and knocked off two Top 25 teams
to win the regional and now finds
itself heading for Omaha, Neb.,
9ite of the 1990 College World Se
ries. It is the second trip to the
CWS for the Dogs, with their first
coming in 1987.
Since the other seven regionals
were still active Monday, the eight-
team senes field, which will begin
play Friday, will not be slated until
this afternoon.
The second-seeded Dogs de
feated fifth-seeded Connecticut 7-2
in the first round Thursday;
fourth-seeded Maine 6-3 Friday;
and first-seeded North Carolina 5-
4 Saturday to advance to the
championship round Sunday to
face sixth-seeded Rutgers.
By going into the championship
without a tournament los9,
Georgia had to win once, while
Rutgers needed two victories
against the Dogs to become champ.
Please See TOURNEY, Page 7
UGA to add environmental issues
coursework for undergraduates
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Changes in the undergraduate curriculum to in
clude environmental issues course work are now inev
itable and the University’s environmental task force
is looking for suggestions.
The task force will hold an open meeting today at
the Tate Student Center’s Reception Hall from noon
to 3 p.m. to get input from students, faculty and staff.
“We’re just trying to figure out what would fit the
University’s needs most," said Fredrick Ferre, vice
chairman of the task force.
University President Charles Knapp initiated the
dialogue on environmental courses with his State of
the University address last fall and put together the
14-member task force in January.
Once the group reaches a decision, the changes will
have to meet the approval of the University Council,
said Ferre, head of the philosophy department.
“We definitely want it to be interdisciplinary,”
Ferre said.
‘The committee is thinking more of an entry-level
set of courses available to freshmen,” he said.
The task force wants the program to have elements
of science, the humanities and the social sciences “be
cause the environment involves human policy deci
sion, values, ethics we live by and scientific facts,"
Ferre said.
Although the graduate Environmental Ethics Cer-
tificate program won’t be directly related, Ferre said
that program’s committee may cooperate with the
task force by providing a minor in environmental
ethics for undergraduates.
Ian Henyon, a junior telecommunications major
and the task force’s student repesentative, said a re
quired course for freshman is the way to go.More
classes could then be worked into the curriculum, he
said.
Henyon said classes already offered on the environ
ment are “either way too specific" or include merely a
few days of discussion on environmental issues.
The issue of a required class on environmental is
sues caused heated debate last fall when Knapp first
f iropoeed it, but Henyon said students would profit
rom it
“I never would have taken an economics class if it
weren’t required,” Henyon said. “There are certain
classes that are beneficial but you just don’t know it.”
Anyone who would like to offer suggestions at the
forum is asked to limit comments to five minutes. The
task force will accept written suggestions after today.
Knapp is ready for best of times
Bv j.D. SQUIOANTE
Staff Writer
The next three to four years
will be the best of times for the
University’s current administra
tion, University President
Charles Knapp said Monday.
“A university president
usually spends about three years
feeling out an institution and
identifying the concerns and
needs of the school,” Knapp told a
group of about 30 public relations
students.
‘Then the next three to four
years is the time of maximum ef
fectiveness when important deci
sions can be made and I feel
that’s where I am now.”
During the subsequent period,
seven to 10 years after first
taking office which may be the
point where a university leader
has achieved most of his goals,
presidential momentum begins
to wane, he said.
“At that time I think a presi
dent needs to take a hard look at
his situation at a school and the
institution needs to take a hard
look at the president to decide if
the relationship is benefiting
both,” Knapp said. “Fevf presi
dents last tnat long.”
The average presidential
tenure for colleges and universi
ties is four years, he said.
Knapp said his longevity in
Athens will depend on his effec
tiveness in solving growing prob
lems at the University. One of his
primary concerns is the Univer
sity’s slipping faculty salaries.
"In the past few years we’ve
fallen behind other Southeastern
schools in faculty salaries," he
said. “We used to be number one
and if we don’t get ourselves back
up to where we can compete with
other schools to recruit and main
tain the best teachers, we could
see a crisis here."
Knapp said failure to make
University salaries more attrac
tive to faculty could signal a det
rimental slide to the University’s
quality.
“If there aren’t enough human
resources," he said, "bigger prob
lems will follow.”
Knapp said if in five years he’s
failed to find solutions to the
problems of low faculty salaries
and inadequate library and fine
arts facilities, he will “seriously
assess" his position at the Uni
versity.
Kelly Puckett, a senior public
relations major, said — Knapp is
very aware of the problems on
campus in the meantime.
“I r m confident that he has defi
nite goals that reflect what’s
going on at the University,” she
said. “And he’s also realistic that
in a few years he will need to
evaluate his progress here and
perhaps face the possibility that
there’s somewhere else he should
be by then.”