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, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 116
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Demon drink
Ron Binder, University adviser to fraternities, guzzles a beer in
Wednesday's DUI Day at the Tate Student Center Plaza. The event,
sponsored by Greeks Against the Mismanagement of Alcohol
(GAMMA), brought University leaders together to demonstrate the
effects alcohol has upon the senses. Participants drank while con
tinuously being administered sobriety and breathalizer tests.
New charges in DUI case
Two pedestrians remain in stable condition
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
Additional charges were filed
Wednesday against a University
student who was arrested Sat
urday on charges of driving under
the influence and driving too fast
for conditions after hitting three
pedestrians in a River Road
parking lot.
Patrick Schlottman, a manage
ment information systems major
and Kappa Sigma fraternity
member, went to the University
Police Department Wednesday at
the request of police and was
charged with reckless driving and
serious injury by vehicle.
Two of the pedestrians were
listed in stable condition in hos
pital intensive care units
Wednesday.
Schlottman was taken to Clarke
County Jail and released on a $6,-
000 bond, according to jail officials.
Schlottman was arrested Sat
urday at the scene of the accident
in the River Road parking lot and
charged with driving under the in
fluence and driving too fast for con
ditions. Police waited until the
medical conditions of the pedes
trians were stable before filing the
additional charges, University po
lice Sgt. Richard Goodson said.
Nicholas Sucan, a junior ac
counting major at Georgia State
University who was hit by Schlot
tman, received various injuries to
his leg and was released from St.
Mary’s Hospital Monday.
He checked into Northside Hos
pital in Atlanta Wednesday where
he was listed in stable condition in
an intermediate, or less serious, in
tensive care unit.
No other information on his con
dition was available at presstime.
Dawn Roberts, a sophomore at
Stephens College in Columbia,
Mo., who was also hit by Schlot
tman, was still listed in stable con
dition in the neurological ICU at
Athens Regional Medical Center
Wednesday.
“She’s alive; she’s still on a respi
rator and in a light coma," said
Laurie Roberts, Dawn’s mother.
“Sometimes she’s responsive, but
not always.”
Roberts said doctors are unsure
of Dawn’s future condition or
whether she will suffer any perma
nent damage. They don’t know
whether Dawn will be off the respi
rator anytime soon.
‘We don’t know where we are
right now; they’ve told us it’s going
to be a long haul," she said.
Terry Kennedy, a junior finance
miyor who was hit in the side by
Schlottman’s rear-view mirror,
was bruised and wasn’t admitted
to a hospital.
Reckless driving, DUI and
driving too fast for conditions are
misdemeanors under Georgia law,
University police Capt Mitch
Jones said.
The maximum penalty for each
charge is one year in jail and a $ 1 ,-
000 fine.
Serious injury by vehicle is a
felony, he said. The crime is pun
ishable by not less than one and
not more than five years in jail.
Schlottman’s case is scheduled
to go before the Clarke County
Magistrate Court June 19.
University leaders drink to safe driving
By PEGGY McGOFF
Staff Writer
Six University lenders drank to
driver safety Wednesday at the
Tate Student Center plaza as part
of DUI Day, a program sponsored
by Greeks Advocating the Mature
Management of Alcohol.
The twice-a-year program,
which follows an accident Sat
urday in which a student with a
blood alcohol level of .19 hit three
pedestrians, was designed to edu
cate students about the dangers of
drinking and driving. Although the
rogram was conducted in a light-
enrted spirit, the intent was se
rious.
“These people are teaching
others so that people don’t die on
this campus from drinking too
much,” GAMMA President Kristin
Dwors said.
Jeff Lynch, a participant in DUI
Day who is in the same fraternity,
Kappa Sigma, as the driver in Sat
urday’s accident, said the program
showed him his alcohol limits.
Participants drank beer or wine
coolers while their level of sobriety
was monitored by program spon
sors and University police officer
Eric Longman.
Longman gavp the participants
breathalizer and field sobriety
tests during various intervals of
drinking to demonstrate to the au
dience the effects of alcohol on
motor functions and eye-to-hand
coordination.
After drinking five beers in less
than two hours, Lynch’s blood al
cohol level measured .06, .04 below
the legal level for DUI. He said
that after the program, he realizes
how much it takes to impair his
judgment.
At an alcohol level of .06, a
person involved in an accident can
be charged with a DUI, Longman
said. Between .06 and .09, a charge
can be made if an officer believes a
person isn’t sober enough to drive
‘These people are
teaching others so
that people don't die
on this campus from
drinking too much.’
— Kristin Dwors,
GAMMA president.
At .10, a driver will be arrested for
DUI, Longman said.
Famed ‘Iron Horse’ might return
despite past mistreatment, abuse
; By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Horses sent out to pasture
seldom return to the limelight,
but the Iron Horse, which became
legendary overnight in 1954, may
break that trend.
The Iron Horse sculpture, built
by commissioned artist Abbott
Pattison in 1953 and 1954 in an
effort to bring contemporary art
to the South, was placed in the
I Reed Quadrangle on May 24,
I 1954, and immediately became
I the subject of students’ abuse.
I University administrators re-
I moved it from campus in less
I than 24 hours.
The Executive Committee of
I the University Council will vote
I today on whether to ask Univer-
I sity President Charles Knapp to
I consider the horse’s return to
I campus after more than 31 years
I of farm duty.
The resolution to return the
I Iron Horse was made by the
I Committee on Facilities at the
I May 15 Executive Committee
I meeting.
Farm duty for horse
The boilerplate steel sculpture,
I standing 11-feet tall and 12-feet
I long and weighing more than a
I ton, is now standing guard at
L.C. Curtis’ farm on Georgia
I "Highway 15, south of
Watkinsville.
Pattison, who lives in a suburb
of Chicago, said in a telephone in
terview he’s in favor of bringing
the sculpture back if the Curtis
family doesn’t mind parting with
it.
“Only if they (the University)
would enjoy and approve i'„,” Pat
tison said. “It wasn’t just a part-
time job.”
Jack Curtis, who was enrolled
at the University in 1954, said
students tried to burn the sculp
ture and deface it.
Graffiti was painted on its
sides, balloons were attached to it
and students repeatedly started
fires underneath it.
“I made that thing as tough as
I could,” Pattison said. “I welded
that sculpture so it’ll last for
ever.”
Curtis said he thinks the
sculpture is where it belongs.
“It needs a place of its own
with plenty of sky and and plenty
of freedom,” he said.
Pattison said, “It’s had a kind
of dignity in the cornfield."
I He said he’s received news
clips about the sculpture from the
Miami Herald and other newspa
pers and by chance saw a movie
on public television with balle
rinas dancing around the Iron
Horse.
Pattison has sculptures in
Tokyo, Buckingham Palace,
China, the U.S. Embassy in
Turkey and museums all across
the United States.
Robert Clements, art professor
and chairman of the Art Alloca
tion sub-committee of the coun
cil’s facilities committee, said he
feels that having the Iron Horse
so many miles away from campus
gives the message that Univer
sity students aren’t able to appre
ciate art.
“I do not believe those ideas,”
he said. “I’ve found that students
generally have a deep apprecia
tion for art.”
He said he feels that the loca
tion also indicates that faculty
and the administration aren’t in
terested in bringing it back.
“I do not believe those ideas ei
ther," he said.
Clements said some sculptures
on campus have been here for
many years and haven’t ueen sig
nificantly disturbed.
“I believe there are locations
on campus that would be equally
attractive (for the horse),* he
said.
Called for return
In October 1982, the Interfra-
temity Council president pre
sented a proposal to bring the
sculpture back to campus to
then-President Fred Davison.
It also was suggested that the
University’s Bicentennial
Steering Committee make the
sculpture’s return to campus a
part of the University’s 200th an
niversary celebration in 1985.
Carol Winthrop, assistant to
the vice president for Academic
Affairs, was coordinator of the bi
centennial committee.
She said there didn’t seem to
be overwhelming support for past
attempts to bring the horse back
to campus.
“I think it was sad that it was
taken away from the campus in
the first place," she said.
Bob Nix, professor of art, said
he thinks it’s important that the
sculpture stay where it is and
he’s not in favor of bringing it
back to campus.
"The Iron Horse is not on
campus because of uninformed
positions of the time," he said.
“I would have loved for it to
have been here."
Nix said the timing of the
sculpture's placement on campus
was unfortunate.
It Immediately
became the subject of
abuse.
“You don’t do a thing like that jl
when people are about to have I
final exams,” he said.
He said the sculpture was ere- I
ated during winter quarter of
1954 and he photographed Pat
tison working on the sculpture on I
a daily basis.
Pattison also made the marble I
structure behind the fine arts
building.
Didn’t like it
David Lunde, director of I
campus planning and art alloca- I
tions 9ub-committee member, j
said students simply didn’t like I
the sculpture when it was placed I
on campus.
It may have been territorial as |
well as criticism of the sculpture, |
he said.
“No one really told the stu- 3
dents it would be there," he said.
Ernestine Copas, associate di
rector for academic credit at the
Georgia Center for Continuing
Education and head of the coun
cil’s Committee on Facilities, said
the proposal is a statement of
value by the faculty on the com
mittee.
Copas said the committee ap
preciates that the Iron Horse is
owned by someone else and that
the owners value it.
“We value that work of art and
would like to see it return to
campus," she said.
Students
remember
massacre
Deng Zhaohua: An organizer of the Tiananmen display an
swers Matthew Rohan's questions
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
Students at the Tate Center
plaza stood mezmerized
Wednesday watching a videotape
of events in Beijing last June.
Others inspected a collection of
media photos from the massacre in
TManbnmen Square and bought t-
shirts commemorating the event.
Deng Zhaohua was in
Guangzhou in mainland China
during the pro-democracy uprising
and is a member of the Student
Union of Chinese, the group spon
soring the exhibit.
Deng, a graduate student in
higher education, came to the
United States just days before the
Chinese government passed
stricter laws to prohibit students
from leaving the country.
“If I had tried three days later, I
would not have made it out," he
said.
He had been accepted to the Uni
versity before the June 4 uprising
and left China June 17.
Although the Chinese govern
ment has intercepted some com
munication into the country, Deng
said students there are aware of
American support for their cause.
‘They know. They know,” he
said emphatically.
Cao Yulin, president of the Stu
dent Union of Chinese and a post
doctoral associate in mathematics,
said he believes most University
students remember the events.
T want to express my thanks to
the students at UGA and the
people from Georgia," Cao said.
“From them I received much en
couragement. Even greater than
from President Bush.”
Lu Hong Kai, a graduate stu
dent in psychology and vice presi
dent for the Student Union of
Chinese, said American students’
concern in the fight for democracy
in China goes beyond casual in
terest.
'They’re also interested in what
Chinese students are doing in this
country," Lu said. That’s very en
couraging.
“Not like last year at this time,
though. At that time the students
felt disgusted,” Lu said.
Deng said he heard about the
events as they happened and the
memories are still vivid.
“It feels like it just happened
yesterday,” Deng said.
The Student Union of Chinese,
which is for only mainland
Chinese, contributes to the Voice of
Atlanta, a supplement to the
Chinese Community News, a
newspaper printed in Atlanta. Its
purpose is to discuss democracy
and how to end communism in
China, Lu said.
The exhibit will be at the Tate
Student Center plaza until Friday
and will be part of a larger exhibit
Sunday at Woodruff Park in At
lanta to commemorate the anniver
sary of the June 4 massacre.
The event Sunday is sponsored
by the Atlanta Association for De
mocracy in China and will feature
a 7-foot replica of the Goddess of
Democracy, the statue erected in
Tiananmen Square last June.
Scheduled speakers include
Georgia Secretary of State Max
Cleland, Georgia Congressman
Ben Jones, 4th District, a rep
resentative from Atlanta Mayor
Maynard Jackson’s office and
Steve Herrick, the regional di
rector of Amnesty International.
Lee, students talk about incident
Judicial Programs Counselor Roger Lee met
Wednesday with Sigma Phi Epsilon President Max
Muse to discuss an incident involving two pledges and
a former pledge that could lead to hazing and property
damage charges against the organization.
Independent study student Jay Davis and Sig Ep
pledges Jamie Smouse and Greg Bullard were
charged with criminal trespass May 23 in connection
with reported damage at a convenience store in
Oconee County. .
Lee has said the incident could be an organizational
or an individual matter. „
'"There’s potential hazing and damage to property,
he said. _ , .
Muse said he will meet with Lee Tuesday to learn
what direction the case will take.
Oconee County sheriffs deputies answered a call
reporting property damage to the Golden Pantry on
Mars Hill Road in Watkinsville May 22 at 3:50 a.m
and found the three men there
Oconee County Deputy Sheriff Isaac Whitehead,
who was called to the scene, said, "They claimed they
had been asleep and some guys had asked them to go
for a ride and blindfolded them and dropped them off
there."
Whitehead said the three men told him they were
dropped off at a nearby church and had walked to the
store to call a friend. Two cars came later and picked
them up.
Davis refused Wednesday to comment on the inci
dent. Bullard and Smouse were unavailable for com
ment Wednesday. —Lance Helms