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FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 121
UGA Foundation to spend more on student scholarships
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
The University of Georgia Foundation
plans to spend more than $1 million on
student scholarships next year as part of
its $2,551 million operating budget.
The foundation’s Unrestricted Funds
Budget for fiscal 1991 includes $1,137
million in scholarship expenditures — 15
percent more than it spent this year.
According to foundation budget
statements, the foundation spent $973,-
554 of its unrestricted funds on schol
arships in fiscal 1990 and $1,024 million
in fiscal 1989.
Larry Weatherford, associate vice pres
ident for Development and University Re
lations, said tnis increase represents
foundation efforts to increase its support
of scholarships and also to meet the
growing needs of the Alumni Scholarship
Program.
Students who make 1250 on the Schol
astic Aptitude Test are automatically eli
gible for $750 a year from the Alumni
Scholarship Program and $1,500 a year
for a 1300 SAT score. Students may
renew their scholarships each year by
maintaining a high grade-point average.
Weatherford said the program was
started just a few years ago, and this is
the first year the program has had to sup
port four classes of scholarship recipients.
Additionally, a growing number of stu
dents eligible for the program are en
rolling at the University so more funding
is necessary.
The foundation added another Founda
tion Fellow Scholarship for next year,
bringing the total to 12, Weatherford
said. Foundation Fellows receive $5,500 a
year plus a $1,000 travel/study grant.
Tom Landrum, executive assistant to
the vice president for Development and
University Relations, said under the
fiscal 1991 budget, the foundation will en
hance the minority scholarship program
The foundation’s unrestricted budget is
developed under the guidelines of pro
jected revenue for the coming year.
During the actual fiscal year, the budget
is amended to correct the differences be
tween projections made at the beginning
of the year and the actual revenue and ex
penditures.
For example, in fiscal 1990, the orig
inal budget projected $1,750 million in
contributions and $2,816 million in total
revenue. However, unrestricted contribu
tions only reached $1 million and the
total revenue dropped to $2,375 million.
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If you haven‘t seen it by now...
The Georgia Museum of Art will observe National Art Day by cen- piece shown here is Andy Warhol’s "Love." For more on the
soring "risque" art works. The man organizing this observance is "banned” works see the story on page 5.
Donald D. Keyes (above), curator for the museum. The censored art
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American students continue to fall behind
Annual Fund
mixed bag
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
This year’s Annual Fund is a
mix of good and bad for the Univer
sity’s wallet. Donations to the fund
are ahead of last year at this time,
but the number of contributors is
down.
"We’re never satisfied,” said
Loui9 Sohn, University of Georgia
Foundation Annual Fund Com
mittee chair, "but we’re fairly
happy with this year’9 numbers.”
As of May 11, 1990, the Annual
Fund had received $2,295,130 from
17,733 donors. The Annual Fund
received $2,621,828 from 22,231
donors in fiscal 1989 and garnered
$3,125,367 from 18,674 donors in
fiscal 1988.
Tom Landrum, executive assis
tant to the vice president for Devel
opment and University Relations,
said the totals from the Annual
Fund’s spring pledge drive weren’t
in yet, but the donations are $100,-
000 ahead of last year at the same
time.
"We’re still waiting for the year-
end rush,” Landrum said. ‘The
spring mailing and phone-a-thons
are still out, and there’s tradition
ally a big push in June.”
Fiscal year 1990 ends on June
30, 1990.
Nik Edes, vice president for De
velopment and University Rela
tions, said he was "pleased
generally with where we are with
dollars.
Tf donors are down it concerns
me, but not too much. You have to
look at the whole picture.”
Compared to the same time last
year, the University is about $10
million ahead in net new-giving to
tals and about $6 million ahead in
cash received.
According to Alumni Society fig
ures, only about 12,000 of the Uni-
versity’s 150,000 alumni
contributed to the University in
fiscal 1990 either through the An
nual Fund or other donations.
Sohn, who also is president of the
Alumni Society, said the Univer
sity is unfortunate because not all
of the alumni are extremely pros
perous. A large portion of alumni
are teachers, who don’t have high
incomes, or women, who only re
cently entered the workforce.
Edes said at least half of the
alumni graduated within the past
10 years, and aren’t really in a fi
nancial position to contribute
funds to the University.
Additionally, the University
doesn’t have a means to stay in
contact with alumni who don’t
keep in touch of their own accord.
He said his goal is to establish an
institutional program that will
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Jan Kemp sues IRS for
taxes on 1985 award
By STEPHAN IE-UEA SMITH
Staff Writer
In the 21st century, America will fall farther
behind international competition in developing
new technology and economic prosperity if stu
dents’ basic math and science test scores con
tinue to plunge according to University
professors.
Americans do poorly in math literacy and sci
ence literacy on standardized tests given to
high school and college students, said Shawn
Glynn, a University educational pyschology
professor.
Educational Testing Services reported last
year that American 13-year-olds scored lower
on math and science skills tests than their Jap
anese, South Korean, Spanish, Dutch, British
and Irish counterparts.
The report also stated that American stu
dents spend the least amount of time doing
homework and the most amount of time
watching television.
Statistics published by the U.S. Department
of Education show the United States gradually
falling behind other countries in math and sci
ence tests administered to eighth-grade stu
dents in 1970 and 1980.
Tom Cooney, a University mathematics edu
cation professor, said, "Our students aren’t
achieving the same level of performance for a
variety of reasons. One is the curriculum has
been stagnant in the United States over the
last 20 years.”
National Service Foundation Director Erich
Bloch said in a published commentary that the
United States needs "a continual flow of tal
ented and well-educated people in order to
maintain and improve the strength of the
United States’ scientific and technological
workforce.”
Glynn said, “Other countries have a broader
view. All citizens must have a basic under
standing of science so that they can stay techni
cally and economically competitive.
“Hie United States has not been as con
cerned with the level of science literacy of the
general public. In the future, we will not com
pete as effectively economically unless the gen
eral population has basic knowledge of science
priniciples and facts.
‘Technology will play an increasing role in
the 21st century.”
There are many reasons why U.S. students
on average are doing poorly.
Ed Davis, a mathematics education professor
said, "Kids don’t know why they are in school.
They don’t know why it’s important. Parents
are busy and there is no support system at
home to encourage them to learn and grow.
‘There are more negative influences in so
ciety today,” he said. ‘There are more negatives
and less positives stressed in society."
Teen-aged pregnancy, drugs and crime are
pressures that weren’t as prevalent 20 years
ago, he said.
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The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Jan Kemp, the
University of Georgia professor
who won a $1 million judgment
against the University in 1985, is
suing the Internal Revenue Service
for $68,516 in taxes she said the
agency wrongfully collected from
the award.
Kemp also is asking for a court
order to keep a $4,318 refund of
taxes paid in 1987. The IRS re
versed its decision on the refund
and billed her for the money.
Kemp, a developmental studies
English professor, won the award
against the University for her
wrongful firing after she protested
preferential treatment of athletes
in the University’s remedial
classes. The $68,516 in taxes she
paid in 1986 were illegally levied
against the punitive damages she
won, said her attorney, Hirsch
Friedman.
The IRS told Kemp that the pu
nitive damages were considered in
come. But Friedman said federal
courts have ruled that punitive
damages are not always taxable.
IRS spokeswoman Hester Don-
ziger said IRS attorneys had not
seen the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit filed
Monday in federal court in Atlanta,
Kemp asked the IRS in 1988 for a
refund on the $68,516, and the IRS
denied the request.
Earlier this year, according to
Friedman, the IRS offered to re
fund about 75 percent of the taxes,
but she refused.
“Our position is that they have
no legal basis to keep any of it,” he
said.
Experts: UGA students not
well read or well informed
By STEPHANIE-LEA SMITH
Staff Writer
Catherine and Heathcliff aren’t
cartoon characters, soap opera
stars or MTV vee-jays. They’re
tragic lovers from Emily Bronte’s
classic novel “Wuthering Heights."
Many students don’t recognize
these characters, but University
professors say they should be well-
read upon entering college.
“Students don’t read enough in
high school. Not just literature but
also nonfiction and magazines,"
said Michael Moran, director of the
freshman English program.
Moran was asked along with
other University professors what
students should do in high school
to be better prepared for their col
lege curricula.
Biology Professor Alan Jaworski
said, "Students need to know fun
damental math and algebra. We
don’t assume they’ve had biology
but understanding the basics of
chemistry is necessary.
“A lot of students used to have
the attitude that if it's not their
major then they don’t need to know
it,” he said. However, this may be
changing because students are be
coming aware of economic pros
perity in countries like Japan.
Incoming students’ lack of em
phasis on the technical aspects of
writing is an observation made by
Warren Leamon, an English pro
fessor.
“By the time a student is 12 or
13, they should have mastered
grammar. If you learn the compli
cated rules of grammar, then you
can concentrate on composition
and literature," he said. Leamon
attributes his comprehension of
grammar to his Latin background.
Other professors are amazed by
students’ lack of knowledge of
modem news and events.
American history Professor
Carol Reardon said, “I teach his
tory 252 and am amazed by the
blank looks when I am discussing
topics from (students’) lifetime.
They need to read the newspaper.”
Squirrels wreaking havoc on campus trees
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
It’s a typical day on North Campus: Stu
dents walk to class or play frisbee. The foun
tain by the president’s office foams up with
soap suds, and hundreds of fat brown squir
rels scamper in the grass, gnawing on nuts
and generally looking cute.
But despite its idyllic appearance, all isn’t
well in this peaceful scene: Although gregar
ious campus squirrels may seem friendly, they
have a darker side.
Just ask a tree.
‘They wreak havoc up in the trees,” said
Dexter Adams, manager of the University
grounds department, which sends its em-
^ 0^ to saw off tree limbs damaged by
, “girdling” squirrels.
Girdling, he said, occurs when squirrels
chew through bark and reach parts of a limb
that conduct food and water.
A limb dies once it becomes unable to
convey nutrients, and if squirrels bite through
too many limbs, the whole tree may perish.
Jeff Jackson, a wildlife specialist with the
University Cooperative Extension Service,
said squirrels eat bark when they run out of
nuts. The problem gets worse when squirrel
populations get so high that food becomes
scarce.
“If there wasn’t some kind of zero popula
tion growth, we’d be neck-deep in squirrels
right now," he said. “Squirrels are a rapidly
reproducing species."
Jackson said a pair of squirrels can produce
as many as a dozen offspring in a year, but
most young squirrels never get to be adults.
On the University campus, speeding cars,
diseases, a limited food supply and hawks or
other birds of prey help keep the squirrel pop
ulation under control.
‘Things associated with higher populations
are squirrels getting squashed in the road and
bark-chewing," Jackson said. “You see a lot of
squirrels dead in the road” when populations
start getting out of control.
Squirrels in developed areas usually don’t
worry about predators as much as their
cousins in the boonies, but more squirrel-
hungry predators are making the move to
campus.
Jackson said he often sees a red-tailed
hawk perched in a tree when he jogs at the
Coliseum track.
And Pete Schrantz, a naturalist for Clarke
County parks, said, “there are definitely
nesting hawks in the area,” including sharp-
shinned hawks, red-shouldered hawks and
red-tailed hawks, most of which hunt during
the day.
At night, he said, many kinds of owls also
might go after Athens nut-mongers
Barred owls, screech owls and great-horned
owls all hunt around town, and screech owls
— which often thrive in suburban areas —are
quite common.
Schrantz, who helped organize the North
east Georgia Earth Day this year, said more
birds of prey may be cruising the skies be
cause conservation efforts have helped boost
predator populations.
He also said the environmental movement
has helped hunters realize that blowing away
hawks “is a pretty scummy thing to do."
If more predators begin hunting on campus,
things might get a little easier for sanitation
employees. It’s their job to pick up all the less-
than-round squirrels that occasionally end up
on roads and sidewalks.
Once they happen upon a dead squirrel,
Adams said sanitation crews bag the former
rodent and send it to the county landfill. The
crews try to remove all corpses before 24 hours
pass.
He said the campus squirrel population is
unnaturally high, but the grounds depart
ment doesn’t do anything to reduce it. Gir-
diing is sporadic and not considered a serious
problem.