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bring you the tunes you
may not have heard.
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And now for something
completely different. Forget the
weather. It's summer, enjoy it
anyway.
MONDAY, JUNE 11 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 96 • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 122
The final daze of library fun and games
Determined not to depart the University without a
fond farewell to Its library, Michelle Yopp, a senior
economics major, demonstrates the true meaning
of the phrase "Reading Is fundamental." Yopp was
In the Main Library last week completing temvpaper
research enjoying the final days of class.
SA to seek
'dead days’
Proposal still must be
drafted by committee
By DARA McLEOD
Staff Writer
The Student Association is in
the process of drafting a proposal
which may eventually make mod
ified "dead days" a reality on the
University campus.
The proposal, which is still being
drafted by the SA Academic Affairs
Committee, is expected to recom
mend the implementation of a Uni-
versity policy prohibiting
professors from scheduling tests,
quizzes or term papers during the
last three days of class each
quarter.
Although “dead days" policies at
some universities prohibit profes
sors from holding class on days im
mediately preceding finals, the
committee’s proposal is expected to
suggest that professors hold class,
but review for finals or introduce
new material that will be covered
on the final during the last three
days of class, junior Sen. Sa
mantha Anderson said.
Many students have term pa
pers due and several tests sched
uled during the last three days of
class, she said. Sometimes, stu
dents go into finals week unaware
of their standing in a class because
they’ve had few, if any assign
ments before the last week of class,
she said.
Although some students would
probably prefer a true "dead days”
Dohcy in which classes aren’t held
during this period, such a policy
wouldn’t work at the University
because of the quarter system. It
would cause the academic year to
extend nine more days into the
summer, Anderson said.
Under the recommendation SA
is considering, grades for atten
dance and class participation could
still be assigned during “dead
days."
Tm hoping it won’t receive a
very large negative response from
the faculty on campus," Anderson
said.
Even under the best circum
stances, "dead days” aren’t likely to
become a reality for at least two
quarters. Details of the proposal
must be worked out between the
SA committee and Delmer Dunn,
associate to the vice president for
Academic Affairs.
Then, the full SA senate must
approve the recommendation be
fore it can be sent to the University
Council Educational Affairs Com
mittee.
Dunn said the Educational Af
fairs Committee probably will so
licit faculty input on the issue
before making a recommendation
to University Council, which will
make the final decision.
Dunn said the proposal will be
given serious consideration and
that student opinion will weigh
heavily on the matter. However, he
was hesitant to predict what the
council’s decision might be.
“It could end up as a suggestion
rather than policy,” he said.
Anderson said, “We're willing to
compromise a lot. I think that
something is better than nothing.
Anything we can get through is a
good first step."
The School of Law has a system
which Dunn referred to as “study
days," a period of a few days be
tween the last day of class and fi
nals. However, the law school is on
the semester system.
Whether such a system would be
adopted if the entire University
Please See DEAD DAYS. Page 2
Fatherhood forces Democratic leader to grow up
By JJ>. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
Shanon Mayfield stood in a small Elijay, Ga., church
about a week after completing his last high school course.
The atmosphere was morose that day as he stood at the
altar, the occasion after all was considered by some to be a
reason to mourn the lost potential of promising youth.
At the age of 17, Shanon stood before the altar and about
100 family and friends as a groom, ready to do the right
thing —marry his high school sweetheart, Tricia, 17, who
became pregnant during Thanksgiving of the couple's se
nior year. The two had met at the end of their sophomore
JWU .
“It was like a funeral that day,” he said from his apart
ment at the University’s Student Family Housing three
years later as a University junior.
“Elijay is a small town — there are only about 12,000
people in the whole county — so our situation was quite a
scandal and everyone assumed we’d never make it. At that
time I really never thought at this point Fd still be married.
“My friends had wagers that the marriage wouldn’t last
more than a month and Trida’s friends didn’t think it
would even make it that long.”
The Mayfields, however, seem to have beaten the odds
assodated with teenaged marriages.
Shanon, a political srience major, was recently elected
College Young Democrats state president, which puts him
in charge of 35 College Democrats chapters statewide. But
Shanon’s most important title isn’t one for which he had to
campaign. He is “Daddy” to 3-year-old Jonathon Patrick,
who’s called “J.P." by friends and family.
Trida and Shanon moved into a one-bedroom Family
Housing apartment in September 1987. J.P. was three
weeks old at the time.
Now in a larger apartment, the home is littered with toys
Please See DEMOCRAT, Page 9