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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1990 « ATHENS, GEORGIA « VOLUME 97, ISSUE 123
Kennedy/Johnson aide collaborates with son on life story
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Twenty years after Dean Rusk left his
position as U.S. secretary of state and
came to the University’s law school, an
account of his life lias been published to
answer the questions behind his accom
plished and energetic life.
However, the book wasn’t authored by
a nationally known biographer nor was it
penned by a foreign affairs expert. “As I
Saw It” was written by Dean Rusk’s son,
Richard.
The 44-year-old wonted to write a book
about his father in order to understand
him. He grew up knowing Dean Rusk as
the secretary of state and a supporter of
the Vietnam War, not “dad."
Richard, who is currently employed as
a truck driver in Athens, was unavailable
for comment because he was on the road.
However, in an interview with The At
lanta Journal, Richard was quoted as
saying, “Since the 1960s, when I was a
student at Cornell, I had been torn be
tween a son’s love for his father and our
involvement in a lousy war.”
The elder Rusk said, “Richard was
caught up in the student protest
movement." However, Richard “very
faithfully recorded my view on those
things,” Rusk said. 'The main chapters of
the book are my views. The differences
between us come out in the prefaces.
“It tock about four years of active col
laboration to complete the book,” Rusk
said. “I did hundreds of interviews on
tape.
“It’s a very forthright look at a life
time.” he said. “It’s a story of 80 years.”
Dean Rusk grew up in Cherokee
County, attended Davidson College and
went on to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford
University. He then worked for the state
department under Truman, became pres
ident of the Rockefeller Foundation in
1950 and served as secretary of state
under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Well known for his work with interna
tional relations, he came to the Univer
sity in 1970 as a law professor
specializing in international affairs. The
University's Rusk Center for Interna
tional and Comparative Law was named
in honor of him.
Loch Johnson, a political science pro
fessor, described Rusk as “wonderful .
“He’s intelligent, he’s thoughtful,”
Johnson said. “He’s renowned for
speaking in whole paragraphs without
any grammatical flaws."
Although Rusk’s health has faltered
over the past few years, “his doors were
virtually always open to students, even to
the lowly freshmen," Johnson said.
When Dean Rusk left Washington, he
said he wasn’t going to publish any mem
oirs. “I wanted foreign leaders to know
they could talk to me with confidence.”
None of the foreign officials mentioned
in “As I Saw It” are still in the political
arena, Rusk said
These aren’t strictly memoirs," he
added.
Former cadets off the hook
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
Charges have been dismissed
against two former Army ROTC ca
dets accused of simple battery
during an AIDS benefit at the
Georgia Theatre May 24.
The case against Robert Skinner
and Kevin Long would be closed,
except that one of the plaintiffs
might press charges at a later date.
Laura Carter, who accused
Skinner and Long of hitting her
and roommate John Driscoll, has
said she won’t decide for sure
whether she will press charges
until sometime next week.
“I don’t want to think about it,”
Carter said Tuesday.
Carter has a two-year statute of
limitation period during which she
can press charges.
Driscoll, however, has definitely
decided not to press charges.
“I don’t want to (press charges)
because the only reason I got in
volved is because my roommate
Laura was knocked to the ground,”
Driscoll said. “I realized if these
guys were going to hit a 100-pound
girl that chances were if I got in
volved I was going to get hit."
In a pre-hearing last week, Mag
istrate Judge Michael Coleman de
termined there was probable cause
for the arrest of Skinner and Long
after hearing testimony from both
sides.
Long’s lawyer then brought up
the possibility of a counter warrant
if Carter pressed charges.
“We have testimony that there
was an unauthorized touching of
Mr. Long,” Long’s attorney said.
“And if Mr. Long wants to, we’re
prepared to file simple battery
charges against you (Carter) ”
The case started May 24 when
Carter confronted Skinner and
Long about their behavior during
the performance of a band at the
benefit. Carter said she asked the
cadets to leave after they har-
rassed audience members and
shouted profanity at the band.
Skinner said the incident
started when the band made derog
atory comments about the mili
tary.
After the confrontation, Skinner
and Long were forced out of the
Georgia Theatre by a crowd of 10 to
15 audience members and chased
down Clayton Street before police
arrived.
Former staff writer Mike McLeod
contributed information to this ar
ticle.
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Laura Carter: May or may
not press charges
Athens record stores carding young shoppers
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
Staff Writer
If you’re going shopping for a cassette tape or
a compact disc in Athens, you better take along
a picture ID.
Many record stores in Athens now require a
picture ID if someone is buying a tape or CD la
belled with an explicit lyrics sticker.
‘We check all tapes at the front counter for
stickers," said Ted Gilmer, manager of Turtle’s
on Alps Road. “If it’s stdckered then we card
them.”
Gilmer estimated that his store carries 40 to
50 stickered tapes.
“Most of those are rap or heavy metal tapes,”
he said.
In recent weeks, controversy concerning
obscenity in music has been heated. At the
center of the controversy is the Miami-based
rap group 2-Live Crew, whose sexually ex-
"EXPLICIT
LYRICS
PARENTAL
ADVISORY"
plicity songs offend many.
After Broward County, Fla., recently banned
the sale of 2-Live-Crew’S album, “As Nasty As
They Wanna Be,” the group began appearing
on television talk shows arguing about the val
idity of their music. County officials also ar
rested a record store owner when he sold the
album to an undercover detective.
In Georgia, Gwinnett County officials
warned music store owners last week that they
would be prosecuted if they sold any more
copies of the controversial tape.
So far, Athens officials haven’t made similiar
moves.
“I’m not going in and confiscate any tapes,”
said University Police Chief Chuck Horton. “If
we get any complaints from the dorms, well
deal with them as a noise complaint Even if it’s
a Jimmy Buffett tape, we do have noise ordi
nances."
Much like alcohol, the carding may not pre
vent minors from getting the tapes.
“I don’t know how effective it is to card
people," Gilmer said. “If we tell them they can’t
buy something, most of them just go and get
somebody old enough to buy it for them.”
UGA researchers discover drop-out rate
is actually lower than federal estimates
By DOUGLAS S. WOOD
Staff Writer
The high school drop-out rate
may be less than half the rate sug
gested by the federal government,
according to two University re
searchers.
Lawrence R. Hepburn of tho
Carl Vinson Institute of Govern
ment and Rudolph White, a pro
fessor emeritus of economics,
discovered the drop-out rate for the
United States for 18 to 24 year-olds
is actually 13 percent, not the 30
percent indicated by the U.S. De
portment of Education.
In Georgia, the high school drop
out rate is 18.3 percent instead of
37.5 percent, according to the Uni
versity study.
The study, released Tuesday,
used Census Bureau data to deter
mine how many 18 to 24 year-olds
don’t have a high school diploma.
The U.S. education department
takes into account how many ninth
graders are enrolled and how many
graduate four years later.
White said the education depart
ment method gives “very exagger
ated” rates.
The federal government statis
tics don’t take into account that
students can return to school after
dropping out — especially minori
ties, students who fail a grade or
take longer to graduate, students
who transfer to private schools or
students who move to another
state, he said.
Hepburn said, These figures
will give people a better idea of the
size and shape of the drop-out
problem.”
The study has shown that drop
ping out is a concentrated rather
than an across-the-board problem.
The drop-out rate for 18
to 24 year-olds is 13
percent, not 30
percent.
Children of drop-outs tend to drop
out more, Hepburn added.
Hepburn hopes that using
census data will replace other
methods of doing research in edu
cation, he said.
'It’s the most reliable method we
have,” he said.
White said census data can be
used for a variety of studies. Fac
tors such as test scores, race and
sex can be studied for their effects
on educational achievement.
Ready for the bigtime
Kessler moving forward into NBA draft
By DAVID PACE
Sports Writer
You work hard for four years and complete all of
your requirements for a degree. What’s next?
The grueling process of finding someone who will
hire you.
But for Georgia’s All-American forward Alec
Kessler, the problem’s not finding someone who
will hire him. The problem is just where to send the
moving van.
Next Wednesday, the NBA conducts its annual
draft, determining the fates of young men across
the country. It is widely projected that Kessler will
go in the first round.
No one’s quite sure which team will pick Kessler,
although the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Los An
geles Clippers and Golden State Warriors have
shown the most interest.
But Kessler said it doesn’t make a difference.
“I’m not really concerned with which team I play
for," Kessler said. “It has been a dream of mine to
play in the NBA and I’ll play for any team.”
And it seems most teams would be glad to have
him.
“It’s a real difficult draft to predict who will go
where," Atlanta Hawks General Manager Pete
Babcock said. "But I would say Alec will go any
where from the seventh pick to the 15th. He has a
good chance for success in the NBA because he’s a
big man that can shoot.
“But I think his biggest asset is that he’s such a
serious person not only in basketball but in aca
demics."
John Hammond, head scout for the Timber-
wolves, agrees.
“Alec will make an excellent player in the NBA.
We like him as much as a person as a player. The
thing that makes him exciting as a player is that he
has good face-up skills and a good shooting touch
with good range. He also gives consistent effort ”
Since Kessler’s last game as a Bulldog, in which
he became Georgia’s all-time scoring leader with
1,788 points, his life has been a whirlwind tour of
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New students must prove measles immunity
Fr»y/The Red and Black
Julia Atkinson: administers
measles vaccine to Joel Pyle
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
When Nat Gatewood went to Memorial
Hall to register, he wasn’t expecting to
pay $25 and receive a measles shot in the
process.
“I didn’t think I would have to get one
because I’m only here for the summer,” he
said.
Gatewood said he knew about the med
ical emergency declared in the spring due
to an outbreak of the virus on campus be
cause his father is a faculty member. But
the sophomore business major from
Georgetown University had no idea it
would affect him.
To prevent a recurrence of the spring
outbreak — during which 45 measles
cases were diagnosed and more than 21,-
000 people received inoculations — the
state division of Public Health directed
the University to require proof of immu
nity or inoculations of all students en
rolling summer quarter.
Because funding for vaccinations was
nearly exhausted during the spring out
break, students receiving immunization
on campus will now have to pay a $25
charge.
Jacquelyn Kinder, Health Services di
rector, received the state’s order on June
12 and began mailing letters to inform
the 7,500 students eligible for summer
quarter but not in attendance this past
spring.
Kinder doesn’t expect all 7,500 to reg
ister for classes. She estimated that 1,200
to 3,000 will have to go through the
process of either receiving immunization
or proving immunity.
'This is our best guess on how many
will show up,” she said.
All students born on or after January 1,
1957, must either be vaccinated, show a
physician’s proof of having had measles
or present official documentation of two
measles vaccinations since 1967 and after
12 months of age, the letter read.
Students won’t be allowed to register or
attend classes until they have complied
with these requirements, Kinder said.
Students who haven't been vaccinated
with a legitimate medical or religious
reason may be exempted, Kinder said.
The mailing list consisted of incoming
freshmen, transfer students and Univer
sity students who didn't attend spring
quarter. Students who were inoculated
spring quarter weren’t sent the letter and
will be able to register for class.
For some — like incoming freshman
Kitty Matthews — the letter was effec
tive. She was prepared at orientation
with the appropriate proof of her inocula
tion, and she registered without delay.
Others faced problems. Meggan
Thomson, a transfer student, said the
letter was sent to her aunt’s address in
Athens, but her medical records are in
Dalton. Rather than postpone her regis
tration and send for her records, she
opted to receive immunization on
campus.
Vaccination sites on campus are lo
cated at Memorial Hall and Gilbert
Health Center They began operating
June 18 and will continue until June 25,
the last day of registration.
Students who have been delayed in
registering won’t be charged the $25 late
registration fee.
As of Wednesday afternoon about 830
students had gone through the process,
with about 65 percent of them receiving
an inoculation, Knder said.
She said she doesn’t expect a similar
requirement for fall enrollment. How
ever, there is a measles prevention re
quirement under consideration by the
University System Board of Regents. If
it’s developed, she said, it won’t take ef
fect until fall 1991.