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THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 126
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A preview of funk band
Johnny Quest’s
performance at the
Georgia Theatre tonight.
Tattooed Dogs will open.
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Weather: 165 shopping days
until Christmas. Today, partly
Cloudy, 90s. tonight, cloudy. 70s.
Frl„ cloudy, high near 90
Fire Hall discussion heats up
By DOUGLAS S. WOOD
Staff Writer
Public furor concerning the pro
posed civic center design and de
struction of the Thomas Street Fire
Hall is likely to rear its head again
tonight at the Civic Center Au
thority meeting.
The 7:30 p.m. meeting comes on
the heels of a heated Clarke
County Board of Commissioners’
meeting Tuesday where the com
missioners repeated their earlier
stance on the civic center plans —
that the historic fire hall must be
demolished.
Commission Chairman James
Holland opened an update meeting
Friday by saying that the destruc
tion of the fire fall and adjacent
flea market is a “done deal.”
At Tuesday’s meeting, Holland
reiterated his statement by saying,
“You must be prepared for ‘no’ to be
the answer."
The crowd responded with a loud
chorus of boos.
Commissioner Marilyn Farmer
echoed his statement and said the
only issue on the agenda is the de
sign and look of the exterior of the
proposed center. The crowd booed
ner statement as well.
A group of more than 90 people,
consisting of long-time residents,
retirees, lawyers and students, at
tended each meeting.
Bertis Downs, president of the
Athens/Clarke Heritage Founda
tion, began two and one-half hours
of citizens’ comments on the civic
center by criticizing the current
civic center plans as a “failure to
blend into the existing structures
in that area.
"We respectfully request you to
withold approval on current plans
and ask the firm to redraw the
plans,” Downs said on behalf of the
foundation.
Local attorney John Barrow said
that while citizens did vote on
whether to build a civic center they
didn’t vote on the site or the de
sign.
“It is /all’s decision,” Barrow
said to the commissioners.
The architects haven’t been told
to create a design including the fire
hall, and now is the time for lead
ership, he said.
“Wnat’s missing from this is the
firmness to tell them what you
want,” he said.
Commissioner Jewel John told
Barrow it isn’t possible to save the
fire hall.
‘The site is too small to accomo
date the program to make it suc
cessful,” she said.
Barrow said he respected her be
lief, but John cut him off and said,
“It’s not belief, it’s fact.”
Barrow said, “Surely one of you
wants to be a hero here. We need
some action and some leadership.”
Other citizens were concerned
over the design and look of the civic
center. Elizabeth Riley said ar
chitects are like artists.
"Artists come with a mind made
Please See FIRE HALL, Page 3
On Death Row: Demolition of historic Fire Hall is “done
deal,“according to one county commissioner
Jean Young urges voter turnout in Athens rally
Several state races overshadowed
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
EDITOR’S NOTE: In an effort
to provide a comprehensive pre
view of Tuesday's primary, this
article takes a look at the state
wide races that have been over
shadowed by the governor's con
test.
Hey, Zell Miller, who’s gonna
fill your shoes?
Twelve candidates are trying.
The top five candidates, in this
unusually large race include —
Georg® Berry, a Democrat from
Atlanta who is the former state
commissioner of industry, trade
and tourism. He supports in
creased spending for education
Pierre Howard, a lawyer and
17-year state senator running on
the Democratic ticket, is also a
strong supporter of education.
Howard’s has been one of the
better fiinded campaigns, and he
even developed a campaign song
with the slogan, “Pierre is French
for Bubba.”
Please See PRIMARY. Page 5
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Jean Young, wife of Andrew
Young, arrived in Athens
Wednesday to wrap up a five-day
whirlwind tour of Georgia with this
message. Get out and vote!
‘We’re running through the
campus and town, encouraging
people to vote,” Young said, as she
toured the University campus en
route to the Tate Student Center.
Young expressed her husband’s
key concerns for the 1990 Gover
nor’s race — education, economic
development, protection of the en
vironment and protection of abor
tion rights.
The tour originated from a de
sire to arouse awareness among
voters, she said. Seventeen women,
including her daughter Lisa, joined
Young on the crusade for voter re-
cruitment, which ended
Wednesday in Atlanta. The tour
began early Saturday in Savannah
and hit 13 more cities in the next
three days before reaching Athens.
We began this tour to en
courage people to vote for our can
didate, because he’s the only one
that had any concerns for women,”
she said.
On abortion she said, “He states
it this way: We must trust the
women of Georgia," and not leave
the choice of abortion up to a polit
ical figure.
Young said her husband has “al
ways served all the people. He’s
been interested in education and
pro-choice, long before he thought
about running for governor.”
Mr. Young feels strongly about
education, she said. He hopes to
make vast improvements within
Georgia’s educational system.
“He says, just as we can produce
extraordinary athletes, we can pro
duce extraordinary scholars,” she
said.
She closed her brief speech at
the Student Center by saying,“Just
do it, let Andrew Young become
your governor.”
Prior to the speech, Young and
her comrades toured the downtown
area, passing out buttons and
flyers to citizens in area busi
nesses, including Blooms of Hol
land, where she received a bouquet
of flowers, and Rocky’s Pizza,
where she received a round of ap
plause.
Chase Campbell, a senior art ed
ucation mtvjor, said Andrew Young
“is running on a progressive
format, and his candidacy is sym
bolic of the progress that Georgia
has made.
“His governorship will serve as a
testimony to the fulfillment of the
Georgian’s American dream,” he
added.
Sherell Scarbriel, a senior polit
ical science major, said, "I think he
has the potential to win, but I don’t
think they are getting enough ex
posure.”
However, Young did her best to
disprove this fact when she
stopped at Barnett’s News Stand
and turned to Page 66 of this
week’s issue of Time magazine,
which features an article detailing
her husband’s candidacy.
Profs remain divided over survey class policy
By BETH VALINOTI
Staff Writer
History professors ore divided
over a policy to improve instruc
tion.
Many department members
“fully agree” with Dean John Ko
zak’s initiative to hove only senior
faculty teach most introductory’
survey courses in the College of
Arts and Sciences, said history pro
fessor William Leary.
The department is split about
50/60 on Kozak’s January 1989
proposal, Leary said.
Changeover to the policy began
fall auarter 1989 ana was to be
completed by fall 1992. However,
the policy hasn’t gone into effect in
the nistory department.
According to Linda Piper, an as
sociate history professor, those op
posed to the attempt fear it will
lead to larger classes and a drop in
student participation.
Kozak doesn’t want any tea
ching assistants or assistant pro
fessors to instruct the survey
courses which leaves a limited
number of senior professors to
tench large classes, Piper said.
‘The dean wants senior faculty
to tench surveys beenuse he feels
they are the best equipped, and I
agree with him,” said associate his
tory professor William Stueck.
“It would be nice if all students
could be taught in very small
classes, but it’s simply impossible
at large universities,” Leary said.
Many who support Kozak’s plan
lean toward having senior faculty
lecture the surveys three days a
week while junior faculty lead
smaller discussion groups two days
a week, I^enry said.
Introductory U.S. history classes
of more than 300 students don’t
break down for discussion, he said.
The proposed sessions would be an
improvement over the present situ
ation of no discussion in the large
surveys.
History professor Joseph Ber-
rigan said discussion groups were
proposed about 10 years ago, but
were never implemented.
He said the idea is an attempt to
“fix something that isn’t broke."
University braces
for 3% budget cut
By J. LEIGH BURRELL
Staff Writer
In an effort to make do with
less state funding than pre
viously expected, the University
is planning for a 3 percent budget
cut — a decrease of $7 million.
On July 1, the University
placed a limited “freeze" on ex
penses until the actual amount of
the state’s revenue for Fiscal
Year 1990 can be determined,
University System Chancellor H.
Dean Propst wrote in a memo.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris, how
ever, has written in a memo to
state agency heads that 1990 rev
enue collections will be less than
revenue estimates.
Although the University hasn’t
made specific cuts and doesn’t
know what reductions will be
made until the revenue is deter
mined, they “expect there will be
some cuts,” University Budget
Director Bob Bugbee said.
If it’s determined that a budget
cut will be reauired, it probably
will be imposed in January 1991,
University President Charles
Knapp stated in a memo on June
26.
In the memo to vice presidents,
deans and directors, Knapp listed
the expenditures that should be
decreased to comprise the 3 per
cent reduction. These cuts are in
accordance with the guidelines
set by Propst.
Knapp asked the administra
tors to determine the areas of re
duction which, in their judgment,
would cause the least damage.
Propst called for the most
drastic cuts to be made in equip
ment spending, with the Special
Funding Initiative equipment
matching funds, for which $800.-
000 is budgeted, and Quality Im
provement Funds, for which $1.2
million is budgeted, put on hold.
He also told University System
presidents to place 50 percent of
Major Renovation and Repair
funds, for which $4 million is
budgeted, on hold.
In a letter to Propst on June
26, Knapp asked for another op
portunity for consideration of al
location of MRR funds after the
effect of the cut is determined.
‘The problem of repair and
maintenance, safety and environ
mentally-required renovations
and condition of very old dysfunc
tional facilities is especially acute
at the University,” Knapp said.
Knapp also asked that the SFI
matching program not be com
pletely frozen but that reductions
do made in other areas so that at
least 50 percent of the program
could continue.
The matching program is a
large equipment fund in which
the University pays one-half of
the expenses and another source,
usually the federal government,
pays the other half.
This program is “especially
critical for the University," and
some of the contracts and grants
have already been approved,
Knapp said.
Knapp has also called for ex
penditures for contracts, printing
and publications, postage and
travel to be kept “at a minimum.”
Another guideline listed by
Propst is that vacant positions
should be filled only if they are
“immediately critical” to the Uni
versity’s operation.
There are no plans to fire cur
rent employees or faculty, said
Allan Barl>er, vice president of
Banking and Finance.
Garrett saves the day
SA president foils
would-be burglar
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
Student Association president
Heath Garrett was watching tele
vision in an upstairs room of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house with a
friend late Saturday night when he
heard a noise at an outside door.
When Garrett looked out the
window to see what the noise was,
he saw a man trying to force his
way in by prying the lock off a door.
Garrett told his friend, Duncan
Moseley, a sophomore buisness
major, to call tne police while he
continued to watch the man.
SAE President Jody Graham,
also there when the arrest oc
curred, said, ‘The police arrived
very quickly — in a matter of min
utes. They didn’t have the sirens
on, but the guy heard the cars
coming and started to run."
Garrett said he stopped the
would-be burglar from fleeing by
yelling at him from the upstairs
window.
“He started to run right as the
cops came,” Garret said. “I think I
scared him by saying, ‘Don’t Move’
or something like that. I don’t
think he knew we were watching
him."
Police officers responding to the
call had no trouble arresting the
startled burglar, said Athens Po-
Heath Garrett
lice Officer Jay Butt.
Police arrested Maxie R. Co
lemon, 37, of 690 W. Hancock Ave..
and charged him with attempted
burglary and possession of tools for
the commission of a crime,
according to Athens police reports.
Butt said it was a routine arrest
because the students had stopped
Coleman from fleeing. Officers
found several tools commonly used
in burglaries in a bag carried by
Coleman, who was still in jail as of
Wednesday afternoon.
Hot and sticky: It’s just another Georgia summer and the state’s on a Bermuda High
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Staff Writer
Dogs are chasing cats, and
they’re all walking.
It’s that hot outside.
The daily high has been 92 de
grees or above since June 20, with
the exception of July 4, when it
only reached 89 degrees, said Von
Woods of the National Weather
Service.
The high temperatures and high
humidity that are typical of
Georgia summers are caused by a
weather system called the Ber
muda High, said Vem Meente
meyer, a professor of climatology.
Each year around July, he said,
a high pressure system develops
over the Atlantic Ocean and starts
a clockwise air flow.
This flow travels over the Gulf of
Mexico into Georgia, bringing
warm, moist air with it, Meente-
meyer said.
The high pressure usually
causes clear morning skies, which
allow the sun to heat the earth’s
surface. Warm air then rises,
raising the chance of afternoon
thundershowers.
“When this happens we say, The
Gulf door is open,’ " Meentemeyer
said.
The combination of high heat
and high relative humidity — hu
midity as related to its effect on the
human body because perspiration
can’t be evaporated — led to the de
velopment of the heat index in
1985, Woods said.
The heat index has been com
pared to the wind chill factor, and
is used by the National Weather
Service to let people know how hot
the temperature and humidity to
gether will feel to the body, Woods
said.
“When the temperature outside
gets close to the temperature of the
body — 98.6 — it becomes a dan
gerous situation,” Meentemeyer
said. “And when people lose the
ability to cool themselves through
perspiration, it get9 even worse.”
Neither of the city hospitals, the
Clarke County Health Department
nor Gilbert Health Center have re-
orted an increase in treatment of
eat-related illnesses in the last
few weeks.
Mickey Montevideo, Athens Re-
gional Medical Center
spokesperson, attributes this to the
extreme nature of the heat.
“People know it’s hot,” she said.
“And they’re not letting themselves
be caught off guard.”
Dorothy Yeats, director of
nursing at the county health de
partment, said she advises her el
derly patients to stay inside where
it’s air-conditioned.
‘We tell them to go to the mall or
to a church if they don’t have air
conditioning at home,” she said.
University Physical Plant Di
rector James TenBrook said Phys
ical Plant tries to keep campus cool
by maintaining a comfort zone of
72 degrees and a relative humidity
of 50 percent in campus buildings.
However, these buildings are de
signed for temperatures no higher
than 95 degrees, he said.
“Every day the temperature goes
above that,” he said. “The air con
ditioning units have to work
harder to try to keep in the zone.”
Some campus buildings can be
environmentally controlled
through a central computer, he sai-
d.Others must be adjusted man
ually at the building.
TenBrook said it requires 50 me
chanics a day to keep the different
units adjusted on campus.
The University is a member of a
Georgia Power Curtailment Pro
gram, in which the power company
notifies large organizations that
they are using too much power.
When this happens, it’s neccessary
for Physical Plant to cut back on
the air conditioning, TenBrook
said.
Opening the Gulf Door
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‘This usually happens late in
the afternoon and only eight to 12
times per summer," he said.
The University received the
second notice of the summer
Tuesday.
Normally, by cutting back late in
the afternoon, most of the build
ings will remain comfortable until
the end of the work day, TenBrook
said. But two buildings — the jour
nalism and Academic buildings —
did have to be readjusted after
Tuesday’s curtailment, he said.