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Profile of Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy — 8
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 97, ISSUE 127
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Advantage Georgia: NCAA returning
Dan McGill: Tennis director
glad to see NCAAs return
By JON TULLY
Sports Editor
The NCAA’s baseball tourna
ment is always held at the same
site — Omaha — every year. It’s
beginning to look as if Athens is
approaching that sort of perennial
status in tennis.
The University will more than
likely host the 1991 and 1992
NCAA championships at Henry
Feild Stadium, Karl Benson,
NCAA director of Championship
Events, announced Tuesday.
The NCAA Men’s Tennis Sub
committee recommended Athens’
Henry Feild Stadium to the NCAA
Executive Committee, which will
meet Aug. 10 in Monterey, Calif.,
to vote on approving the recom
mendation.
The championship was held in
Athens for 13 straight years until
last year, when — amid complaints
by officials of other schools that
Georgia’s tennis team gained an
unfair home-court advantage — it
was moved to Indian Wells, Calif.,
at the Hyatt Grand ChampionB re
sort.
Assistant Athletic Director Dan
Magill said he was pleasantly sur
prised by the decision to give
Athens the next two
championships.
Fire Hall issue smoldering
By DOUGLAS S. WOOD
Staff Writer
Public debate over the proposed
civic center and the destruction of
the Thomas Street Fire Hall and
Flea Market continued last
Thursday at a specially-called
meeting of the Classic Center Au
thority.
About 150 citizens attended the
meeting, and their comments were
vociferous. Authority vice-
chairman Larry Blount said
Tuesday the authority will compile
the citizens’ complaints and sug
gestions into a special document
and will present it to the Clarke
County Board of Commissioners.
Among the suggestions was a
four-part proposal submitted at
Thursday’s meeting by Libby
Morris, vice-president of the
Athens-Clarke Heritage Founda
tion.
Morris asked that the authority
be granted full power over the civic
center project and that the county
commission be responsible for
funding a civic center the commu
nity wants.
Next, she asked for a 90-120 day
moratorium on the current design
proposal to allow architects time to
consider alternatives.
She then asked the commis
sioners to tell the architects to de
sign a building that meets the
program requirements for the civic
center and the community’s desire
for a structure that will integrate
into the downtown area.
Morris also asked that the city
and county cooperate in long-range
planning for the property sur
rounding the civic center site.
Many citizens at the meeting ap
plauded the suggestion of giving
the authority more power.
Blount said the Classic Center
Authority “never had final au
thority over anything.”
The site selection and land pur
chase were all done without the ad
vice of the authority, Blount said.
County Commissioner John Jef
freys, the only commissioner pre
sent at the meeting, said the
authority hod input all along.
Blount disagreed, saying the au
thority had to go to the state gov
ernment for a charter to gain the
power the county refused to give.
Ralph Verrastro, chairman of
the authority, said,“One of the
things we have control over is the
program.”
The program is the way in which
the civic center will function.
Blount said that an 80-page re
port by the authority, detailing the
center’s program, wasn’t made
readily available to the public by
the commission.
The commission felt the author
ity’s report presented a civic center
that might have been too expensive
and that citizens would be upset
that they wouldn’t be getting what
the authority had reported, Blount
said.
The crowd was reminded of costs
by Tom Papageorge, civic center
project manager. “I just want you
to understand the restraints on the
budget.”
It’s almost impossible to save the
existing buildings with the current
program, Papageorge said.
Other citizens called for more
than just decorative touches on the
exterior of the proposed design.
Morris said she wants a sense of
“time and place.”
Bertis Downs, president of the
Athens/Clarke Heritage Founda
tion, said it isn’t an “exciting
process to add a pinstripe, dental
molding” to the proposed design.
However, Blount reiterated to
the crowd the county commission’s
position and said, ‘*We have been
told that the only thing left on the
table for design is the exterior of
the building.”
The next authority meeting will
be on July 24.
Upward Bound instrumental
in pursuit of college degree
By BETH VAUNOTI
Staff Writer
While many University students
are working on their tans this
summer, some local high school
students are diligently preparing
for the rigors of college life.
Sixty-five high school students
are enrolled in the University’s Up
ward Bound program, which moti
vates students to graduate and
gain admittance to an institute of
higher learning, program director
Harriett Church said.
The University’s Drogram serves
students from Clarke, Oglethorpe,
Madison, and Oconee counties. A
staff of administrators, profes
sional counselors, teachers and tu
tors work closely with the students
during the intensive six-week
summer phase and on Saturdays
throughout the academic year.
Reading, English, math, science
and study skills supplement the
students’ high school educations.
Career exploration, financial aid
workshops, cultural and social
events, field trips and college
searches also are offered.
Students who come from lower
income families and are first-gen
eration college students make up
two-thirds of accepted students,
Church said. The remaining partic
ipants must meet one or the other
of the criteria, she said.
The need for the program can be
justified by numbers concerning
the high school class of 1980, re
corded in the U.S. Department of
Education’s 1989 Digest of Educa
tional Statistics. By 1986, 7 per
cent of those ranked in the nation’s
lower one-fourth in terms of socio
economic status had received their
bachelor’s degrees. By that time,
38 percent of those in the upper
fourth and 16 percent in the middle
half had received their bachelor’s
degrees.
Socioeconomic status is mea
sured by a composite score of pa
rental education, family income,
father’s occupation and household
characteristics.
The disadvantages faced by
lower income students prompted
former president Lyndon B.
Johnson to initiate the Upward
Bound program as part of his “War
Magill, who had bid for the 1991
tournament to be held in Athens,
said he wanted to alternate on a
yearly basis with a West Coast site.
“Speaking for the many people of
the University of Georgia and in
Athens who have worked hard at
making the NCAA Championships
successful in Athens, I wish to say
we are grateful to the NCAA’s
Tennis Committee in its decision to
recommend the return of the
NCAA’s to Georgia,” Magill said.
“We are delighted, honored and
intend to begin preparations im
mediately to make the 1991
championships our best ever.”
Last season’s tournament was
the first time the championship
has been held at another site since
1977. Athens first hosted the tour
nament in 1972, then began
hosting it on a regular basis in
1977.
“Coaches kept wanting it to be
held here,” Magill said. They
wanted us to be like what Omaha
is for college baseball. After a
while, some of the coaches became
naturally jealous. That’s why I sug
gested they hold the tournament in
alternating sites to diffuse it."
Some of the reasons behind the
subcommittee’s decision were the
quality of the facility at Georgia, as
well as the crowd size and be
havior, Magill said. Since the Uni
versity began hosting the
tournament, the Georgia Athletic
Association and supporters of the
tennis team have poured $1.5 mil
lion into improving Henry Feild
Stadium, which seats 4,000.
Many officials agree that the
stadium is one of the top on-
campus tennis facilities in the
country, Magill said. The Volvo
Tennis/Collegiate Championships
are held here during the fall, and
have been since 1989.
When the NCAA tournament
was held here, the crowds were
usually pretty large and well-be
haved, Magill said.
There are 65 students
in the University’s
program this year
on Poverty” in 1965, Church said.
“Many pockets of the population
did not have the opportunity for
higher education,” she said.
The Office of Economic Opportu
nity implemented 18 pilot pro
grams to assist these previously
neglected “pockets.” The pilot pro
grams were successful, and there
are now more than 400 programs
in the United States.
Upward Bound is funded by the
U.S. Department of Education. The
University’s program, which began
in 1979, received $179,000 for
fiscal year 1989. However, Church
said, this amount isn’t enough to
cover the expenses of the hundreds
of students who apply.
Thelma Smith, a senior English
major and former Upward Bound
student, echoed Church’s concern.
"The government needs to re
alize how important this program
is,” the Clarke Central Hign School
graduate said.
Summer is the most important
time, Smith said, because in addi
tion to heavier academic loads, stu
dents must prepare for the annual
Scholars Bowl.
The Scholars Bowl is a competi
tion among eight of the 14 Upward
Bound programs in Georgia.
The University’s team took first
place in the drama competition at
this year’s Scholars Bowl Sat
urday.
‘The program gives students a
positive outlook on education,”
Kevin Bailey, a Clarke Central
High School senior said.
A former student government
president at Clarke Central, Bailey
played football, ran track and sang
in the choir. He is in his fourth
year of Upward Bound and re
cently accepted a football schol
arship from Tennessee State
University.
“Most jobs require college now,”
Bailey said. ‘Upward Bound helps
them get there.”
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Loggerhead: Sea-faring turtles’ population has increased dramatically this year on |
Georgia's beaches
These turtles aren’t mutant ninjas
By CATHY FERRIS
Staff Writer
Anyone thinking of making a trip to the Georgia
coast this summer probably is most concerned with
the weather forecast and beach conditions.
But many people aren’t aware that May through
August is the period when sea turtles nest. Unfortu
nately for these animals, shrimping also is in full
swing.
For most of its existence, the mature loggerhead
turtle has had few enemies. But during the past de
cade there has been a sharp decline in the number of
loggerhead nesting sites due to shrimpers catching
turtles in their nets. If not freed within 40 minutes,
these air-breathing animals will drown.
There is so much bi -catch killed just to get a little
shrimp,” said University ecology professor Jim
Richardson.
Richardson has been researching these turtles on
Little Cumberland Island, Ga., since 1964. For the
past two years he has served on the National Re
search Council’s Committee on Sea Turtle Conser
vation.
Please See TURTLES, Page 3
State primary full of surprises, disappointments
By DAVID JOHNSTON
Opinions Editor
An analysis
When State Rep. Lauren “Bubba” McDonald (D-Com-
merce) conceded defeat at a little after 11 Tuesday night,
the long-anticipated end of House Speaker Tom Murphy’s
reign as kingmaker in ueorgia politics naa amvea.
Not only aid McDonald, Murphy’s hand-picked guberna
torial candidate, loose decisively statewide in the race for
the Democratic nomination, he came in third in the
speaker’s own home county. The winner in that county, Ha
ralson, was Murphy’s old nemesis Lt. Gov. Zell Miller.
The August 7th runoff between Miller and former At
lanta Mayor Andrew Young also signals the beginning of a
new era in Georgia as Young becomes the first serious
black candidate for governor in Georgia's history.
But Young, who finished a distant second to Miller in
Tuesday’s vote, faces an uphill battle in the runoff. Young
was favored to be the leader in Tuesday’s results, but an ap
parently low black turnout and a failure to win significant
white support combined to give him a disappointing 30 per
cent to Miller’s 41 percent.
According to Miller campaign polls taken on election
night, Young got only 15 percent of the white vote while
Miller took a surprising 10 percent of the black vote.
Predictions that the state Republican party’s normally
obscure primary would attract a record number of voters
also fell flat this year.
Around 300,000 Georgia voters chose the Democratic pri -
mary, compared to 100,000 who chose the Republican.
Even heavily Republican Gwinnett County voters chose the
Democratic ballot by a three to one margin
Because Georgia voters don’t register with the state as-
Democrats or Republicans, there are always rumors of a
Republican “plot” to cross over into the Democratic primary
and vote for the weakest candidate.
This rumor ran rampant in 1988 when Jesse Jackson
won the Georgia Democratic presidential primary Again
this year, Andy Young, as the black candidate, was report
edly the target of this “plot.” But it was Miller who won the
vote in Republican strongholds Gwinnett and Cobh
State Rep. Johnny Isakson (R-Marietta), the Republican
nominee, is considered the best Republican candidate for
governor since 1966. Although Isakson won his party’s pri
mary handily, it was unknown businessman Bob Wood who
placed a distant second, practically tying with better-
known candidate Greeley Ellis.
Ellis and Isakson both took relatively pro-choice stands
on abortion, and Wood's unexpected prominence may have
been a reaction to this by pro-life Republicans. This could
pose a problem for IsaKson, who indicated Tuesday night
that his general election strategy will be to cast his Demo
cratic opponent as a liberal.
There is in fact little to distinguish Isakson, considered a
moderate by most, from his potential Democratic oppo
nents. If conservative pro-life Republicans sit out the gen
eral election, Isakson could be in trouble in this
overwhelmingly Democratic state.
Front-runner Miller’s early use of the popular lottery
issue and his well-financed, well-organized campaign could
make his candidacy hard to beat. Young has worked very
hard at cultivating rural white support and has capitalized
on the pro-business reputation he earned as mayor of At
lanta.
In two other statewide races:
State Senators Pierre Howard (D-Atlantal and Joe Ken
nedy will face each other in a runoff for the Democratic
nomination for lieutenant governor. Kennedy, Murphy’s
candidate, was expected to lead the race but came in second
to Howard. The winner of the runoff will compete against
Republican nominee Matthew Towery.
Mollie Fleeman Glitsis will face attorney Robert Durden
in a runoff for the statewide Public Service Commission. If
elected, Glitsis will be the first woman elected to statewide
office outside a judicial poet. The winner of the Democratic
runoff will be unopposed