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The Red and Black • Tuesday, September 18, 1990 • 7A
Fall enrollment shows increase of 5 percent
By STACEY MclNTOSH
Campus Correspondent
The University’s fall enrollment will reach
28,000 by Sept. 20, Registrar Bruce Shutt said.
About 26,000 students had registered for fall
Quarter by Sept. 14, about 1,200 more than
those who had registered by that day in 1989,
Shutt said.
An additional 2,369 students registered
Sept. 12, bringing the preliminary fall total to
23,215, he said.
Enrollment is expected to rise to 28,300
when drop-add is complete Sept. 20, Shutt said.
Fall enrollment for 1989 totaled 27,448.
“We are up 5.8 percent so far, so that’s a good
indication that we’re going to increase along
that scale," Shutt said.
The University received nearly 10,600
freshman applications and 16,030 total applica
tions, Director of Admissions Claire Swann
said.
More transfer students have applied this
year than in any other year, she said. Of the 4,-
100 transfer applications received, more than
2,600 have been approved.
Shutt said he foresees a trend in increasing
enrollment since summer figures broke records.
Part of the increase comes from summer
quarter students who were admitted this fall.
‘These students were too good for devel
opmental studies but not good enough for out
right admission, so they were allowed to begin
in the summer and continue in the fall,” he
said.
As part of the University’s Summer Start
program, which began in the summer of 1990,
195 freshmen who are expected to make “C” av
erages were admitted, Swann said.
“No academic standards were lowered for
these students. They are not ineligible stu
dents, because they predict success at The Uni
versity of Georgia,” she said.
Summer enrollment rose 6.3 percent to 12,-
157 with the largest increase in undergraduate
enrollment, Shutt said.
Enrollment at the undergraduate level was
7,132, a 10.2 percent increase from last sum
mer’s 6,474.
The University's p Sessional schools’ enroll
ment rose 3 percen irom 802 students to 826.
Graduate enrollment increased by one percent.
About two-thirds of the growth in the under
graduate enrollment was attributed to
freshmen taking classes this summer rather
than waiting until the fall quarter, he said.
Student awaits trial on felony charges
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Waiting is the name of the game
for a University student charged
with driving under the influence of
alcohol in connection with an acci
dent that resulted in the hospitali
zation of two pedestrians.
Patrick Schlottman, a Univer
sity management information sys
tems major, awaits trial on felony
charges stemming from the May 27
automobile accident, which oc
curred in a University parking lot
between East Campus and River
roads.
Schlottman was indicted Aug. 8
on four felony counts stemming
from the incident, including reck
less driving and driving under the
influence of alcohol.
His attorney, Brian Carney of
Athens, filed a motion for a change
of venue, which was denied, al
though the district attorney agreed
to let Carney interview prospective
jurors individually.
Carney said this is to determine
whether media coverage of the ac
cident has influenced the jurors’
opinions of Schlottman. If Carney
can prove that public opinion is bi
ased, he’ll file for another change of
venue.
“If a juror has read in the news
paper that my client was driving
under the influence of alcohol, he
can’t be unbiased,” Carney said.
“He may already have made a deci
sion.”
Carney said his motion for a
change of venue requests that the
trial be held at least 35 miles from
Clarke County, where he hopes the
Athens media aren’t as pervasive.
He speculated that the jury se
lection and trial would be in Oc
tober, and said the district
attorney is waiting for the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation to turn
over the results of its forensic anal
ysis of biological samples and a fil
ament from the headlight of
Schlottman’s car.
Carney said Schlottman also is a
victim of the accident.
‘If it can happen to him, it can
happen to anybody,” he said.
Ira Zuckerman, attorney for
Georgia State University student
Nicholas Sucan, who was hospital
ized immediately following the ac
cident and whose leg is still in a
cast, said he will wait until after
Sucan’s cast comes off and the trial
is over to decide whether to file a
civil suit against Schlottman.
“We’re waiting to see if there’ll
be any permanent injury,” Zuck
erman said.
John Steel, attorney for Dawn
Roberts, a visitor from Atlanta who
was critically injured in the acci
dent and fell into a coma, said he
hasn’t considered filing a civil suit
yet.
He said Roberts remains hospi
talized, and she participates in
daily therapy at the Emory reha
bilitation unit in Atlanta.
Knapp to decide An’s fate
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
The fate of a Vietnamese Uni
versity lab coordinator’s job,
which has been in question since
spring quarter, is now under con
sideration by University Presi
dent Charles Knapp.
Dr. An Quoc Nguyen’s job was
terminated in early July because
his superiors in the Radiology
and Anatomy Department de
cided he didn’t speak English
well enough to work with stu
dents in the lab.
Since An’s firing, Clarke
County Superior Court granted a
reprieve allowing him to continue
working until the case is decided.
Since An was being fired for
not being able to communicate
clearly, Judge Joseph Gaines al
lowed An to have an attorney
present his case at the Univer
sity-wide grievance committee
hearing held August 8.
The committee, which met in
closed sessions, gave a recom
mendation to Knapp, who may
also gather further information
before making his decision.
“He will consider the input,
but Knapp makes the final deci
sion for the institution,” said Car
lton James, director of personnel.
Other appealed cases have
Nguyen: In final appeal
takfen from one day to consider
ably longer to be decided, he said.
An’s attorney David Sweat
said, “This isn’t an unusually
long time to reach a decision; I’ve
had it take a lot longer.”
After Knapp’s decision is an
nounced, An will still have a
chance to appeal to the Univer
sity System Board of Regents.
James said, ‘There is a formal
structure to provide equity all the
way to the Board of Regents.”
An, who is working at the Uni
versity while the decision is pen
ding, hasn’t said what he will do
if the decision is negative.
“I have no choices, the decision
is up to the president,” he said.
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