Newspaper Page Text
■ Profile of UGA spiker Christie Lord — 12
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
INSIDE
Seven Simons return to
Athens and bring their
own brand of dance music
to the 40 Watt this
Saturday.
7
Weather: Rolling thunder.
Today, mostly cloudy, mid 80s,
tonight, clouds continue, 60s.
Fri.. chance of thunder showers.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA * VOLUME 98, ISSUE 3
Latest Dog
bites dust
with injury
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Editor
Georgia football coach Ray Goff
could sure use a rabbit’s foot.
Goff lost yet another defensive
starter for the season yesterday
during routine practice as strong
safety David Hargett suffered a
broken leg.
“He was defending and one of
the players bumped into him and
hit him in the leg,” head trainer
Warren Morris said. “It was a
crack but he is gone for the
season.”
Hargett is the third projected
starter that Goff has lost for the
1990 season. Linebacker Norman
Cowins is suspended from the
squad pending charges of posses
sion of cocaine with intent to dis
tribute, while defensive lineman
Curt Douglas is academically ineli
gible to compete.
Defensive players Casey
Barnum, George Brewer and Clay
Ware are also academic casualties.
Wide receiver Arthur Marshall is
also lost for the year with a broken
leg suffered during the LSU game
on Sept. 8.
“We’re not going to approach it
negatively. We’re going to look at it
in a postive way,” Goff said. “It’s a
loss to our team, but you got to
work things out. Someone just has
to move forward and take his place
and prove that he can play.”
Goff said that the probable
starter Saturday against Alabama
would be Dwayne Grace, a 6-0 201-
pound sophomore.
Grace, mainly a special teams
player, has seen limited action in
the defensive backfield last year
and through the two games this
season.
Hargett broke the same leg last
year during the Kentucky game
and missed the remainder of the
season. He worked to strengthen
the leg during the summer but the
injury still occurred.
“He didn’t come back too easily.
It was just one of those things,”
Morris said.
According to Goff, Hargett will
be red-shirted this season and will
be eligible to play next season.
Gene Williams contributed to
thi3 article.
Weapon license
may effect case
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
Norman Cowins, the Georgia
football player facing drug and
firearm charges, had a permit to
carry a concealed weapon,
according to both an assistant dis
trict attorney and Cowins’ lawyer.
“He did have a permit to carry
the gun,” said Steve Jones, Clarke
County assistant district attorney.
Jones wouldn’t say what effect
the permit might have on the case,
but Edward Tolley, Cowins’ at
torney, said it might provide a de
fense for the weapon charge.
The concealed weapon charge is
a misdemeanor, and Cowins still
faces more serious charges of pos
session of a controlled substance
with intent to distribute and pos-
ession of a firearm during the com
mission of a crime, both felonies.
If convicted of both felony
charges, Cowins could face up to 20
years in jail. The charge carries a
maximum 15-year sentence and
the firearm charge could add on
another five years.
Several discrepancies in the case
have also been cleared up by Jones
and the Athens Police Department.
During a bond hearing Tuesday,
it was unclear whether Cowins’
drug charges resulted from cocaine
or crack, but it has now been con
firmed that it was crack cocaine
which lead to the charges.
Hilda Spratlin, assistant public
information officer of the Athens
Police Department, confirmed offi
cers found six rocks of crack during
a search of Cowins’ red Nissan
truck Sunday night in an Athens
housing project.
It was also confirmed by the
Athens Police Department that it
was a 9mm pistol that lead to the
firearms charges.
Although Cowins was released
on $6,500 bond and several stipula
tions including he go to class and
make passing grades, he is still
suspended from the football team,
Claude Felton, director of sports
information, said.
Felton said that chances are “re
mote” that Cowins will play again
this year.
Cowins has an Oct. 9 hearing in
Clarke County Magistrate Court
and then his case must still go be
fore the grand jury before going to
Kuwaiti students stirred to take action
'racy St«nb«rg/7></ Red and B ack
David Guice, a senior English major, talks with Kuwaiti hand out "Free Kuwait” t-shirts and flyers during a
student Fadhel Abdullah, while he and other students Tate Center rally.
Have ‘duty’ to tell others of family back home
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait has left more
than 2,000 Kuwaiti students throughout the
United Suites with what one student called
a “duty” to make the American public aware
of the Middle East crisis.
The Kuwaiti National Student Associa
tion, a nationally organized group of Kuwaiti
students, has organized a Solidarity Day of
Kuwait to develop an awareness within
schools and universities. The Solidarity Day
will occur at different times throughout the
month, across the United States.
“We’re trying to get the attention of the
American people,” Abdul Khalfan, an At
lanta University student, said.
“We’d like to have everybody’s attention,
especially the students and universities.”
Although enrolled in classes, Khalfan said
that with his “mother, father, relatives,
brothers, sisters and everyone,” in the terri
tory of Kuwait, he’s able to find the time to
travel to colleges and universities because
“it is a necessity.”
“We’re trying to manage everything, be
cause we’ve got to do something,” he said.
“We’ll talk to students, give out flyers, any
thing.”
Khalfan, along with several other Kuwaiti
students, passed out free t-shirts, flyers and
bumper stickers Wednesday to interested
students at the Tate Student Center from 12
to 4 p.m.
Most of these materials are being financed
by the Kuwait Embassy in Washington,
D.C., but the students have been financing
some projects themselves.
Like Khalfan, Salem Alwadani, a junior
pre-med major, expressed concern for his
friends and family living in Kuwait.
“If my family was out, they’d call me,” Al
wadani said. “I think they’re trapped in Ku
wait.”
A student organization for a “free” Kuwait
has been organized at the University, and
Alwadani said although it started with five
students, he expects membership to in
crease.
Student reaction to the action against the
Middle East crisis has been overwhelming,
said Faris Alshammari, a doctoral student
in industrial technology.
‘They react very positively to our effort,
and they encourage us,” he said. “We’re
trying to explain the problem to them.”
David Ellis, a freshman history major,
said he wasn’t sure if the group will have
much influence.
But, he said, “It may in some way help the
Kuwaiti morale. It will let them know the
American people are behind the American
soldiers.”
Ellis said he wouldn’t volunteer if war de
veloped, but would go to Kuwait if drafted.
“I believe that the economic sanctions will
end up helping more than anything else,” he
said.
Tracy Walker, a senior finance major, said
the U.S. military occupation in the Gulf is
necessary.
“I’m glad they’re there, because I don’t
think Saddam Hussein has the right to take
Kuwait,” Walker said. “It’s the world against
him.”
The end to the crisis in Kuwait may be far
off, Khalfan said. As a Kuwaiti citizen he
said he finds it difficult to stand by and
watch.
However, without military training it
doesn’t look as though students like himself
will return to the Middle East to defend
their country, he said.
“We’re not happy sitting here —we’re
ready to go and defend,” he said. "From my
understanding of Hussein’s personality, I
don’t believe there’ll be a peaceful solution to
this.”
trial.
It was reported Tuesday that
Cowins had been receiving coun
seling for an alcohol problem at
Charter Winds Hospital in late Au
gust.
University sports officials
wouldn’t comment on any treat
ment Cowins may have received,
because of confidentiality rules.
Cowins wasn’t available for com
ment.
VP committee named,
no deadline on search
Sent to find religion
Andrew Servetas, a senior advertising major, first searches for phi- him down the hall to find religion — or at least a class in the disci-
losophy at drop-add, and Jack Corvin, a graduate student, sends pline.
r
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
Eleven of 12 members of a
search committee have been en
listed to find a replacement for Nik
Edes, vice president for devel
opment and University relations,
who announced his resignation in
August.
But the University hasn’t set a
deadline for the committee to have
a replacement.
The committee — a volunteer
group made up of administrators,
alumni and an unnamed faculty
representative — hasn’t met as a
group yet but will meet “as soon as
possible," Committee Chairman
Richard Yarbrough said.
Yarbrough said he and Univer
sity President Charles Knapp want
the selection to be made with “dis
patch,” but “we want to make the
right decision, which is not nec
essarily the fast decision.”
Edes’ resignation takes effect
Oct. 31. If a replacement hasn’t
been found by then, Larry Weath
erford, associate vice president for
development and University rela
tions, will assume Edes’ position,
Yarbrough said.
“It doesn’t serve the University
well to prolong the process, but
Larry (Weatherford) is very compe
tent, Yarbrough said.
Other committee members in
clude: J. Dewey Benefield of Sea Is
land; Mar’: Callaway of LaGrange;
Shell Hardman Knox of Augusta;
W. H. “Dink" NeSmith Jr. of
Athens; Mark Preisinger of At
lanta; Louis Sohn Jr. of Marietta;
Bryndis Jenkins, University vice
president for Legal Affairs; Albert
Niemi, College of Business Admin
istration dean; Henry Schaefer,
Center for Computational
Quantum Chemistry director and
Margaret Dickie, Helen S. Lanier
professor of English.
GeorgiaKnapp said nt a Tuesday
press conference that several
“highly qualified people” had al
ready contacted him about the po
sition, although he didn’t have
anyone in mind for the job.
Yarbrough said he expected a
fair number of applicants, and that
the University will be advertising
with severnl educational organiza
tions about the opening.
Although committee members
will meet to discuss what type of
person they are looking for, Yar
brough said the new vice president
should be well-rounded and have
the right “chemistry.”
“I think chemistry is very impor
tant — whoever gets the job will
have to work closely with the presi
dent, alumni, donors. Well have to
ask ourselves, Are we going to be
comfortable with this person? 1
“We’ll be looking for someone
with a real good understanding of
the external environment, alumni
and the media," he said.
When the committee decides on
a replacement, it will recommend
that person to Knapp, Yarbrough
said. Knapp will then consider the
nominee and propose it to the Uni
versity System Board of Regents.