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The Red and Black • Thursday, September 20, 1990 • 5
Ready and waiting
Leigh Meadows, sophomore drama major,
tickets Wednesday at the Coliseum.
waiting for season football
Greeks earn higher GPAs
By STACEY MclNTOSH
Campus Correspondent
Recently released figures show
the University’s Greek men earned
higher grade point averages than
other male University students
last year for the first time in 20
years.
University sorority women con
sistently maintain higher GPAs
than other female college students,
said Ron Binder, adviser to frater
nities.
“We’d like to think that fraterni
ties and sororities are stronger in
that area,” he said. “This is the
first time Greek men have ranked
above other college men academi
cally for an entire year in 20
years.”
The all-fraternity GPA was 2.62
compared to 2.60 for Greek and
non-Greek men combined last
year. In spring quarter, the all-fra
ternity GPA was 2.67 compared to
2.61 for all males.
Sorority women also ranked
above other female students spring
quarter. The all-sorority average
was 2.87 compared to 2.74 for
Greek and non-Greek women com
bined.
Delta Phi Epsilon maintained
the highest overall GPA, 2.99, of
the 18 University sororities. Sigma
Gamma Rho had the lowest av
erage at 2.36.
Of 28 University fraternities,
Beta Theta Pi pooled the highest
GPA with’ 3.10. Omega Psi Phi av
eraged the lowest, 2.03.
Beta President James Brittle at
tributed the fraternity’s high GPA
to the caliber of its pledges.
“During rush we place emphasis
on picking quality guys who are
well-rounded. Our fraternity activ
ities don’t prevent people from
achieving goals,” Brittle, a senior
risk management major, said.
Delta Phi Epsilon President
Shari Bellman said the sorority’s
social policy allows members aca
demic flexibility.
“Our members don’t get fined for
not going to socials if they have
tests or assignments. We also have
study hours and always make sure
there are rides to and from the li
brary,” she said.
Binder said two-thirds of Greek
organizations hold hour-long study
sessions advising members of
campus resources and study aids.
“We try to create an overall envi
ronment for good grades. There
has been an improvement over the
last four to five years, and I think
the groups are right where they
wanted to be,” he said.
Brittle said Beta pledges are re
quired to study a certain number of
hours, but academic standards
aren’t strictly enforced.
“Our guys know what they want,
and they go out and get it,” he said.
Also, 89 University male student
athletes, about 40 percent of all
male student athletes, had GPAs of
3.0 or better for spring quarter
1990, according to University
Sports Information.
15 athletes earned dean’s list
recognition with a 3.60 or above
and 11 earned a perfect 4.0.
The nine scholarship players
representing Georgia’s SEC
championship basketball team had
a combined GPA of 3.07. Four of
the five starters earned a 3.0 or
better, headed by Academic All-
American Alec Kessler’s 4.0.
Arrendale prison guards will join inmates’ suit
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Guards at the Lee
Arrendale Correctional Institution
near Alto told state officials
Wednesday they intend to join in
mates in a federal lawsuit over con
ditions at the facility.
The move would mark the first
time in Georgia that guards have
joined with inmates in a lawsuit
against the state. Prison guards
have taken similar action only two
other times nationwide.
Attorneys for the prison guards
said they will petition Judge
Robert Vining to be allowed to join
the 1982 lawsuit as plaintiffs
against the state.
The issues raised in the lawsuit
inmates filed in 1982 initially con
cerned sanitation, understaffing,
violence and idleness.
An attorney for the guards said
in a letter hand-delivered to the
Department of Corrections that
“the working conditions of my cli
ents ... as well as the living condi
tions of the inmates ... are
approaching the insufferable.”
The Alto facility, until recently
known as the Georgia Industrial
Institute, houses 1,200 of the
youngest adult prisoners in the
state system. The prison is classi
fied as “close-security,” just one
step below maximum security.
Department of Corrections Com
missioner Bobby Whitworth was
“blindsided” by the complaint, said
spokesman Andy Bowen.
“It galls him (Whitworth) that
the correctional officers have not
communicated this to the commis
sioner,” Bowen said.
However, an official with the
Georgia State Employees Associa
tion said the guards filed a formal
complaint in May. Grant Williams
said 100 of the 319 correctional of
ficers at the prison had filed a
grievance concerning staffing with
Warden Barry Gaither and seven
officers had since asked Whitworth
for a meeting, five of them in a cer
tified letter.
Bowen said the department had
either addressed the problems out
lined in the letter or was looking at
the issues.
The state has begun a $31 mil
lion renovation of the facility, but
guards have complained that the
layout of the institution — built as
a hospital — makes it difficult to
control inmates.
‘The urgent conditions within
the institution have produced an
almost unrelenting state of under-
staffing, violence, overcrowding
and overwork,” wrote Crystal
Gaines, an attorney for 200 union
members at the Alto prison.
“Working conditions and living
conditions like these are unsafe
Working conditions and
living conditions like
these are unsafe and
inhumane for staff and
inmates.
and inhumane for staff and in
mates.”
Department officials say there
has been a significant drop in vio
lence in recent months, but guards
say assaults still are frequent.
‘There is a high level of vio
lence,” said Stuart Acuffi, executive
director of the employees union.
“What they’re asking the officers to
do ... is literally impossible.”
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