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Bama win is Hearst’s coming out party — 10
The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1990 • ATHENS. GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 5
INSIDE
“Narrow Margin” is a
frustratingly thin movie
failing to follow through
on suspense thriller
potential.
5
Weather: Heat wave?
Today, sunny, mid 70s, tonight,
clear and cool, 50s, Wed., sunny,
warmer with a high around 80.
P«t*r Fr*y/The Red and Black
Turning back the Tide
Georgia’s defense hunkered down when it had to Saturday between the
hedges, preserving the Bulldogs’ victory over Alabama. Georgia allowed
Alabama only three points in the fourth quarter, and turned back Tide
quarterback Gary Hollingsworth's late charge. Chevrolet added icing to
the Bulldogs' cake by selecting tailback Garrison Hearst as player of
the game and donating a $1,000 scholarship In his name. For more
complete football coverage and photos turn to page 6.
Bike strikes
pedestrian,
two injured
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
A University senior remains dis
oriented and in severe pain at St.
Mary’s Hospital after colliding
with a pedestrian while riding his
bicycle down Baxter Street Friday.
Robert Ballard, a senior political
science major from Asheville, N.C.,
was listed in satisfactory condition
Monday, but Erma Ballard, his
mother, said he was constantly in
pain with internal head injuries.
The collision occurred when Bal
lard was riding down the steep
stretch of Baxter Street where it
intersects with Cloverhurst
Avenue.
As Ballard went through the in
tersection, Catherine Wright, a se
nior interior design major from
Warner Robins, stepped from the
sidewalk in front of Ballard,
according to police and witnesses.
The collision threw both Ballard
and Wright farther down the
street, witnesses said.
Wright received several minor
injuries and was released from St.
Mary’s Saturday.
Ako Cromwell, a sophomore in
ternational business major, said
Ballard was going “moderately
fast.”
“It was all a blur,” Cromwell
said. “As I turned my head, he was
going over the handlebars.”
Cromwell said Ballard had
screamed some type of warning to
Wright, but she was unable to hear
him.
Wright said it was so noisy with
‘‘I wouldn't have even
known there was
someone else there, if
they hadn’t told me, I
was so out of it after
the accident.”
all the buses, she never heard Bal
lard or saw him coming.
“I wouldn’t have even known
there was someone else there, if
they hadn’t told me, I was so out of
it after the accident,” she said.
Ballard braked after screaming
at Wright, but was unable to stop
his bicycle before the collision, po
lice reports read.
Wright was ticketed for failing
to cross on a cross walk, but she
said she doesn’t think she deserved
the ticket the police handed her
while she lay on a hospital bed.
“I don’t think they (police) re
searched it enough,” she said.
Ballard wasn’t wearing a
helmet, which could have pre
vented the injuries, his mother
said.
Robert Jones, service manager
at Dixon’s Bicycles, said it’s impor
tant to wear helmets to prevent
these types of head injuries.
‘The only reason not to wear hel
mets is vanity,” he said.
NCAA
begins
inquiry
Ray Goff: Called NCAA probes 'very routine' for any school
with a solid recruiting year
By GENE WILLIAMS
Sports Writer
In the wake of Florida’s one-year
bowl banishment, the NCAA has
begun an informal inquiry into pos
sible recruiting violations by
Georgia’s football program.
‘The procedure is very routine
and the NCAA does this type of
thing all the time if a school has a
good recruiting year,” Georgia
head coach Ray Goff said. “What
they will do is ask other schools if
they have any complaints.”
Georgia Athletic Director Vince
Dooley also said the procedure is
routine.
“We know that constantly the
NCAA is routinely visiting schools
and checking out alleged viola
tions,” Dooley said. “Over the years
we have had many representatives
of the NCAA come by the Univer
sity of Georgia.”
The inquiry focuses on the 1990
Georgia recruiting class, which
was one of the best in Bulldog his
tory, and on one of the prize
catches from the class, freshman
linebacker Mitch Davis.
Georgia was engaged in a fierce
battle with Auburn over Davis
with Georgia eventually winning
the Mobile, Ala., native. However,
Goff did not say whether Auburn
was the school that complained.
“A complaint to the NCAA can
come from anywhere. It can start
from fans. It does not neccessarily
have to come from a school,” Goff
said.
Mark Jones, NCAA director of
enforcement, said that after the
NCAA receives information about
possible violations it must then
prove that the sources are credible
for an investigation to begin.
Jones also said that a full-scale
investigation of a school’s alleged
violations would only begin after
there is solid, credible information
to go on.
Once an investigation comes
across credible information, the
NCAA sends the list of allegations
to the athletic department in ques
tion. The NCAA staff and rep
resentatives of the university
under investigation then compare
evidence.
The information is brought to a
hearing before the NCAA Com
mittee of Infractions. From there,
verdicts and penalties are given
out.
“In most cases it amounts to rou
tine checks and we are assuming
that this is the case in this in
stance,” Dooley said. “However, we
will not ignore the story and will
explore to see if there is any credi
bility to the story.”
Randy Walker and the Asso
ciated Press contributed to this
story.
PE: One proposal says to abolish
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
Debate over required Physical Education classes
continued at Monday’s University Council Executive
Committee meeting.
The committee voted to discuss two PE proposals at
the next University Council meeting. One proposal,
drawn up by the council’s curriculum committee, rec
ommends that PE requirements be abolished. But the
physical education department’s proposal to revamp
basic PE requirements also will be discussed.
The curriculum committee’s decision to abolish re
quired PE classes came afler several months of philo
sophical deliberation, said Charles Doyle, an English
professor who presented the committee’s proposal.
‘The question we asked was *What should the Uni
versity require of its students?’ " he said. “Students
should learn about these things, but it’s no longer
proper for them to have to take PE or even have to
pass an exemption test.”
The PE department’s proposal, which will be dis
cussed at the University Council meeting Oct. 11,
would abolish the required five-hour PE credits and
replace them with two required competency tests.
Stanley Brassie, PE department head, said the
competency requirements would test students on cog
nitive knowledge and minimum physical competency
levels.
If the students failed the test, they would be re
quired to take PE classes, he said.
Brassie said physical education is a “justified part
of a liberal education — it leads to the broadened edu
cation of out students.”
The curriculum committee’s proposal will go to the
council’s action committee while the PE Department’s
proposal will go to the information committee.
In other business, the executive committee named
Peter Dress ae the University Council’s representa
tive on the search committee to replace Nik Edes, vice
president for development and University relations.
Edes will leave office Oct. 31 to take a job with the
American Film Institute.
Other proposals to the University Council include:
• A proposal to amend the University’s non-dis
crimination code to include sexual orientation.
• A proposal to re-evaluate the faculty Optional Re
tirement Plan.
Despite ‘guilt by association’
Official backs off SEC pullout
By JOEL GROOVER
Campus Correspondent
A letter urging the University to leave the SEC —
and the “mediocre schools” associated with it — was
pulled from the University Council agenda Monday at
the Executive Committee meeting.
Peter Shedd, chairman of the committee, said the
letter was removed at the request of its author, James
Verbrugge, chairman of the department of banking
and finance.
In his letter, sent to the committee Aug. 1, Ver
brugge voiced concern that the University of Ar
kansas would soon enter the Southeastern
Conference.
Later that month, Arkansas was accepted into the
SEC. Its football program had been found guilty of nu
merous NCAA violations while in the Southwestern
Conference.
Verbrugge wrote, “We are only adding to the collec
tion of mediocre universities in the SEC, most of
which, except for the University of Florida and Van
derbilt, have lower national academic visions than we
do.
“As a result, we suffer from ‘guilt by association,’ ”
he wrote.
“I believe, and I have written a note to Dr. Knapp
expressing this view, that we should take this oppor
tunity of conference realignment to leave the SEC and
join a more prestigious group of schools in the ACC,”
Verbrugge wrote.
“While our ultimate academic quality and stature is
in our own hands as we improve our ‘real academic
cash flows,’ affiliation with a particular group of uni
versities has an impact at that margin. We are al
ready viewed as a Toot ball school’ outside the region.
“Let’s not magnify this to a larger degree by making
a decision based solely on athletic revenue, none of
which goes to the academic side of the University.”
The Atlantic Coast Conference includes such
schools as Duke University, the University of Vir
ginia, the University of North Carolina and the
Georgia Institute of Technology, all known for high
academic standards.
Reached by telephone Monday, Verbrugge declined
to say why he asked the executive committee to take
the letter off its agenda.
“I think I’ve already talked about this enough,” he
said.
Details of the letter appeared in the Athens
Banner-Herald and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday and Sunday, including negative comments
from Athletic Director Vince Dooley. Shedd also re
fused to comment further.
Though it’s possible the University could join the
ACC, any movement to do so would face strong opposi
tion, said Tom Mickle, assistant commissioner of the
ACC.
‘There’s a longstanding tradition in another
league,” he said.
Added escort van will cut waiting
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
The addition of a second van
to the University police’s escort
service may cut the waiting pe
riod for rides to 10 minutes, said
University Public Safety Di
rector Asa Boynton.
Before the addition of the
second van, students sometimes
waited up to 20 minutes for a
ride, he said. Both vans operate
from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday
through Friday.
University Police Capt. Mitch
Jones said the vans have a
budget this year of $23,000 that
will cover salaries for the two
drivers, van lease payments to
the University and a separate
phone line for the vans that
nasn’t been installed yet.
Last year, when the escort
service was experimental, calls
from the van’s estimated 3,700
riders went through the Univer
sity police’s six emergency
phone lines.
‘The escort service grew and
it had so many calls that it was
taking over the lines we had for
emergencies,” Jones said.
Calls from the call boxes on
campus will continue to go
through the dispatch.
Jones said there were periods
last year when the service was
operating at full capacity eight
hours in a row. With the second
van, University police should be
able to take six calls in five min
utes and carry those people to
their destinations within 10
minutes.
He said the van was busiest
on rainy days, around midterms
and toward the end of a quarter.
This is the second year Uni
versity President Charles
Knapp has committed money
for the vans from his personal
contingency funds.
Jones said the impetus for the
second van came from Student
Government Association lob
bying efforts last year and not
from concerns about recent at
tacks on University of Florida
students.
Jones said the new two-van,
two-driver service is modeled
afler the Georgia Institute of
Technology’s Stinger escort
service. During slow periods,
one person drives and the other
Asa Boynton: New van
will cut waiting period
dispatches. During busy pe
riods, both drivers are on the
road dispatch handles calls.
Deirdre McGhee, a senior en
gineering m^jor and resident
assistant, said the van is benefi
cial to University women.
“It could be beneficial to our
education as far as our feeling
free to go to the library more
often and study,” she said.
Students can reach the vans’
dispatch at 542-2200.