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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia Community
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA « VOLUME 98, ISSUE 6
INSIDE
Steve Wynn’s solo album
“Kerosene Man” doesn’t
catch instant fire with its
downbeat sound and
occasional country flair.
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Weather: Here comes the sun.
Today, sunny and mild, 80s,
tonight, clear and mild, 50s,
Thurs., mostly sunny, mid 80s.
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Driver who hit three to face fifth charge
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
and LANCE HELMS
Staff Writers
A University student arrested spring
quarter for hitting three pedestrians with
his car in a campus parking lot is ex
pected to be charged with another felony
today.
The student, Patrick Schlottman, a
business management information major
of Jonesboro, was originally indicted Aug.
8 on four felony charges including driving
under the influence of alcohol, reckless
driving and two counts of causing serious
bodily injury by vehicle to Dawn Roberts,
who was visiting from Atlanta.
Steve Jones, Clarke County assistant
district attorney, said another count of
causing serious bodily injury with a ve
hicle to Nicholas Sucan will be added to
existing charges.
Sucan is a Georgia State University
student whose leg was broken in the acci
dent.
Terry Kennedy, a junior finance major,
was also hit, but not seriously injured.
Schlottman’s attorney, Brian Carney of
Athens, said he and his client don’t expect
the added charge to make any difference
in the criminal case.
“We’d assumed that each (original)
charge was for each victim,” he said.
Jones said he plans to have Schlottman
arraigned for the fifth charge on Oct. 10
and to schedule the trial for Oct. 15 in
Clarke County Superior Court.
Roberts, who was hospitalized fol
lowing the accident and has had several
surgeries since then, spent the summer at
the Emory rehabilitation unit in Atlanta.
Her father, Leonard Roberts, said
Thursday she will live at home while par
ticipating in an outpatient rehabilitation
program conducted by Vanderbilt Univer
sity in Nashville, Tenn.
The Roberts family recently moved to
Nashville from Atlanta, where they lived
at the time of the accident.
He expects Dawn to participate in the
program for 12 months.
Roberts said Dawn’s physical rehabili
tation will focus on speech therapy and
motor skills like walking, muscle coordi
nation and various arm movements. Her
entire right side is weak, he said.
She underwent surgery seven times,
and now she will begin a series of plastic
surgeries to repair deep facial scars sus
tained when her head went through
Schlottman’s windshield.
But Roberts was unsure about Dawn’s
plans to return to school. She attended
Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., prior
to tne accident.
She also i9 scheduled to have a metal
rod removed from her leg next year. Her
leg bones were crushed to the extent that
a cast couldn’t be set.
Roberts said Dawn intends to partici
pate in the Oct. 15 criminal proceedings.
He said she doesn’t remember events
from after the accident up to the time she
regained speech in early August. She
hasn’t seen or spoken to Schlottman.
“She feels terribly violated,” Roberts
said. “We’re thankful that she can feel
that. She has a lot of anger right now.”
Roberts said he and his wife no longer
feel animosity toward Schlottman be
cause their anger isn’t directed at him
personally. Roberts declined comment on
the possibility of a civil suit, against
Schlottman.
He said the private investigator he
hired to examine the accident didn’t find
anything that conflicted with the police’s
or Schlottman’s version of the incident.
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From staff reports
Fire ravaged a warehouse off
East Broad Street around 8:30
p.m. Tuesday as hundreds of
spectators gathered to watch the
blaze.
Clarke County Fire Chief
James Hansford said Fire officials
received a call at 8:29 p.m. from
someone who saw two people
running away from the building.
The caller, who didn’t want to
be identified, was driving on
Foundry Street when he noticed
the blaze and dialed 911 from his
car phone. The warehouse was
engulfed in flames when fire
fighters arrived, Hansford said.
He said around 9:20 p.m. that
the fire was contained, although
firefighters would have to let the
fire bum itself out.
Five fire trucks and 25 fire
fighters, half the on-duty force,
were on the scene.
Blaze
) draws
crowd
Home-game parking woes:
Gridlock caused by gridiron
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Football Saturdays mean the
onslaught of over-sized recre
ational vehicles, colorful vans and
slogan-covered cars.
Cars line sidewalks. More than
80,000 students and Bulldog fans
fill the streets. All seems well on
these festive days. But, for some,
parking creates a big problem.
“I just always get a ride in to
work on game days,” Penny Id-
dings, a library assistant, said.
“Even if you can park, you can’t get
out because you’re blocked.”
Library employees have encoun
tered several parking problems on
game days. Although spaces can be
found if one reaches a lot early
enough, it’s almost impossible to
leave once the fans are at the
game.
Kristen Wright, a senior English
and psychology major and a stu
dent assistant at the library, said
last Saturday she was blocked in
by three cars.
“A car pulled up behind me, a
car moved on the curb beside me,
and a van parked along the side,”
she said. “I worried the entire day
about how I was going to get
home.”
Wright, who jumped the curb to
get out after another employee
moved his car, said another woman
at the library was blocked in and
called the police to have the car
moved.
However, the University police
said there was nothing they could
do, and she had to wait until the
game ended before she could leave
campus.
“We don’t tow cars unless there’s
some dire emergency,” Connie
Sampson, University assistant po
lice chief, said, “I hate to say
there’s nothing we can do about it,
but we’ve got to set up priorities.”
The city has restricted parking
along the south side of Lumpkin
Street, and is towing illegally
parked cars and setting up barri
cades. But the University police
will only tow a car if it “blocks a
complete thoroughfare,” she said.
Horton and other police officials
have been working to alleviate tra
ffic congestion and sidewalk
parking. But the number of out-of-
town fans make it difficult, he said.
Parking on East Campus Road
has been restricted to relieve tra
ffic problems, and fans are being
asked to park in the commuter and
intramural lots.
“It’s looking good, and the fans
have been great about it,” Horton
said. ‘There’s plenty of parking in
these other lots.”
The East Campus Road project
is just the first step in clearing up
the parking problems on game day,
he said.
Getting fans in and out of the
game safely is an everyday priority
for Horton. His two main concerns
are: the possibility of a major ca
tastrophe on campus during a
game and pedestrian safety, which
is endangered when illegally
parked cars force people on foot
onto the streets.
“Where do the pedestrians
walk?” he asked. “I can’t force
people out in the street where cars
are. 1 have to give people a place to
walk.”
Horton said he also worries that
fire trucks and ambulances won’t
be able to get to campus in an
emergency if cars are blocking pas
sageways.
The restrictions on East Campus
Road will help "solve the problem
because the road is a direct link
from the bypass to campus, he
said.
Unification recap
Students
poor voters
By DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
Autumn in Athens means it’s
time to unleash the dogs. But this
fall the local governments have
taken off their leashes, knocked
down the hedges that separate
them and are preparing to unify
administrations in January.
After several attempts in the
past 20 years to unify the city of
Athens and Clarke County, a refer
endum to adopt a charter creating
a consolidated government was
passed on Aug. 7.
The unification of the two gov
ernments is unusual in the state of
Georgia because the Athens-
Clarke County merger is the first
to take place since the Columbus
and Muscogee County merger in
1972.
Brian Mirsky, assistant pro
fessor of political science, said
people were surprised that the ref
erendum passed, especially consid
ering the high voter turnout.
Mirsky credits the adoption of
the charter to successful cam
paigns in support of unification.
“People in support of the charter
were pleasantly surprised,” he
said.
When the unified government
takes over in January there will no
longer be a separation of the city
and county governments. The in-
tent of the merger is to make the
government more efficient, Mirsky
said.
Many services, such as the city
and county police departments,
were duplicate services before uni
fication, he said.
Clarke County Sheriff Jerry
Massey said Clarke County has
three police departments under the
current system: the Clarke County
Sheriffs Department, Athens po
lice and Clarke County police.
Massey said unification will not
affect the Sheriffs office because it
is an elected office, but the new
government will merge the city
and county police into one depart
ment. Unification won’t affect Uni
versity police.
Students have been pegged as
“notoriously poor voters,” Mirsky
said. He added that the student
population has the potential to be
very potent and powerful in the
new government, especially since
the opportunity to elect a student
representative has been given to
them under the new charter.
The charter calls for 11 seats to
be filled on the new council. The
entire area is broken into 10 voting
districts. Eight of the districts will
elect one representative.
The other two districts are called
“at-large” districts or “superdis
tricts,” in which representatives
will be voted upon by the other
eight districts. Districts 1 through
4 will elect the District 9 represen
tative, and Districts 5 through 8
will elect the District 10 represen
tative.
A Chief Elected Officer position
will also be created. According to
the charter, the CEO is elected by
all of the districts and will serve a
part-time four-year term for no
more than two consecutive terms
with an annual salary of $20,000.
The CEO will be responsible for
appointing a manager, attorney
and auditor for the new govern
ment. The new commission will
have to approve these appointed of
fices by a majority vote.
The commission will consist of
10 members serving part-time ro
tating terms. The odd-numbered
districts will serve four years while
the even-numbered districts are
elected to two-year terms.
District 4 will encompass most of
the University community. Stu
dents who are registered to vote in
Clarke County will have the oppor
tunity to cast votes for the CEO
and representatives in District 4,
District 9 and the CEO.
Now that unification has become
a reality for the city of Athens and
Clarke County, the Athens-Clarke
County Unified Government Tran
sition Team is trying to make the
consolidation a smooth success for
citizens and new officials.
Louise McBee, former vice presi
dent for Academic Affairs and a
transition team member, said the
team is charged with the task of
collecting data on how to handle
the combination of local laws and
ordinances from each old govern
ment.
She said the team has no deci
sion-making power. Its function is
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Ga. Museum of Art benefit
Polo club takes the field for art’s sake
By GINA GRAY
Contributing Writer
A different crowd of fans
turned out for another kind of
sporting event Sunday.
The game? Polo.
Blue skies and crisp autumn
breezes, tailgaiters and Cadillacs
set the scene as art supporters
gathered for the Collectors’ Cup.
Half-time brought the polo tra
dition of “stomping the divots” —
when spectators walk on the field
to replace grass loosened by the
pounding hooves of the horses —
not marching bands and hot
dogs.
Hosted by the Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art and held
at the Mt. Vernon Polo Club in
Monroe, the Collectors’ Cup is in
tended to become an annual
fund-raising event for the mu
seum.
About 400 people attended
with proceeds for the museum
reaching $5,000 from ticket sales.
“We have a great turnout that
will increase the awareness of
the Friends organization,” said
Friends President Valerie Al
dridge.
The Friends are a support
group for the educational pro
grams of the museum. The Col
lectors — an auxiliary group of
the Friends — share an interest
in collecting art and spend time
visiting galleries and museums.
In the past, the Friends have
raised money for the museum by
hosting the Elegant Salute, a
gala black-tie dinner held every
two years.
“We hoped the polo match
would be something new and dif
ferent,” said Aldridge.
Dr. Bob Cowles, originator and
organizer of the event, said, “I
want this event to be a new venue
to support the museum.”
Cowles, an avid polo player, is
a member of the Friends and the
Collectors.
Cowles, an Athens urologist,
was on the winning Mt. Vernon
team Sunday, but he was quick to
admit, 'The real winner is the 1
museum.”
The museum, located on North
Half-time brought the
polo tradition of
“stomping the divots”
— when spectators
take the field to stomp
loosened grass.
Campus, houses more than 5,000
works of art. Exhibitions include
works from the permanent collec
tion, private sources, and trav
eling exhibits which have
included art from Africa and
Japan.
The museum offers lectures,
gallery talks, tours, film series
and other special events for those
with a broader interest in the
arts.
Open seven days a week, ad
mission to the museum is free.
Aldridge said the Friends
weren’t taking a gamble by at
tempting the new fund-raiser be
cause it was paid for by
supporters.
‘All the funding was there
from our sponsors, so we knew we
would not lose any money,” she
said.
In addition to sponsoring the
polo match itself, Heyward Allen
Motor Company, Inc., provided a
tent with refreshments, free sun
visors, and the chance to view
one of several Cadillacs on dis-
play.
Fieldside sponsors, Jennings
Mill Country Club and Trumps
Restaurant, added their touch by
catering the event.
Proceeds from the event will go
to benefit the museum’s educa
tional programs. One program,
Artreach, hires underprivileged
high school students and trains
them to give art presentations to
community groups. Another pro-
S ram is the annual School Art
ymposium, a state-wide compe
tition for high school students
which awards 28 scholarships.
“By helping to support the
Georgia Museum of Art’s pro
grams, we keep one of the area’s
vital cultural institutions acces
sible to everyone,” said Aldridge.
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