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AY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 8
INSIDE
Kenny Rogers will be
joined by sports and
entertainment stars at his
homeless benefit this
weekend.
Weather: Same sun, new day.
Today, mostly sunny, 80s,
tonight, fair, low 60s, Sat., partly
cloudy, high In the 80s.
Barefoot in the park
Sophomore Brian Southard continues the long-standing tradition
of playing Hackey Sack on North Campus.
SGA stengthens rules
at student ballot box
By QWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
New voting rules will be en
forced during the Oct. 17 Student
Government Association freshman
elections because of problems en
countered during the last two
spring elections.
“They’ll have taped-down rules
on the table,” said junior Sen. Wil
liam Perry, SGA internal affairs
committee chair. “It’ll be only sen
ators and general committee mem
bers working the polls.”
In the past, SGA had students
from other organizations man
voting booths on election day. SGA
members encountered problems
because some of the poll-workers
didn’t understand voting proce
dures, Perry said.
Last year, some poll-workers
were campaigning for candidates
at the voting booths and reading
ballots before they were placed in
the ballot box.
Perry said he hopes the new set
of rules, compiled by sophomore
Sen. Richard Barid, will help alle
viate voting problems.
Barid, who was elected last
spring, took on the responsibility of
creating the rules after viewing
problems with voting during his
candidacy.
“I was looking at the polls and
saw a lot of inappropriate be
havior,” he said. ‘They (poll-
workers) were doing things like
giving suggestions.”
Barid said eventually he’d like to
form an elections committee with
members at each voting station to
supervise voting. However, a com
mittee hasn’t been formed yet.
The revised rules include the fol
lowing:
• Student IDs must be checked,
and a record of the voter’s signa
ture must be taken.
• Voters should be supplied a
ballot and instructions on voting
procedures.
• Voters should be encouraged
to leave the voting area and not
Please See ELECTION, Page 3
UGA to woo top freshmen
Scholarships increased
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
Starting next fall, the University
Alumni Scholarship Program will
spend more money than ever to
lure freshmen with higher Schol
astic Aptitude Test scores.
Instead of setting a price tag on
the alumni scholarships, the Uni
versity will begin giving four-year,
half-tuition awards to freshmen
with SAT scores of at least 1,200
and renewable full-tuition awards
to freshmen with SAT scores of 1,-
300 or more.
University officials believe this
will attract more top-notch
freshmen.
“This puts us in big-league com
petition,” said Dwight Douglas,
vice president for Academic Af
fairs. “More schools are worried
about losing superior students to
other state schools, so the ante has
been raised.”
Before the University Board of
Trustees decided to give these half
and full scholarships, it had as
signed certain dollar figures to the
awards, but the worth of these
scholarships declined as tuition
costs rose, Douglas said.
Since 1986, the awards have
been worth $750 and $1,500,
Douglas said. But next year, they'll
be worth $1,000 and $2,000 — and
they’ll increase in value as tuition
rises.
‘The impact of these schol
arships won’t be eroded as tuition
rises,” said Tom Landrum, assis
tant to the vice president for devel
opment and University relations.
“And I think we'll begin getting a
larger number of well-qualified
students.”
The scholarships are available
only to freshmen and last for 12
quarters, as long as the recipients
maintain a 3.0 grade point av
erage, he said.
Since the scholarship money
comes from private contributions
and not state funds, the program
won’t be affected by recent budget
cuts, Landrum said.
Enrolled Scholarship Students
1985
1986
1987
Year
1988
1989
■ 1200-1249
0 1250-1299
□ 1300-1349
□ Over 1399
□
The increased money available
for the scholarships comes from the
two-year-old University Trust, a
1350-1399
Staph«n Moroakl/The Red and Black
program to which alumni give at
least $1,000 toward scholarships,
Landrum said.
Athens bands will be on hand
Vote ’90 gears up to register students
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Students can get more than foot
ball tickets with their University
IDs starting Monday.
Vote ’90, a statewide voter regis
tration drive, will begin at the Tate
Student Center plaza Oct. 1 from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and last until Oct.
3.
Students will be able to register
to vote, collect information on
voting rights and election dates
and have fun at the same time,
said Holly Thomas, a sophomore
accounting major and Student
Government Association director
of Vote '90.
“It’s going to be educational as
well as fun,” she said.
“We’re trying to get a lot of
people down there,” Thomas said.
SGA junior Sen. Laura Petrides
said 1,007 students were regis
tered at the spring Vote '90.
“It was the most successful voter
registration drive in Georgia,” she
said.
A law which was passed by the
Department of Justice April 23 al
lows students to register to vote ei
ther in their home county or in
Clarke County while on campus.
Students must be at least 17-
and-a-half years old to register.
Students who want to register
must have a picture ID and proof of
residence, such as a letter or a bill.
Eric Webb, a senior political sci
ence major and the Young Demo
crats’ liaison to SGA, said they’re
giving students a vehicle to reg
ister to vote “right at the center of
campus.”
“I’m hopeful for a large turnout
of students,” he said.
Students who register to vote
can be listed on their parents’ in-
Coming Monday: Vote ’90
10 a.m.- noon: John Barrow, local attorney, and City
Council members Miriam Moore, Gwenn O'Looney
and Cardee Kilpatrick
11 a.m.: Craig Carmean
12:30 p.m.: Thomas Stubbs, Danny Daniel
1 p.m.: band Dreams So Real
1:30 p.m.: Jay Memory
Look for Oct. 3-4 schedules in Tuesday's edition
of The Red and Black.
suranre and may be excused from
jury duty in their hometown, but
not necessarily in Clarke County,
Thomas said.
A student who registers to vote
in Clarke County may be consid
ered a legal resident of the county
and therefore could no longer be
claimed as a dependent on their
parents’ income tax return.
However, Thomas said regis
tering to vote shouldn’t prompt a
tax return audit.
Bill Crane of Secretary of State
Max Cleland’s office and several
Athens City Council members will
be on hand to speak and answer
auestions during the registration
arive.
There will be musical entertain
ment during Vote ’90 which will in
clude performances by Dreams So
Real and Jay Memory.
“All the bands are donating their
time,” she said.
Students who don’t register
during Vote *90 can register in the
Office of Student Activities at the
Tate Student Center, Thomas said.
‘They can register to vote there
anytime,” she said.
Students who register at the
Board of Elections in the Athens
Courthouse will be registered to
vote in Clarke County.
Vote *90 is funded by the nine
campus organizations that make
up the Student Voter Registration
Council.
“They’ve been more than
helpful," Thomas said.
Members of the Student Voter
Registration Council which in
cludes SGA, the Residence Hall As
sociation, Interfraternity Council,
Panhellenic Council, Young Demo
crats, College Republicans, the
Black Affairs Council, Students for
Environmental Awareness and
Georgia Environmental Projects.
Collection boxes for books, batte
ries and other items to be sent to
troops in Saudi Arabia will also be
at the Tate Center plaza in con
junction with Vote ^O.
Students with questions can call
the SGA office at 542-8584.
University
won’t have
own district
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
When city and county govern
ments unify in 1991, the Univer
sity won’t dominate any single
voting district.
Instead, the University commu
nity will be split between at least
three Athens-Clarke County voting
districts. The 7th District includes
Brumby and Russell halls and the
4th District encompasses the re
mainder of the campus.
In addition, the 4th District in
cludes the fraternity houses on
River Road, and the 7th District in
cludes fraternity and sorority
houses on Milledge Avenue 9outh
of Baxter Street.
The fraternity and sorority
houses on Milledge Avenue north
of Baxter Street fall into the 3rd
District.
As of Sept. 17, 145 residents of
Brumby and Russell halls and 336
residents of the other residence
halls were registered to vote in
Clarke County.
The county Board of Elections
printed new voter registration
cards that will be mailed soon,
BOE Director Dot Barrett said.
The cards will tell voters which
districts they’re in and where to
vote.
Under the unification charter,
there will be one commissioner
Please See DISTRICT, Page 3
‘Bulldog Express’: Full of fans bound for Sanford Stadium
Tradition: It has returned to the tracks in
Athens as the ‘Bulldog Express’ rolls in for
game days. Trains filled with fans from At
lanta headed to Sanford Stadium were a
staple part of Georgia football Saturdays in
the 1960s
By JOEL GROOVER
Campus Correspondent
On the way to the Georgia game, a frustrated Joe
Alumnus sits behind the wheel of his just-bought
mini-van. He’s wearing his favorite red sweater — the
one with the bulldog on it — and he’s holding a beer
(lite).
He’s been sitting in traffic for an hour. His wife is
angry, and when he finally gets to Athens he’ll barely
have time to park on the sidewalk before the kick off.
But as he listens to the pre-game show on the radio,
Joe Alumnus hears a strange sound. It gets louder,
and he looks in the rearview mirror.
It’8 a train full of Georgia fans, passing next to the
highway. They’re smiling, they’re waving pom-poms
out the window, and they’re looking at him.
Next stop: Sanford Stadium.
‘The biggest thing that they enjoy, when the train
is going by the highway, is waving at people sitting in
traffic,” said Jeff Henderson, public relations coordi
nator for the New Georgia Railroad, which carried
Bulldog fans to the Alabama game last weekend in
vintage rail cars.
Two more Saturday train trips — dubbed ‘The
Bulldog Express” — are scheduled this year: one for
the Ole Miss game Oct. 13 and one for the Georgia
Tech game Dec. 1.
“For the Tech game we will carry close to 1,000
people,” Henderson said. “It’s already sold out.”
Tne Bulldog Express, which rolls along at 45 mph,
departs from a station near Underground Atlanta
four hours before the game begins. It pulls right up to
Sanford Stadium and heads back to Atlanta an hour
after the final whistle.
Tickets cost $60.
The train began running to Sanford in 1985, al
though game-day trains had been a tradition at the
University up until the 1960s.
Last year, the Bulldog Express didn’t run, however,
because the railroad had problems leasing the tracks
from freight train companies, Henderson said.
In addition to the Athens trips, the New Georgia
Railroad, which is owned by the Georgia Building Au
thority, runs trains to Stone Mountain Park and
around an 18-mile loop in Atlanta.
The railroad was started by the former head of the
building authority, the late Steve Polk.
“When he started out he had two or three cars and a
little steam engine,” Henderson said. “Now we have
23 passenger cars, two steam engines and four diesel
engines.”
All the cars have been renovated, he said, and some
are classics.
‘The passenger cars were built between 1920 and
1960,” Henderson said. ‘The steam engine that we
run occasionally was built in 1926.
‘This is the real thing.”
Alice Murray Wright is a train buff and part owner
of “The Freight Room,” a restaurant located in a 100-
year-old train station in Atlanta. Wright said she has
traveled the rails of the New Georgia Railroad count
less times.
She also remembers when train runs to Sanford
were a Saturday tradition. Back in the 1960s, she
said, Georgia fans would gather around a soda foun
tain at an Atlanta drugstore, swapping stories and
talking football before hopping the train and heading
to the game.
“It’s like traveling back in time when the destina
tion doesn’t become as important as the trip itself,”
she said. “The train cars are all immaculate.
“It’s just a wonderful experience, especially for
young people who may have never ridden trains. I
think it’s bringing back an aspect of Georgia games
that hasn’t been there for 30 years.”