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DAY, OCTOBER 4,1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 11
INSIDE
Musician Mark Maxwell
will bring his brand of
classical jazz and a touch
of pop to the Fine Arts
Auditorium tonight.
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Weather: Get out your raincoats.
Today, cloudy, 50 percent chance
of rain, tonight, cloudy, 60s. Frl.,
partly cloudy, low 80s.
outlay bundle to meet fire codes
By STACEY,
Staff Writer
University frai .e ipent nearly $1
million on their ho-xee to meet city and
state fire codes after operating for four
years in clear violation of them, Ron
Binder, adviser to fraternities, said.
Binder said some fraternity houses
have operated for four years below city
fire regulations because of a misunder
standing between the University and the
city.
‘The University thought the city was
taking care of it and the city thought the
University was doing it,” he said.
Frank Edwards, University fire safety
officer, said the fraternities met min
imum standards during an inspection
last fall. But he would not confirm
Binder's claims that all fraternity houses
conform to city and state fire regulations.
“I can't say if their housing is up to code
or not because I haven’t seen the nouses,”
he said. “It was a significant problem and
it could continue to be significant if the
houses are not kept up."
Edwards said all fraternity houses on
campuB property, except the Alpha Ep
silon Pi and Tau Epsilon Phi houses, have
been closed sometime during the last four
years because of fire violations.
“At one time or another the fraternity
houses with fire violations were closed
and no members lived there during that
time," he said.
Sigma Chi members were forced out of
their house for nine months for not
meeting regulations, he said.
However, Binder denied allegations
that all campus fraternities had been
evicted from their houses during that
time. But he acknowledged that the
Sigma Chi house had been closed.
He said Sigma Chi borrowed nearly
$120,000 to renovate the house after he
and Edwards recommended thnt the
house be closed.
‘The house was in such bad shape that
it had to be closed until it could meet the
fire code," Binder said.
He said Phi Delta Theta and Kappa
Alpha were threatened with eviction be
cause of fire code violations, but the viola
tions were corrected before last fall
quarter.
Fraternity members raised money for
the projects on their own and didn’t re
ceive any money from the University,
Binder said.
‘These guys spent over a million dol
lars getting their violations corrected," he
said. “All our groups are either in compli
ance or making plans to be in compli
ance."
As part of its $50,000 renovation effort,
Sigma Nu finished a $15,000 fire escnj>e
on its house in the spring, bringing all 26
fraternity houses up to city fire stan
dards, Binder said.
Phi Kappa Theta installed a $20,000
sprinkler system in 1987 to ensure that
its house was safe according to city fire
codes, Social Chairman Michael Kelly
said.
Kelly said the fraternity obtained the
money by mortgaging its house.
"We’ve been up to fire codes for three
years now," he said. ‘We knew it hnd to
be done, so we did it along with some
other renovations."
Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Phi Epsilon
and Kappa Alpha installed sprinkler sys
tems instead of wnlling in staircases,
Binder said.
“Smoke rises from floor to floor through
the staircases, but now if there is a fire in
one of those four houses, they’ll be
flooded. But those are the rules," Binder
said.
Theta Chi raised $35,000 to build walls
around its winding staircases, he said.
Binder said University fraternity
houses must meet commercial building
fire codes which include installing fire
suppression hoods in kitchens and smoke
detectors.
'They have to meet the same codes ns
the Holiday Inn You don’t do thnt over
night,” he said.
ACACIA also was recently forced to
move out of its fraternity house because it
couldn’t raise enough money to correct
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Vote ’90
reaches
target
The Student Government Asso
ciation reached its goal for the Vote
*90 voter registration drive with
506 students registering to vote
over a three-day period.
During the six-day Vote *90 held
spring quarter, 1,007 students reg
istered to vote.
Holly Thomas, SGA director of
Vote *90, said their goal was to reg
ister 500 students.
'We were hoping to reach half of
what we got last year,” Thomas
said.
SGA President Pro Tern William
Perry said 169 students registered
Monday, 154 on Tuesday and 183
registered Wednesday.
Perry, the Vote *90 entertain
ment coordinator, said this quar
ter’s drive was shortened due to
the busy schedules of the student
organization sponsors.
‘We’re going to try to have one
every other aunrter," Thomas said.
She said sne was really pleased
with the response to Vote »0 and
hopes students learned something
about the candidates’ views and
opinions so they can "make the
right choice."
Perry said, ‘We want everyone
to look forward to Vote ’91 in the
spring."
Students who missed Vote ’90
can register to vote in Room 325 of
the Tate Student Center from 2 to
4:30 p.m.
The SGA will continue to collect
items for the soldiers in Saudi
Arabia. A box is available outside
the SGA office at the Tate Student
Center. They request batteries,
reading material and other items
of value and interest to the sol
diers.
— Sandra Stephana
And-a-one-and-a-two
The Derbies pep band, a hand-picked division tunes In College Square as a part of the
of the Red Coat Marching Band, play a few Athens Blue Sky Concert Series Wednesday.
Extension of hours
gets mixed review
By DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
Athens bar and restaurant
owners may now have the same
business hours ns the county, hut
some may not take advantage of
them, said Walt Light, Athens
Aren Restaurant Association presi
dent.
Light said the main purpose of
the request to extend the city’s
hours to 2 a m. Monday through
Friday was to boost business by al
lowing the extra hour of potential
profit-making.
"When people have entertain
ment, it gives them an extra hour,"
he said. "Most aren’t going to find
it practical to stay open that late.”
Light said he didn’t plan to keep
his restaurant, The Lighthouse,
open until the new closing time.
He said this new ordinance,
passed by the Athens City Council
in a 7-3 vote Tuesday night, will
help the city’s owners during spe
cial events and weekends because
they cun compete* with the county.
He said fear of the crime rate
going up or public safety problems
is just n “silly scare tactic."
“I seriously don’t think crime
will increase because clubs and
night clubs are staying open an
hour later,” Light said
People are leaving the city when
the bars close and going to the
county, he said.
Clarke County Sheriff Jerry
Massey said the police could adjust
their shifts to accommodate the
new hours because the ordinance
would put people on the road an
hour Inter.
City Clerk Jean Spratlin said
the mayor will have the papers to
sign the new ordinance into effect
within a few days.
She said many people are misin
formed about the new ordinance
concerning Saturday night sales.
The serving hours will continue to
end at 11:45 p.m. on Saturdays be
cause serving nlcohol past mid
night would run into Sunday sales.
Jennifer Shoemaker, Student
Government Association liaison to
the council, spoke on behalf of Uni
versity students in favor of exten
sion at the meeting She said her
job is to help promote under
standing between students and
local government, but her job
wasn’t made easy by the crowd
Tuesday night.
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Walls may tumble down when Athens Fire Hall relocated
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
Like an old horse being put out
to pasture, the 74-year-old nistoric
Fire Hall may soon be put out to
parking lot.
The building, which once housed
the Athens fire department, is
being forced to give up its present
Thomas Street address for a new
location in the name of progress
and land for a new Civic Center.
One of the sites being strongly
considered by the ad hoc committee
for the building’s new location is
the parking lot on the comer of
Jackson and Dougherty streets.
Libby Morris, of the Ad Hex:
Committee on Relocating the Fire
Hall, said the committee decided
Tuesday night that moving the
building to make room for the
planned Civic Center, scheduled to
oe built nearby, would be the best
option for the building.
"We discussed saving the Fire
Hall and the opinion is that it can
be moved,” she said.
Morris said the five-member
committee recently appointed by
the county commissioners has con
tacted a few firms that have expe
rience moving similar buildings,
but no estimate of cost or final deci
sion on the new site has been
made.
Clarke County Commissioners
hove committed $175,000 for
moving expenses, but the rest will
have to come from private sources.
A final decision on the site nnd
use of the building will lx* decided
at an Oct. 15 meeting of the com
mittee nnd the group has ex
pressed a desire to hnve input.
“Over the next two weeks, we
will explore sites and uses for it in
nn informal manner," she said.
Morris said the finnl cost will de-
nd on how far the building has to
moved. The building can only he
moved a few hundred ynrds
without damaging it.
Some preservationists, however,
are skeptical that the building can
be moved at all.
Shelia Hackney, executive di
rector of the Athens-Clnrke Heri
tage Foundation said, "It’s very
difficult to move a solid-base,
three-story building."
Hackney said the building would
hnve to be separated between the
concrete basement nnd the brick
wall of the first floor and this could
damage the building.
She said moving the building
would also take away some of the
historical authenticity of the site.
State of mind
Danny Ford: It’s a game of attitude
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Editor
According to former Clemson
football coach Danny Ford, this
weekend's Georgia — Clemson
football game in Death Valley
won’t boil down to stats or tan
gibles but frame of mind.
“Attitude is the difference be
tween winning and losing," Ford
said when he spoke to the Athens
Touchdown CIud at Spank/s ban
quet facility Tuesday night. “How
you win is not to beat yourself. It’s
all in the etate of mind."
In a microcosm, Ford simplified
the contest down to the moet costly
mistake in a football game.
‘The team that turns the ball
over is going to lose," he said. "I
know Georgia won't win the game
if they turn it over and I know
Clemson won’t win the game if
they turn it over."
Since leaving Clemson after the
1989 season in the wake of possible
NCAA violations, Ford has dis
tanced himself from the Clemson
program and thus couldn’t give an
accurate assessment of this year’s
Tiger squad.
“I haven’t even seen Clemson
play,” he said.
Since Georgia and Clemson
haven’t played since the 1987
season, Ford also couldn't accu
rately analyze Georgia's team ei
ther, but jokingly advised both
Georgia coach Ray Goff and Tiger
coach Ken Hatfield to “get out of
the way and let ’em play.”
Like in past Georgia-Clemson
games, usually an unheralded
player makes the one play or ie at
the right spot at the right time and
causes the rame to be swayed one
way or another.
In referring to one of those
players, Ford spoke of Bulldog
lace kicker Kevin Butler, who
icked a 60-yard field goal “with
helium in the ball" to win the 1984
game 26-23.
"Somebody is going to be an un
expected hero," he said. "Somebody
in the crowd (of players) is gonna
make the difference.
In 1979, Ford took over the
Clemson coaching job and felt that
his team was definitely a notch
below Georgia’s.
"We felt inferior to Georgia when
I got to Clemson," he said. "But
when I left, we weren’t inferior.”
Ford coached the Tigers from
1979 to 1989 and gave Clemson
their first National Championship
in 1981 with a victory in the
Orange Bowl. Ford brought eight
Clemson teams to bowl games, won
four ACC titles and finished with a
760 winning percentage.
As for finding another job
coaching football, Ford seemed am
bivalent.
“I really miss the first 22 min
utes before the ballgame starts,"
Ford said. “It’s easy watching a
Georgia — Southern Miss game or
a Georgia — Alabama game, when
my livelihood didn’t depend on it.
"If somebody wants a football
coach, and that’s all, I’m ready to
go back," he said. "But if they don’t
want a coach that likes to wear a
hat and chew tobacco, then I don’t
need to be working for them
people."
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