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The Red and Black • Friday, October 5, 1990 • 3
Students read variety
of books for pleasure
By RICHARD BAMBARGER
Contributing Writer
When University students are
finding some free time, or are
skipping another day of bother
some classes, they are finding a
wide array of books to help them
relax.
“Well, all the girls are reading
Danielle Steel,” Sheila Ware, a
junior accounting major and Uni
versity Bookstore employee said.
Barring Steele’s fine writing,
which made the University best
seller list with “Message From
Nam,” Stephen King and Scott
Turow are the current literary
heroes on campus.
King made the best-seller list
with ‘The Stand" and “Four Past
Midnight." H.G. Hutcherson, an
Englsh professor, draws a par
allel between the popularity of
Tolkien’s fantasy among college
students in the early 1970s and
the popularity of King’s dark fan
tasy today.
“King’s fantasy is an appealing
escape from the scientific explo
sion of the last half of this cen
tury,” he said.
Two of Turow’s books — “Pre
sumed Innocent” and “The
Burden of Proof* — are also pop
ular with students. The appeal
here is that Turow’s brand of
courtroom drama “mirrors our
own crime-saturated society,"
Hutcherson said.
Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Pre
sent Danger” is another of the
students’ picks. Clancy’s books
present “problems which the
reader knows will ultimately be
solved,” Hutcherson said.
The top book among the na
tion’s college students last year,
Robert Fulghum’s “All 1 Really
The top-selling book
on campuses last year
was Robert Fulgum's
“All I Really Need to
Know I Learned in
Kindergarten”.
Need to Know I Learned in Kin
dergarten,” continues to be a best
seller at the University,
according to the Chronicle of
Higher Education.
The reading tastes of Univer
sity students may be a bit more
sophisticated than those of col
lege students across the country.
Last year, four of the top 10 col
lege books were cartoon books.
Other books that made the
University Bookstore best-seller
list include Jonathan Keller-
man’s “Silent Partner,” Lillian
Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who
Talked to Ghosts,” Ken Follett’s
‘The Pillars of the Earth,"
Martha Grimes’ ‘The Old Silent,”
Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club,”
Larry McMurtry’s “Some Can
Whistle,” LaVyrle Spencer's “The
Endearment,” and Melody Beat
tie’s “Codependent No More.”
Still don’t know what to read?
Sue Rzepecki, manager of The
Book Center on Clayton Street,
suggested King’s ‘Tour Past Mid
night.”
Peter Buck, Athen’s disco god,
just picked that one up, she said.
That’s good advice for those
whose only summer read was
part three of John Jakes’ trilogy,
“North and South.”
Unification team
avoiding conflicts
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Larry Blount, associate pro
fessor in the Sch<x>l of Law, told
students at a Young Democrats
meeting that the Unification tran
sition team is working to avoid con
flicts between city and county
ordinances.
Blount, also a member of the Cit-
izens for Unification, said
Wednesday the transition team
will identify the similarities and
conflicts in the ordinances and
areas where no ordinances exist.
The Unification charter requires
that any conflicts be resolved
during the first year of Unification,
he said.
Blount said the focal point for
the team is Nov. 7.
“At that point we hope to have a
transition report,” he said.
The terms of five city council
members and three county com
missioners expire on Dec. 31, he
said.
The effective date of unification
is Jan. 14, 1991.
Blount said some citizens are
concerned that the five city council
seats and three commission seats
will remain vacant.
"Rest assured that’s not going to
happen,” he said.
Those members will not leave of
fice until the date of unification, he
said.
Two candidates for the Clarke
County Commission also spoke at
the meeting.
Cardee Kilpatrick, candidate for
the 7th district, said Athens has a
good record in recycling.
"It’s important that everyone
buy recycled products and support
recycling efforts," she said.
County Commission 4th district
candidate Scott Davis, a local busi-
Larry Blount: Transition
to report Nov. 7.
Blount said some
citizens are concerned
that the five city
council seats and three
commission seats will
remain vacant.
nessman, told the audience Athens
needs to get to the point that recy
cling is mandatory.
Young Democrats president
Clay Jones, a sophomore political
science/journalism major, said the
organization advocates awareness
and it is important that students
be informed about unification nnd
candidates.
“It’s an awareness effort to get
more students involved," he said.
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SGA votes to ax PE
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Students may be one step
closer to relief from physical edu
cation requirements if the Stu
dent Government Association’s
pressure on University adminis
tration proves successful.
At a meeting Wednesday, the
SGA voted to recommend to the
University Council that the five-
hour PE requirement be dropped.
The difficulties in getting PE
courses was one part of the
problem, said Laura Bourg,
SGA’s student life chair.
She said it is impossible to
work the one-hour clnsses into a
busy schedule of 15 hours.
Last spring SGA voted on a
recommendation to keep the re
quirement after Stan Brassie,
head of the PE department, pre
sented a report on PE programs
across the nation.
SGA decided on the new pro
posal, which will l>e presented
Monday to Universitv Council,
after reviewing students’ dissat
isfaction with the requirement.
At the meeting, Bourg said
that although she is a junior, she
has only had two hours of PE
She said it is problems like this
which prompted the proposal
“We don’t want the PL classes,
and the students don’t,” she said
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• SGA will sponsor student
discount cards in cooperation
with n national organization.
• SGA will hold a candidates'
forum for locnl elections in Oc
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• University President
Charles Knapp will speak at the
Oct. 31 SGA meeting.
• SGA representatives met
with Delmer Dunn, associate vice
president for Academic Affairs, to
discuss the feasibility of the S4»
mester system. Dunn said Knapp
is considering the proposal.
• SGA is continuing to work on
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