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The Red and Black • Wednesday, October 10, 1990 • 5
Parade, festivities
in the ‘Southland’
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
A “Party in the Southland ”
will bring a river of red and black
streamers, banners and floats to
the University campus during
homecoming week of October 10-
20.
Jeffery Ruff, All-Campus
Homecoming Committee exec
utive chairman,, said the theme,
“Party in the Southland,” was se
lected spring quarter.
Ruff said it was important to
choose the theme early because
homecoming is four weeks into
the quarter.
“Everyone’s going to be ex
tremely busy the first four weeks
of school,” he said.
Jim Crouch, associate director
of student activities and adviser
to the committee, said it’s the
earliest homecoming the Univer
sity’s had in several years.
The theme was suggested by
Ruff and Kellie Burley, public re
lations chairman, along with the
input of other committee mem
bers.
RufT, a junior political science
major, said the committee spono-
sors a theme contest each spring.
A $50 prize is awarded for the
winning theme. Committee mem
bers are not eligible for the prize.
“I think it kind of sets the tone
for the kind of homecoming we
want to have,” Ruff said.
“We want everyone to have a
lot of fun,” said Burley, a senior
public relations major.
‘There’s a lot more going on
this year,” Ruff said.
The Homecoming parade will
be on campus this year. The pa
rade route will start at Aderhold
Hall and proceed from D.W.
Brooks Drive to Cedar Street, up
Sanford Drive to Baldwin Street,
Lumpkin Street and end at the
Coliseum.
RufT said the parade has to be
broken up into segments for
judging during its route through
downtown.
“It was very difficult to coordi
nate,” he said.
Homecoming week features a
wide variety of events, including
a cake bake-off at Legion Field, a
pep rally, banner and window
competitions and a free laser
show, “Out of the Darkness,” at
the Coliseum Oct. 16.
University students can vogue
and kick up their heels at the
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Superdance Oct. 12 from 7 p.m.
to 3 a m. at the Quality Inn-His
tory Village Cannon Room and
Deck.
The goal for the MDA Super
dance is $15,000. About $10,000
was raised from last year’s dance,
Ruff said. WKLS 96-Rock, a
sponsor of Homecoming, will pro
vide the music.
Clubs and organizations that
have had T-shirts made for
homecoming week can compete
in a t-shirt competition, RufT
said.
“We’re hoping all the dancers
will wear their T-shirts,” he said.
Door prizes and a trip to Walt
Disney World will be awarded at
the dance.
“I really think everyone’s going
to have a real good time,” Ruff
said.
Homecoming 1990
tParty in the Southland
Wednesday 10
10lh - 18th Bandweek
Morktails with
BACCHUS &
GAMMA
11 am - 2 pm Tile Plaza
Thursday 11
Skit Preliminaries
6 pm • 12 pm
Georgia Hall
Friday 12
MDA Superdance
6 pm - 3 am
Cannon Room. Quality Inr
History Village
Saturday 13
Sunday 14
Carnival
12 -4 pm
Legion Field
Monday 15
Window Competition
4 pm - Athens
Tuesday 16
Banner Competition
4 pm - Athens
Lazer Show
Free
8 pm - Coliseum
Wednesday 17
Cook Bake OfT
2 pm - Legion Field
Cookout
4 pm • 8 pm
Legion Field
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McDonald’s serves Big Macs in China
The Associated Press
SHENZHEN, China - McDon
ald’s hamburgers, fries and golden
arches came to China when the
fast-food chain opened its first res
taurant in a nation famed for its
distinctive cuisine.
Hundreds of Chinese waited for
hours Monday outside the restau
rant in Shenzhen, an economic
boom town near Hong Kong, for
their first taste of a McDonald’s
hamburger, fries or shake.
“I traveled for four hours from a
village to get here,” said Huang
Rongti, 70, who has lost most of her
teeth because of age. “You think
hamburgers are too challenging for
my age?”
Later, after purchasing her first
Big Mac, she inspected it carefully
before taking a bite.
“It tastes good; I like it," she an
nounced before slowly eating the
rest.
The opening of a U.S. fast-food
restaurant in China, where
cooking has long been considered a
culinary art, may seem odd to gour
mets. It is estimated there are
more than 5,000 different Chinese
dishes.
However, manv Chinese, who
earn an average $32 a month, are
still unable to afford fancy meals at
restaurants.
In Shenzhen, a Chinese special
economic zone where foreign inves
tors have built factories, salaries
are higher and workers earn an av
erage of $53 a month.
At the restaurant, a Big Mac
costs $1.14, a bag of fries 48 cents
and a shake 74 cents.
Another U.S. fast food outlet,
REGENTS
From page 1
brary asbestos removal and the ap
pointment of Journalism Professor
Conrad Fink as director of the Col
lege of Journalism and Mass Com
munication’s James M. Cox, Jr.
Institute for Newspaper Manage
ment with a $66,612 annual
salary.
Kentucky Fried Chicken, opened a
restaurant in Beijing in 1987, and
it now has four outlets there. Mc
Donald’s hopes to open a restau
rant in Beijing later.
Although Kentucky Fried
Chicken has become popular, the
average Chinese still regards a
meal there as a treat, rather than a
convenience, and McDonald’s could
face the same problems.
The 500-seat McDonald’s res
taurant in a three-story building is
operated by McDonald’s Restau
rant Shenzhen Ltd., a wholly
The Committee on Education de
bated faculty salaries after hearing
a recommendation to pay the
acting director of the Georgia Insti
tute of Technology’s School of In
dustrial and Systems Engineering
$114,000 a year to assume the
school’s directorship.
Board member John Clark of
Moultrie said the regents would
spend more time debating a $100,-
000 land purchase than they did
rubber-stamping the director’s
owned subsidiary of McDonald’s
Hong Kong. McDonald’s Hong
Kong is a 50-50 joint venture with
McDonald’s in the United States.
It is managed by a Chinese na
tional, Chen Tikang, and his son,
Chen Yin, who is the restaurant
manager. The younger Chen re
turned recently from a course at
McDonald’s hamburger university
in Oak Brook, 111.
Moet of the ingredients used at
the restaurant are now imported
from Hong Kong.
salary, yet salaries end up costing
more because they aren’t one-time
appropriations.
“We spend more time talking
about buying a $100,000 piece of
property,” Clark said. “And that’s a
one-time cost."
Board member Carolyn Yancey
of Atlanta said some high salaries
are necessary in cases where a
school is in competition with pri
vate industry, and that many de
sirable faculty attract grant money
to their schools.
I would’ve bought a Macintosh even without
the student discount.
Grag Gallant
Consumer Economics and Housing
Cornall University
For more
information contact the
University Computer Store
at 542-7204
“The first time I saw a Macintosh, I was
immediately hooked. It’s a work of art. I saw
die student pricing and my next move
was obvious: get one.
j “Some other computers are cheaper,
j p. / but they’re a pain to learn, and working
on them can be a grueling experience.
List year, a friend bought another
kind of computer against my advice
j and has used it for maybe 15 hours.
£ j What a waste.
“Macintosh, on die other hand, is a
logical extension of die mind. It lets
you concentrate on what’s in your
z paper, not on how to get it on paper.
You can create professional-looking
documents in minutes, and you lose
die fear of learning new programs
because diey all work in die same way
“Once you’ve worked Midi a Macintosh,
there’s no turning back?
Why do people love Macintosh?
Ask diem.
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