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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 18
Several million in asbestos removal still ahead
Budget cuts hinder repairs
Johnson: America limping into future
MDA real winner
this Homecoming
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
Homecoming Week activities
have produced lots of fun for stu
dents and money that will help
prolong or save the life of mus
cular dystrophy patients.
Jeffery Ruff, executive chair
of the All Campus Homecoming
Committee, said a little more
than $10,000 was raised at the
Muscular Dystrophy Associa
tion Superdance. Tne goal is
$15,000. MDA is the philan-
tropy of the Homecoming Com
mittee.
Homecoming Public Relations
Chair Kellie Burley said all pro
ceeds from Homecoming go to
MDA.
Ruff said, “We’ve raised the
most money Georgia’s ever
raised for MDA."
The committee will continue
collecting money for MDA with
donations from the ‘Tie One On
For MDA” project at the Tate
Student Center plaza from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m., he said. Students
will get red and black ribbons to
tie on their car antennas by
giving a donation.
“It promotes spirit for Home
coming,” he said.
Students can vote for the
1990 Miss Homecoming contest
at the Tate Center plaza from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. through Thursday
and today at the cookout from 4
p.m. to 8 p.m. at Legion Field.
The Simpletons will perform at
5 p.m.
The winners of the individual
window, banner and skit compe
titions will be announced Friday
at the “Dawg Fest” at 7:30 p.m.
at the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education.
The league winners and
overall winner of competitions
and the 1990 Miss Homecoming
will be announced during hnlf-
time of the Georgia-Vanderbilt
game Oct. 20.
Homecoming Queen candi
dates are: Nita Browning, a se
nior pschology major; Carrie
Dieterle, a senior public rela
tions major; Sandy Handlos, a
junior jewelry and metalwork
major; Misty Lathem, a senior
political science major and Kim
berly Marsh, a senior marketing
major.
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will hurt our budget, but we’ve got
to do it.”
Projects often are bailed out by
cutting into Physical Plant’s opera
tions budget, TenBrook said.
'That doesn’t solve anything,"
he said. “We’re just robbing Peter
to pay Paul.”
The severe budget problems
aren’t helped by increasing atten
tion from federal and state regula
tory groups, TenBrook said. The
state fire marshal, for instance,
has ordered Physical Plant to add a
costly exterior staircase to New
College.
“If the state requires it, well do
it,” he said. “But the Physical Plant
is being affected by the regulatory
crunch as much as by the budget.”
The projects getting squeezed
out by budget shortages are those
related to teaching and research,
TenBrook said. Several renovation
projects for various departments
already have been dropped this
year.
One University division affected
by Physical Plant’s budget is Bi
ological Sciences, where laboratory
renovations for upper-division
classes have been postponed.
Biology Professor Alan Jaworski
said, “We’ve been struggling with
Physical (Plant) for the last couple
of years. It’s all part of the move to
the new (Life Sciences) building."
Physical Plant’s inability to
carry through with the renovations
has hurt his department because
certain courses such as genetics
and neurophysiology aren’t being
offered in the “proper environ
ment," Jaworski said.
Emily Pou, dean of the College of
Home Economics, said her depart
ment was affected when construc
tion of a conditioning room for
textile research was dropped from
Physical Plant’s budget.
The carefully monitored temper
ature of a conditioning room would
have allowed researchers to test
fabrics.
“It was approved and supposedly
under way this summer,” Pou said.
‘This will seriously curtail the re
search in our department.”
Neither Jaworski nor Pou is op
timistic about future funding of
these projects.
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
The failure of young Americans
to prepare for positions of responsi
bility in the nation’s decision
making process is one of the key
challenges facing the United
States, Loch Johnson, University
political science professor, said
Tuesday.
As the inaugural speaker of the
President’s Lecture Series,
Johnson told about 130 students,
faculty and guests that Americans’
ignorance of world geography is an
indicator of citizens’ interest in
world affairs.
Johnson, a former chairman of a
U.S. House of Representatives in
telligence subcommittee and au
thor of several books on foreign
policy, said 30 percent of Univer
sity of Miami students couldn’t
find the Pacific Ocean on a map; 50
percent of college students in a
California poll couldn’t find Japan
and in a national sample of 18 to
24-year-olds in nine western na
tions, Americans finished last in
geographic literacy.
“Little wonder the United States
has fallen behind in international
trade,” Johnson said. “Continued
disregard of foreign languages, ge
ography, customs, economic prac
tices and politics is a guaranteed
prescription for American foreign-
policy failures in the future.”
This ignorance leads to a second
Jailbirds: Noah Rubright, Michael West and Scott
Johnson in jail for MDA fundraiser.
By CUNT BARRENTINE
Contributing Writer
James TenBrook: Research
will be hardest hit.
A recent 3 percent University
budget cut and reductions in gov
ernment funds are crippling Phys
ical Plant’s capacity to deal with
millions of dollars’ worth of vital
repair work on campus, Director
James TenBrook said.
TenBrook said a potential $10 to
$12 million of asbestos work still
needs to be completed on campus.
The asbestos either has to be re
moved or managed in place — and
both procedures are expensive.
'The campus is full of hazards,
and everything — even life safety
— is driven by budget consider
ations,” he said.
Critical “life-saving” projects
planned for this year will go for
ward, TenBrook said. Asbestos re
moval, maintenance of air-auality
systems and upgrading or fire-
safety measures top the list of
pressing concerns.
“Even if we’re in a pickle, like we
are now, there are some things,
like asbestos in the library, we
can’t hold back on,” he said. ‘This
major challenge — the protection of
constitutional government, he
said.
Johnson compared presidential
abuses of the Constitution to the
collapse of the Roman Empire,
where the Caesars took control of
the empire and it crumpled.
He said abuses like the hidden
escalation of Vietnam, Watergate
and the Iran-Contra AfTair are ex
amples of abuses against the Con
stitution by the executive office.
“With Iraqi zealots threatening
us with war in the Persian Gulf, it
may seem odd to you that I would
bother to speak of danger at home,”
he said. “Yet, historically, let us re
member that internal disorder has
been as potent a destroyer of civili
zations as attacks by foreign ene
mies.”
America needs to move beyond
its fixation with the Communist
threat, he said.
Johnson said President Bush
has at times been a proponent of
continued detente with troop re
ductions in Europe and arms-con-
trol talks.
But, he said, Bush still seeks
funding for 132 Stealth Bombers
costing $500 million each and for
Star Wars which will cost $4.7 bil
lion.
“Despite all the dramatic
changes in the Soviet bloc that
have transpired in the last year,
the Bush Administration — along
with a good many legislators of
both parties — often continues to
display the old siege mentality of
the Cold War,” he said.
In response to the end of the
Cold War, Johnson said, America
should stop intervening in the af
fairs of other countries.
America gets involved in any
country — no matter how small —
where revolution is brewing, he
said. CIA sponsored attempts to
assassinate Fidel Castro, a plot to
poison the toothpaste of an African
leader and operations to overthrow
the leader ot Chile are some of the
foreign policies that have hurt
America’s world perception, he
said.
“I don’t believe George Wash
ington and Thomas Jefferson
would have hired an underworld
hit-man to bump off people they
didn’t like,” Johnson said in re
sponse to a question on the
founding fathers using covert oper
ations.
“If we ore to intervene abroad,”
he said, “Let us do so first with bri
gades of school, hospital and home
builders, with nurses and physi
cians, with teachers, students,
farmers and economists, with the
diplomatic corps and the Pence
Corps and only in the most
pressing circumstances with the
CIA or the Marine Corps."
University President Charles
Knapp, who introduced Johnson
and talked to students at a recep
tion following the speech, said he
Loch Johnson: Send Peace
Corps, not Marine Corps.
was pleased with the first lecture
in the series and hopes the series
becomes a tradition at the Univer
sity.
In a University this size with
such n large number of depart
ments, Knapp said he hopes the
lecture series will draw everyone
together.
Planner urges Athens
to rethink downtown
By DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
The elegance of Trump’s Ball
room in The Georgian set the
scene Tuesday for a discussion on
what has become a dirty word to
some city officials — planning.
Fred Kent, president of Project
for Public Spaces, a national non
profit organization specializing
in the design of public buildings,
told 25 candidates seeking office
in the Athens’ new government
that the town hasn’t done a very
good job of planning in the down
town area.
“Planning can be a positive
word if you get the community in
volved,” he said.
Kent has been in Athens for
two days of workshops and meet
ings sponsored by the Athens-
Clarke Heritage Foundation, in
cluding this one to discuss plan
ning and development in the
downtown area with the candi
dates.
He praised Athens as a city
with potential, but he was also
blunt with the candidates about
the problems with the proposed
plans for the new civic center.
He advised the candidates to
take another look at the plans on
the drawing board. He also sug
gested the plans be made more
public.
“I’m surprised these plans
aren’t more public and Deing
shown to people," Kent said.
Politicians are trying to make
the right decisions without the
consensus of the community, he
said.
There is clearly a lot of uneasi
ness about the project and a lack
of planning, he said. He also said
the plan for the civic center isn’t
complete.
“Anyone who tells you it is — is
misleading,” Kent said.
One of Kent’s suggestions for
the civic center is the involve
ment of University students in
the research of community plan
ning.
'The business of the Univer
sity is to educate, but also to be
part of the community,” he said.
He called the University a
“wonderful resource” of ideas on
how to plan projects.
Bertis Downs, Athens-Clarke
Heritage Foundation president,
said the main focus on the civic
center is how it will relate to the
downtown area.
The main problem is that dif
ferent parts of the government
are working in different comers,
he said.
“In three weeks, we’ll have a
new government," Downs said.
The word now, he said, is to save
the civic center.
Kent labeled the Darking deck
across from City Hall mediocre
and offered some suggestions for
making the deck’s street level
into retail shops.
'The city’s parking deck is
truly ugly, and it sticks out like a
sore thumb,” he said.
He also said more traffic down
town would be better for business
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Address changeover triggers voting mix-up
Family Housing
By the numbers: The perimeter highway is the boundry between the 8th District and the
4th District, where residents have received the wrong registration cards.
By DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
Student residents of University
Village Apartments may have reg
istered to vote, but now the ques
tion is in which district do they
vote.
Under the impression he was to
vote in the 4th District, University
student Carl Seppala, a University
Village resident, which is a section
of Family Housing, was more than
confused when he received his reg
istration card in the mail telling
him to vote in the 8th District.
Dot Barrett, Clarke County
Board of Elections chair, said Sep
pala was the first student to notify
the BOE of the mix-up, but he will
not be the last student to receive
an incorrect registration card.
The problem is that residents of
University Village Apartments
should no longer be using the ad
dress “University Village." Instead
they should be using the correct
College Station Road street ad
dress, she said.
Barrett said the voters who re
ceived incorrect voter registration
cards are those who live at the ad
dresses 102-113 College Station
Road.
There are five areas of family
housing, Hugh Hale, assistant di
rector of housing for Family
Housing, said Monday. University
Village falls into areas one through
three, and areas four and five are
the Rodgers Road Apartments.
Barrett said voting cards issued
to residents of Rodgers Road
Apartments are correct and no
change is necessary for them.
Residents of University Village
were sent cards telling them to
vote in the 8th District, but they
should vote in the 4th District.
Most of College Station Road is
located in the 8th District, but the
road is divided by the Athens Pe
rimeter. The division places the
University Village Apartments in
the 4th District.
When people living in the apart
ments registered to vote, she said,
they used their correct street ad
dresses as specified by the postal
service.
The BOE was unaware that
these addresses were the Univer
sity Village Apartments in the 4th
District.
These street addresses were
then entered into the computer
and placed in the 8th District with
the rest of College Station Rond,
Barrett said.
“People will be getting new
cards, and should destroy their old
ones," Barrett said. "We are
sending corrections and the correc
tions are right on the bocks."
Dennis Healan of the U.S. Postal
Service address information sys
tems said the “University Village"
address isn’t a correct address.
“People need a street address
and an apartment number," he
said.
The postal service sent letters to
University Village residents noti
fying them to use their correct
str et addresses more than a year
ago, Healan said. The University
was also notified.
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