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The Red and Black • Wednesday, October 17, 1990 • 3
So-called solution could
worsen underage drinking
Sunbelt Expo a major event
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
The 13th Annual Sunbelt Agri
cultural Expo, the largest single
educational event sponsored by
the University, is expected to
draw over 200,000 people inter
ested in learning the latest in ag
ricultural technology Oct. 18 -20.
The exposition attracts
fanners and agri-businessmen
from across the nation. It will be
held at Spence Field in Moultrie.
Ed White, director of the expo,
said the University will be coordi
nating this year’s event.
“The expo is the largest farm
show in the Southeast and one of
the three largest in the nation,”
he said.
The expo will feature 600 acres
of crops and over 700 exhibitors
from around the country, White
said. Many exhibitors will be
farm equipment companies
which will demonstrate equip
ment by harvesting acreage set
aside for this purpose.
‘The show will serve both to
educate the public on the latest
agricultural methods and to
allow farmers to compare dif
ferent types of farming equip
ment,” he said.
White said the exposition is an
international event — com Denies
from throughout the United
States and 20 foreign countries
will be present.
There will also be University-
sponsored educational programs
and displays by several southern
colleges, he said.
Also on the agenda are a live
stock exhibition, entertainment
provided by several bands and a
collegiate fence-building contest.
The University will present an
exhibit of its own. Claude Mc
Bride, associate director of
alumni relations, will be coordi
nating the University’s exhibit.
‘The University will have a pa
vilion exhibiting 19 displays from
various schools and colleges,” Mc
Bride said. “We want to take this
opportunity to showcase the en
tire University, not just the agri
culture department.”
Highlights of the University’s
exhibition will include the ath
letic department’s display of Uni
versity sports in the ’80s and
entertainment from several high
school singing and dancing
groups, he said.
The University will present a
landscaping display from the hor
ticulture department and ex
hibits from the Botanical Garden
and the Georgia Museum of Art.
McBride said he sees the expo
as an excellent recruitment op
portunity.
“We hope to attract high school
students to come in and learn
more about what the University
has to offer,” he said.
McBride hopes the expo will
bring money into the state by at
tracting farming equipment com
panies.
Stephen Tinsley, a senior agri
cultural education mqjor and
member of the FFA, formerly the
Future Farmers of America,
plans to attend the expo.
By MELISSA CRAIG
Campus Correspondent
Several universities around the
country have started putting birth-
dates on student identification
cards to combat underage
drinking, but Student Affairs Busi
ness Manager Jerry Anthony said
the University has no plans for a
similar policy.
Local bar owners have even re
quested that the University not in
clude the birthdate because it
would create more complications
for them, Anthony said.
If the IDs did include birthdates,
the University would only be able
to use the date of birth from a stu
dent’s application, which doesn’t
require proof of age, he said.
“Once students got the hang of
it, (they could make themselves)
two or three years older,” Anthony
said. “No one in town would con
sider that valid.”
Last spring, Eastern Illinois
University implemented a policy to
include birthdates on student IDs
when the city’s Liquor Advisory
Board considered raising the bar-
entry age to 21.
Although the proposal was
denied, Eastern’s president main
tained his decision to place birth
dates on the IDs.
Last winter, the Georgia Legis
lature’s Senate Affairs Committee
denied a bill that would have
raised the state’s bar-entry age to
21.
The University of South Caro
lina at Columbia — which origi*
nally had students’ birthdates on
their IDs — took them off in the
late 1970s due to concern that stu
dents were forging or misusing the
cards.
“It was too easy to alter the
cards before,” USC Registrar Lu
ther Gunter said.
USC reinstated the birthdates in
1987 by adding tamper-proof com
puter bar codes, and Gunter said
that no problems have arisen since
then.
USC organizations serving al
cohol before 1989 — when dry
campus regulations were fully im
plemented — were required to
check a person’s age, he said.
Because Columbia’s “Rocka-
fella’s” frequently has live bands, it
is one of the handful of clubs in the
city to admit underage patrons.
Since its reopening two years ago,
Rockafella’s nas used student IDs
to double check drivers’ licenses,
according to one of the club’s
owners, Cliff Kipp.
The club won’t give someone a
"yes” stamp without two forms of
picture identification, he said.
“If they have a student ID,
chances are they aren’t 21,” he
said. “If they can’t produce some
thing else, chances are it’s a fake
ID. Then we either stamp them
something else or turn them
away.”
Clemson University also began
placing bithdates on its student
IDs this summer, Jov Smith, di
rector of Student Development,
Local bar owners have
requested the
University not include
the birthdate because
it would create more
complications.
Jerry Anthony
Student Affairs
business manager
said.
Clemson made its decision based
on the campus’s long-standing so
cial policy, Smith said. The policy
requires any organization serving
beer or wine to identify the age of
the people it’s serving, and place
an age indicator, such as a wrist
band, on them.
“Because our students card each
other, (having birthdates on stu
dent IDs) makes it easier on them,”
Smith said. “They don’t have to
carry around other forms of ID.”
The fact that some bars may use
the IDs to double check drivers’ li
censes is only a by-product of
Clemson’s decision, she said.
Local bars Tiger Town Tavern
and Top of the Tavern don’t admit
patrons under 21 and have always
asked for two forms of ID, said
manager Bob Doster.
PLANS
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because people having to stop for
an extra 30 seconds would have
time to look around and become in
terested in what is going on in the
area. This could generate more
business.
He liked the idea of having a
town square blocked off. He said it
would work well in a college town.
‘The new convention center will
do better with a better downtown,
but the downtown is not strong
enough to draw a convention,” he
said.
Incorporating the Fire Hall into
the civic center could have been a
possibility if plans had been made
at the beginning of the project,
Kent said.
Architects like to work with
clean slates, but forcing them to in
corporate another building from
the beginning could have resulted
in a much better design, he said.
MIX-UP
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“We coordinated everything
with them,” he said.
Although the University was no
tified about the technical change of
addresses for the University Vil
lage apartments, the BOE wasn’t.
Healan said, “It’s up to the indi
vidual to correct their own ad
dress.”
Tracy Stanb«rg/Ihe Red and Black
And you thought Mondays were bad
A brave Kelly Burdette, member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, takes a pie in the face from Kathleen Wheat,
who is a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. However, Burdette took It all in good humor because the
organizations are two of several who sponsored booths at Sunday's Homecoming Carnival. Campus or
ganizations set up booths in order to raise money for various charities. The 1990 Homecoming Carnival,
which was held at Legion Field, was one of many events leading up to Saturday's game against Vander
bilt.
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