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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 22
mts: Revamp budget
allocation strategy forces shortfall
llpudcount Enrollment
lor the University System ol Georgln
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m ictrimion, Dudget cut
backs and taxes won’t be the only
things on the minds of the governor
and state Legislature when the
new government meets in January.
They’ll have to deal with a re
quest from the University System
Board of Regents to rework the
way the regents calculate funding
needs for the system’s 34 institu
tions.
"We’re proposing that it be re
vised," said Roger Mosshart, Uni
versity System vice chancellor for
Fiscal Affairs. “I guess you could
say the ball’s in the other court
right now. We’ve made our serve,
and now it's up to the governor and
the Legislature."
Since 1982, the regents have
written budgets for the University
System that were two years behind
by the time the money was avail
able.
The present budget formula is
based strictly on two-year-old en
rollment figures, Mosshart said.
The new formula would use one-
year-old figures instead.
"What's being proposed right
now is being one year closer — one
year in arrears as opposed to two
years in arrears," he said.
At the board’s Oct. 9 meeting,
University System Chancellor H.
Dean Propst said the formula now
used left a shortfall in funding for
around 26,000 University System
students this year.
Mosshart said the 26,000 under
funded students represent the
number who’ve enrolled since the
present budget was drawn up two
years ago.
This is the fifth year in a row the
system has enrolled a record
number of students.
Rick Stancil, the governor’s
spokesman, said the fiscal year
1992 budget request to the gov
ernor and Legislature includes a
budget that uses the new formula
and is $177 million more than it
would be under the present one.
Stancil said 1987 was the first
year the system’s budget was fully
funded, which activated a process
that led to the development of a
better formula three years later.
"Nineteen eighty-seven was the
benchmark year — it was agreed,"
he said. 'This is the first year that
a revised budget was submitted.”
Mosshart said that 10 years ago,
when the present formula was de
vised, its authors foresaw a decade
of declining system-wide enroll
ment.
“In the 1980s, they {predicted
we’d have a declining student pop
ulation," he said. 'That hasn’t
come to pass. The environment is
different from what was expected
at that time.”
After the recession of the early
1980s, system-wide enrollment
went up, which Mosshart said is
typical because people find them
selves out of work in a recession
and go to school to learn new skills.
But the University, unlike most
other system institutions, typically
doesn’t feel these effects because it
isn’t technically oriented and the
commuter population is smaller.
Officials track down culprit of
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
It was a chemical bottle unconnected to the
experiment being performed Thursday that ex
ploded in a University chemistry laboratory,
according to investigations conducted by the
chemistry department and University Environ
mental Safety Services.
The experiment is completely safe and just
happened to be underway when another bottle
exploded, Charles Kutal, a chemistry professor,
said Tuesday.
There was no flaw in the experiment or in the
performance of the students, ne said.
It was previously reported that a flask of sul
furic acid caused tne explosion.
'The students were just in a bad place at a
bad time,” Public Information Director Tom
Jackson said.
The cause of the explosion is now believed to
be a bottle containing nitric acid, said Mary
Mellein, an administrative manager in the
Public Safety Division.
There were five or six bottles in the area of
the explosion and by using breakage patterns
and witness reports to re-create the scene, it
was determined to have been one of two bottles
that caused the explosion, probably one con
taining nitric acid, Kutal said.
The suspect nitric acid bottle was obliterated
in the explosion. The other bottle, found par
tially destroyed, contained hydrochloric acid
and copper. Mellein said.
The Dottle of nitric acid may have contained
an organic contaminant which caused the ex-
lab explosion
plosive reaction, she said.
“We know what happened, now it’s a ques
tion of why,” Kutal said.
Several changes in laboratory policies are
being considered.
Although a bottle of sulfuric acid originally
believed to have exploded was found to be un
connected to the explosion, Kutal said changes
may be made in the storage and use of powerful
acids.
The strong acid complicated things, he said.
The sulfuric acid which was being used during
the experiment was propelled by the explosion
and several students received burns from it.
Mellein said although there was no failure of
students to obey existing policies, there should
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Kappa Alpha fraternity member Shane Todd, a Junior majoring in
marketing, leaps for the football in a pick-up game as fellow
member John Crook, an undecided sophomore, hovers behind
him.
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On the campaign trail: Johnny Isakson with Barbara Bush at Leadership Atlanta.
First lady endorses Isakson
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
ATLANTA — Not only does Republican candidate
Johnny Isakson have President Bush’s support in the
upcoming gubernatorial race, but he has the support
of the president’s wife to boot.
First lady Barbara Bush made a stop in Atlanta
Tuesday at an Isakson fundraiser held by Leadership
Atlanta, an organization of young business leaders in
Atlanta. Mrs. Bush said volunteering for the sake of
children is something she and Isakson have in
common.
"Johnny has declared himself the leader of the chil
dren,” she said, referring to Isakson's roles ns a volun
teer Sunday School teacher and chairman of his
community March of Dimes chapter.
Mrs. Bush praised Isakson for his role in the recent
assing of house legislation against child abuse nnd
is involvement in the building of the Open Gate
Complex.
The complex, located in Cobb County, is a shelter
for abused women and children.
“It is a comprehensive approach to the problem,"
she said.
Mrs. Bush said she agrees with Isakson’s plnn to
get more parents involved in the eduention of their
children.
“Our communities and parents need more involve
ment in the school system," she said.
The first lady talked about her family, especially
her husband.
"Yes. it’s true. No broccoli,” she joked in reference to
media hoopla over her husband’s enting habits.
Mrs. Bush spoke briefly of her husband’s feelings
on the Middle-East crisis, saying he has strong feel
ings for the soldiers of America.
"George thinks of each of those men as his own
son," she said. ,
President Bush visited Georgia two weeks ago to
endorse Isakson at a fundraiser that netted Isakson's
campaign $600,000, according to figures released by
Jay Morgan, Isakson’s cumpaign manager.
Morgan predicted Mrs. Bush’s visit will net $35,000
to $40,000.
After a reception that was closed to the press, Mrs.
Bush nnd Isakson appeared for n brief news confer
ence in which the first lady ended speculation that her
nppearance was solely to re endorse Isakson.
; 'I am here to praise Atlnntu and the next governor
of Georgia," she said.
Mrs. Bush mnde the personal prediction that At
lanta will be extremely successful in hosting the 1996
Olympics.
“I predict Atlanta will host the most successful
Olympics ever held,” she said.
She defended her son Neil, who has been linked to
the savings nnd loan scandal in Washington, D.C. He
could face charges on money extortion.
"Do I like it? No. Will 1 fight it? Yes," she said.
Isakson said he has grown to admire the first lady
for her commitment to the community and to her hus
band.
“The president married n woman that possesses
clnss, style, dignity and compassion,” he said.
Richard Sheffield, a senior international business
major at the University who has worked on the
Isakson campaign since last March, finds the first lady
also hns the influence to boost the Isakson camp a
little more.
"Nobody hns more influence in this country besides
her husband," Sheffield said.
Tickets! Athens scalpers offer fans best pre-game show
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
It’s 30 minutes before kick-off. Traffic
is backed up at the intersection of Baxter
Street nnd Milledge Avenue on a Georgia
football Saturday. And, as usual, Red and
hii partner are working the cars stopped
at the light.
'Tickets! Tickets! Who needs those
tickets?" Red yells to the motorists. “You
got tickets?"
A car pulled up and Red gave his pitch.
He walked away from the car with a
ticket to Saturday’s Georgia/Vanderbilt
game that he bought for $5 from the
driver.
Welcome to the wonderful world of
ticket scalping. Every home game brings
an army of fans devoted to Georgia foot
ball and a score of ticket-selling mid
dlemen ready to please them.
Some are from Athens, mere “Saturday
scalpers," while others are professionals
who make their living off selling tickets
— but they all have one thing in common:
a desire for profit.
“I’m from Atlanta," said Little Joe,
who, like all the scalpers, declined to give
his last name. “The ticket business works
like any other business, you buy low and
sell high. Simple, there's no big thing to
if
Most serious scalpers begin early, at 8
or 9 a m., buying extra tickets from fans
for about $5, and selling them for $10 or
$15 to fans that need tickets. After kick
off the price drops to around $6, although
some sellers, ready to leave, sell tickets
for $3 or $5.
One ticket-seller working with Red this
Saturday said selling tickets for that
game wasn't illegal.
“I’m selling them under the cost. Now if
I’m selling these for $30, you can lock me
up; but if I ain’t selling them like that,
you ain’t got no right," he said.
Athens police Lt. Larry McCrary said,
"Scalping is the sale of tickets for more
than $1 over (face value). There’s prob
ably several things you could get them on
if you really wanted to go after them.
'This season there’s not a high demand
for Bulldog tickets,” McCrary continued.
“It hasn’t really been a problem in the
last couple of years. Basically, our posi
tion is to take care of problems in our ju
risdiction, and the vast majority of them
are right outside Sanford Stadium."
University police Chief Chuck Horton
said it is illegal for anyone to sell any
thing on campus without permission.
“I’m not condoning it, Horton said,
“but we can’t do everything. It’s just not
high on our list of priorities. They’re all
over the place; it’s the law of supply and
demand in its truest form.
“Would you rather your car get broken
into? Let's get some priorities here,” he
said.
Tom Flint, a sophomore finance m^jor,
buys tickets from scalpers when his girlf
riend, who goes to Kennesaw State Col
lege, comes to see a Georgia football
game.
“You can get a ticket whenever you
want if you need it,” Flint said. “You can
wait until the day of the game; you don’t
have to plan in advance.”
Flint has bought five tickets from
scalpers. The most he ever paid was $20
last year. He paid $4 for a ticket Sat
urday.
Suzanne Caber, a senior public rela
tions major from Valdosta State College,
said she used to get tickets from a friend,
but now she iust buys a ticket from one of
the sellers when she come« to see a game.
She bought her ticket for $7.50 from Joe.
"Now that’s some sorry stuff," la
mented Joe. “You know Georgia ain’t
worth my time coming down here. Two
tickets for $15."
Joe was soon in another haggle.
Ten bucks. OK, seven," he told a group
of five people that needed two tickets.
“We just bought three for $15," a
member of the group said.
That dude ain’t as hard up om me. I
ain’t making nothing, man, let me make
two bucks. OK, give me the $6," he said,
selling one ticket. "Now watch them pull
out bankrolls."
“We need one more,” another group
member said.
"No, no,” Joe said, “You aren't getting
another one for $6. I’ll u*ll you whnt, I’ll
give you two together for $15; give me
thnt ticket back.
"Fine," he said when they refused and
started to leave, "you could’ve helped me
out; I’d hnve given you the single for five;
I didn’t pay but one dollar for it anyway.”
Another seller, Robert, a professional
scalper from Atlanta, also remembers
better scalping days at the University
when buyers had a much harder time of
it.
"I remember when I came down here in
1981," Robert said. Tickets were selling
for $175. Back then when Herschel
Wnlker was playing, if you found a ticket
out here for under $75 you were lucky.
"I mean, students were offering you
$60 or $70, nnd you know that’s got to be
a hell of a game for a student to offer $70;
that’s his whole allowance for a month "
he said. '
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