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KEND EDITION 4 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 28
sakson outline education agenda
INSIDE
Winona Ryder stars in the
coming-of-age movie
“Welcome Home, Roxy
Carmichael.”
10
Weather: It’s 80 in November?
This must end. Today, sunny,
80s, a little windy, tonight, fair,
low 50s, Sat., mosty sunny, high
around 80.
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
The highly pul
and secondary ed
bernntorial race ...
issue of concern to all University j
—funding for higher education.
Although the University System of
Georgia experienced a budget cut of $200
million this year, both gubernatorial can
didates support the use of funds from the
proposed state lottery entirely to fund
primary and secondary education.
Democratic Candidate Zell Miller and
Republican Candidate Johnny Isakson
claim education as their number one
priority, and offer specific solutions to re
solve the budgetary problems of higher
education in Georgia.
Isakson’s plan centers around the real-
location of state funds to leave more
money open for higher education.
In an interview last week, he said the
key to freeing up funds is to run the state
like a business, cutting out “pork-barrel”
projects and making private many auxil-
iaiy government operations.
Isakson said in his platform paper he
would use the governor’s line item veto
aggressively to prevent wasteful
spending.
He said he would like to offer 20 tuition
scholarships in each congressional dis
trict to qualified students from deprived
economic backgrounds who will agree to
teach for five years in Georgia after grad
uating.
While visiting the University last
week, Isakson stressed the importance of
improving research in the state’s univer
sities.
He said he would like to make Georgia
the new research center of the Southeast
by forging a research alliance between
the University, the Georgia Institute of
Technology, Georgia State University,
Clarke-Atlanta University, the Medical
College of Georgia and Emory University.
M I would like to utilize the assets of the
University to bring more jobs and eco
nomic growth to our state,” Isakson said.
'The University of Georgia is critical to
this process.”
During his stop in Athens last week,
Miller also told students he would make
education his number one priority.
To aid in funding the ailing university
system budget, Miller proposed in his
higher education platform paper the cre
ation of the Higher Education Capital
and Equipment Improvement Trust
Fund.
“The fund would be used to issue bonds
for capital and equipment needs
throughout the university system,” the
proposal read.
In the paper Miller stated his higher
education platform is composed of two
goals: “First, to forge a new alliance be
tween the governor, the General As
sembly, the higher education community
and the business community and second,
to make the University System of Georgia
one of the standards by which other
public universities measure themselves.”
Miller said one of his first acts as gov
ernor would be to create the Higher Edu
cation Roundtable composed of the
governor, the University System chan
cellor, the chair of the University System
Board of Regents, the presidents of the
four universities, the lieutenant governor
and the speaker of the House. The group
will meet at least once a quarter to dis
cuss the needs and goals of the university
system.
During the first year of his administra
tion, Miller said he would like to hold the
first Higher Education Summit to en
courage the cooperation of educational
and business lenders from around the
state.
Miller’s platform includes the contin
uation of the College Opportunity Act, a
plan he proposed to give financial aid to
middle-income families. The plan was
adopted by the Legislature during its
1990 session.
Additionally, he advocated the creation
of an Academic Excellence Fund, to pro
vide financial aid to meet specific needs in
Georgia, the expansion of the Governor’s
Scholars merit-based financial aid pro
gram and an increase in the Regent’s Op
portunity Scholarships for qualified
undergraduate and graduate minority
students.
Finally, Miller said he would make it
his goal to devote more state funds to uni
versity faculty salaries to make the state
competitive with other schools around the
nation and to explore with the Higher Ed
ucation Roundtable the possibilities of
modernizing the system’s curriculum.
Fire safety clash
triggers job split
By MICHAEL W. McLEOD
Staff Writer
This is a the second article in a
three-part series on fire safety at the
University.
Conflict between University Fire
Safety Officer Frank Edwards and
Physical Plant over fire safety code
violations on campus has led to the
creation of a new job and different
roles for both in fire safety.
Some at the University say the
changes were made to accommo
date Physical Plant and compro
mise safety, while others contend
the new system works better.
Before April most fire safety re-
sponsibilites rested on Edward’s
shoulders.
He inspected buildings on
campus and projects under con
struction to make sure they con
formed to fire safety codes, said
Public Safety Director Asa
Boynton. He reviewed architects’
plans to make sure they adhered to
the codes.
Edward corresponded directly
with the state fire marshal’s office
and followed up on violations to
make sure they were corrected,
and he created and conducted fire
prevention programs.
In May of 1989, Physical Plant
Director James Ten Brook wrote
Boynton asking that Edwards be
removed from direct contact with
Physical Plant due to disruptive
behavior.
“What you don’t fully appreciate
is the great number of arbitrary
and capricious requirements (lev
eled by Edwards) which will not be
overlooked (as they have been in
the past),” the memo read.
The conflict between Edwards
and Physical Plant caused Allan
Barber, vice president for business
nnd finnnee, to issue a memo in
February 1990 that transferred
Edwards’ job responsibilities to
Physical Plant Architect Danny
Sniff
Barber said Physical Plant and
Edwards would often disagree on
solutions to fire code violations. He
said because Physical Plant was
responsible for correcting the prob
lems, he felt it was in the best posi
tion to work with the state fire
marshal on a resolution.
Edwards appealed directly to
University President Charles
Knapp, claiming Physical Plant
was deliberately ignoring viola
tions. The Office of Legal AfTairs
investigated his claims.
The investigation found no de
liberate disregard for fire codes,
but stated that several violations
haven’t been corrected due to lnck
of funds.
Please See SAFETY, Page 3
Expert: Gramm-Rudman not doing job
By JOANNA HORTON
Campus Correspondent
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
Act leads to creative accounting,
not a balanced budget, U.S. Comp
troller General Charles Bowsher
told a capacity crowd at the School
of Law auditorium Thursday.
“By forcing the numbers to meet
Gramm-Rudman target, you don’t
get good cutoff at the year’s end,”
Bowsher said. “Therefore you have
problems.”
Appointed by President Reagan
in 1981, Bowsher heads the Gen
eral Accounting Office, a non-par
tisan auditing agency in the
legislative branch.
'The biggest problem that faces
the country is the deficit,” Bowsher
said. “When the president decided
to get serious about the deficit, we
were asked to provide significant
information.”
Bowsher estimates the deficit
will be $400 billion after the fed
eral government picks up the tab
for the savings and loan bailout
and U.S. presence in Saudia
Arabia, he said.
'That is a huge deficit,” Bowsher
said. “It is considerably more than
the official figure.”
In the State of the Union ad
dress President Bush stated that
the official figures for fiscal year
1990 are at $100 billion dollars
with a projected $64 billion for
1991.
Bowsher said, 'Those were the
Gramm-Rudman targets that we
were obligated by law to keep.”
He traced the history of the def
icit, beginning with the enormous
growth in the mid-1970s. Major tax
cuts implemented by Reagan, cou-
led with the doubling of the de-
ense budget during his
administration, swelled the deficit
further, Bowsher said.
“In the middle of the 1980s, we
started to run a $200 billion deficit
every year,” he said.
‘The official number is $325 bil
lion; if more of the savings nnd
loans go in the tank, it will be $400
billion," Bowsher said. “If the
Please See BUDGET, Page 3
■ HEADLINER
Barnard says classroom needs more funding
By GWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
The Congressional session has
ended and Doug Barnard said he's
looking forward to a few months at
his home in Augusta before re
turning to Washington, D.C., for
his eighth term as U.S. representa
tive of the 10th District.
“I feel that I’ve brought to the
Congress a good combination of
qualifications,” Barnard said.
While in Congress, Barnard has
worked not only with government
operations, but also has played a
big role in the banking, finance and
urban affairs committees. His
knowledge of banking and finance
is rooted in his work with the
Georgia Railroad Bank and the
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
He remained with Georgia Rail
road until the 1976 congressional
elections, when he won the 10th
District congressional seat.
But Barnard has been on the po
litical scene since 1963. He was ex
ecutive secretary to Gov. Carl
Sanders from 1963-67 and was a
member of the Georgia Board of
Transportation from 1966-76.
In a telephone interview from
his home in Augusta, 68-year-old
Barnard reflected on what he de
scribed as “an interesting career."
After completing his bachelor’s
degree at Macon’s Mercer Univer
sity, Barnard spent 26 months
overseas — in Northern Europe
with the U.S. Army. He then re
turned to earn a doctoral degree at
Mercer Law School.
“When I ran for Congress in
1976 it was my ambition to make
this country a stronger America,"
he said. ‘The challenges of today
are quite different.”
Nuclear war may have been a
major concern in the past, but Bar
nard said America faces new foes.
‘The new decade of the 1990s is
going to be a decade of competi
tion," he said. “Our present finan
cial system isn’t competitive with
financial systems abroad."
To improve our nation’s caliber,
especially in education, we must
“provide universities like Georgia
more funding to do research and
development, he said.
In the past Barnard supported
many University projects. He
worked to fund the Butts-Mehre
Athletic Building, the Carl Vinson
Institute of Government and the
Complex Carbohydrate Research
Center.
He said that he is for “protecting
the life of the mother” wnen asked
his position on abortion. And he
went on to classify himself as a
“progressive moderate.”
Barnard’s republican opponent
Sam Jones continually has ques
tioned Barnard's involvement with
the savings and loan crisis.
Jones contends that Barnard ac
cepted 320,000 worth of unethical
contributions from people such as
Charles Keating, a major figure in
the S&L crisis. .
Barnard said there's only one
reason Jones is attacking his asso
ciation with S&L figures: "Rev
erend Jones has no qualifications.
He’s had 13 jobs in 14 years.
"In 1986, when Keating was
being held up as the favorite S&L
figure, he gave me a political con
tribution. This is four years later.
"I’m a member of Congress and
he’d make it appear that I’m in
control of the regulators.”
There are two techniques for
running a campaign, Barnard said,
and he runs on qualifications and
platforms. But another way is to
'•run a smear technique, what I
would like to call 'the big lie tech
nique,’ ’ he said. "That’s the choice
of Mr. Jones.”
Rle
Doug Barnard
Barnard has attacked Jones for
failing to pay the lost eight vears’
taxes. However Jones has denied
this, claiming that a CPA always
has prepared his taxes.
Phyllis Barrow, 10th congres
sional district chair for the state
Democratic Party, said Barnard
has done a “fine job.”
“And I haven’t known any other
congressman with better constit
uent service,” she said.
Nik Edes’ last days:
VP reflects on tenure
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
Nik Edes is boxing up his
sweaters this week, drinking his
last few glasses of white wine at
Harry Bissett’s and lenving Uni
versity gossipers looking for
something new to talk about.
Edes was, until Wednesday,
the vice president for Devel
opment nnd University Rela
tions, a post he’s held since 1987.
He’s leaving Athens to take a job
with the American Film Institute
in I>08 Angeles.
The film institute, Edes said,
gnve him an ofler he couldn’t
pass up.
He’ll have offices in Lob An
geles, Washington, D.C., and
New York City, having the same
basic responsibility he did at the
University — raising money.
Edes, a self-described “Chi
cago-born, transplanted Wash
ington, D.C. labor warrior,”
leaves the University as one of
the most controversial University
administrators ever, even though
he snys he’s not.
“I have no idea why people
around here have been so enam
oured by my presence here,” he
said. “As far as I’m concerned, it
means I made a mark. If you
make a difference, there are
going to be some people who are
pleased with the difleVence you’re
making nnd some who are not.”
In the last year, Eddk, his per
sonality and nis ethics ns fund
raiser have been scrutinized by
The Red nnd Black, Atlanta Mag
azine and Athens Magazine. But
he said none of this has had any
effect on him.
“Wherever I have gone and
whatever I have done, I have
been written about. I have a
strong personality nnd I know
what my objectives are.
‘But if I paid attention to the
things that, nre written about me,
I would’ve been out of here afler
the first six months.”
Edes’ strong personality and
direct mannerisms raised some
eyebrows. So did his manner of
dress —■ he often wore casual
(and expensive) sweaters when
his colleagues were wearing coats
and ties.
At his last cabinet meeting, his
fellow administrators and the
deans from each school donned
sweaters ns a sort of farewell.
Edes was flattered.
“I guess that the traditional
way a University administrator
dresses is to wear a jacket and tie
all the time. This is one of the
wonderful things about working
at a University, though, because
it's on a college campus. I don’t
need to wear a jacket and tie to
impress my colleagues or staff
‘That’s not traditional, I guess.
That’s different. In some ways
I’m a traditional guy nnd in some
ways I’m not.”
Edes said he didn’t pay any at
tention to the idea that he didn’t
fit in at the University because
he wasn’t a Southerner — an idea
that gets kicked around every
now and then.
“I don’t believe in that kind of
regionalism. Where I come from
is irrelevant,” he said. “Some
people have said that the next
vice president needs to be a
Georgian. I just look at that and
say 'Come on — that’s silly.'
‘What you want is the best
person for the job, and if they’re
from Georgia, that’s fine, but if
they’re not, that's fine, too.”
Edes said he’s pleased with the
record he’s leaving at the Univer
sity. He has laid tne groundwork,
he said, for the development pro
gram to go beyond ite “early adul
thood.”