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Red & Black
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1990 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 31
INSIDE
Brant Slay and the
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies
to play homeless shelter
benefit concert.
Weather: Looks like Florida trips
will be all wet. Today, partly
cloudy. 60s, tonight, increasing
clouds, 40s, Fri., 70 percent
chance of rain, mid 50s.
iville mall
age curfew
Staff Writer
If Wee Adams, a sophomore
business major, hadn’t found out
before he headed to Jacksonville
this weekend, he might’ve been
in for a nasty surprise.
He, along with anyone else
under the age of 21, wont be let
into the Jacksonville Landing
after 9:30 p.m. this Friday and
Saturday unless accompanied by
a parent or guardian.
Since its creation along the St.
Johns River, the shopping mall
has drawn a large crowd eager to
visit its ban and restaurants
every Oeorgia/Florida game
weekend.
Landing manager Paul Fick-
ingsr said the crowds have grown
too large, and the policy of car
ding patrons after shopping
hours is an effort to reduce the
crowd.
Landing security and Jackson
ville police will be blocking four of
the entrances to the mall. After
9:80 p.m., patrons will be carded
and only allowed in the main en
trance facing Independant Drive.
They may leave through any exit.
"But we won’t be throwing
‘If you’re In, you’re In.’
— Paul Rckinger
anybody out who comes in before
9:30," Fickinger said. "If you’rs
in, you’rs in.
Kara Waldrop, a 19-year-old
pe-nursing sophomore who will
be traveling to Jacksonville this
weekend, said the new policy was
unfair.
“Not everyone is going down
there to drink. Not everyone un
derage is going to be the ones
causing trouble. It’s like they’re
choosing a group that’s non-rev
enue," Waldrop said.
She also said the policy would
cause some underage students
who want to go to the landing to
drink more alcohol earlier in the
evening.
Fickinger said, "It’s certainly a
reasonable action to take. Sure
we’ve had some complaints, but
all the business down there after
shopping hours is related to bars
and most won’t let you in under
21."
Adams seid, “That’s a real
bummer, it’e really early.”
Chemicals costly oversight
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
In dark comers, on dusty shelves and locked
in storage areas throughout University labo
ratory areas sit unused containers, full or par
tially full, of chemicals creating a growing
menace.
Some are small vials containing less than a
gram of white dust, and some are bottles con
taining gallons of clear fluids. They have one
common characteristic that makes them a
menace — no one knows what they are.
According to the recently released University
Self Study Report, these bottles are creating a
health hazard and should be removed. But re
cent budget cuts have made their removal un
likely.
The study, compiled by faculty, stafT, stu
dents and alumni every decade for University
reaccreditation, states, ‘The hazardous chem
ical wastes stored in laboratory areas pose a
current danger to the University community.”
University research and public safety admin
istrators agree that the unidentified chemicals,
which may run to more than 3,000 containers
throughout the University’s 1,500 labs, are a
problem. But they are quick to point out that
the health and safety threat is restricted to the
labs where the chemicals are located.
Public Safety Director Asa Boynton said the
danger with these unidentified chemicals is
that lab workers don’t know what they’re
working around. Without labels, there is no
way to know what is in the bottles, and dan
gerous situations could result from reactant
chemicals being stored near each other.
Justin Reese, director of the University Sys
tem’s Hazardous Materials Program, said,
“We’ve never had a problem, but some of the
chemicals become unstable and create a poten
tial problem."
Boynton said the presence of unidentified
chemicals would also increase the danger and
hamper cleanup operations of accidents like the
one in the chemistry building earlier this
quarter.
If cleanup and firefighting crews didn’t know
what chemicals were spilled in an accident,
they would have to guard against every pos
sible situation that could result from the mix
ture of spilt chemicals, Boynton said.
“With chemicals,” he said, “You always want
to know what you’re dealing with."
These chemicals aren’t a new problem.
They’ve been accumulating since many of the
laboratories were opened.
When graduate students and professors
move on to new jobs, they often leave unlabeled
bottles behind for someone to store, Boynton
said.
Reese said when professors and researchers
who have been here for 20 to 30 years retire,
they sometimes leave hundreds of containers.
“Chances are they didn’t know what was in
the bottles either," he said.
Key said the chemicals continue to pile up in
labs that are used by more than 2,000 faculty
and 10,000 students every year.
Although most administrators agree there is
a need to remove these chemicals, budget cuts
will likely prevent any solution for the rest of
this year.
Laboratory workers are prohibited from
simply dumping out old chemicals. All chemi
cals must be identified and disposed of
according to federal and state regulations.
Department of Transportation and Environ
mental Protection Agency guidelines prohibit
Public Safety from removing unknown wastes
along with labeled waste, which they remove on
a regular basis. The cost of having samples of
unknown waste identified is about $1,000 per
sample, Reese said.
The Department of Public Safety has funding
to provide for disposal of labeled chemicals, but
has no funding to pay for identification of unla
beled waste.
The self-study recommends that the Office of
the Vice President for Business and Finance,
which oversees Public Safety, assume the costs.
Reese said his budget of $18,017, which
hasn’t increased in 10 years, can’t handle the
problem, and funding needs to come from out
side the department, possibly from the colleges
where the unknown bottles are stored.
He said the cost of having a private company
identify and remove the chemicals could be
more tnan $400,000.
Key said departmental budget cuts will
make it difficult to address the problem.
‘The problem will have to be dealt with, but
we have the constraints of time and money, like
everyone else,” he said.
Boynton said nothing would likely be done
through Public Safety this year either.
Reese said the longer the University waits to
address the problem, the more costs will accu
mulate.
Not only do more unidentified chemicals
stack up in labs, more EPA regulations are cre
ated — further increasing costs, he said.
State Democratic landslide
marks new campaigning era
By DAVID M. JOHNSTON
Opinions Editor
An analysis.
On Monday night, a lot of Georgia Democrats felt
uneasy. Their party’s statewide candidates led every
poll, and the party itself had never been so united. But
it was the night before the election, and there was
nothing to do.
There were no phone banks, no rallies, and no one
was planning a 3 a.m. “sign run.” In fact, there were
no signs. Their only comfort came in periodically spot
ting Zell, Pierre, Tim and the others on television.
But by Tuesday night, exhilaration had replaced
the anxiety of rank and file state Democrats.
The party, which has dominated Georgia govern
ment for more than a century, won overwhelming vic
tories all over the state.
Democratic nominee Zell Miller trounced Marietta
Republican Johnny Isokson, winning 138 of 159 coun
ties and taking an estimated 46 percent of Isakson’s
suburban Republican base.
With 99 percent of the state’s precincts counted,
Miller had 53 percent of the vote to Isakson’s 45 per
cent. Libertarian candidate Carole Ann Rand had 3
percent.
Georgia’s 1990 gubernatorial race signaled an
abrupt change in the way statewide races are con
ducted.
The Miller campaign, which Georgia political guru
Bill Shipp calls the "perfect” modern campaign, spent
$5 million (of $6.6 million raised) on television.
Responding to repeated requests from supporters,
the campaign reluctantly printed 5,000 yard signs.
But the campaign had no phone banks and no head
quarters outside of Atlanta.
However, to traditional campaigners, Republicans
seemed to be doing all the right things by combining a
traditional grass roots campaign with big media buys.
Isakson, who had 35,000 signs and storefront head
quarters in several cities, stumped the state. Miller
was nowhere to be seen —except on television and at
Atlanta fundraisers.
The race also showed a shift in public attitudes on
issues that had been pivotal in earlier gubernatorial
races.
Isakson, a moderate Republican, had early on aban
doned his announced strategy of “exposing" his mod
erate rival as a liberal. In the final days before the
election Isakson floundered in search of an issue to
call his own.
In 1982, Gov. Joe Frank Harris used n staunchly
anti-abortion stand to beat heavily favored former
Congressman Bo Ginn in the Democratic primary be
fore swamping Republican hopeful Bob Bell.
But this year both candidates were pro-choice,
Isakson having changed his stance during the Dri-
mary. Isakson’s votes against the Equal Rignts
Amendment and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
haunted rather than helped him.
He hoped that, through his pledge to send lottery
money directly to local school systems, he’d steal
Miller’s biggest asset.
Many traditional Georgia GOP voters found them
selves more enthusiastic for their conservative lieu
tenant gubernatorial candidate Matt Towery. The
political newcomer had barely a chance against vet
eran Democrat Pierre Howard.
Please See DEMOCRATS. Page 3
By DANA WHITE
Staff Writer
Four of the six candidates who were defeated
Tuesday in the race for chief elected officer of the
Athens-Clarke unified government haven’t endorsed
either candidate in the Nov. 27 runoff.
Gwen O’Looney captured the lead Tuesday with 42
percent of the votes while E.H. Culpepper came in
second with 21 percent to advance to the runoff.
George Bullock, a 24-year veteran of local politics,
came in a close third with 20 percent of the vote.
Bullock said in nn interview Wednesday, “I will not
endorse either candidate because I do not feel either is
qualified to lead the new government.”
After his County Commission term expires, Bullock
said his political career is over. “I will not be involved
in politics in any form or fashion," he said.
Bullock said he is concerned about the kind of gov
ernment Clarke County will have for next four years.
“Well probably have four years of chaotic lead
ership,” he added.
University Political Science Professor Loch
Johnson said he had thought the top three spots
would be split among O’Looney, Culpepper and Bul
lock. He said O’Looney was the most likely to be in a
runoff, but it was like a flip of a coin between Cul
pepper and Bullock.
Going into the runoff, O’Looney could have the ad
vantage, Johnson said.
Johnson cited recent surveys indicating 70 percent
of women who lead going into runofT elections win.
‘The odds are in her favor,” he said.
Although the business community might support
Culpepper, a local banker, Johnson said 0‘Looney
also has support from the business sector and their
constituencies could overlap.
“I think both candidates will beat the bushes for
every vote they can get," he said.
Johnson expects upcoming debates between the two
candidates to be civil, cordial ones because he con
siders both candidates to be moderate.
He said such a cordial campaign may not have been
possible had Bullock been in the runofT.
‘Both candidates will beat the
bushes for every vote they can get.’
— Loch Johnson
Johnson said a sharp and bitter campaign could
have developed between O’Looney and Bullock be
cause each candidate had extremely contrasting
ideas, but he feels this will not be the cast* with Cul
pepper and O’Looney.
“I expect nn elevated campaign that will be re
freshing," he said.
O’Looney expects thnt a hard campaign trail lies
ahead.
'There is a conlescense of the establishment in the
community who want to stop my election," she said
Wednesday. “Before the election, these votes were
split, now they’re unified.”
O’Looney feels her biggest advantage is her record,
which she said, speaks for itself. .
Culpepper feels his campaign is going in the right
direction considering he entered the CEO race later
than other candidates. He said he will continue tg ad
dress various issues like putting into office the proper
management for the new government.
“I’m just delighted that people saw fit to place
enough confidence in me to be in the runofT," he said.
Jim Holland, Clarke County Commission
chairman, plans to retire after his term expires. He
also hasn’t endorsed either CEO candidate.
“People can make up their own minds," he said.
Nathan Williams, an independent insurance agent,
said he hasn’t decided whether hell endorse either
candidate or seek office again.
Jim McGown, computer aid at Barrow Elementary
School, said he doesn’t know if hell endorse either
candidate.
“It’s obvious people want a change, and they have
more confidence in the city government than in the
county,” he said.
CEO endorsements open; expert says O’Looney has edge
Voter turnout among students low
By QWINN BRUNS
Staff Writer
Tuesday’s voter turnout in
Clarke County was only slightly
lower than in 1988, but student
candidates said the low turnout
rate among students may be
what kept them from advancing
to the runoffs.
Ben Calhoun, Student Govern
ment Association vice president,
said the three student candidates
in the 4th District, Scott Davis,
Thomas Stubbs and Micheal Di-
oguardi, were targeting the same
voters.
*There were three student can
didates,” he said, “and even if
there had been a consolidated
group of student voters, (the vote)
still would’ve been split."
SGA President Heath Garrett
said many students failed to reg
ister to vote.
“Students showed very little
concern for the district races and
the (chief elected officer),* he
said. “Students just get too busy
in their schedules."
Garrett also said the student
vote was split between several
districts.
“What they did. and this may
be a criticism of the unified gov
ernment, is they made a Univer
sity district, but a majority of the
Local Voter Turnout
(Clarke Count.y)
students live off-campus," he
said. ‘They pulled a fast one on
the students.”
Scott Davis, a candidate for the
4th District and a University
graduate, said there are many
reasons for the low voter turnout.
"The number one reason was
the lack of information or the
misinformation about voter reg
istration,” Davis said. "Vote 90
was good, but what we’ve got to
do is to encourage students to
register locally.”
Davis said the turnout was pa
thetic. And he suggested having
registration sites in residence
halls in the future.
“I think it needs to be part of
the University process," he said.
He will encourage 4th district
Commissioner-elect John Barrow
and 7th district runoff candidate
Cardee Kilpatrick to work up a
program to encourage student
registration, he said.
Sounds of America
Thomas Joiner, conductor of the University Sym
phony orchestra, rehearses Wednesday for a
concert at 8 p.m. tonight in the fine arts audito
rium. The theme of the concert is "An American
Salute," featuring works by American com
posers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Charles
Ives and Howard Hanson. Also on the program is
Morton Gould's "American Salute.” Tickets can
be purchased in Room 203 of the fine arts j
building or at the door after 7 p.m.