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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1990 • ATHENS. GEORGIA • VOLUME 98. ISSUE 33
INSIDE
Barry Levinson’s new film
“Avalon” is stripped of
impact by lack of focus on
the family saga.
Weather: The cold may be setting
In for Thanksgiving. Today.,
sunny, upper 60s, tonight, fair,
upper 30s, Wed., sunny, high In
the upper 60s.
gear up to go
Jy for ‘tank laser tag’
active in Saudi Arabia
By MICHAEL W.
Staff Writer
When Secretary of Defense Dick
Cheney announced last week that the
Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Bri
gade would soon be called to active duty,
more than 4,000 citizen soldiers all over
the state started getting ready to go, in
cluding some University students.
“I’m not aching for it, said Pat Dolan, a
senior political science major and ROTC
cadet in the 48th. “But I’ve been living off
the government dole, I have no com
plaints."
Tracy Carter, a senior political science
megor and second lieutenant in the 48th,
said, “Yeah, I’m ready; I’ve got all my stuff
packed.”
On Monday no official word of activa
tion had been received, but Capt. Ken
Vaughn, a training officer of the 48th
said, “It’s not a question of if any more, it’s
a question of when.”
Another cadet at the University, Cliff
Hodges, a senior social science education
mqjor, is also a part of the combat bri-
f ;ade. Hodges and Dolan were both
ooking forward to being commissioned as
seconalieutenants in June, but activation
will stall that.
New policy handed down this year by
the Department of Defense dictates that
cadets assigned to National Guard units
will serve in their enlisted capacity if acti
vated before their commission.
“I’m enlisted as soon as I get activated,”
Dolan said. “Prom a personal standpoint,
Td like to finish school out and get com
missioned, but I can see their reason in
doing it.”
Carter, who is in charge of four ar
mored fighting vehicles, said the 48th is a
supplement of the 24th Mechanized In
fantry Division in Ft. Stewart, Ga., al
ready in Saudi Arabia.
President Bush’s decision to allow re
serve units to be activated for a full year
instead of the previous 180 days
prompted the call-up of the 48th, he said.
Carter said once the combat brigade is
activated it will spend several weeks
training with its armored vehicles in the
Mojave Desert at Ft. Irwin, Cai.
“It’s just like playing laser tag with
tanks,” he said.
All the students said they were appre
hensive about the upcoming activation,
but ready.
“My parents are upset,” said Dolan.
TheyYe very religous people and of
course they’re praying for me. My father
got a little more of a pacifist tone once he
found out I was going.
“Of course I’m scared; Tm human,” he
said. This is a major inconvenience. I
have a fiancee; I may want to get married
early. It puts everything in focus. I have
to make value judgments on what I think
is important in life very quickly."
Others at the University activated in
clude James Dowd, a history professor
and reserve lieutenant colonel who left
Athens in late August to serve. According
to the Office of Veterans’ Affairs, five stu
dents in military reserve units were acti
vated in September and one in October.
University policy developed this
quarter allows a student activated to re
ceive a refund of all fees and expenses
paid to the University.
Faculty members and employees are
guaranteed that their jobs will be avail
able when they return with the same
salary or with any increases that would
have occurred.
At other schools across the state, North
Georgia Military Academy reported that
only one cadet had been activated so far,
but that nine cadets were attached to the
48th and face possible activation.
Georgia Southern University reported
that two students had withdrawn due to
activation. The Eagle ROTC battalion
there, which consists of cadets from Arm
strong State College, Georgia Southern
and Savannah State College, reported one
female cadet had been activated and
about 15 cadets were attached to the 48th.
Tracy Carter: Student
platoon leader
Students
accosted
in Florida
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
Two University students said
they were threatened Sunday
morning by an armed robber only
blocks from the Jacksonville
Landing, a mall that hosted most
of the post-Georgia/Florida game
niffhtlife.
Michael Reece, a junior health
promotion major, said Monday he
and his roommate, Chris Fisher,
also a junior health promotion
major, were walking from the
Landing to the Hospitality Inn,
less than a mile away, at about
2:30 a.m. Sunday.
A man, who tne two believed to
be a typical beggar, came up and
asked tor money. When they re
fused and told him to leave them
alone, he pulled a handgun from
hisjacket, Fisher said.
‘The man said, Don’t talk to me
like that or I’ll blow your head off," 1
Fisher said.
He then waved the gun in
Reece’s face and stood there. He
was acting “real spaced-out,”
Fisher said.
Fisher ran to a phone booth that
was across the street and called
911.
He said a dispatcher on the
phone asked him if he was in
danger.
Fisher said, “God damn, he’s
coming right at me with a gun."
He said the dispatcher told him
not to curse on the police line.
Fisher said he felt that ne was get
ting nowhere so he hung up and
called back.
"The man said, ‘Don’t
talk to me like that or
I’ll blow your head
off.”’
Chris Fisher
junior
By this time the gunman had
walked around the comer of the
block, but the students said they
were worried that he was watching
them to see if the police were really
coming.
Fisher said they were afraid to
continue walking and waited by
the phone because they weren’t
sure where the gunman had gone.
They tried calling the police a
second time at 911 and when they
told the dispatcher that the man
wasn't in sight, the dispatcher said
all the officers were busy with
more important cases.
On a third attempt to reach a po
lice supervisor at a non-emergency
phone number, they were told that
officers had been dispatched,
Fisher said.
About IS minutes later four offi
cers arrived in two police cars
without using sirens, Reece said.
Reece said the officer, V. Wright,
apologized about the inconvenience
and gave them a ride home, but he
didn’t fill out a report.
After the students called the sta
tion complaining that a report was
not filed, Officer Wright cams back
and filed a report.
Administrators at the Jackson
ville police department were off
Monday because of Veterans Day
and were unavailable for comment.
Jacksonville police public infor
mation officer Sgt. Steve Wein-
traub said he was not familisr with
the case when contacted at his
home Monday.
Florida hangover
A dejected Larry Ware tells the story of Saturday's loss to the
Florida Gators. See story, page 8.
Council will debate
protection of trees
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
The Athens City Council’s Finance Committee will
weigh the interests of tree advocates against those of
developers today at a meeting called to consider a tree
protection ordinance proposed by the Athena Tree
Commission.
Called meetings are held outside the normal
agenda when council members feel an issue will de
mand more time than usual.
“What we’re asking for is a tree management pro
gram,” said ATC Chairman John Waters, associate
professor of environmental design. Most of ATC’s
members are expected to attend the 7 p.m. meeting in
council chambers. The full council is invited to ob
serve the meeting.
Some say the appointment of a full-time city ar
borist may be the hardest part of the proposal to sell.
‘The only snag well run up against is the appoint
ment of an arborist,” said Dan O'Neal, a senior public
relations major who, for a class project with three
other students, conducted an ATC media campaign.
“It’s a really shaky time right now with (unification)
—people are really skittish about budget matters.”
The arborist would place a value on trees cut down
and establish the number of replacement trees needed
to duplicate the old trees’ environmental impact.
The ordinance, which would exempt owner-occu
pied single-and double-family homes, is the only item
on the committee’s agenda.
Proponents want the ordinance to pass before city
and county governments unify in January because the
ordinance’s chances will decrease after that. But if the
council passes the ordinance, it will stay on the books
during Athens and Clarke County’s one-year tran
sition to a unified government.
Waters said the ordinance has waited since Sep
tember for the committee’s consideration, but due to
concerns like the recent election it’s had to wait.
The ordinance’s history is an unsteady one, marked
by periods of scrutiny and obscurity. At the ATC’s re
quest, it spent last summer on the finance commit
tee’s back burner while the ATC reworked it to make
it feasible.
“It was actually reintroduced in September,” Wa
ters said. “We introduced the ordinance in May and
realized there was opposition from certain aspects of
the community, so we asked that it be put on hold.”
O’Neal said he and his colleagues from the ATC
campaign will mnn a table at the Tate Student Center
plaza beginning at 10 a.m. today to gather signatures
for a petition they plan to present to the committee
today.
“We'll have flyers that detail what the ordinance is
basically about, and well probably have a petition,"
he said. “Hopefully, we’ll get at least 100 signatures —
that’s an ofrnand estimate."
But the fate of the ordinance is uncertain.
‘There’s a lot of opposition by developers,” he said.
“It’s pretty nasty Athens politics.”
On the other side of the spectrum, Athens Business
Council President Stan Henderson has said he doesn’t
see the tree ordinance as something that should con
cern businesses.
Henderson was unavailable for comment Monday.
Three-point ace Patton leads Georgia on court
By ERIK SCHMIDT
Sports Writer
When Southeastern Conference basketball
powers scout the Bulldogs this season, they'll
pay careful attention to the Georgia backcourt,
and in particular, three-point shooting ace Jody
Patton.
In Georgia’s 128-92 thrashing of Newcastle
Australia Friday at the Coliseum, Patton
scored 21 points, all via the three-pointer. His
seven for seven performance from outside the
three-point line led the defending SEC champs
in shooting percentage, treys and placed him
second in scoring in Georgia’s opening exhibi
tion game.
“He’s been shooting like that all pre-season,”
Georgia coach Hugh Durham said. “We want
him to shoot it.”
Patton, a senior from Tifton, is basically the
team’s sixth man. He has the ability to play in
side when called upon, but specializes in the
long distance shot.
“I work on my range a lot," the 6-foot-4-inch
guard said. “I feel comfortable shooting from
farther out.”
Patton is consistently among the three-point
field goal leaders in the conference, sinking
43.3 percent (top three in SEC) of his treys last
season and 45.7 percent (second in SEC) the
season before.
In Georgia’s final stretch run for the confer
ence title last season, Patton caught fire. He
shot 51.6 percent from three-point range in the
final 17 games, where the Dogs went 12-5. He
also holds the Georgia school record for most
career treys with 103.
During a crucial game against Louisiana
State in Baton Rouge last year, Patton started
in place of the injured Litterial Green and re
sponded admirably with a season-high 19
points, including four three-pointers.
“Jody would start for most people,” assistant
coach Mark Slonaker said. “Both times he
started last year, he had great games. Jody
could step in and we wouldn’t miss a beat.”
One of the only things Patton did wrong
against Newcastle was miss a pair of foul shots
from the charity stripe.
“Jody should’ve moved back (from the foul
line)," Durham joked.
The rest of the backcourt also performed well
for the Bulldogs. Green, the team’s starting off
guard, led all scorers with 28 points.
The starting point guard Rod Cole, defensive
specialist Shaun Golden and freshman Bernard
Davis all combined for 30 points. Added with
Green’s and Patton’s scoring outputs, the
Georgia backcourt totalled 79 points — 61.7
percent of Georgia’s offense Friday.
“Our backcourt is as experienced as any
other backcourt,” Durham said. “It’s five deep.
But it’s too early to start evaluating and com
paring (with other conference guards)."
Cole, a senior from Conyers, agrees.
“We have more experience on the outside
than on the inside,” he said. “That’s where our
leadership is.”
Jody Patton
Knapp bids to host Olympic tennis
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
The University may get a piece of the Olympic pie
after all.
In a letter to the president of the Atlanta Orga
nizing Committee, University President Charles
Knapp made a formal bid Thursday on the Univer
sity’s behalf to host the tennis events of the 1996
Olympics.
The written letter, sent to AOC President Billy
Payne, stated the University would be “very inter
ested in being designated as the venue for the tennis
competition.
Dan Magill, assistant athletic director and di
rector of tennis, said Monday the idea had been
tossed around two years ago when the Olympic
Committee came to Georgia to view facilities.
The original plan to use Blackburn Park, located
in Atlanta, has been scrapped after months of de
bating between the AOC and area residents.
‘The citizens of Blackburn Park have decided
they don’t want the area used,” Magill said.
The University wouldn’t be a stranger to hosting
world-class tennis events.
“The University hosts eight to 10 amateur and
collegiate (tennis) tournaments each year, more
than any other site in the country,” Magill said.
He said the University has hosted the National
Collegiate Athletic Association championships 14
times since 1972 and will hoet the event again May
17-26, 1991.
The main tennis complex at the University,
Henry Feild Stadium, has six indoor courts, 12 out
door courts and a grandstand with seating for more
than 4,000. It was named for the late Hemy Feild,
Georgia’s number one singles player from 1964-66.
The adjacent facility is Lindsey Hopkins indoor
tennis center, with four courts that seat 1,800. Hop
kins is a Georgia alumnus and father of former
Georgia tennis captain Lindsey Hopkins III.
Athletic Director Vince Dooley said Monday that
Athens and the University are an ideal location to
hoet the tennis events.
’The University has an international flavor, with
1,100 students from 102 countries around the
world,” he said.
Dooley said the completion of Georgia Highway
316 will help make the campus more accessible by
bringing the campus within an hour of downtown
Atlanta. Also, 8,000 rooms will be available in the
residence halls at the time of the summer Games.
Student dies following
lengthy kidney illness
By LIZETTE KODAMA
Campus Correspondent
University student Zenvli “Zee"
Jones, 22, was found dead in his
parents’ home Wednesday af
ternoon by his mother, Louise
Jones, after a long battle with
kidney complications.
He was hospitalized last week at
Emory University Hospital for a
kidney removal and died of compli
cations following dialysis, said
Christopher McCrary, a friend of
Jones’ and a senior psychology
m^jor.
McCrary said Monday that Mrs.
Jones suspects that rising blood
pressure caused her son to have a
stroke, but no autopsy has been
performed. Mrs. Jones, a teacher,
found her son when she returned
home from work.
Jones, a senior environmental
health major from Carrollton, had
been battling kidney complications
since 1987.
“He was like my brother," McC
rary said. “I had known him since
ninth grade.”
Lynn Thomas, Jones’ girlfriend,
said, “Everyone knew him as Zee.
He made everyone smile. He was
just a happy person with many
friends at UGA.”
Thomas, a junior journalism
m^jor, dated Jones for two years.
She said he was a hard worker.
“He wanted to graduate so
much," she said. “He only had one
more quarter to go.”
Maurice Anderson, Jones’ friend
and an assistant in the Office of
Student Affairs, said, “He was al
ways a lively person, talked a lot of
noise. We nave a lot of positive
memories of him.”
A memorial service for Jones
will be held at the University
chapel today at 5 o.m. The funeral
was Saturday in Carrollton.