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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1990 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 34
Over 40 arrested in Florida
Barring under-21-year-olds from entering
the Jacksonville Landing after 9:30 p.m. last
weekend limited the problems associated with
large crowds that congregate there on
Georgia/Flordia game weekends, Jacksonville
police said Tuesday.
The police department still made more than
40 arrests at the Landing and another 12 at the
ballgame, but the crowd was much better be
haved this year than usual, said Sgt. Steve
Weintraub, Jacksonville Police public informa-
tipn officer.
L.R. Hackney, a Jacksonville patrolman
working outside the Landing Friday night, said
problems associated with large crowds there in
the past — including fights, underage drinking
and lewd behavior — were down considerably
Hackney blamed people younger than 21,
who shouldn’t have been drinking anyway,
with many of the past alcohol-related problems.
Jacksonville police didn’t distinguish be
tween students of the universities of Georgia
and Florida in their records and there was no
way to determine how many people arrested
were students.
Weintraub said most of the arrests at the
Landing were alcohol-related, but the depart
ment hadn’t compiled exact figures.
Weintraub said everything from traffic con
gestion to student behavior before and after the
game was better this year than usual.
‘This was the best-behaved crowd I’ve ever
seen," he said.
The Jacksonville Landing will continue to
bar under-21-year-olds at certain times during
all nuyor events including the Gator Bowl and
future Georgia/Florida games.
— Dan Pool
Propst appeals for increased budget,
urges legislators revise fund formula
By CHRISTOPHER GRIMES
Staff Writer
In his annual address to mem
bers of the state legislature
Tuesday, University System Chan
cellor H. Dean Propst appealed for
a few increases in next year’s
budget while admitting that the
state budget is strapped.
Propst, summing up his budget
proposal to the legislature, asked
for funding increases of 5 percent
for operating expenses, 7 percent
for utility expenses, 25 percent for
health insurance and a 45 percent
increase in life insurance.
He also urged legislators to re
vise the University System funding
formula, which would include mea
sures to keep faculty salaries com
petitive.
A change in the formula also
would change the way enrollment
is determined, with enrollment
being set by current year estimates
instead of prior-year figures.
Propst said enhancing student-
faculty ratios also should be a part
of the revised formula.
If the new funding formula were
implemented by fiscal year 1992,
he said, the increase would be $177
million.
The proposed budget includes a
research incentive program, which
would call for a state donation of
$25 for every $100 the system
shells out for research. Currently,
he said, the University System is
fifth in the nation in research ex
penditures. The University is 27th
in the country in research expendi
tures, he said.
Propst said the System’s growth
in enrollment and this year’s 3.5
percent budget cut together have
^created significant funding pres
sures”
Today, in the second of the two-
day Board of Regents meetings, the
board will vote on whether to allow
the Georgia Athletic Association to
borrow $6 million to enclose the
west end of Sanford Stadium.
If approved, the debt won’t fall
on the shoulders of the state, the
University System or the Univer
sity, but will be the responsibility
of the GAA.
The board will also vote on the
following administrative appoint
ments at the University:
• Hugh Kenner as the Fuller E.
Callaway Professor of English.
Kenner would begin Sept. 1., 1991
at a salary of $105,000 a year.
• Robert E. Rhoades as head of
the Anthropology and linguistics
department at a salary of $85,000.
• Richard Lee Lynch as division
chairperson and professor of edu
cation at a salary of $75,700.
A new perspective
Women’s
By JOAN STROER
Contributing Writer
It’s her first quarter in college,
and Jennifer Eyl already has a new
perspective on the world — thanks
to the Women’s Studies Program.
“I discovered that everything I
had studied before has been been
the history of the male,” Eyl said.
WS 201: Introduction to
Women’s Studies has been eye
opening, she said, and she may
major in it. But a year ago, she
couldn’t have.
Growth of interest, faculty and
available courses has made pos
sible a women’s studies major and
made the program one of the top 10
in the Southeast, according to
Women’s Studies Director Pat Del
Rey.
The program, which has had
only one faculty member since
1987, acquired three new faculty
this year, moved into new offices on
the second floor of the main library
and added eight courses.
‘The program is vital because it
focuses on giving women the kind
of education they need to work in
the 1990s,” said Del Rey, a part-
time instructor in the department
of physical education.
Started in 1977, women’s
studies didn’t have program status
and worked without a budget
under non-faculty coordinators.
Short days may cause depression
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
If the winter months mean misery for you, take a
minute to answer these four questions:
• During cold weather, do you tend to lose sleep
or get an excess of Bleep?
• Do you undereat or overeat during the winter
months?
• Do you sometimes feel lethargic and sluggish?
• Do you experience a loss of concentration
during simple activities?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you
may suffer from seasonal affective disorder.
Medical journals describe seasonal affective dis
order as a disorder that may be caused by a change
in day length during the months of October through
February or mid-April, said Anne Layton, a mental
health social worker with the Clarke County Mental
Health Center.
Doctors have known for years that people get de
pressed in the winter due to the weather.
Layton said doctors have published research that
shows the ability of light striking the retina to stim
ulate a biological clock in the brain that mediates
melatonin, a hormone that fluctuates in a person’s
body to control daily brain rhythms.
In a report issued in 1985, by Oregon Health Sci
ence University, people who are “depressed” secrete
melatonin later in the evening than non-depressed
people.
Dr. Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Science
University conducted an experiment later that year
using amounts of bright light. Subjects were treated
with bright light in the morning and their bodies
produced melatonin earlier in the evening.
The conclusion of the experiment found that five
to six hours of bright light had an anti-depressant
effect on the subjects. Light treatment, as it is now
called, is a method to help seasonal depression suf
ferers get the amount ofiight needed to make their
lives normal.
Athens psychologist Anna Williams said light
treatment i9 given to patients by gradual exposure,
meaning a patient begins treatment an hour a day
and works up to the full time needed for normal
functioning.
Other treatments for seasonal affective disorder
include anti-depressant drugs and regular therapy
sessions, but anyone that suspects he or she may
have it must identify the problem and not confuse
the disorder with some other type of emotional
problem or incident, Michael Shapiro, a local psy
chologist said.
“The depression must come in a consecutive pat
tern before the person considers it to be seasonal af
fective disorder,” he said.
Shapiro said the depression must happen three
separate years, two of those being consecutive.
“It must happen when there is no other reason
(for depression), such as a death,” Layton said.
“It can be real hard if you are a student because
things you do will start to suffer," she said.
Richard, a 1988 University graduate who didn’t
want his last name used, has suffered from seasonal
affective disorder since he was a teenager. He said
he suffered more during his college years.
“I dropped classes more often in the winter time
than the fall and spring and I purposefully took easy
classes in the winter," he said.
Richard said his grades suffered because he was
so lethargic about class and any other activity.
“I felt like I had a good case of cabin fever. It was
a mixture of mellowness and lethargy," he said.
Richard said he encourages any student who feels
they suffer from seasonal affective disorder to get
help before their normal routine suffers as badly as
his did.
program flourishes
Assistant Director Heather
Kleiner said there were only six
courses in women’s studies, and it
was unfocused and obscure.
Students like Pat Thruston, a
children’s librarian for Clarke
County, had a hard time finding
the courses they wanted.
Thruston became interested in
women’s studies in 1987 because
she wanted to supplement an out
dated elementary school library
and reexamine her own 1950s edu
cation. But she had to find out
about classes through word-of-
mouth.
Thruston was one of the first
three students awarded women’s
studies certificates last spring.
Del Rey, along with Kleiner and
an ad hoc faculty group, met in
1987 under the guidance of Louise
McBee, former vice president for
Academic Affairs. They structured
a program, and University Presi
dent Charles Knapp approved it in
the spring of 1988.
Kleiner said the growth of the
program followed a national trend.
Scholars — who became interested
in women’s studies as students
when the field opened up in the
1970s — are now achieving promi
nence and tenure. Many are able to
contribute their expertise to
women’s studies.
Kleiner said that this coming-of-
academic-age may also explain the
growth of African-American
Studies.
The program now offers 26
courses and has 19 certificate can
didates. Six faculty committees
comprised of more than 40 tea
chers organize and promote the
program.
The program soonsors such
events as National Women’s His
tory Month in March and the in
creasingly popular Brown Bag
lecture series held on Fridays. The
series covers topics ranging from
budget planning to pornography.
Through the program’s 22 inter
disciplinary courses, students can
take anything from SOC 328: the
Sociology of Sex Roles to REL 365:
Biblical Perspectives on Wom
anhood.
The courses can be applied to
ward a 30-hour WS certificate, an
interdisciplinary WS meyor or
other degrees. Soon they mav
count toward a minor, and a grad
uate degree program should be im
plemented winter quarter 1991.
The program seeks not only to
empower and inspire women stu
dents through this new knowledge,
but to give them an edge in employ
ment.
“It teaches them through inter
disciplinary studies the critical
thinking that employers want,” she
said.
Los Lobos to rock it up Mexican style tonight
By JEFF RUTHERFORD
Contributing Writer
When Los Lobos hits the stage at
the Georgia Theater tonight,
they’ll be serving up a potent mu
sical mixture of traditional Mex
ican music and rock and roll.
Los Lobos, a veteran of the roots-
rock movement that started in the
late 1970s Los Angeles punk scene,
is on the road supporting ‘The
Neighborhood,” their latest album.
Critics coined the term “roots-rock"
for bands like Los Lobos, the Long
Riders and the Blasters, who com
bined the energy of punk with
country and the raw sounds of
rockabilly.
In a recent telephone interview
from a tour stop in Charlotte, N.C.,
Louis Perez, the drummer for Los
Lobos, commented on the early Los
Angeles punk music scene.
“After all those years of fab
ricated music it was refreshing,"
Perez said. ‘The attitude and the
energy was real exciting."
How did four Mexican-Ameri
cans from East L.A. (fifth member
and saxaphonist Steve Berlin
joined the band in the mid-1980s)
wind up in the middle of a music
scene dominated by middle-class,
suburban white kids with mo
hawks?
Most people remember Los
Lobos from their work on the 1987
hit soundtrack to “La Bamba.” The
band has taken a circuitous route
il pat
Perez, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas
and Conrad Lozano grew up to
gether in East L.A., Perez said.
They went to the same high school
and all played in different garage
bands.
Though Perez grew up listening
to the traditional Mexican music
his parents played around the
house, he became interested in
Jimi Hendrix and Cream.
“I switched onto guitar players
and that’s about the time I got my
first guitar,” Perez said.
Even though Perez plays drums
for Los Lobos, he’s a multi-instru
mentalist who writes most of the
band’s music along with Hidalgo.
Perez and his friends’ bands
slowly stagnated after high school.
The bands wanted to learn Top 40
covers so they could play in local
popular clubs.
T nev«
[ never allowed myself to get to
that point," Perez said.
As a result Perez started
hanging around more with Hi
dalgo, Rosas and Lozano.
“One afternoon we found our
selves messing around with
acoustic guitars," Perez said.
“Rosas brought out some old Mex
ican records and we started trying
to learn some of those songs.”
Th'.se afternoon practices be
came a ritual for the four friends as
they realized the validity of the
traditional music they’d heard all
their lives.
“We were going to record shops
and buying old records,” Perez
said.
They also started buying tradi
tional Mexican instruments at
local pnwn shops.
Even though Los Lobos’ music
today is much more rock and roll
oriented, the^ve incorporated the
knowledge of Mexican music they
learned during this period.
On “Be Still,” a song on ‘The
Neighborhood," Perez plays a 10-
stringed, thin-bodied instrument
like a guitar called a jarana.
But Los Lobos didn’t start out
with their successful mixture of
Mexican folk music and rock and
roll.
When they opened for Public
Image Limited in the late 1970s at
the Olympic Auditorium in Los An-
S eles, Los Lobos faced a hostile au-
ience.
“We lasted about 7 to 10 min
utes," Perez said. “It was quite a
jolt."
But the band wasn’t about to
give up. They slowly switched to
playing electric instruments.
“^Dave introduced an accordion
and electric instruments filtered
back in," Perez said. “That’s when
we started to head towards a rock
and roll format.”
As they continued playing
around California and making
friends with such bands as the
Blasters, Los Lobos started to build
a loyal audience who appreciated
their music.
“We went from playing small
clubs to a handful of people to
packing them in,” Perez said.
Along with this success came a
record deal with Slash records. ". .
.and a Time to Dance” the band’s
first EP was released in 1983. “An-
selma,” a song off that EP won the
band a Grammy.
“How Will the Wolf Survive," the
band’s first full-length LP, was re
leased a year later and music
critics across the United States
started to take notice.
Three years later, they released
another album titled “By the Light
of the Moon." It was a dark,
haunting look at the struggles of
the working class. But “La Bamba"
eclipsed all that when it hit No. 1
several months later.
While many expected Los Lobos
to follow up with a rocking album,
the band did the unexpected and
released “La Pistola y El Corazon,"
an album of traditional Mexican
folk songs.
According to Perez, that album
was necessary to the band’s suc
cess. "David and 1 were still grap
pling with writing songs after the
big hit record," he said.
But any doubts about the band’s
ability to write exciting music will
evaporate after one listen to “The
Neighborhood."
Tne album shows Los Lobos in
complete control of their musical
vision. It’s an exciting mixture of
Fire in Georgia Center;
damage is contained
A fire broke out in hotel Room
226 of the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education Tuesday
at 6:1 S a.m., causing evacuation
of the north wing, according to
hotel manager Bud Da via.
Eire Safety Officer Prank Ed
wards said the fire was caused by
a bent plug on an electric coffee
The bed in front of the outlet
been pushed against it,
bending the plug, he said.
“The cord either (electrically)
arced or overheated and caught
the bed on fire,* he said.
The woman staying in the
room smelled smoke while she
was in the shower and. after at
tempting to beat out the flames
with a wet towel, fled to avoid ex
cessive smoke inhalation, Ed
wards aaid.
Clarke County firefighters ar
rived five minutes after the
alarm went off, he said. The
sprinkler in the room had already
extinguished the flames, but fire
fighters moved the smoldering
bed onto the roof just outside the
window.
Davit said 181 people were
staying in the hotel. Some of the
guests moved only to the lobby
while the firefighters did their
job; the rest waited outside.
No one was injured, and Davis
said there Sms more condition
than anything else. There was no
panic whatsoever.
The people acted property, the
equipment functioned es de
signed, and the whole thin* ares
over in 30 mtnutee," he said.
There wae moderate damage
to the room, and the water
damage to the ceiling of the coffee
shop below was minimal, he said.
- Mike Terrane
blues, country, rock and roll and
Latin rhythms.
Buoyed by the early reception of
‘The Neighborhood, Loe Lobos
has been on the road since early
September.
“We haven’t been down South in
a long time,” he said. But he said
that they’re happy to be back.
“Southern hospitality is a real
cliche,” he said, “but the people are
really friendly.”
Los Lobos will be performing to
night at the Georgia Theatre. The
show will start at 10 p.m. Advance
tickets art $10 and available at Big
Shot Records (formerly Downtown
Records).