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* WEEKEND EDITION * FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1990 « ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 40
Andy McIntyre, freshman, challenges Brother Jed
Bro. Jed keeping act clean
Wife stays by his side
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
He was preaching that a
woman’s place was beside her
husband. She should be subser
vient and live only for him. And
she played the role well.
Cindy Smock, the 32-year-old
wife of Brother Jed, said
Thursday she believes that her
husband is “doing his duty to
God” when he preaches about
sexual promiscuity, devil
worshipping and the fate of
young people today.
“He’s trying to tell them that if
they don’t repent, they’re going to
hell,” she said.
The Smocks travel to colleges
across the country to spend what
Smock said they feel is the right
word of God.
"We’re just here to warn the
wicked of their wrongdoings,”
Smock said.
When asked about their past,
Sister Cindy, as she is called by
the students that are her audi
ence, is very vague and slightly
defensive.
She said she spent her life in
Albany and Jed grew up in a
small town in Indiana. They met
several years ago and now hove 3
children.
As her husband shouted to a
female student that she will have
to be faithful and loyal to what
ever man she married because
"that is a woman’s place,” Cindy
continued about their religious
affiliations.
The Smocks work within an or
ganization called Campus Min
istry USA, Smock said. It is the
same organization that hails the
infamous Brother Jim who
makes yearly visits to the Uni
versity to preach in the same
manner as Jed.
"He worked with my husband
in training,” she said, and re
ferred to them as being mentors.
Training refers to the moment
a preacher is put before a crowd
and told to speak on whatever
comes to mind, she said.
Please See WIFE, Page 3
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Like a bard straight out of Hom
eric Greece, Brother Jed can talk
for hours without a script, but his
song and dance isn’t the poetic
saga of giants like Achilles, Pa-
troklos and Penelopeia — it’s a
travelling sideshow whose players
are often students.
“My feeling is that it’s a theater
and everyone participates,” Stu
dent Activities Director William
Porter said Thursday. “Most of the
students, quite frankly, seem to
er\joy it.”
For the duration of any sidewalk
savior’s stay, crowds of students
surround the preacher to alterna
tely heckle him or absorb his don’t-
or-die warnings for later consump
tion in a round of red-faced
shouting, spitting and sometimes
plain disbelief.
"What they do is they provoke
students until they’re angry and
they want to do something to him,”
said Ann Lacey, Valdosta State
College’s Student Activities pro
gram director.
Porter said that in the five years
he’s directed Student Activities,
reachers like Jed and his mentor
im — whose tour also includes the
University — haven’t caused prob
lems here.
“We’ve certainly had questions
raised by students as to whether he
should be allowed, and the answer
is yes — he has First Amendment
rights,” he said. “But we’re not
aware of any type of assault hap
pening on campus or aware of it
happening anywhere else, for that
matter, with anyone like that.”
Several publications cover legal
issues that affect universities and
colleges nationwide, and Porter
said he’s never seen a story in any
of them about preachers causing
legal headaches for other schools.
“I’ve read those pretty faithfully
for 15 years now, and I have never
seen anything involving Brother
Jed or anyone like him,” he said.
"But between our office and the
University police, we try to mon
itor it a little. We wouldn’t want
any kind of iryury happening to
any student or Brother Jed, for
that matter.”
Julia Thornton, University of
New Orleans general counsel and
director of governmental affairs,
said that in her one-and-a-half
years at UNO, no spitfire pre
acher’s caused a campus distur
bance. But she remembers Jed
from her days at Denison Univer
sity in Granville, Ohio, eight years
ago.
“He’d been there for a long
time,” she said. ‘This guy has an
incredible bladder — he can just
talk and talk all day.”
New Orleans city attorney Er
nest Green said that as far as he
can remember, no one answering
to Jed’s description has caused
trouble for the city.
Debra Sherman, a VSC Student
Activities graduate assistant, said
Jed’s counterpart Jim has rubbed
them the wrong way before.
‘The last time Brother Jim was
here, he got kind of rowdy,” she
said. “He wns creating a distur
bance and they had to ask him to
leave.”
Lacey said Jim’s fiery testimony
disrupted the school a few years
ago and they haven’t seen him
since then.
Durham’s Dogs on top
Expert ranks
By RANDY WALKER
Sports Editor
Just how good is the 1990-91 Georgia
men’s basketball team?
According t.o Jeff Sagarin of Bloomington,
Ind., they’re No. 1 in the country.
Sagarin, whose collegiate basketball poll
appears every Wednesday in USA Today,
uses a unique mathematical formula to rate
the teams.
"It depends on who you play, where you
play and what the score was,” Sagarin said
Thursday.
Sagarin’s numerical rating of a team’s
strength is based on opponent strength and
results against these opponents. This prin
ciple exists to prevent teams from building up
ratings by crushing teams of lesser caliber.
Georgia’s resounding 90-45 victory over
Richmond on the Spiders’ home court on Nov.
24 was a major factor in the Bulldogs’ top-
ranking, Sagarin said. He also said that
Georgia’s 124-65 rout of Western Kentucky
Wednesday will keep the Bulldogs (ranked
No. 17 by The Associated Press) in the top
spot through next week.
A hypothetical margin of victory is also fig
ured by comparing the two teams’ ratings and
adding 4.5 points to the home team’s rating.
In Wednesday’s rankings, the Bulldogs had
a rating of 101.98. Western Kentucky had a
rating of 68.40, good for 190th place. There
fore, according to Sagarin's formula, Georgia
was to win the game by 38 points (Georgia’s
101.98 rating plus 4.5 for ploying at home
minus Western Kentucky’s rating of 68.4).
Georgia’s next rating will increase because
their margin of victory (59) was 21 points
higher than what wns computed in the for
mula.
“They'll be ranked No. 1 if they keep run
ning up the scores,” Sagarin said. “They’ll be
up there if every game is won by some outra
geous score.”
Georgia’s Dec. 19 game with Georgia Tech
in the Omni should prove whether the Dogs
are worthy of the top-billing. If the game were
played now, according to Sagarin’s formula,
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Mystery behind harassing phone calls unravels
Judiciary charges student
Negative politics
gets mixed review
By SANDRA STEPHENS
Staff Writer
When one University student
answers the phone, she’s not sure if
it’s a friend or a hate message.
The harassing phone calls Degan
in mid-September. The junior po
litical science major, who re
quested anonymity, returned to
her residence hall room on Sept. 16
to hear, “We’re white supremac
ists. We have your s-t. We’re going
to burn it. We’re coming to get
you,” on her answering machine.
Four days earlier, she had put
some African-American pamph
lets, brochures and a book under
the door of a second-floor room in
Hill Hall at 10:30 a m. — she
thought it was a friend’s room.
But her friend called and said he
didn’t have the materials. She had
put them under the wrong door.
When the she went back to ask
about the materials, the occupants
told her they didn’t know anything
about them. Other residents on the
same side of the hall said they
hadn’t seen them.
She requested that anyone who
found the materials contact her. “I
left a sign on the hall with my
name and phone number," she
said. “I figured (the materials
were) gone."
After receiving more harassing
calls, the student reported the inci
dent and gave the answering ma
chine tape to the University Police
Department, who questioned Hill
residents. The police contacted her
hall’s resident assistant, graduate
resident and the residence life
coordinator. They reported the in
cident to the Student Judiciary.
University police Capt. Mitch
Jones said Thursday that Ronald
Roberts was arrested and later
found guilty on Oct. 3 for placing
obscene and harassing phone calls
to her. Roberts, a Hill resident at
the time of the incident, couldn’t be
reached for comment Thursday.
The Judicinry also tried and
found not guilty another student,
David Griffin. Griffin lived on the
same hall, but not with Roberts’.
The harassed student said the
police told her that one of her books
and the sign she had posted were
found in Griffin’s room. They also
said the calls were placed from
Griffin’s room.
Roger Lee, Student Affairs coun
selor for the Office of Judicial Pro
grams, said the sanctions for
harassing phone calls can range
from an oral reprimand to expul
sion, depending on the nature of
the incident.
Neither Lee nor Arthur Leed,
Student Affairs legal advisor,
would release information on Rob
erts’ sentence. Judicial Programs
Director Bill Bracewell couldn’t be
reached for comment.
The harassed student said that
during the period of time between
the first phone call and the
hearing, she walked around in fear
for her life. “I’m pretty sure they
knew who I was. It could’ve been
the person sitting next to me in
class.”
She’s telling her story because
speaking up is a way to combat
racism, she said. “If you push it
under the carpet, it only gets
worse.”
She talked to the leaders of Af
rican-American campus organiza
tions, including the Black Affairs
Coucil and the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Col
ored People, about the incident.
“I wanted them to be aware of
the situation and get their sup
port," she said.
People speak of the new South
as if racism is dead, but it isn’t, she
said.
“It’s the same old southern tradi
tions and ideals,” she said. ‘There
needs to be reform. I’m trying to
initiate change as far as confiden
tiality and the sensitivity and the
effectiveness in the (University) hi
erarchy.”
Lee said students who receive
harassing phone calls should keep
a log of the calls. Tapes from an
swering machines can be turned in
to the police as evidence, he said,
and students should nlso report the
calls to the proper officials.
‘The documentation will be your
evidence,” he said.
By DAN POOL
Staff Writer
As the mud settles from E.H.
Culpepper’s losing campaign for
chief elected officer, local political
experts have mixed theories on the
effects of Culpepper’s negative tac
tics.
Theories revolve around voter
reaction to a brochure that was
mailed by a Culpepper supporter
last weekend attacking his oppo
nent, CEO-elect Gwen O’Looney,
ns a career social worker incapable
of making decisions.
Brian Mirsky, a University polit
ical science professor and O’Looney
cnmpnign worker, said Thursday
the brochure was the most nasty
and best-organized piece of a local
cnmpnign work he had ever seen.
Mirsky said comparing gains
made by O’Looney and Culpepper
during the time between the pri
mary and the runoff shows an in
credible increase in Culpepper
support, which is related to the
brochure.
Culpepper gained 28 percent
more votes while O’Looney only
gnined 9 percent despite an en
dorsement from third-place fin
isher George Bullock, who had
more than 20 percent of the pri
mary vote.
‘The brochures fixded a lot of
people,” Mirsky said.
According to University political
science professor Keith Billingsley,
however, these negative attacks
hurt Culpepper more than
O’Looney.
‘They may not have convinced
Culpepper supporters to change
their minds and vote for O’Looney,
but they convinced O’Looney su-
porters to get out and vote."
He said the turnout wns high in
the runoff, considering it wns the
third election of the month and the
high turnout was largely because
of O’Looney supporters who were
enraged by the negative nttacks.
O’Looney said after the results
were tallied that her opponent’s
mudslinging helped her.
“I hope this will tench everyone
that negative campaigning doesn’t
work in this community,” she snid.^
Culpepper said after the vote
wns announced that he still sup
ported the use of the bnx’hure, but
it wns hard to say how it affected
his campaign.
Billingsley said an earlier adver
tisement in the Athens Banner-
Herald where four past mayors en
dorsed Culpepper may have nlso
backfired and given Culpepper the
g(x>d-old boy, backroom politician
look.
‘This race was a buttle between
old guard Athens establishment
and younger newer residents of
Clarke County,” he said.
Mirsky said the advertisement
had little affect on the committed
voters and may have helped
O’Looney with certain crowds, but
many of the undecided voters were
swayed by the mayor’s endorse
ment.
Billingsley said anti-establish
ment feelings of groups like preser
vationists, who were strongly
opposed to Culpepper, formed n dil
igent corps oi campaign workers
who made phone calls, put up signs
and knocked on doors before the
campaign asking for support for
O’Looney.
Lewis Shropshire, who is the
only person claiming responsibility
for the controversial brochure, is
the manager of the Holiday Inn. He
wns widely criticized last spring
when the Holiday Inn purchased
land across the street and tore
down the historic Hull-Snelling
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Bulldog video conning Christmas
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
Bulldog fans eager for all the
memorabilia they can get their
pnw9 on are in for a treat this
Christmas.
Carefree Days, Ltd., a corpora
tion to be composed of five Athens
businessmen and a local musi
cian, is completing work on a 30-
minute music/sports video
tribute to Athens and the Bull
dogs.
Benjy Morris, head of the cor
poration and lead singer in the
musical portions of the video,
said it will be composed of eight
songs performed by his band,
footage of Herschel Walker and
the Redcoat Marching Band, an
interview with Larry Munson
and a tour of Athens led by
Leonard Postero (of Leonard’s
Losers).
“We want to provide some
thing for the people to remember
this University and the city of
Athens by,” Morris said of the
eight-song video, which will in
clude versions of "Wipeout,”
“Glory to Georgia,” "Sweet
Georgia Brown” and the Univer
sity’s alma mater.
The video should be out by
Christmas or the beginning of
next year, and will sell for $29.95,
Moms said.
It will be available through
mail order, at the University
Bookstore and probably from The
Dawg House and Golden Pantry
stores, he said.
Morris said most portions of
the video have already been
filmed, and this Sunday the cho
reographed dance portions will
be filmed downtown on College
Square. ^
The corporation was formed to
produce the video, and may pro
duce additional videos depending
on the success of this one, ne said.
Morris wouldn’t disclose the
names of the Athens busi
nessmen who came up with the
$50,000 needed to fund the pro
ject, which was begun more than
two years ago.
He said he plans to send a four-
minute segment of the video con
taining his band’s version of The
Surfaris’ “Wipeout" and footage
of Herschel Walker to MTV and
local television stations, although
he doesn’t expect it to be aired.
Christmas with the Knapp family
By ELIZABETH GRADDY
Associate News Editor
When University President Charles Knapp and his
family were at Tulane University — where he was the
vice president for business — celebrating Christmas
was the intimate affair most people experience.
‘Things changed a little when we moved in this
house," Lynne Knapp, the president’s wife, said, refer
ring to the 133-year-old house on Prince Avenue. “It is
kind of public. Right now we’re worried about five par
ties."
The Knapps’ first Christmas in Athens required ad
justment, especially for Mrs. Knapp, who had to
oversee decorating the house.
‘The tree was the biggest that year because we
were experimenting,” she Baid. ‘It’s become a little
more of a system now "
Help with the system comes from the University
and house staff. For instance, the Sch<x>l of Forest Re
sources supplies the tree. James Greene, an associate
professor of forestry research, delivered it Monday,
and the staff decorated it with baby’s breath, white
lights and gold balls.
As with the baby’s breath, most of the decorations
are natural, Mrs. Knapp said. Susan Daniels, a horti
culturist at Physical riant, gathers flowers and pine
cones throughout the year to use at Christmas. All of
the materials come from campus and the house
grounds.
“We really have used the campus grounds and
campus people," she said.
Edward Lambert, an associate art professor, puts
the dried plants together into wreaths, garlands and
ornaments with help from the house staff.
Mrs. Knapp has added her touch, however — hand
made needlepoint stockings on the mantle.
‘The say ‘Mommy,’ ‘Daddy’ and ‘Amanda,’ " she
said.
Although the holiday season has, in some ways, be
come a University event for the Knapps, they have
kept it personal with their own religious traditions,
according to Knapp.
“Normally we go to church on Christmas eve in the
evening or at midnight," he said.
Mrs. Knapp said they keep in mind that it is the
birth of Jesus that they are celebrating.
“We are celebrating a birthday at Christmas time,"
she said. “We always have a birthday cake. It’s Jesus’s
cake."