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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1991«ATnEWS^g0RGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 42
Draft dodging defunct for students
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
Despite frequent comparisons of a pos
sible Persian Gulf war to the Vietnam
conflict, officials say one thing has
changed — the civilian draft accused of
making Vietnam a rich man’s war bought
with the blood of the working class.
“Everybody’s treated equally,” said
Marian Kiely, spokesperson for the Re
gion II Selective Service System office in
Marietta.
The wartime deferments that once al
lowed college students to avoid the draft
indefinitely no longer exist. The new
rules would allow students to complete
the current academic term if drafted.
Those who would graduate at the end of
the academic year also could finish.
Men who turned 20 during the cal
endar year of the draft would be drafted
first, followed by 21-, 22-, 23-, 24- and 25-
year-olds.
Lowest priority goes to 19- and 18-and-
a-half-year-olds. SSS would use a lottery
to pick names.
“I’m sure if the president re-enacted
this law, he’d state how long they’d be in
for: two years or 90 days or whatever,”
Kiely said.
Other wartime deferments exist for
ministerial students or those entering
such a program, conscientious objectors
and those whose service would cause
hardship.
Kiely said the one-year hardship defer
ments could include those who are recov
ering from illness or surgery or those who
are the sole supporters of a family.
Conscientious objectors are classified
in two ways:
• As objectors to combat service and
training, because their beliefs preclude
carrying or using weapons. There are
non-combat options, like caring for war
casualties or driving ambulances.
• As objectors to combat and non
combat service and training, because they
refuse to participate in any aspect of the
war efTort. They would be ofTered civilian
employment, like community service, and
non-compliance would equal desertion.
Only one peacetime deferment exists,
Kiely said. It’s for surviving sons of vet
erans who died in combat or as a result of
injuries sustained in combat.
SSS leaves deferments up to civilian
draft boards, which have existed since
1981 and would be activated to hear de
ferment claims once a draft was enacted.
The local draft board serves Clarke,
Oconee, Oglethorpe and Barrow counties.
The U.S. Postal Service has an informa
tion booklet, “Selective Service and You,”
detailing the draft process.
Some students already have vacation
plans.
“If push comes to shove, 111 either raise
hell or go to Canada,” said Todd Fantz, a
senior philosophy major and Objectivist
Society member.
“Everybody I know is opposed to the
draft,” Fantz suid. ‘They’re not opposed
because it’s inconvenient or they don’t
want to fight. The draft in itself is im
moral.
“We’re not at the disposal of the gov
ernment. Whatever the politics are, or
whether whatever the hell we’re doing is
wrong, is another matter.”
Students remain apathetic, he said,
but the public’s notion of patriotism is a
joke.
In 1980 President Carter reinstated
the Selective Service, which had been de
funct for five years. Since January 1981,
all male U.S. citizens have been required
to register at age 18.
But the SSS and the draft are separate
ideas, Kiely said. The service can provide
the president with as many as 100,000
men within 30 days after he gets congres
sional approval to draft civilians.
“I would like to emphasize that the Se
lective Service doesn’t anticipate a draft,”
Kiely said. “(Bush) has stated several
times during this Middle East crisis that
he doesn’t expect to reinstate the draft.”
In Georgia, 371,770 men are registered
with SSS, and 14.5 million are registered
nationwide. Kiely said the compliance
rote exceeds 96 percent.
Sink or... sit
Look out Arch! Now we have the Anchor, donated to the city of Athens by the Navy Supply Corps
School on Prince Avenue, which wants to increase its visibility in the community. U.S. Congressman
Doug Barnard (D-Augusta) dedicated the anchor over the holidays. Pondering the giant yachtsman's
mainstay and its place in the middle of Broad Street: (l-r) Mike Cobb, a senior biology major, and Jeff
Conn, a senior environmental health science major. Can 'meet me at the Anchor' be next?
Top quarterback verbally commits
By ANGELA HORNSBY
and RANDY WALKER
Staff Writers
Quarterback Eric Zeier of Marietta High School,
rated by some football analysts as the best prep signal
caller in the country, verbally committed Tuesday to
play football for the Bulldogs next season.
NCAA rules prevent coaches from commenting on
players still in high school, but Zeier may sign a letter
of intent on Feb. 6, the first day prep players may
sign.
Zeier, who plans to major in business, named sev
eral reasons he was attracted to the University,
saying the campus impressed him.
“Even if I was not playing football, that’s where I’d
want to be," he said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
Zeier visited Notre Dame on Dec. 15 and Georgia
last weekend. He canceled visits scheduled this month
to Florida State, Alabama, and either Tennessee or
UCLA.
The Bulldogs’ 4-7 record didn’t diminish his enthu
siasm for attending the University.
“It just makes everybody hungry,” he said. ‘They
will get better.”
Zeier, a Parade All-American, passed for 6,185
yards and 67 TDs in his high school career. At Mari
etta last fall, Zeier threw for 2,484 yards and 28
touchdowns and four interceptions, while leading the
Blue Devils to a 12-1 record and the state Class AAAA
quarterfinals.
“1 want to work hard, 1 want to earn the respect of
my teammates," said the 6-foot-l-inch senior. “I’m
ready to be a Bulldog. They've got some great athletes
and an excellent coaching staff, and they’re com
mitted to winning a national championship.”
Adrian Karsten of ESPN’s Scholastic Sports
America, spoke highly of the player he rates as the
best prep quarterback in the country.
“He’s the best, not from a numbers standpoint but
because he’s so mature,” Karsten said.
Zeier is expected to compete for quarterback with
Greg Talley, Joe Dupree and Preston Jones next fall.
Associated Press material was used in this story.
An retained with probation
after fired for lack of fluency
By MARLA EDWARDS
Staff Writer
The University Vietnamese lab
oratory coordinator who fought last
May to keep his job finally won, but
his victory isn’t complete.
An Quoc Nguyen said he is now
on probation for a year.
An is trying not to anticipate his
future at the College of Veterinary
Medicine.
“I cannot say right now,” he said.
“I vow to do the best I con.”
An filed a grievance to appeal
the termination of his job after re
ceiving notification he would be
fired because of a lack of English
fluency.
His complaint charged he was
fired because of discrimination —
not because of his lack of English
language skills. He also charged
that improving those skills wasn’t
a precondition of his employment.
An’s main duty is preparing an
imal specimens for gross anatomy
labs in the Department of Anatomy
and Radiology. He embalms speci
mens and arranges them on tables
for students. His annual salary is
about $18,000.
University President Charles
Knapp Dec. 11 overturned the deci
sion of a panel which upheld An’s
termination.
Three of the five panel members,
appointed in accordance with the
University’s Consolidated Griev
ance Procedures, voted to uphold
An’s termination because of
“overall unsatisfactory job perfor
mance.”
But two members were con
cerned thnt reasons given for An’s
termination didn’t comply with
fairness and notice standards re
quired by due process.
David Sweat, An’s lawyer, said
University policy requires em
ployees receive notice of deficien
cies in their performance and an
opportunity to correct them before
they are fired.
An, Sweat and individuals from
the vet school met in December
and decided An would be placed on
probation, Sweat said.
Knapp wrote in his letter to An
that An’s department head, Royce
Roberts, and his direct supervisors
should provide him with a list of
job improvements to make and a
time period to accomplish them.
Although he wouldn’t say what
the improvements include, An said
he is continuing to take classes at
the University’s Speech and
Hearing Clinic.
Vet school Dean David Anderson
said An is subject to the same per
formance standards as other vet
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‘I vow to do the best I
can.’
— Dr. An Quoc Nguyen
Vet School employee
school employees.
“If he performs (his job) satisfac
torily, he'll be able to keep it,” An
derson said.
Drop/add dealing in dollars
Desperate senior offers cash for classes
By BILL DAVIS
Campus Correspondent
Big money awaits students willing to deni in a dif
ferent currency — English classes.
Graduating senior Alexandria O’Neal put a sign on
a wall on the bottom floor of Park Hall in hopes of
completing her schedule. O’Neal needs two upper divi
sion English classes (pre-18th century) in order to
graduate this quarter with a degree in English.
Shell take the classes any wny she can — shell
even pay for it.
The sign carried her desperation.
“Big Money. $35.00 for your pre-18th century En
glish. Any class...Any time. Graduating — must have
it. See Alex inside by drop/add desk,” read the sign.
“I was desperate. I figure that with all the money-
hungry people in the world someone would I* willing
to deal," O’Neal said.
As yet, no one has approached her with an offer, but
according to O'Neal, she will be there, undaunted,
early this morning.
“I have been here since eight o’clock this morning
and I will be here until four today,” she said Tuesday.
‘Tomorrow, I’ll get here at seven in the morning and
stay until whenever.”
Mike Hendrick, assistant to the head of the English
department, and the person first responsible for the
running of English drop/add, was sympathetic.
“I hate to see any student resort to that sort of
thing. I tried to work with her within the system,"
said Hendrick.
"Mr. Hendrick ha9 been very helpful, a real sweet
heart," said O’Neal. “I am not angry with anyone, but
they don’t realize the number of kids they have in the
department.”
Hendrick sees the situation as a catch-2‘2 caused by
increased enrollment and budget cuts.
“We are experiencing the effects of having to return
$93,000 to our dean,” Hendrick said, ‘The full effect
will not be felt until spring. Basically we are short of
seats and the University has more freshmen.”
The English department has been unable to divert
funds to the upper division courses due to the increase
in enrollment, Hendrick said.
The department had a total of two open seats out of
the possible 2,475, said Michael Moran, director of
Fresnman English.
The University’s size and the focus of the freshman
division have come to loggerheads, Moran and Hen
drick said.
“We are trying to keep class size reasonable,"
Moran said. “But we have been overwhelmed by the
number of students this quarter.”
O’Neal, a ctx’ktail waitress/bartender at the Frog
Pond Lounge, is loath to extend her academic career
for another quarter.
“Beside taking two quarters off to work, I have gone
for six straight years, sometimes working two jobs
while only getting to take 10 hours a quarter. I kind of
want to get out of here and finally graduate.”
No more Mr. Nice Guy: Coliseum now requires approval
Asa Boynton: Sees to
safety of Coliseum-goers
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Water
University officials expressed
concern Tuesday about allowing
local high school teams to play
games on Bulldog turf, following a
Jan. 3 shooting incident at the Col
iseum.
Three juveniles were shot after a
basketball game between Clarke
Central and Cedar Shoals high
schools.
In the future, the Coliseum will
be granted only by approval of ath
letic officials, Greg McGarity, as
sistant athletic director for Facility
and Event Management, said
Tuesday.
“It would definitely be approved
by Vince Dooley, athletic director,
and the athletic board,” he said,
and any discussions would prob
ably include University President
Charles Knapp.
Cedar Shoals and Clarke Cen
tral high schools were granted per
mission to use the facility because
their gymnasiums couldn’t accom
modate the expected crowd.
The two area rivals met Dec. 15
at the Coliseum before a crowd of
3,000. At the Jan. 3 game, the
turnout was cut in half to only 1,-
300, McGarity said. No violence
erupted at the first game.
The two games were the first
high school sporting events held at
the Coliseum. Other events, such
as high school graduations and sci
ence fairs, are held there sporadi
cally, McGarity said.
Since the Georgia Athletic Asso-
cation must follow National Colle
giate Athletic Associaton rules, the
University can’t use its funds to
pay for anything.
Decisions about the use of the
Coliseum by high schools is up to
the athletic department. However,
Public Safety and the University
Police determine security mea
sures required during an event,
Public Safety Director Asa
Boynton said.
“After public safety tries to de
termine what type of event and the
number that will be in attendance,
the University police then decides
the number of personnel that will
be needed,” he said.
University police were present
during both games, Boynton said,
adding safety always will be a
priority in event-planning at the
Coliseum.
“We won’t consider what hap
pened last time; we will work for
the next time," he said.
University police charged
Athens resident Tony Foster, 18,
with aggravated assault in the in
cident.
Connie Sampson, assistant chief
of University Police, said another
suspect is being held in juvenile
custody.
She declined comment on the
types of weapons used in the shoot
ings.
Earlier reports said the victims
were students of one of the com
peting high schools. However, Mar-
leen Bryan, public information
coordinator for the Clarke County
School District, said the reports
were false.
One is a middle school student,
another is from another county,
and the third isn’t enrolled in any
school, she said.
Two of the victims were treated
and released from Athens Regional
Medical Center. One suffered a
kneecap wound after a bullet rico
cheted into his leg. • •
Tl ie other victim was shot in the
thigh.