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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1991 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 57
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By STEVE HILLMER
Campus Correspondent
As of April 1, one of Athens’ most
distinctive and well-loved restau
rants may be history.
The Bluebird Cafe, a 16-year
landmark in downtown Athens,
has until that date to move out of
its Morton Theater Building loca
tion at the corner of Washington
and Hull streets. On Jan. 16,
owner Bill Walsh received notice
from the newly-unified Athens-
Clarke County Government that
renovation of the building would
reguire all tenants to leave.
Walsh said he feels shocked, be
trayed and hurt by the decision.
“It’s hard for the customers to
deal with it, it’s very hard for the
employees to deal with it and it’s
extremely hard for me to deal with
it," he said.
Walsh said the Morton Theater
Corp., the non-profit organization
that owned the building until De
cember, had promised to let him
stay there during and afler the
renovation, but the city govern
ment evidently couldn’t keep those
promises when it assumed own
ership.
Walsh also said the city govern
ment could have been more sympa
thetic by offering to help him look
for a new site instead of simply
evicting him.
“If that’s the way they treat
people, I don’t think the unified
government is any better that the
old government,” he said.
Athens-Clarke County Commis
sioner Linny Bailey said, however,
that eviction has been a possibility
for quite some time and cited the
fact that more than a year ago
leases were no longer being offered.
Walsh said, however, that he
has never been offered a lease in
the 16 years, but instead has paid
rent on a month-to-month basis.
Bailey said the building needs to
be cleared in order for contractors
to make an estimate. In addition,
he said that the renovation, which
includes the installation of res
trooms, lobby space and an el
evator, may not allow current
businesses to move back in.
Walsh said he is actively looking
for a new site for the Bluebird but
isn’t certain he’ll be able to find
one.
“To move into a space and turn
that into a restaurant is going to
cost about $20,000,” he said. ‘The
Bluebird doesn’t have $20.”
Even if he found a place that
didn’t require conversion, the rent
likely would be twice as high as he
currently pays, he said.
Walsh, who also owns Talking
Leaves bookstore, said the
Bluebird doesn’t make a profit and
requires him to work a lot of other
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Men brawl
on Broad St.
Bluebird Cafe: Eviction is impending from its 16 year home
in the Morton Theater Building despite customer protest
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
An Athens resident wants to file
charges against a University truck
driver afler the two brawled in the
middle of Broad Street Monday.
Central Research Stores driver
Scott Strickland, who may be
charged with simple battery, said
he was turning left onto the west
bound lanes of Broad Street from
Jackson Street when 46-year-old
Frank Mason crossed the street in
front of Strickland’s truck about 3
p.m.
Halfway across the street,
Mason turned around and walked
in the opposite direction, back into
the path of Strickland’s vehicle.
As Strickland pulled his truck
into a line of traffic, Mason ap
peared at the back of the vehicle
yelling obscenities at him, Strick
land said.
Strickland told police he got out
of the vehicle to make sure Mason
hadn’t gotten in the bed of the
truck, said Ather* Police Officer
Steve Fogarty.
After a shouting match, the two
began fighting violently. At one
point the two wrestled into the
westbound lanes of Broad Street.
After making a delivery to Uni-
pol
im
versity Health Services, Strickland
decided to drive back to the scene
to apologize, but Mason had called
olice to press charges against
im.
“Mason seems determined to
press criminal charges in the situa
tion,” Fogarty said.
Officer Patrick Whitmore said
there are conflicting testimonies
from eyewitnesses.
Police are going on the testimo
nies given by Mason and Strick
land, Whitmore said.
Mason, who grabbed the tag on
Strickland’s vehicle and mem
orized the number, said he will
continue with legal actions.
Strickland would like to discuss
the matter because he said it ap-
peared that Mason changed his
mind about the direction he was
going to walk in, and that caused
the incident.
“If he wants to continue with the
procedures, then I will But I would
like to see the matter dropped," he
said.
Central Research Stores depart
ment drivers deliver lab supplies,
such as test tubes and chemicals,
to different campus locations.
Stricklnnd was en route to Gil
bert Health Center at the time of
the incident.
A strum in the su
Sophomore music major Scott Caruso 'hangs out' at Memorial Hall
Monday, as temperatures hit above 70 degrees just two days after
Mr. Groundhog predicted six more weeks of the cold stuff.
Tennis won’t park in
commuter lot for good
By RANDY WALKER
Staff Wnter
This article is second in a series
examining the University’s quest
for the 1996 Olympic tennis events.
University officials are devel
oping plans to safeguard against
aggravated parking problems
should the University receive the
bid to host the 1996 Olympic tennis
competition.
Dave Lunde, director of Campus
Planning, said Monday that new
parking areas are being planned
tor the River Road area.
The new 1,300-space lot includes
an addition of 200 spaces that per
manently would be sacrificed for
the proposed 10,000-seat Olympic
tennis stadium adjacent to left
field of the baseball stadium.
“We added in 200 spaces hoping
we get the tennis, to replace the
200 that will be lost for the sta
dium,” Lunde said.
He also said that by 1996, from
2,300 to 3,600 spaces would be
available at the commuter lot
across the street from Aderhold
Hall near the Parking Services
building. The lot capacity would be
reduced to 2,300 spaces if a new
Fine Arts building is constructed in
the future.
If the tennis competition does
come to Athens, the rest of the Col
iseum commuter lot will be used
for additional match-play courts
and vending and picnic areas.
However, Richard Hudson, the
University’s head of the Olympic
tennis bid, anticipates that not all
the courts would be permanent.
Parking spaces would be replaced
in time for fall quarter of 1996.
There could be a parking
problem for summer school stu
dents from July 11 to July 21,
during the tennis competition and
six weeks before and afler the
event, Hudson said.
“In a worst-case scenario, we’d
have parking at the intramural
fields and have buses pick them up
from there,” Hudson said.
University students who pork at
the Coliseum commuter lot aren’t
wholeheartly against the proposed
Olympic Tennis Stadium to be
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Combat intensifies on land and water
The Associated Press
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Marine “jump
jets” hammered Iraqi tanks in the northern
sands Monday, while the USS Missouri held
down a new front line deep in the Gulf.
The Iraqis warned they would fight the
Americans in the desert with “the hit-and-run
tactic formulated by our ancestors,” the Arab
raiders of old.
The U.S. military machine woke up Baghdad
with "smart" bombs and missiles that sent
Iraqis scurrying down to basement shelters.
After the Missouri’s 16-inch guns announced
an escalation in the allied offensive, and as
bombs again fell by the ton, an unexpected
peace initiative came from Iran, the only avo
wedly neutral nation in the Persian Gulf.
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, who
has held discussions with Iraqi and Kuwaiti en
voys, said he is willing to meet with Iraqi Presi
dent Saddam Hussein and to resume direct
contact with the United States to try to mediate
a peaceful settlement.
In Washington, the Bush administration dis
missed the likelihood that diplomacy, not war,
would drive Iraq from occupied Kuwait.
“I think that we’re now in a situation, having
embarked on the course we’re on, that we will
pursue military action until we have achieved
our objectives,” Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
said.
The U.S. command said front-line Marines
traded fire with the Iraqis across the border
Monday, and Marine pilots reported scoring a
major hit against Iraqi armor.
Four AV-8 Harriers, the Marines’ vertical-
takeoff “jump jets,” found and attacked 25 to 30
Iraqi tanks across the border, unloading
Rockeye anti-tank bombs.
‘The results, from the initial pilot reports,
were 25 Iraqi tanks destroyed, or at least bur
ning," said Marine Maj. Gen. Robert Johnston,
chief of staff for Operation Desert Storm.
Marine officers earlier reported that two of
their Hornet fighter-bombers knocked out an
Iraqi rocket site that had fired on allied posi
tions.
The Marines also said a battalion-size Ma
rine task force opened up with 155mm artillery
fire on Iraqi ground radar and infantry posi
tions near the Umm Gudair oil field in south
western Kuwait, and Marine light armored
vehicles exchanged cannon and small-anus fire
with Iraqi troops in Kuwait.
No U.S. casualties were reported in those ac
tions.
Late Sunday, Desert Stonn airpower
pounded an Iraqi convoy on the move in Ku
wait, Johnston said. He said the Iraqis, in a
clear attempt to reduce the size of targets for al
lied warplanes, are using smaller convoys.
The Air Force’s giant B-52 bombers staged
six raidp on the Republican Guard, Iraq’s best
troops in the defense of Kuwait, Johnston said
The half-century-old Missouri fired its 16-
inch guns in combat for the first time since the
Korean War. The shelling by the giant warship,
which previously launched cruise missiles
against Iraqi targets, wasn’t reported until
Monday.
Military sources said the battleship’s targets
were concrete bunkers that the Iraqis were
moving into place in Kuwait, and the massive
naval guns “took out some of them.”
The Missouri had to pull to within 23 miles of
Kuwait for its guns to be within range. But
Johnston said the ship and its 1,600-member
crew hadn’t been put “at unnecessary risk "
Although the Iraqis have anti-ship missiles,
both ground-based and air-to-sea, the 68,000
ton Missouri is "a pretty sturdy ship,’’ Johnston
said.
Couple works to alleviate minority concerns
Leslie and Christine Bates: Relax In Mary Lyndon Hall as
they talk about their devotion to helping minorities
By ANGELA HORNSBY
Staff Writer
Sprawled out on a plush sofa in
Mary Lyndon Parlor, a couple hold
hunds and exchange affectionate
smiles. Their commitment and
dedication to each other is strong,
yet to the community, it is even
stronger.
Married 22 years, Leslie Bates
and Christine Wallace-Bates live
lives which are reservoirs deep in
experience and providing service to
others.
Mr. Bates, director of Minority
Services and Programs at the Uni
versity and Mrs. Wallace-Bates, a
teacher at Hilsman Middle School,
are Michigan natives.
Bates was born in Belleville in
1945 but attended public schools in
Lansing. Wallace-Bates was bom
in Hamtramck in 1949 and played
amateur tennis until the age of 18.
Bates received a bachelor’s de
gree in history with a minor in so
cial science and African-American
history at Western Michigan Uni
versity at Kalamazoo in 1968. He
also received a master’s degree in
counseling and guidance at the col
lege level in 1969, and a doctorate
in administration in higher educa
tion at Wayne State University in
1982.
Wallace-Bates received a bache
lor’s degree in secondary education
at Western Michigan in 1971.
The pair met at Western Mich
igan and married shortly af
terward.
Prior to coming to Athens last
May, Bates worked at Wayne State
University and Mary Grove Col
lege, both in Michigan.
Moving to the South was an op
portunity to live in a warm climate
and be near his parents, who live
in Florida.
“We’ve got time to er\joy nature,"
Wallace-Bates said. “We’ve become
nature freaks."
Bates said there is a lot more op
portunity in urban areas in the
North than in the South. He said
one reason workers in Michigan
make more money is because they
belong to unions.
'They get paid $12 an hour
where here they are paid minimum
wage,” he said.
Much of his career has been
spent developing programs to ben
efit minority students, Bates said.
He said the University despera
tely needs these programs.
“We’re just trying to bring
Georgia up to a certain level," he
said; “Black students have only
been up here for 30 years. We don’t
have any history. I want to estab
lish baseline programs and activ
ities and go from there."
Bates said he believes white stu
dents don’t like the University’s
image, that of separatism.
‘They wont to do the right thing,
but don’t know how," he said.
Bill Porter, director of Student
Activities and a member of the
search committee for the director
of Minority Services and Programs,
said Bates was very impressive in
the interview.
“What was really impressive
was how he quickly sized up the
situation," he said.
Porter said the situation re
volved around the fact that there
had not been a minority office in
the past. Bates understood the
need for new programs, he said.
Dexter Fisher, adviser to the
University’s chapter of the
NAACP, said the school is lucky to
have him.
“I have worked with him," he
said. “He has good rapport with
students at the University."
Allison Strong, graduate assis
tant for Minority Services and Pro
grams, said Bates has an
abundance of good ideas.
“He is capable of bringing the
University culturally where we
need to be," the third-year law stu
dent said.
Wallace-Bates said she has
taught most of her life yet finds
time to serve the community, espe
cially young women, “helping them
to deal with their immediate envi
ronment and how they relate with
that."
She said any mi\jor social
movement starts with young
people.
"The SCLC, Dr. King's
movement, took on dynamic pro
portions when young college people
got involved,” she said.
The SCLC is the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
Wallace-Bates said her first ex
perience with segregation was as a
tennis player. When playing on the
circuit, she stayed with black fami
lies because public facilities were
not open to blacks.
“It was the beginning of the
opening of my eye," she said.
Bates, a member of Kappa A1 pha
Psi fraternity, said black fraterni
ties and sororities provide a sense
of belonging and promote lead
ership, but they do have draw
backs: “They cause cliques,
separate one from another. We
can’t afford to separate ourselves
any more."
Wallace-Bates said people need
to recognize and deal witn frater
nity and sorority members going
overboard in what they do to each
other physically.
Bates said fraternities haven’t
come up with anything challenging
enough, without it being physical,
to make membership special.