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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1991 « ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 98, ISSUE 59
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Maffucci: Dragged from tent
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
A lone dissenting peace camper was
plucked from his tent by campus police
Wednesday, the first day after University
administrators and protesters came to an
agreement on the encampment.
As other protesters looked on and
flashed peace signs with their hands,
University Police dragged sophomore
Mike Maffucci from his tent and placed
his limp body in a patrol car shortly after
5 p.m.
By refusing to move his tent to an area
agreed upon Tuesday, Maffucci violated
the contract, and was charged with crim
inal trespass.
University administrators deliberated
all day over how to force his compliance or
remove him from campus.
Public Safety Director Asa Boynton
said Maffucci was given ample time to
make a decision about moving the tent.
“We notified him of facing possible
charges of criminal trespassing,” he said.
Dwight Douglas, vice president for Stu
dent Affairs, gave Maffucci a letter
Wednesday morning.
The letter Btated Maffucci needed to
move his tent to the small area on North
Campus designated for the peace camp,
fellow camper Ben Lutin said.
In the agreement signed by University
President Charles Knapp and the protes
ters Tuesday, the camp members were
confined to a 70 feet by 70 feet area near
Phi Kappa Hall.
Maffucci’s tent was underneath a mag
nolia tree next to the Arch — the area the
protestors vacated.
The letter said Maffucci would have to
move the tent by 4 p.m. or be moved by
police.
Maffucci walked out of the Academic
Building around 3 p.m. after a meeting
with Douglas and said he wouldn’t move
his tent.
University police were stationed out
side the building for security measures.
Boynton and University Police Chief
Chuck Horton were on the scene at the
time of arrest.
Horton went to the tent and asked Maf
fucci if he was going to move the tent.
Maffucci shook his head and remained
quiet.
“If you don’t move it, I’m going to place
you under arrest for criminal trespass,”
Horton said to Maffucci.
After no response, Horton and two
plainclothes policemen dragged Maffucci
out of the tent.
Police searched the tent after Maffucci
was removed.
Maffucci didn’t resist arrest, but didn’t
leave under his own power.
He was taken by police to the Clarke
County Jail.
Members of Students Against War in
the Middle East and other campers said
they feel Maffucci made a decision baaed
on personal belief.
“He chose not to go along with the
group decision,” said Allyson Booth, orga
nizer of the group.
“They said they would give warning
and they gave warning,” camp member
Bonnie Garber said.
Though members of the organization
said Maffucci is a part of the group, his
signature doesn’t appear o.. the list of
campers that agreed with President
Knapp’s provisions.
The camp was established Jan. 1 7 —
the night the United States attu k»u
Iraq.
The campers have lived on North
Campus for 21 days. They said they will
remain until the situation in the Middle
East is resolved.
Civic Center plans
at standstill after
community uproar
By DAVID M. JOHNSTON
Staff Writer
An ad hoc committee began
Wednesday outlining the options
available to the Athens-Clarke
County Commission after the deci
sion to put on “working hold,”
plans for the proposed civic center.
The committee, appointed by
Chief Elected Officer Gwen
O’Looney Jan. 23, includes com
missioners Ken Jordan, Charles
Carter and Tom Chasteen.
After two hours of heated public
debate Tuesday night, the commis
sion passed a motion halting pro
gress on the exterior of the
building for no more than 60 days.
The motion passed 9-1, with 8th
district Commissioner Jordan as
the lone dissenter.
About 200 people packed the
Athens commission chambers
Tuesday for the first public hearing
on the center since the architect’s
model went on display in the court
house last month.
Several of the speakers criticized
the project’s architectural design
firm* James Stewart Polshek and
Partners of New York, and project
manager Tom Papageorge.
“Let’s face it. We have not con
vinced the architects of the civic
center and our property manager,
Mr. Papageorge, that we know
what we want them to do — and in
sist that they do it,” Athens resi
dent Ethel Chaffin told the
commission.
Carolyn Edge, who has a mas
ter’s degree in historic preserva
tion from the University, told the
commission, The early Athenians
left us a beautiful city — let’s not
uglify Athens.”
Former Clarke County commis
sioner George Bullock, one of the
few people to speak in favor of the
design, said, *1 will defend the
people we have because thevVe the
best we can get. For God's sake,
let’s don’t sit here and nit-pick this
project to death for the next few
months.”
But public input didn’t end
Tuesday night. About 20 of the
same citizens returned to Wednes
day’s committee meeting.
The whole meeting is going to
be taken up by public discussion,”
said an obviously frustrated
O’Looney after almost an hour and
a half of debate Wednesday.
This reminds me so much of a
Kafka novel,” said Talking Leaves
Bookstore owner Bill Walsh. “We
have a shrinking constitution here.
We have fewer people showing up
here today and fewer commis
sioners to talk to.”
Commissioners are wrong if they
think that simply changing the
building’s facade will solve the
problem, he said.
Walsh recently took out local ad
vertisements questioning the en
Proposed civic center: Protesters deem it 'ugly’
tire civic center project.
Tenth district Commissioner Tal
DuVall, who proposed that the mo
tion pass Tuesday, told the com
mittee that the commission had
“set aside discussion on areas
which we agree on."
Ninth District Commissioner
Chasteen, who chairs the com
mittee, said the points of
agreement are that the civic center
will be built and that it will be built
on the present Thomas Street site.
He outlined three options which
he said were immediately ap
parent.
“We can build what’s on the
drawing board... change the facade
or redesign everything from the
ground up,” Chasteen said.
But Athens-Clarke Heritage
Foundation President Bertis
Downs said that drastic alterna
tives aren’t necessary.
The Thomas Street Fire Hall can
be added to the present design by
moving the buildings 15 feet in
both directions, he said.
This would allow alleys on each
side of the fire hall while keeping
most of the present interior floor
space, he said.
“I don’t think it’s all or nothing,"
Downs said.
When the public discussion
ended around 5:30 p.m., the com
mittee met privately to begin dis
cussing the options.
The committee won’t make rec
ommendations but simply will pre
sent the commission with options,
Chasteen said.
In other action at Tuesday’s
meeting, the commission ruled on
six local zoning ordinances, in
cluding one which would have tem
porarily rezoned the area
surrounding the civic center.
The commission denied the re
quest, which would put restrictions
on property owners in the Foundry
Street area in preparation for fu
ture development that would com
plement the civic center.
Air raiding continues
as Iraqis flee to Iran
The Associated Press
D HAH RAN, Saudi Arabia — In
another day of non-stop aerial bal
listics, the United States shot
down at least two fleeing Iraai jets
Wednesday and Iraq blasted the
sky with intense anti-aircraft fire,
allied military officials said.
Iraq claimed that 150 civilians
had been killed in a single air raid,
including 35 children. Baghdad
radio complained that the United
States and its allies were bombing
hospitals, mosques and houses.
They want to expel Iraq from
the 20th century,” the radio said.
Iraq announced that it was sev
ering diplomatic ties with the
United States, Britain, France,
Italy, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Jordan’s King Hussein appealed
for a cease-fire in the Persian Gulf
War, which he said was destroying
Iraq. But in Washington, Secretary
of State James Baker tried to steel
Congress for a long and bloody
fight.
The military actions now un
derway necessarily involve many
casualties, great hardships and
growing fears for the future,”
Baker said in testimony to the
House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Tough times lie ahead.”
Allied bombers continued to un
load tons of explosives on Iraq’s Re
publican Guard’s highly fortified
positions.
“He gets little sleep both day and
night,” Marine Brig. Gen. Richard
Neal said of the Iraqi soldier.
Gen. Michel Roquejeoffre, com
mander of the French forces in Op
eration Desert Storm, said allied
air strikes had reduced the Repub
lican Guard’s effectiveness by
about 30 percent.
Neal, who conducted the U.S.
military's daily briefing in Riyadh,
the Saudi capital, declined to com
ment on the French general’s re
marks. He said, however, that the
United States “has not attached a
30, a 10 or a 15 percent” to the
unit’s rated effectiveness.
Neal seemed to contradict re
marks by a British military
spokesman, Royal Air Force Group
Capt. Niall Irving. The RAF officer
insisted that the main purpose of
the bombing was to lower Iraqi mo
rale, “not to try and wipe out the
Republican Guard.”
Neal’s response: “We’re dropping
a lot of ordnance on the Republican
Guard, not just to lower tneir mo
rale, but also to destroy their
tanks, their artillery, their logis
tical sustainment capability, their
built-up areas. We’re out there to
destroy the Republican Guard.”
Ten more Iraqi planes flew to
Iran, according to Neal, bringing
the total there to about 120. But for
the first time, the allies reported
shooting down some of the fleeing
planes.
A Saudi Arabian military
spokesman said American F-15s
shot down four of seven Iraqi jets
as they tried to make the dash
across the border. Neal said only
two planes were confirmed kills,
while two MiG-21 s were listed as
possibly shot down.
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Gerontology Center trains grads
for work in the field of elderly care
By JENNIFER PETERSON
Staff Writer
"Be patient. God isn’t finished with me yet either.”
The caption appears on a poster of an elderly man;
the poster hangs outside the University Gerontology
Center, which specializes in the study of aging.
"The fastest growing segment of our population are
those people who are 85 and older,” said Denise Park,
associate director of the center. “They are growing at a
faster rate than any other group.”
At the same time American society is beginning to
see the baby boomers getting older, having had fewer
children than past generations, she said.
It’s called the “Graying of America.”
“It isn’t likely that gerontology and its importance
will decline over the next several years,” Parx said.
The center sponsors numerous programs and semi
nars on everything from the psychology of aging to the
controversial “right to die" issue, she said.
But their most important program is the Graduate
Certificate of Gerontology program, she said. It’s an
inter-disciplinary training and research program for
graduate students.
“It’s designed for people who are getting their grad
uate degrees and want a broader perspective on aging
than any one department can give,” Park said. Stu
dents from any major can participate in either the re
search or practitioner track of the program.
The center’s staff includes 41 faculty members from
different departments and colleges in the University,
she Baid.
“Not only are people over 85 frail and susceptible to
chronic diseases, but they are least likely to have sup
port systems,” Park said. "That is, spouses aren’t
living, or children are far away.”
People already working with senior citizens come
back for the certificate because they find they are
trained in a discipline and not in actually working
with people, she said.
“With the aging of the baby boomers, there isn’t
going to be as much money for people to retire, so we’ll
be seeing an aging work force,” Park said. “We need to
learn about their frailties, but also about human po
tential in aging.”
Many of the students in the program’s practitioner
track intern at the Athens Community Council on
Aging and affiliated programs such as the Adult Day
Care Center, she said.
During craft time at the center on Wednesday, 78-
C r-old Pauline Faulkner made a Valentine’s Day
kmark in the shape of a glove.
’These arthritis fingers can’t do it so good any
more,” she said.
She and five other women decorated their book
marks with hearts and sequins while chatting about
various events of the day, especially the death of
Danny Thomas.
“It’s just a shame, isn’t it?” one of them asked, as
they discussed his age.
Faulkner is one of 33 clients at the day care center,
said Linda Gough, the center’s director.
Gough said the center gets clients from three
sources.
They come through the Community Care Service, a
federally mandated program for care of the elderly; or
through a Georgia grant for the care of people with
Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. They also
have private clients, she said.
“Our main goal is to keep these people out of
nursinghomes and in their own homes,” she said.
Jim Preston, a University graduate student in so
cial work, spends eight hours in the center every
Tuesday and Wednesday as part of his curriculum.
"I learn more from them than they do from me; they
all have such interesting lives,” he said. "They’ve
taken me in.”
After 16 years of free-lance writing, Preston, who
isn’t a student in the certificate program, decided to
get his master's degree in social work to “be more ac
tive in the community,” he said.
He helps serve meals, helps individuals with
housing and other services and leads group activities
on Tuesdays, he said.
"The most important thing is a lot of interaction
with them; getting to know them,” he said. “When
they’re at home, they’re alone, so we encourage them
to participate and socialize.”
Partition proposal possibly parried
By LANCE HELMS
Staff Writer
The General Assembly’s con
troversial bar-barrier bill may
die again this year, said the bill’s
sponsor Wednesday.
“I might just pass it out of
committee, take it to the Rules
Committee and (let) it sit,” said
state Rep. Frank Redding (D-De-
catur). ; ‘I could hold hearings
statewide, bring them to Athens
and allow students and (bar)
owners to testify.”
The bill, which would require
bar owners to construct barriers
separating legal drinkers from
underage patrons, is in the
House Regulated Substances
subcommittee. Redding is vice
chair of the committee, which
meets today.
Student Government Associa
tion President Heath Garrett,
who planned to attend today’s
meeting, said it’s hard to gauge
support for Redding’s bill.
“I’m not sure what those rep
resentatives have told him be
hind closed doors,” Garrett said.
Redding allowed student rep
resentatives to testify against
the bill at a committee meeting
last year, Garrett said.
“Last year, when the students
went over, it wasn’t supposed to
be a hearing," he said. “But (Red
ding) let the students testify
“A lot of the people’s districts
aren’t familiar with stamping
people’s hands. We can show
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work.”
Troops to receive Greek support
By PEQQY McQOFF
Campus Correspondent
In the tradition of Bob Hope,
Betty Grable and The Andrews
Sisters, about a dozen sororities
will take the stage tonight in a ben
efit for dependent families of
United States military personnel
serving in the Middle East.
The 7 p.m. USO-inspired show
will take place at the Delta Tau
Delta fraternity house, who is
sponsoring the show.
Proceeds raised from donations
and the $1 5 sorority entry fee will
benefit support groups for families
of troops from Georgia, DTD Presi-
The sororities will perform song
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troops in Saudi Arabia, said Wade
Taylor, DTD social chairman. The
videotapes will be sent specifically
to Terrence McDowell and John
Heil, DTD alumni now stationed in
the Persian Gulf region.
Bardwell said his fraternity
holds the event every year and
chose families of service personnel
as this year’s beneficiaries because
several of the fraternity’s members
have friends and family stationed
in the Middle East.
Taylor said DTD would like to
ease the financial difficulties of
these families. These difficulties
often worsen in a struggling
economy when a family member is
called to active duty.
A group of lingers from Kappa
Alpha Theta will sing and dance to
several broadway and contempo
rary-style songs, said Carolyn Cox,
director of the group.
Bea Bea Hurt, a junior social
work mqjor and member of Zeta
Tau Alpha, said her sorority began
sending letters several months ago
to friends and other soldiers over
seas. She said about 60 sorority
members write the soldiers, and
the show is another way to send
moral support to the troops.