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MONDAY. APRIL 27, 1992 • ATHENS. GEORGIA • VOLUME 99, ISSUE 123
GBI: Rape preceded Stone’s death
Athens police have no suspects in connection with homicide
Vivian Liddell/1 he Red and Black
By JEFF COEN
Staff Writer
Jennifer Stone, the University senior who was strangled
to death last week, was sexually assaulted before she died,
officials from the state Bureau of Investigation said
Saturday.
The bureau confirmed earlier speculation that Stone, a
22-year-old from Roswell, was raped. Athens-Clarke
County police said Sunday they had no suspects in the case
and had not made any arrests in connection with the
killing.
Athens-Clarke police Maj. David Camp wouldn’t com
ment on the findings of the forensics team that spent the
weekend in Stone’s apartment at 187 Hull St. behind
Manse Antiques.
Police said Saturday they had brought in about 70 of
Stone’s friends and acquaintances for questioning but
added that none of them are suspected in the slaying.
Police said they believe Stone was killed late Wednesday
night or early Thursday morning. Her body was discovered
Thursday evening by three friends who went to check on
her because she had missed a meeting.
“Three male friends of Ms. Stone’s found the body," said
Bureau Chief Joseph Lumpkin of the Athens-Clarke
County police. “They came by after Ms. Stone did not
attend a work meeting for an advertising class they had.”
A forensics team scoured the downtown residence this
weekend, which Lumpkin called “a typical student apart
ment," looking for any evidence that might help them solve
the case. But Lumpkin wouldn’t comment on what they
found.
“We don’t want to say anything that might hinder the
investigation," he said.
Lumpkin said police were concentrating most of their
efforts on the bedroom, where the body was found lying on
a double bed. He said they hadn’t found anything that
would indicate a forced entry.
Although the apartment didn’t appear to be ransacked,
the cause of death - strangulation - indicates there was a
struggle of some kind, Camp said.
“We found very little evidence in the apartment to sug
gest a major struggle," Camp said Sunday. “By that I mean
we didn’t find lamps knocked over or other damage of that
variety. But the fact that she was strangled would lead
anyone to believe that there was a struggle of some sort."
Police removed Stone’s body from the apartment around
2:30 p.m. Friday. They then drove it to the state crime lab
in Decatur, where an autopsy revealed the cause of death
as strangulation.
Curious students drove by the area in their cars Friday,
trying to get a look at the scene, while a few walked up
through the swarm of cameras and reporters to ask about
the latest details in the case.
Dana Getzinger, a University alumna who was stabbed
in her ofT-campus apartment in 1988, was at the scene
Friday. The founder of Safe Campuses Now, Getzinger said
Stone’s death should focus more attention on her organiza
tion’s agenda - awareness and prevention of campus crime.
“I was a wreck when I heard about it this morning,"
Getzinger said. “To a lot of people, she’s just news, but this
really hits me. I was shaking. This is just terrible."
Getzinger said her organization will help provide coun
seling at Kappa Delta, Stone’s sorority.
Police ask that anyone who may have seen something
suspicious near the crime scene to call them at 613-3340.
Stone remembered as devoted, motivated
Funeral to be held today
By STEPHANIE R. BAKER
Staff Writer
Jennifer Stone never referred to
herself as Jennifer, nor did she
expect others to. Those who knew
her called her Jenny.
Funeral services for the 22-
year-old University senior will be
held today at 11 a.m. at St.
Benedictine’s Church on Pleasant
Hill Road in Roswell.
Stone, who studied advertising
and excelled in photography, was
described as being “down-to-earth
and very motivated” by her friend,
Alexis Heckman, a senior from
Lyman, S.C.
Stone was appointed as account
executive for her advertising cam
paigns class winter quarter, which
Heckman said was both an honor
and a huge responsibility. She said
Stone had just been offered an
internship with Bockel, Clark, and
Gill, an Atlanta advertising agen
cy. Stone had also planned to
attend the Portfolio Center in
Atlanta after graduating in June.
“Her priorities were her ad
classes, her photography and her
friends,” Heckman said. “Her per
sonality was saucy, but she always
had a compliment for everyone.
She could come up with a blase
way to say something very nice."
Heckman said that Stone made
a Valentine for her with glitter and
construction paper.
“She had a flair for life,"
Kimberly Smith, a senior from
Bremen said.
“She loved cycling, she loved her
two cats, and she had friends in
many circles," Heckman said. “Her
friends were devoted to her."
Walter Nix, Stone’s art photog
raphy professor, said, “She was
just a decent kid, a wonderful,
thoughtful, warm, decent human
being."
Stone’s closest friends found it
difficult to talk about her.
“I know a lot of people would
like to know more about Jenny,"
Randy Brooks, a senior from
Jennifer Stone
Atlanta, said. “But they don’t need
to know or understand Jenny to
understand what has happened
and to feel the loss. It may be kind
of selfish of me, but Jenny was my
whole life and I don’t want to share
that with everyone.”
Tracy Pisell, a senior from
Roswell and longtime friend of
Stone’s, echoed Brooks.
“It would be difficult for us to
share our Jenny with people we
don’t know at this time,” Pisell
said. She added, on behalf of
Stone’s close friend Brian Bone,
who could not be reached for com
ment, “We love her and miss her.”
“We all loved Jenny dearly,"
Sandi Turner, a senior from
Atlanta said. “But I can’t talk
about her."
Heckman said although she and
Stone’s other friends hope the case
is resolved as soon as possible,
Stone would not have wanted peo
ple to live in fear.
“She didn’t live in fear and she
wouldn’t have wanted to set off
some kind of hysteria," Heckman
said.
Heckman said Stone chose to
live alone in her one-bedroom
apartment on Hull Street because
she was very independent and
liked living alone. However, there
were times when she had consid
ered getting a roommate.
“It’s really ridiculous that some
one with her intelligence and inde
pendence couldn’t just live out her
life as she chose,” said Angie
Malone, a friend and junior from
Greenwood, S.C.
Gym Dogs second in
NCAA championship
Slaying raises doubts of campus safety
Safe Campuses
plans for home
safety inspections
By ROBERT HAAG
Staff Writer
The slaying of Jennifer Stone Thursday has
sparked student fears, prompting them to seek
counseling, said David Fletcher, assistant to
the vice president of Student Affairs.
Several friends of Stone sought counseling
Friday at the Mental Health division of the
Gilbert Health Center and many other stu
dents are expected to come to the mental health
clinic today and Tuesday.
The clinic will provide extra staff for two
walk-in sessions today and Tuesday.
They’re pulling in all the folks," Fletcher
said. “There are a number of students who are
affected."
Fletcher spoke to students Friday in one of
8tone’s classes.
Fletcher said students who want to discuss
the death can go - on a walk-in basis - to the
Gilbert Heath Center from 10 to 11 a.m., or
from 4 to 5 p.m. today or Tuesday.
To some, Stone’s death was more evidence
that colleges are not as safe as administrators
would want students to believe.
Safe Campuses Now, an organization dedi
cated to helping college students learn more
about the dangers of campus life, was founded
by University graduate Dana Getzinger.
Getzinger was a University sophomore when
she was stabbed in her Athens condominium on
Jan. 17, 1988. Her attacker, who entered her
home at Dearing Courtyard, was never appre
hended.
Getzinger, 23, has helped open Safe
Campuses Now chapters at the University of
Florida and the University of Tennessee.
Getzinger testified in 1990 before a congres
sional hearing on campus crime. Her testimony
helped pass the Clery bill, which requires col
leges to release on-campus crime statistics.
The Stone slaying was the
second involving a University
student in the past 10 years.
The violent crime statistics compiled by
Georgia colleges and universities will be more
accessible because of recent legislation passed
in the Georgia General Assembly.
The new bill will require officers to identify,
on the police report, whether a victim is a stu
dent and, if so, to name the victim’s school.
In the past, crimes that occurred to students
off campus were not released by universities;
schools were only required to report crimes
that occur on campus.
Dave Blount, director of Athens Chapter of
Safe Campuses Now, said the organization is
stepping up plans to start a security inspection
program in response to the Stone slaying. As
part of the program, volunteers would inspect
homes for security measures upon request.
The Stone slaying was the second involving
a University student in the past 10 years.
Donna Lynn Allen was killed on Dec. 21,
1983 on her way from her downtown job to her
car parked in the Chandler Hall lot. She was
stabbed three times while walking behind the
University Chapel by Warren Reid Hall, an Ila
man who confessed to the killing during a
three-and-a-half-hour police interrogation.
Hall was convicted in 1984 and is serving a life
sentence.
At the time of the killing, Hall was under
treatment at the University’s Psychology Clinic
where workers said he displayed dangerous
behavior and fantasized about raping women.
Allen’s parents, J.C. and Bernice, filed a $3 mil
lion lawsuit against the University and the
Board of Regents. They lost the suit in 1986.
Another high-profile Athens murder
involved the slaying of two retired University
professors, Glen and Rachel Sutton, by a 16-
year-old in April of 1987. Clifford Bankston
killed the elderly couple and three others in the
Sutton’s Oglethorpe Avenue home.
Bankston was convicted of the five murders
in May of 1988 and was sentenced to five con
secutive life terms.
By LYA WODRASKA
Sports Editor
ST. PAUL, MINN. — How
does the Georgia gymnastics
team spell nightmare? National
championships.
Going into the NCAA final,
the second-ranked Dogs seemed
to have everything going for
them, but Friday night every
thing went wrong. Georgia
counted three falls to finish sec
ond behind Utah, which claimed
its eighth national title. The Utes
defeated the Dogs 195.65-194.60
Even though they went into
the meet as the second seed,
Georgia was thought to be the
favorite by many. The Dogs had
coasted through an undefeated,
injury-free season setting all
kind of school, conference and
NCAA records.
Along the way, Georgia
showed they could handle pres
sure by winning a meet at
Alabama on the balance beam.
More recently, Georgia gymnasts
had been nailing their routines
in practice.
The Utes, on the other hand,
went through a somewhat rough
journey, as they lost their top
freshman all-arounder Suzanne
Metz early in the season with an
ankle injury. Senior Shelly
Schaerrer injured her ankle as
well, which limited her to the
bars.
But what teams do in the reg
ular season doesn’t mean a thing
in the national championships. It
was evident after the first rota
tion Friday night that Georgia
would be denied the one last
thing that would put an excla
mation mark on the 1992 cam
paign.
With the Utes watching from
the wings on a bye, Georgia self-
destructed on the uneven bars -
the event in which they were
ranked first in the nation. The
Dogs scored only a 48.25 on the
bars because they had to count
two falls.
Georgia also looked shaky on
the balance beam, but still man
aged a respectable 48.45.
After scoring a 49.00 on the
floor, Georgia showed signs of life
on the vault scoring a 49.10.
However, it wouldn’t be enough
to catch the Utes.
Many schools would be ecstat
ic to finish second in the nation,
but for Georgia, nothing less
Heather Stepp performs
on the balance beam Friday
at St. Paul Civic Center.
than first would satisfy this team
because of its outstanding sea
son. What makes the loss sting
even more is the fact that Utah
was beatable.
Georgia beat the Utes on the
vault and beam, but Utah was
able to conquer the uneven bars
as their score of 49.40 won the
meet for them.
Downcast Georgia head coach
Suzanne Yoculan sat in the press
room after the meet trying to
understand why her team per
formed so poorly.
“We made mistakes we
haven’t made all year," she said.
“There is no rhyme or reason to
explain what happened. I’ll
spend a lot of sleepless nights
trying to figure that out."
The fact that Georgia was able
to still finish second with their
performance was a testament to
the team’s strength; they just
couldn’t add the exclamation
points.
Finishing behind the two
teams were Alabama, Penn
State, Arizona, Oregon State,
Arizona State, California, UCLA,
Stanford, Florida and BYU.
Students, Clean and Beautiful Commission
join hands to pick up trash in Classic City
A dean sweep: Program Is part of Clean Up Athens Week.
University students joined hands with the
Athens-Clarke County Clean and Beautiful
Commission last week in an effort to clean up
the Classic City.
Clean Up Athens Week featured several pro
grams in conjunction with Keep America
Beautiful Week activities.
Most of the effort was concentrated on the
Adopt-A-Highway program in which an organi
zation agrees to clean up roadway at least four
times a year.
The program, sponsored by the Department
of Transportation and the local transportation
authority, does not cost anything to twgin and
is a great way to pitch in with the nationwide
cleanup effort, said Svea Rogue, executive direc
tor of Athens Clean and Beautiful.
“Any group can adopt a mile,’ she said.
"Because of this, we’ve seen a real reduction in
litter."
Despite thunderstorms, sorority and frater
nity members picked up litter on Milledge
Avenue.
They are always helping,’ said Bogus, who
commended the Panhelienic Council for their
efforts.
Clean Up Athens Week concluded with a
major recycling effort at drop-off points around
the city.
At Beech wood Shopping Center, members of
UGA Clean and Beautifbl publicized the need to
recycle by surveying the public.
"We tried to find out what they recycled and
suggestions they had about drop-off points,*
said Alison Reller, member of UGA Clean and
Beautiful and Alpha Omicron Pi sorority.
These surveys helped to establish more drop
off points and see how much of the county is
involved with recycling."
Reller said they were also able to clear up
confusion many people had about what and
where to recycle. “A lot of people were not sure
about what to recycle.”
Recycling centers, Reller said, accept not
only aluminum, but also magazines and news
papers.
Reller said local organizations and programs
provide an excellent opportunity to get involved
with conservation.
“It is only a start, but it is a huge step," she
said. "Everyone should become involved."
