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■ UNIVERSITY
Newman performs stunts today on campus
Street performer Harley Newman will bring his unusual blend of hu
man sideshow entertainment to the Tate Plaza today at noon. This is
the second time Newman has come to the University with his act that
features fire-breathing, juggling and even lying on a bed of nails, said
David Mendoza, program advisor to the Variety Division of University
Union. University Union is sponsoring the event. “We wanted a per
former who could attract a lot of people and bring attention to the oth
er programs offered by Variety,“ Mendoza said. He said that Newman
attracted about 1,000 people last year and that many people said they
would like him to come back. — David Twiddy
Russians will visit and debate against UGA students
East meets West in October as a team of Russian debaters visit the
University for a three-day tour. The debaters are part of a national
team visiting ten American universities biennially, having last been in
Athens in 1990 From Oct. 24 to Oct. 26, the Russians will tour
Atlanta, Athens and the University. Monday, Oct. 26, the visitors will
debate a team from the University. Any University students wishing
to welcome the team or participate in the debate should contact
Edwurd Panetta, director of the debate team, at 542-4445. Panetta
said Friday is the last day to sign up for the University debate team
that will compete against the Russian debaters. Currently there is one
spot open on the team. “We want to encourage Russian students to
meet people from a diverse realm of the University community,"
Panetta said. — Kelly Daniel
■ STATE
Pay structure at Georgia colleges being questioned
Atlanta (AP): The head of the state employees union called Tuesday
for a new study of the pay structure at Georgia colleges and universi
ties after a report showed an increase in the number of officials draw
ing $100,000 or more. “We thought we were all in this together during
the budget crisis, but it turns out some high-level university employees
got the gold while the rest of us got the shaft,” said Grant Williams, ex
ecutive director of the Georgia State Employees Union. As a group,
University System of Georgia employees rank 38th in the nation in
pay, said Williams, adding that a re-examination of the pay structure is
overdue. Williams commented a day after The Associated Press report
ed that at least 158 key executives and top professors in Georgia’s pub
lic colleges and universities are now drawing pay in excess of $100,000
a year. That compares with 92 people drawing $100,000-plus salaries
18 months ago. The statistics come from reports prepared by the Board
of Regents, governing board of the university system, at The AP*s re
quest. In response to the latest report, University System Chancellor
H. Dean Propst said Monday, “I don’t feel these salaries are out of line
with other institutions of higher education, considering the quality
we’re trying to attain.”
■ NATION
Candidate accused of shooting opponent’s wife
Maitland, Fla. (AP) : A legislative candidate was arrested Monday and
charged with attempted murder in the shooting of his opponent’s wife.
Police said her husband was the intended target. Eric Kaplan, 28, also
was charged with aggravated battery and firing into an occupied home.
He was jailed on $100,000 bail. Judith Starks, the 47-year-old wife of
Republican state Rep. Robert Starks, was shot in the leg early Sunday
in her bed. She was hit by one of five shots fired from the back yard
into the couple’s home. She was treated at a hospital. “We believe
(Kaplan) intended to kill the representative,” Sheriff Don Eslinger said.
“There is no connection other than politics. We believe he wanted to
win in the worst way.” Kaplan, the Democratic challenger for Starks’
suburban Orlando seat, was arrested at his parents’ Altamonte Springs
home. Kaplan, who works in his father’s real estate office, is making
his first bid for public office. His attorney had issued a statement earli
er Monday saying Kaplan denied any involvement in the shooting.
Sheriffs spokesman George Proechel said a witness had followed
Kaplan’s car to his apartment complex in Casselberry, where police
found a five-shot .38-caliber revolver and a handwritten note with
Starks’ address on it.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• UGA College Republicans will
meet at 8 p.m. today in Caldwell
Hall room 204. Former candidate
for governor Johnny Isakson will
be speaking. For more information,
call Bobby Soper at 353-8375.
• Students for Environmental
Awareness will meet at 7:30 p.m.
today in Memorial Hall room 211.
Everyone is welcome to come and
learn SEA's purpose and plans.
For more information, call Janene
Lowe at 369-5438.
• The International Association of
Business Communicators (LABC)
will hold a general information
meeting at 7 p.m. today in
Memorial Hall room 213. All ma
jors are welcome.
• UGA Block and Bridle Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the
Livestock Poultry Building room
319.
• The Hispanic Student
Association will meet at 8 p.m. to
day in Memorial Hall room 406.
For more information, call Melisa
Suit at 542-8483.
• The Culture of the South
Association will hold a "Meet the
C.S.A." at 7:40 p.m. today in Tate
Center room 142. For more infor
mation, call Greg Pearson at 613-
0196.
• UGA Ice Hockey Club will hold
an organizational meeting at 7:30
p.m. today in Tate Center room
154. New, returning players and
anyone interested in assisting the
team this season are invited to at
tend. For more information, call
the Rec Sports Office at 542-5060.
• Gamma Beta Phi will meet at 6
p.m. today in Tate Center room
142.
• Phi Chi Theta will hold Fall
Rush at 6 p.m. today at Memorial
Park.
• The Student Government
Association will hold a general
committee meeting at 4 p.m. to
day outside the SGA offices in
the Tate Center.
Announcements
• Margaret Dickie of the UGA
English Dept, will speak at 12 p.m.
today in Park Hall room 261 on the
topic: "The Maternal Glaze in
Stein, H.D., and Marianne Moore."
• The Lunch and Learn Series will
be from 12:10-1 p.m. today in Tate
Center room 154. The topic is:
Increasing Your Self-Esteem.
• Dr. Alex Williams, Presbyterian
Campus Minister, will speak on
"How to Relate to Strangers," at 7
p.m. today at the Presbyterian
Student Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin
St. A social will follow at 8 p.m. For
more information, call Dr.
Williams at 548-5932.
• The Chinese American Student
Association is forming a new orga
nization. Anyone interested in
finding out more or joining can call
George Liu at 548-4569.
Upcoming
• Comedians Dennis Miller and
David Spade will perform at UGA
on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m.
Tickets will go on sale today at the
Tate Cashiers Window, $6 for
UGA students, $12 for non-stu
dents. UGA student ID and cur
rent fees paid card are required for
each student ticket at time of pur
chase and at the door for admis
sion. For more information, call
Sheila Ramsay at 542-3981.
• Auditions for UGAs Concert
Dance Company Series will be held
Monday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. in Carver
Studio room 272 of the P.E.
Building on Sanford Dr. Student
performers will be chosen for the
February season. Dances will in
clude Ballet (Pointe), Modern and
Jazz styles. Choreography will be a
mens dance which will include
athletic movement (not trained
dance style). For more informa
tion, call 542-4415.
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Developmental Studies faces changes
By TRAVIS RICE
Staff Writer
Resources for the University’s
Developmental Studies program may be
redirected next year if the Board of Regents
approves a plan to create a new academic
assistance division.
Under the new plan, Developmental Studies
would no longer be its own division, but would
instead become a program under the new
Division of Academic Assistance, Director of
Developmental Studies Wayne Antenen said.
With fewer students in Developmental
Studies due to tougher entrance requirements,
more teachers will be allocated for Academic
Assistance to help regularly admitted students
in areas in which they have a deficiency.
Antenen said he anticipates approval by
both the Regents and Chancellor. If approved,
the program would be implemented next
academic year, Antenen said.
The number of students enrolled this year in
the University’s Developmental Studies
Program is less than half of what it has been in
recent years. Down from an average of 300 a
year, this year’s 148 student program is the
result of a University-wide restructuring plan
for academic assistance programs.
Betty Whitten, associate vice president of
Academic Affairs, said the goal of Academic
Assistance is to benefit all students.
“We’ll be able to serve a larger number of
students with a tutorial program and academic
assistance," Whitten said. “We’ve envisioned a
nice center where students can receive help in
the subject area with which they have difficul
ty. We hope this will help with our retention
rate and make life easier for some of our stu
dents."
Currently developmental studies consists of
students who have a college prep diploma, at
least a 700 on the SAT and a 2.0 high school
GPA, but who do not meet the requirements for
regular admission on any given year.
“If a student is from a particular cultural
group or has a particular musical talent or is a
non-traditional student coming back for a
degree, we want to be able to say, ‘We want you
here,” 1 Antenen said.
“Any given year you only have about 10 per
cent of developmental studies students who are
athletes,” he said. “But the goal of every devel
opmental studies student is to get a degree.”
The proposed raising of requirements would
put a student in developmental studies if they
scored below 75 percent on the Collegiate
Placement Exams (CPEs) in Reading, Math or
English and had below a 350 on either section
of the SAT. This is expected to reduce the
number of developmental studies students, so
more instructors and money can be placed on
the average student.
“Many students don’t need to be classified as
developmental studies, but need some help in
one area.” Antenen said .
Under the proposed plan, all regularly
admitted students would take the CPEs, and
those who scored less than 75 percent on any
exam would be placed in an academic
assistance class for that subject. That would
consist of more individualized instruction with
staff specially designated to help students in
their field of difficulty.
“There is a great case for academic assis
tance," Antenen said. “Developmental Studies
students who complete the program compare
very favorably in terms of passing rates with
regular students in the nine freshman-level
courses in which we studied the numbers.
“Developmental studies and academic assis
tance are a service for the state. If we increase
the degree level and education level of Georgia,
it has positive economic spinoffs for the state.”
Have fun, lose all your money in Las Vegas
By MELANIE THOMAS
Staff Wnter
The allure of gambling, bright
lights and casinos is drawing
younger generations to Las Vegas
to exhaust extra money and
vacation time.
The little western strip offers
24-hour casinos packed with slot
machines, spinning roulette
wheels and card dealers.
“It was wild. As soon as you
step off the airplane you can hear
the clinks of coins,"said David
Tatum, a senior from Dunwoody.
“You could gamble through the
night and not even realize it.”
Travel agents say the attrac
tion to Las Vegas is that it offers
college students and younger peo
ple something they’ve never tasted
before.
“It’s a different world out
there,” said Teresa Coggins, tour
and travel executive with Jim
Powell Tours, an agency based in
Greenville, S.C. “People want to
get away from the monotony of
life, and they go out there and see
everything man-made and neon
lights and high rises. It’s like this
big city protruding out of the
desert that uses a lot of electrici
ty.”
“I would love to go to Las
Vegas,” said Richard Bowles, a ju
nior from Greenville, S.C. “Las
Vegas is the mother of all casinos,
and with gambling there’s always
a chance of winning big.”
Many travel agencies and Las
Vegas hotels offer special package
deals that usually attract college
students, but the hotels earn most
of their money from the casino
gambling.
“You can go out there for three
nights and four days for about
$300, and you think, ‘That’s
great,’” said Rebecca Edings, a
travel agent with World Wide
Travel Service in Athens, who just
returned from a trip to Las Vegas.
“But you get out there and you
spend it like crazy. You get suck-
ered, but it’s fun to do. I lost every
thing I put into it.”
Tatum, who went to Las Vegas
last year as a belated Christmas
present from his parents, said los
ing is something he’s experienced.
“I lost $600 at the tables, and
the next few months I was hurting
for money,” Tatum said. “But it’s
the most fun you can have even
losing money. I’d go back in a
heartbeat if I had $600.”
The gambling addiction is no
myth according to some students
and travel agents.
Tatum said the key to gambling
is to know when to walk away
from the tables.
“It’s knowing when to quit,”
Tatum said. “Each game has its
little difficulties, but at any
minute you could hit it rich. A lot
of people think they have a sys
tem, but it’s just luck.”
First timers should stick to the
slot machines or roulette wheels,
Coggins said.
Coggins said she doesn’t play
much, but “it’s exciting to watch
people play. You look at their eyes,
and you can tell it’s addictive.”
Chris Smith, a graduate of
University of Kansas, said he
always gambles on sports and lost
$300 gambling in Las Vegas.
“I don’t gamble to extremes,”
Smith said. “I mean, I don’t
gamble my rent money. I would
tell myself that I wasn’t going to
gamble below a certain amount of
money or if I win then I’d stop, but
as soon as you start winning you
keep going until you’ve lost the
money.”
First-time gamblers may end
up losing more, but it’s usually a
50-50 chance, Coggins said. The
new atmosphere can overwhelm
young college students, who are
witnessing the electric scene, she
said.
Many former Las Vegas visitors
blame the gambling addiction on
the chance of winning, which
keeps people emptying their
pockets to the tables.
“Some people are thrill seekers,
and just the thought of winning
makes them gamble,” Coggins
said. “When I say thrill seekers I
mean whether they’re married
men seeing how much they can get
away with or gambling - it’s
people who like to take chances.”
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DO YOU...
• enjoy Broadway shows?
• want hands-on backstage experience?
• enjoy meeting stars of theater, dance & music?
• want a voice in what performing arts shows come to UGA?
The Performing Arts Division of the University Union is recruiting
members for the 1992-93 school year for the following committees:
Public Relations Society
Hospitality Research/Scheduling
If interested, please attend an informational meeting on
WEDNESDAY, September 30, 1992 at 7:00 p.m.
in room 144 of the Tate Student Center.
Any questions? Call 542-6396
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Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
October 7, 1992
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
November 8, 1992