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The Red and Black W—Kend » Friday. October 2. 1992 *. 3
Johnny Isakson addresses the College Republicans.
College Republicans
told Bush needs votes
By STEVEN BARRETT
Staff Writer
This year's presidential elec
tion will be among the closest in
recent history, said 1990
Republican gubernatorial candi
date Johnny Isakson.
Speaking to more than 200
College Republicans Wednesday,
the candidate for the 21st District
state Senate seat said that
Clinton and the renewed political
threat of Texas millionaire Ross
Perot mean Bush is no shoo-in.
“California will probably go
Democrat," said Isakson, address
ing the group’s first meeting of
the year. “Perot will hurt Clinton
more than Bush, but being a
Texan, he might take away
enough votes from Bush in
(Texas) to hurt the president.
Your vote is going to count."
He said College Republicans
should ask voters how they be
lieve Democrat Bill Clinton’s
presidency will affect the country.
“Ask your friends, *Will you be
better off in four years under
Clinton ..., or do you want a pres
ident who has kept down the mis
ery index that clobbered Jimmy
Carter in 1980?”* Isakson said.
The index, which gives an eco
nomic picture based on inflation,
interest rates and unemploy
ment, contributed to Carter’s de
feat by Ronald Reagan. Interest
rates and inflation have dropped
drastically during the last 12
years, while unemployment has
risen.
Isakson said the news media,
however, are reluctant to report
on the improved misery index,
echoing comments by two stu
dents who said the media are lib
eral and not objective in reporting
on the president.
“The media are certainly more
liberal than ... Republicans,"
Isakson said. “Some members of
the media have abused their li
cense and bashed the president
unmercifully, but I don’t ever
want to live in a world with no
First Amendment.”
On other issues, Ashley
Disque, president pro-tem of
Student Government Association,
said she is pro-choice, and that
the Republican platform on abor
tion bothers her. She said she will
vote for Bush, “because it’s a mi
nor problem,” but that some of
her friends will not vote for him
because of the platform. The
Republican platform would pro
hibit abortion.
Isakson said he believes a
woman must decide whether to
continue or end a pregnancy, but
that government should discour
age behavior that leads to un
wanted pregnancies.
“I disagree with that part of
the platform [abortion],” he said,
“but the liberal bent on that issue
goes to the opposite extreme, and
that’s bad."
Susan Justice, a senior from
Lawrenceville, said she will vote
for Bush even though she opposes
the party’s stand on abortion, be
cause it is only one issue.
They’re making it seem like a
major issue,” Justice said. “But
we won’t see any action on it un
til further down the road.”
Chelley Afford, a jnnior from
Califon, N J., agreed that Bush is
a better choice than Clinton, but
said she is essentially pro-choice
as well. She added that she is not
worried that America will become
pro-life in the near future, be
cause Republicans are split on the
issue.
On the issue of taxes, Isakson
said Clinton’s proposal to tax the
rich is a feel-good Treasure for
those hit by the recession, but
that it will harm enterprise for
owners of small and large busi
nesses.
"Sure, some people make lots
of money,” he said. “But they cre
ate the jobs. They’re paying twice
as much as the average American
in taxes, and they’re also risking
twice as much. I don’t want to live
in a country where we redis
tribute wealth and tell Americans
they will have to do with less.”
David Johnson, a junior from
Dalton who lived in Arkansas un
til three years ago, said Clinton’s
taxation record in his home state
makes him unfit to be president.
“Clinton has raised taxes there
a zillion times,” Johnson said.
“And he loves it every time."
On the lottery issue, Isakson
said Gov. Zell Miller’s program is
politically popular but will not
solve Georgia’s educational prob
lems.
“Everybody’s for better educa
tion,” he said, “and the lottery is
used to sell a lot of things. But it
would only be equivalent to a one
time, 8-percent pay raise for
teachers, and it would only keep
schools open for three days of the
year.”
Isakson said reducing the bud
get deficit will require tough deci
sions by all Americans, but that
Republicans take a more respon
sible approach to the problem
than Democrats.
“The Republicans want to re
duce spending first,” he said. The
Democrats want to begin by rais
ing taxes, and thus spending.”
SGA President John
Bradberry spoke briefly at the
meeting in support of Ralph
Hudgens’ campaign for the open
seat in the 10th U.S.
Congressional District of Georgia,
which includes Athens.
“I’ve known Ralph Hudgens
since 1987,” said Bradberry, who
told listeners he was speaking as
a student, not as SGA president.
“He is an honest, generous, car
ing, Christian man, and he is a
conservative.”
University groups:
punish Pi Kappa Phi
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
Everybody wants a piece of Pi.
Pi Kappa Phi, that is. And the
NAACP is the latest of a number of
organizations to join the fray
against the fraternity after one of
its pledge pamphlets containing the
phrase “no niggers” was discovered
by University officials last Tuesday.
The University NAACP chapter
launched a petition drive
Wednesday calling for the suspen
sion of the local Pi Kappa Phi chap
ter for one year or longer. The
NAACP plans to send its petition to
University President Charles
Knapp, the office of legal affairs and
the student judiciary.
“Hopefully they’ll look at it very
seriously,” said NAACP chapter
president George Bailey.
That’s why we’re trying to get as
many names as possible, to let them
know the student body is not pas
sive,” he said.
This “Students for the
Suspension of Pi Kappa Phi” drive
has collected 300 signatures from
residents of Creswell Hall alone,
Bailey said.
After the group set up a table at
the Tate Student Center Plaza to
take signatures Thursday, Bailey
said over 500 people signed the pe
tition.
The drive will continue today at
the Tate plaza from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m.
George Crawley, the campus
NAACP Publicity and Public
Relations Chairman, said the orga
nization decided to become involved
when they found the actions taken
against the fraternity by its nation
al chapter to be inadequate.
“I feel like the (Pi Kappa Phi na
tional chapter) as a whole can do
more than slap them on the hand
and tell them that their social priv
ileges are suspended," Crawley
said. “One person cannot be solely
responsible for any publication in
an organization. The entire organi
zation is responsible for the publi
cation, especially since he was an
elected officer and the pamphlet
was representative of Pi Kappa
Phi.”
The pamphlet’s author resigned
from the fraternity Sunday after a
committee of Pi Kappa Phi alumni
and administrators decided he was
the only individual member respon
sible for the slur.
Now that the incident is up for
review by the student judiciapr,
Bailey said he hopes the fraternity
will be punished as a whole. But
some students said they aren’t sure
that will happen.
“I don’t see that there’s going to
be any decisive action taken, not
only to prevent this from happening
again, but also to change the system
that’s kept this alive,” said Kedron
Parker, a junior from Norfolk, VA.
But other organizations have
taken action to condemn the inci
dent.
The Panhellenic Council decided
earlier this week not to participate
in Pi Kappa Phi’s War of the Roses
football tournament, the fraterni
ty’s annual philanthropy event.
‘I don’t see that
there’s going to be
any decisive action
taken ...’
-Kedron Parker
Delta Zeta also decided to dis
tance itself from the fraternity
when it dumped their plans to at
tend homecoming together. Delta
Zeta President Jennifer Loudermilk
declined to comment on the inci
dent.
During a meeting Wednesday
night, the Interfratemity Council
adopted a resolution denouncing
the incident and encouraging its
members to educate themselves on
racial sensitivity issues. However,
IFC President Michael Burnett said
the deed wasn’t punishable by the
IFC, since it does not fall under its
jurisdiction of hazing, drug and al
cohol offenses.
The IFC meeting occurred one
day after members of the Black
Greek Council blasted Pi Kappa Phi
officers at a BGC meeting for using
the pamphlet’s author as a scape
goat.
BGC members said they wanted
to see the fraternity expelled from
the University.
Pay those old parking fines,
or your car will get the boot
BY BEVERLY COX
Staff Writer
You’ve ignored your parking tickets for months as
they steadily carpeted the floor of your car, and now
your paying for it, by way of The Boot.
The boot, a wheel lock used to immobilize a car, is
a method utilized by the Athens-Clarke County Police
Department to collect outstanding parking meter
fines.
The department writes 75,000 to 100,000 parking
tickets a year, but only about 64% are paid on time,
said Sgt. James Doster of the Athens-Clarke County
Police Department Parking Services division.
“Once you receive five tickets, your car comes out
on a computer boot-lock list," Doster said. “At that
time, we take the boot-lock list to the street and boot
cars."
The number of cars booted varies on how many cars
are caught. The department has booted up to 13 to 15
a day, but on average, about 30-40 cars a month are
booted, Doster said. Most of those cars are caught
downtown, although some are found on side streets.
Payment of $25 and all outstanding parking tick
ets is required to remove the boot.
For many people, an immobilized car can come as
a shock, and getting it moving again can be a finan
cial setback.
They didn’t notify me at all,” said Jamie
Mcpherson, a waiter at the Athens Coffee House
whose car was booted last April. “It was depressing be
cause I had no money at the time, and they gave me
no time to pay it back."
“I knew that I deserved to be booted,” Mcpherson
said, who at the time had a year’s worth of tickets to
taling over $160. "But, then again, there isn't ade
quate parking for people who work downtown or park
there while in school, and the parking deck costs too
much.”
Sgt. Doster said the police department sends out
courtesy notices twice a month to notify people who
have three tickets or more.
However, if the car is not registered in the state of
Georgia, they will not receive a courtesy notice since
the computer system does not have the ability to track
down every out-of-state car.
“People will get a notice way ahead of time before
they get on the boot list," Doster said.
If a car is registered out-of-state, the owner can
come to the police department and fill out an address
form in order to receive a monthly courtesy notice,
Doster said.
Using a boot wheel lock is a common method used
to collect meter violations, and is less time consuming
than towing, Doster explained.
University NAACP members collect signatures for a petition against Pi Kappa Phi fra
ternity. They have collected at least 800 signatures, and plan to send the petition to
University President Charles Knapp, the office of legal affairs and the student judiciary.
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