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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1992 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 100, ISSUE 11
Dogs defense wins
vs. Arkansas, 27-3
Hearst makes two touchdowns
By MICHAEL K. FLOYD
Staff Writer
Georgia’s defense, the focal point of question and
doubt before the season began, turned in another stellar
performance Saturday in the Bulldogs’ 27-3 win at
Arkansas in the first regular season meeting between
the schools.
Georgia (4-1, 3-1 in the SEC) survived the trip to
Fayetteville — unceremoniously honored by The
Sporting News as the worst road trip in all of college
sports — thanks to a 143-yard, two-touchdown effort by
running back Garrison Hearst and a stingy defense that
allowed the Razorbacks (1-4, 1-2) only 72 second-half
yards.
But even in victory, Georgia’s SEC championship
hopes continued to melt away as Tennessee remained
unbeaten in the conference with a 20-0 win over LSU in
Baton Rouge.
The Volunteers must lose two of their remaining SEC
game* against Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina,
Kentucky, and Vanderbilt if Georgia is to have a shot at
tasting Sugar on New Year’s Day.
With the exception of Alabama, Tennessee will be
heavily favored in all remaining games and the
Volunteers, mistakenly thought to be in the process of
rebuilding a program that lost almost every starting
player from last season, are quickly becoming national
title contenders.
Georgia must hope for an Alabama victory over
Tennessee on Oct. 17 and a Volunteer loss to an under
dog opponent. It appears the only hope comes from
Kentucky or Vanderbilt, each of which must be rejoicing
at relinquishing their doormat status to newcomers
South Carolina and Arkansas.
But Georgia fans have many reasons to be optimistic.
For one, Tennessee is an extremely young team, a
characteristic that almost always results in at least one
upset loss. Also, after Mississippi State’s 30-6 thrashing
of Florida last Thursday, the Gators are virtually elimi
nated from title contention. The loss left Florida with
two SEC losses, a trait never possessed by an SEC
Champion.
The Georgia offense has been flourishing under the
direction of quarterback Eric Zeier and the running of
Garrison Hearst, whose per game average of 128 yards
ranks him among the nation’s best. The Bulldogs are
averaging 36 points per game, while the defense — to the
surprise of many — has been equally impressive.
Georgia is allowing an average of just ten points per
game and is ranked in the top ten in many defensive cat
egories. A touchdown has not been scored against
Georgia’s starting defense since Tennessee quarterback
Heath Shuler ran for the winning score with 50 seconds
remaining in the game on Sept. 12.
Georgia’s victory Saturday is best described as
methodical. The Bulldogs sleepwalked to a 10-3 halftime
lead, but Zeier overcame a slow start that saw him com
plete just three of his first nine passes and paced Georgia
in the second half. Zeier completed 14 passes in 25
attempts for 174 yards and one touchdown.
A defensive holding penalty against the Razorbacks
that nullified a 41-yard interception return ensured the
Georgia win. With a 17-3 lead late in the third quarter,
a Zeier screen pass was intercepted by Arkansas
linebacker Darwin Ireland and returned to the Bulldog
14-yard line.
Instead of giving Arkansas a chance to cut the deficit
and gain momentum, the play resulted in a holding
penalty and a first down for Georgia deep in Arkansas
territory. Six plays later, Hearst scored on a 4-yard run
to give Georgia a 24-3 cushion.
This week, Georgia prepares for its first-ever meeting
with Division I-AA Georgia Southern. The Eagles (3-1)
enter the game ranked in the I-AA Top 25 and have been
eagerly awaiting the contest since it was scheduled four
years ago. Georgia Southern, coming off a 21-7 victory
over Savannah St., is led by quarterback Charles
Bostick, who shares time with former Bulldog quarter
back Joe Dupree.
PARKER C. SMITH/The Red ond B uck
The elephant woman
Zelda the elephant trainer was one of the many amazing acts featured at the Beatty
& Cole Bros, circus last week in Athens. The circus, sponsored in part by the Red &
Black, also presented lion tamers, high wire acts, jugglers, acrobats, and more than
enough clowns.
Suspect jailed
for June rape
Prior peeping tom caught
by matching DNA sample
By ROBERT HAAG
Staff Writer
Athens-Clarke County police arrested and charged a man
Friday with the June rape of a University woman.
Michael A. Gerace, 35, of 145 Ramble Hills Dr. was
arrested at 1 a.m. and charged with rape, aggravated
sodomy and burglary. Gerace remained in Athens-Clarke
County jail Sunday, where he is being held without bond.
Police found Gerace with the help of a composite draw ing
of the attacker as described by the victim after her attack in
June. The description by the woman matched that of Gerace,
who had been arrested on peeping tom charges involving two
other female University students in 1990.
Investigators found the suspect through the composite
drawing, but only after using a procedure called DNA fin
gerprinting were police investigators able to identify Gerace
as the woman’s attacker.
DNA fingerprinting compares DNA from blood or semen
found at the scene of a crime to the DNA of a suspect. The
chance of two people having the same DNA fingerprint is
exceptionally remote.
According to police, the attack occurred at 2:30 a.m. June
21, after the suspect entered the victim’s residence near
Lexington and Gaines School roads.
This attack was the most recent of three attacks on
University women still being investigated by police since the
rape and strangulation of Jennifer Stone on April 23.
Police have not charged anyone with Stone’s murder nor
with the rape of another University student that occurred
on June 8. The attack occurred at 2 a.m. in the victim’s
Northwest Athens residence.
GBI investigators also compared Gerace’s DNA to DNA
samples taken from Stone’s apartment, but found no con
nection.
Hilda Sorrow, Athens-Clarke County police spokeswom
an, said that violent crimes against women increase during
the summer months because people leave doors and win
dows open.
Widespread
Panic to record live this week
Far-flung anxiety: Poster boys of Widespread Panic.
By BRAD MISLOW
Staff Writer
They’re back. They’re home. And they’re record
ing.
Widespread Panic plays on home turf tonight and
Tuesday at the Georgia Theatre, and they are bring
ing some heavy-duty recording equipment along to
put some tracks on their upcoming album.
“Basically, we are replacing the p.a. at the Georgia
Theatre with a better one,” bassist David Schools
said. “We’re bringing in a system that we used at
places like Legion Field and the Fairgrounds thing at
Super Jam.”
Widespread Panic wraps up a month-long tour
that took them out West (Seattle, Los Angeles,
Oregon, Colorado). They plan to take three or four
recorded tunes from these shows before going into
the studio to complete their upcoming album to be
produced by Johnny Sandlin. The release is tenta
tively scheduled for March 1993.
“Between two nights, we’ve got 75 songs to choose
from,” Schools said. “We’re aiming to capture songs
that are unreleased, but not necessarily new. It
might be a song we’ve been playing for a few years.”
To see a Widespread Panic show only five years
ago, the farthest you had to travel was Atlanta. But
their improvisational style and music-made-for-the-
moment attitude earned them a popular following.
Playing around 250 gigs a year to larger audiences,
Widespread Panic is one of the hard
est-working bands around.
With two albums on Capricorn
Records, “Widespread Panic” and
the re-released “Space Wrangler,”
the band is being heard more than
ever. And if they are not touring
alone, they usually are joined by
their buddies in Blues Traveler,
Phish, or the Aquarium Rescue Unit
for one of those nights of monstrous
jamming.
With John Bell on lead vocals
and guitar, Michael Houser on gui
tar, John “Jojo” Herman on key
boards, Sunny Ortiz on percussion,
Schools on bass, and Todd Nance on
drums, the band should be offering
many musical surprises this week.
“We’ll be playing two sets each
night,” Schools said. “If we were
doing a multi-band thing or playing
two-and-a-half hours, then we play
one set. It’s just easier for us because it takes so long
to warm up anyway. But if we got the whole night”
— which they do! — “it’ll be two sets.”
In addition to the two shows this week, the band
will play their traditional Halloween shows Oct. 30
and Oct. 31 at the Georgia Theatre.
“It’s a tradition; we fell into playing so much at the
Uptown in our formative years,” Schools said. “We
were disappointed about missing it last year, but we
were doing the record company thing."
“Athens is one of those towns that, no matter what
crowd you like to hang out, everybody seems to get
together and have one big party on Halloween,”
Schools said.
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Weaver D’s Delicious Fine Foods: Weaver D gives the thumbs up sign
in front of his Broad Street soul food restaurant.
‘Automatic for the People’
Soul food slogan
By THERESA WALSH
Staff Writer
“Help you?”
“Can I have some fried chicken, please?"
“Automatic, automatic for the people" is Dexter Weaver’s only
answer to a request for his home-cookin’ at Weaver D’s, his East
Broad Street restaurant.
“Automatic for the People" also became the answer for
R.E.M.’s new album title, which will be released tomorrow.
“It’s a catchy slogan and it's people oriented," Weaver said. “A
lot of people want to know where it originated from and they want
to be a part of it."
R.E.M. approached Weaver at the first of August to use his
slogan and closed the deal within a couple of weeks, he said.
Weaver won’t reveal how much money he received from R.E.M.
for the use of the slogan, but said it was a “sizable amount."
An R.E.M. spokesperson was not available for comment about
the album title or the band’s relationship with Weaver.
Hanging high on the front of Weaver D’s white brick building,
right below his claim of delicious fine food, is the motto that’s
making him famous, “automatic for the people."
Weaver said his slogan means, “Ready, quick and efficient."
“It has always been that, even when I was a peanut distribu
tor on the street," he said.
Inside his six-year old restaurant, two posters from R.E.M.’s
“Out of Time" album hang on the clean white walls. The smell of
chicken frjflng and the sound of grease popping fill the air. Other
staples in his restaurant include barbecued ribs, collard greens
and sweet potatoes.
The slogan originated in two different ways. Weaver said his
manager at a Baltimore fast food restaurant always said if work
ers didn’t show up, then he’d have to fill in.
“We were automatic to work in their place, to pull a double
now sells R.E.M.
shift," he said and giggled.
“For the people” came from Weaver’s days of selling leather
goods on the street. He said one customer always said, “If Weaver
don’t have it today, he’ll get it for the people in one or two days."
Weaver, the oldest of five children, grew up in Baltimore,
Maryland cooking for the other kids when his mother had to
work. His mother moved to Baltimore as a child, but has since
returned to her hometown of Athens.
Weaver said he was always brought up to think positive and
think big, which is why he’s doing personal promotions of Weaver
D’s and his slogan.
Weaver said he and Warner Bros., R.E.M.’s record label, have
sent t-shirts, hats, postcards, coffee mugs and bags of peanuts
around the world to promote the album and the restaurant.
Weaver wasn’t sure what his favorite R.E.M. song was. He
said he’s heard their songs before but he’s never bought any of
their albums.
“Name some for me," he said.
At the suggestion of “Shiny Happy People" as a possible
favorite, Weaver said,“I ain’t never heard it, but put it down."
Julia McIntosh has worked at Weaver D’s for a month and
says the service there is very fast, and the logo definitely applies
to both the album and the restaurant.
“The music is automatic, it’s got it going on," she said.
McIntosh says she’s seen the band come in a couple of times
but not that often.
The sudden attention from the album, which has put Weaver
in the spotlight, doesn’t bother him at all. He said he’s used to
the attention because he was an evangelist, and it hasn’t hurt his
business any.
Weaver has been on local and national radio shows and will
be featured in several newspapers. He also will appear in a
joint interview with R.E.M. on MTV after the album is
released.