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MONDAY. MARCH 1. 1993 • ATHENS. GEORGIA • VOLUME 100. ISSUE 87
INSIDE
Q & A: Patricia Del Ray
discusses history, future
of women's studies
program. See page 3.
Pac Packed
The University wants its
own Concord Coalition, a
PAC devoted to reduction
of the national debt.
Sports
The Gym Dawgs beat their
rivals, the Crimson Tide.
Women’s Month gets underway
Month of March recalls
women’s role in history
By MAURA CORRIGAN
Staff Writer
The “year of the woman” will give way to the University’s
fifth annual Women’s History Month, beginning today with a
concert performance and speech at the Tate Student Center
at 11 a.m.
Athens-Clarke County CEO Gwen O’Looney and folk
rockers “Where’s Anita?” will kick off the month long event
that celebrates the importance of women in history.
“This year will be better than ever,” said Heather Kleiner,
chairwoman of the Women’s History Month 1993 Planning
Committee. “I think that more and more people are aware of
the month now than in previous years.”
Highlights of the month include Black Women’s Focus
Week during the first week of March, International Women’s
Day on March 8 and a focus on women in the arts.
Each Monday during March, from 1:06 to 3 p.m., Carol
Clements of radio station WUGA/91.7 FM will present bio
graphical and historical commentary, interviews and musical
selections by female composers.
“I think that there’s such a diversity of offerings this year,”
Clements said. “There’s a great emphasis this year on music.”
Although Women’s History has been celebrated in the
United States since 1977, the University first celebrated it in
1988.
“This is the first year that we’ve made a conscious effort
to reach out to the community,” Kleiner said. “We’re having
some community response, and we hope that will grow.”
Bobbie Epting, a media specialist at Winterville
Elementary School and a member of the planning committee,
helped organize a book fair that will be held at the Taylor-
GradKK House today and is working with the children at
Winterville to recognize Women’s History Month.
“It’s important that children have an awareness that
women have made an impact on history,” Epting said.
Students have made projects and displays for the school
about women’s history, and they will follow a calendar that
recognizes a famous woman for each day, Epting said.
The celebration of women’s history goes back to
International Women’s Day, organized as a protest against
the 1911 Triangle Fire. The fire was a factory fire in New
York that claimed the lives of several women workers, most
of whom were trapped in the building after safety procedures
were violated by the company.
In 1977, an educational task force in California organized
Women’s History Week around the March 8 celebration of
International Women’s Day. A decade later, Congress
declared the month of March as National Women’s History
Month.
“Since then, it has been approved annually with biparti
san support in both the House and Senate,” Kleiner said.
Although women’s history is recognized nationally during
March, Kleiner said many people think it should be spread
out over the whole year.
“We have the time and the opportunity to concentrate on
women’s history now, but it doesn’t mean it’ll drop off after
this month,” Weiner said. “It’s more like a springboard of
activity.”
She said Women’s History Month is important because it
heightens awareness of women and is a good opportunity to
bring together people across campus.
Women's History Month
Events for Week of March 1 - March 5
March 1
■ Opening Ceremony & Info-fest. Tale Plaza, 11a.m.
March 2
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•"BedWomaEFtoiea5afttKCmana”TafeTt»ia',8 pm
March 3
• "Black Women and the Real Deal with Welfare,"
North PJ Auditorium, 7 p.m,
March 4
• "Relationships between Black Women and Men,"
North PJ Auditorium, 7 p.m.
March 5
• "Women and Politics," Georgia Hall, 3 p.m.
Lecture by ll.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney
TIMOTHY MOOOY/ The Red and Black
“It’s good for the different departments and programs
which otherwise might not have the impetus to (celebrate),”
Kleiner said.
She said the Panhellenic Council, Gilbert Health Center,
Minority Services and Programs, the African-American
Institute, student organizations and academic departments
are all involved.
University may lend itself
for pre-Olympic training
By CATHLEEN EGAN
Staff Writer
Georgia Tech’s campus may be the
Olympic Village in 1996, but the
University may also play a role in the
games if the Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games needs some help.
The University may host some pre-
Olympic training and may continue the
cultural Olympiad events, said Dick
Hudson, University director of corporate
education in the Terry College of
Business.
“We are waiting to hear from the
Atlanta people on how we can help,” he
said. “It’s a possibility some things
could evolve. Tech is the Olympic
Village, and essentially, the Olympics
will take over that campus, but there’s
no better site for training in the entire
state than our campus, with the excep
tion of (Tech). We don’t have anything
like that at this time.”
In 1994, Olympic teams and athletes
will start coming to Georgia to acclimate
themselves to the climate and elevation,
Hudson said, and the University may
host some of those athletes.
“Teams will want to come here early
to prepare for maximum training,” he
said. “We have such tremendous facili
ties, and we know teams are interested
in coming here. But we want to keep in
the forefront that we are an educational
facility. We’re certainly not going to give
away anything, even though they would
come during tne summer when the stu
dent population drops to about seven or
eight thousand. It wouldn’t disrupt
things around here ”
But disruption is just what will hap
pen to the Georgia Tech campus when
the games come to Atlanta.
Kevin Grogg, committee chairman
for Tech’s Students for 1996, an Olympic
planning committee, said his school is in
the process of deciding whether it will
even hold its summer session of classes.
“The academic session of 1996
(revolves around) if and how we can con
duct classes,” he said.
Grogg said there are three options:
divide the summer classes among sever
al colleges around the area; conduct a
student opinion poll of the current fresh
man class to grasp a better estimate of
how many students will still be at Tech
in 1996; or hold a summer split session.
A split session would entail conducting
classes before the Olympics begin, tak
ing a two-week break during the games
and resuming classes after the games
are over.
They want to make a decision by
May,” Grogg said. “But this place won’t
be back to normal until 1997.”
Hudson said that about 600,000 to
700,000 people will visit Georgia to
watch the Olympic events and that the
University hopes it can contribute.
This will maximize our exposure
culturally,” he said. “Students will be
able to meet people they might never
have been able to meet before. It will be
an opportunity for students to be
involved and to assist. We want to be a
player in this because it can take all
kinds of directions. We are 60 miles
away from the biggest event that will
ever hit the South, so let’s be a part of
it."
University wins first place
in Business Bowl ... again
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
A team of University graduate stu
dents took first place in the 1993 Georgia
Bowl Business Plan Competition
Saturday, making it the third consecu
tive win for a University team.
Another University team took third
place in the competition, in which busi
ness administration students from the
University, the Georgia Institute of
Technology and Kennesaw State College
competed/ Each team presented an
entrepreneurial plan for a new business
to a panel of judges and then answered
judges’ questions on the presentation.
The first place team, 21st Century
Bikes, presented a plan to market and
manufacture a bicycle, the Comfort 2000,
that would use a wide-cushioned seat
with back support and a built in shock-
absorber system, providing a more com
fortable ride for persons aged 30 to 70.
The bike absorbs the bumps of the
road, not the rider,” said team member
Ted McMullan of the Comfort 2000. “Our
team saw a need in the market place for
a comfortable bike."
McMullan said the idea was bom
when the team hooked up with Bill
Stiber, a local inventor who developed
the bike’s unique rear suspension.
“Mr. Stiber has significant experience
in building ultralight aircraft,"
McMullan said. “His work really repre
sents a breakthrough for bicycle and
recreation enthusiasts worldwide.”
Caribbean Aquaculture Products, the
University team that took third place in
the competition, presented a plan to
raise shrimp off the Jamaican shore and
sell them to Jamaican hotel restaurants.
Team captain Wayne Lamar said he
got the idea for Caribbean Aquaculture
Products while diving in Jamaica.
“The water is really beautiful, but
after a few days of diving I realized 1
hadn’t seen one fish more than three
inches long,” Lamar said. “The tourist
industry is so big that they’ve caught
everything that wiggles and fed it to the
tourists.”
Lamar said he felt his team took third
place behind a team from Kennesaw
because of his project’s risk factor.
“What it really came down to was that
an overseas project is very risky,” he
said. “If judges are fairly risk-averse,
there’s nothing you can say to them .”
Charles Hofer, Regents professor of
strategy and entrepreneurship at the
University, and the Georgia Bowl’s
founder, said he felt Caribbean
Aquaculture Products deserved second
place.
“If we had been a little smarter we
would have taken first and second,"
Hofer said. “My assessment of the project
is that they were number two, but those
are the breaks of the game. I do expect
both teams are going to make it to the
national competition in San Diego this
April."
University of Georgia first baseman John Yselonia unsuccesfully attempts to tag a runner in Sunday's
game against Wake Forrest. Strong pitching performances by John Hill and reliever Alex Barylak were
not enough to counter superb pitching by Wake Forest, as the Demon Deacons escaped with a 2-1 win
It was a close game - the Bulldogs had a runner on third with less than two outs in the ninth inning.
BLACK HISTORY QUARTER
Georgia Square Mall transformed into African bazaar
Black history celebrated in art fair
B. Brown, an Atlanta resident, displays
his wares at the 1993 Black Arts Festival.
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
Georgia Square Mall became an
African bazaar Saturday during the 2nd
Annual Black Arts Fair, part of the
University’s celebration of Black History
Quarter.
Offering mall browsers a colorful
array of merchandise and entertain
ment, the fair showed that people of all
races and ages are becoming more inter
ested in African and African-American
culture.
Vendors at the bazaar sold items
such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther
King Jr. T-shirts, brilliantly colored
African garb such as kufi hats and kente
cloth, portraits of a black Jesus and his
disciples at the Last Supper, exotic
handmade jewelry and books on
Egyptian history and philosophy.
Groups such as the Black Theatrical
Ensemble, Creative Visions and the
Pamoja Dancers provided entertain
ment based on African-American
themes.
The fair was sponsored by the Office
of Minority Services and Programs,
Georgia Square and Isis and Osiris
Bookstore.
“I think more people are looking than
buying, but Fm real pleased,” said Leslie
Bates, director of minority services and
programs at the University, who was
dressed in a native African crown hat
and daishiki.
University students at the fair said
they felt the event was successful.
“It’s good that people have these
things because it makes you aware and
makes you wonder what’s behind the
beads, the kente cloth and the jewelry,”
said SeDondra Gamer, a senior from
Athens. “It’s culturally awakening ”
Still, some at the fair said that,
although Black History Month is more
widely recognized than ever, black cul
ture still doesn’t receive the attention it
deserves.
There’s no way we can celebrate our
heritage in one month, not with all our
contributions,” said B. Brown, a vendor
from Atlanta.
“All you’ve got to do is go to all your
museums and see who’s got the most
culture in there," Brown said. “You take
all the black people’s contributions out
and just see what you’ve got left. You
won’t have (nearly as much) in there.”
Athens resident Sheila Hill said as
African clothing, jewelry and other cul
tural items gain popularity among
Americans, Afrocentrism should not be
written off as a fad.
“People realize now that we have suf
fered, and we have such problems that if
we don’t go back to where we came from
we’re not going anywhere," Hill said.
But vendors at Saturday’s fair said
Afrocentrism attracts other people
besides blacks.
Tonight I’ve done a lot of business
with white people and I am very proud,"
said vendor Kenneth Mugula, a native of
Kenya who now lives in Atlanta. The
problem is we live in a nation where
some things are supposed to be for a cer
tain race of people. But that is not the
case today."