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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1993 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 100, ISSUE 89
Meet after meet Rowlette-Dill
proves her worth for the Gym
Dogs. See page 6.
& ‘What Raise?’
University response is 'lukewarm’
to Miller's pay raises.
Celebration
Tis the season ... the season for
Ramadan for Muslims.
Classes ever harder to find
Pick a card, any card, at registration,
get your classes by luck of the draw
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
Getting the right classes is a game of
luck and circumstance for many University
seniors entering Memorial Hall during the
first week of registration.
Some students registering Wednesday
said they breezed through the process with
nary a yellow card, but others arrived to
find needed major courses closed out with
thick brown lines drawn through them.
These closed-section marks had accu
mulated mostly in areas such as account
ing, management, physical education and
speech communication. But closures
appearing in other subjects during the first
week of registration points to grimmer
days ahead for registering underclassmen.
Brian Benderf, a senior from Snellville,
said he was having trouble getting the
accounting courses he needed to complete
his major. The Advanced Accounting and
Professional Accounting courses he had
hoped to get were already closed.
“They’re usually the first ones to go,”
Benderf said, “rhe accounting school, they
just don’t give enough classes for the num
ber of students that need them. But this is
really the first time that it’s happened.”
Other students said registering for
spring quarter was much easier than it had
been for fall and winter.
“This quarter’s registration was the first
time I’ve not had problems,” said political
science major Jim Lemmon, a senior from
Atlanta. “Last quarter I registered on time,
and I could not get a single major class. The
basic problem is that there are 25 to 30 101
sections of political science and only 10 to
15 upper level classes.”
But University administrators and
department heads said they believe many
of the inconveniences caused by the 1991
budget cuts and resulting course section
shortages have been eradicated for spring
quarter.
“The problems you experienced winter
quarter should be less because there are
fewer students here," said Registrar Bruce
Shutt. “The boat gets less full the longer
you go, so I think there will be more seats.
But I don’t know how much ‘more’ is.”
“The boat gets less full
the longer you go, so I
think there will be more
seats. But I don’t know
how much ‘more’ is.”
- Bruce Shutt
Registrar
But even as the boat gets lighter, Shutt
said freshmen can expect rougher waters
as more and more classes fill up.
Michael Hendrick, assistant to the head
of the English department, said his depart
ment has increased the number and size of
freshman English courses offered to help
underclassmen get through them earlier.
However, he said, doing so has
decreased the number of upper level class
es available to the University’s 800 English
majors.
“So it gets harder and harder for stu
dents to find the courses they need to ful
fill their majors,” Hendrick said. “But I
think we’ve done a better job at getting stu
dents through freshmen English their first
year.”
Patricia Hoyt, program coordinator for
the school of accounting, said seat short
ages have resulted due to an unusually
large class of senior accounting majors.
“This is the largest senior class we’ve
had coming through the system,” Hoyt
said.
“There are more of them trying to grad
uate now than we expect to have in the
future," she said. “We’re just trying to get
them out of here. We’re keeping a list of
them so we can make sure they pick up the
course they need during drop-add.”
Church lost ‘backbone members’ in crash
Truck driver
in fatal wreck
charged
with vehicular
homicide
By KELLY DANIEL
Staff Writer
The driver of the truck that
caused a fatal wreck on U.S. 29
Tuesday has been charged with
five counts of second-degree vehic
ular homicide, while the small
community of Danielsville copes
with the loss of five of its “back
bone members", including the
mother of a University employee.
The driver, Randy Saye, 24, of
Danielsville, is charged with five
misdemeanor counts of second-
degree vehicular homicide, one
count of driving too fast for condi
tions and one count of driving on
the wrong side of the road, Georgia
State Patrol troopers said
Wednesday. He posted an undis
closed bond and was released
Wednesday afternoon, police said.
In addition to the five dead, 11
people were injured in the rainy-
day wreck, classified by one troop
er as the worst accident of his
career.
Nine senior citizens remained
hospitalized at Athens Regional
Medical Center Wednesday. Four
are still listed in serious condition
with multiple injuries, such as
internal traumas, lacerations and
fractures, a hospital spokeswoman
said. The remaining five are said to
be in fair condition, although the
spokeswoman did not know when
any are expected to be released.
Saye told Georgia State Patrol
troopers the crash happened
because his brakes locked as he
tried to stop for a slow-moving
Jeep. He refused to comment when
Five people were killed in this church van when it was broadsided by a truck driven
by Randy Saye, 24, of Danielsville. Georgia State Patrol officers said he has
been charged with five misdemeanor counts of second-degree vehicular homicide,
one count of driving too fast for conditions and one count of driving on the wrong
side of the road.
reached by phone at his
Danielsville home late Wednesday
afternoon.
University spokesman Tom
Jackson said many faculty and
staff members who lived near the
victims were mourning Wednesday
afternoon, especially Barbara
Booth, the employee who lost her
mother, Cornelia Poss, 70, in the
wreck.
Poss was one of four victims
dead on arrival at Athens Regional
Tuesday morning.
Witnesses said the van rolled
once, throwing at least five people
from the vehicle and crushing
them before coming back to rest on
its wheels.
Booth is a secretary in the grad
uation services department in the
College of Arts and Sciences. A co
worker said Booth was “under
standably” not at work
Wednesday.
Brown’s Funeral Home in
Comer is handling arrangements
for all five funerals, the first of
which begins today at 2 p.m. at the
Meadow Baptist Church. The final
service, that for Poss, is scheduled
for 2 p.m. Friday, March 5 at the
church.
The Rev. Thomas Robinson, the
minister who was driving the
church van at the time of the colli
sion, will preside over all five
funerals. Robinson, reportedly the
only van passenger wearing a seat
belt, was treated and released from
Athens Regional Tuesday.
Robinson could not be reached
either at home or in his office by
press time Wednesday.
Howard Floyd, one of the direc
tors at Brown’s Funeral Home,
said he spoke with Robinson
Wednesday morning. The minister
was “awfully sore and kind of in a
state of shock himself because this
takes some of the best members of
his church,” Floyd said.
“These women stuck together,
and when we would have a funer
al at Meadow, they’d always pre
pare a reception for the family
after the graveside services,” Floyd
said. “They were the backbone of
the community, the people who
would come to offer whatever they
could when we had a tragedy here,
and last night it was so strange
because they weren’t there.”
Long lines, bad classes
make registration blues
By CATHLEEN EGAN
Staff Writer
Call it what you will, but to many
University students, it’s called the
registration blues.
But the blues don’t just sing
about closed classes: the whole reg
istration process seems to hit a
somber chord.
Everything from waiting in those
endless lines to picking up another
yellow slip plays a sour tune among
all ranks of University students.
But to freshman Murray Shevlin,
registration rings the old adage of
not being able to get what you want
when you want it.
“I can get the classes I need, but
the times are undesirable,” he said.
“There are black lines through
everything except for the 7:50’s and
4:30’s. You have to decide if you
want to get up early or go to class
late.
“I guess (registration) is over
whelming and frustrating,” he said.
“Frustrating because of the choices
you have to make, and that you have
to re-plan everything and make
things fit; and overwhelming
because there’s all the people run
ning around like they know what
they’re doing and you get pushed to
the wayside.”
Ellen Zahariadis, a coordinator
for academic advisers in the
Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences, said the advisers are flood
ed with phone calls during registra
tion, because classes that students
need are already closed.
“We try to be conscientious and
offer them alternatives to classes
according to their major,” she said,
mentioning alternatives such as
drop-add, enrolling in evening class
es or signing up for independent-
study classes.
Angie Way, a junior from
Savannah, said that when she faces
the blackened boards in Memorial
Hall, she bubbles in anything on her
registration card just to have some
thing down.
“I usually sign up for anything,
and hopefully I'll pick up something
more pertinent in drop-add,” she
said. “Certain classes are only
offered once every other quarter or
once in a blue moon. You literally
have cases of people who can’t grad
uate because they can’t get the
classes they need.”
Tonya Hamm, a sophomore from
Bamesville, said she too will resort
to drop-add if she’s not satisfied with
her course load.
“It’s a big hassle, because there’s
just so many people registering at
the same time you are,” she said.
“But I’ll go through drop-add, which
is a pain, even if that mean9 taking
a class I don’t want.”
Senior Shelly Altman searches amid a forest of cancel
lations for the elusive call number for the right class.
Carlos Strong scored 18 points.
Triple action Jackson hits gamewinning 3-pointer in final seconds
Dogs win 88-87 in pit fight with Gamecocks
By JEFF ROBERTSON
Staff Writer
Cleveland Jackson stumbled his way
through most of Georgia’s final posses
sion, but gathered himself and hit a three
pointer from the right baseline with 14
seconds left to give the Bulldogs an 88-87
win over South Carolina at the Coliseum
Wednesday night.
South Carolina called time out with
six seconds remaining, but guard Jamie
Watson lost the ball out of bounds.
“I grabbed the rebound and was going
to back it out," said Bulldog guard Ty
Wilson. “But I saw him (Jackson) down in
the comer and gave it to him.”
It was Jackson’s only hoop of the sec
ond half.
The win was the second straight for
Georgia (13-12, 7-8 SEC), and their fifth
nailbiter in their past seven games.
South Carolina led by as many as six
and were up by one when senior center
Arlando Bennett drew a charge from
Emmett Hall and hit both ends of a one-
and-one for an 80-79 lead with 4:19 left.
The Gamecocks tied the game at 83 on
a short jumper by senior forward Troy
McKoy with 2:18 left. McKoy finished
with a career high 24 points. He was 11-
11 from the field and hit all 10 off his
shots in the second half.
“(McKoy) was unconscious,” said
Georgia coach Hugh Durham. “You can’t
fault the defense.”
“He couldn’t miss, ” Bennett said. “A
couple of times we had three guys in his
face and somebody hit him on the arm
and he still made it."
But McKoy wasn’t the only outstand
ing senior, as Bennett scored a season-
high 15 in his final home game.
“It felt really good,” said Bennett, who
played 29 minutes, as starting center
Charles Claxton was plagued by foul
trouble. “The last couple of weeks I’ve
really been having fun.”
Freshman forward Carlos Strong
added 18 for the Dogs, while Jackson fin
ished with 17.
“I knew I had to hit it.”
-Cleveland Jackson
Georgia jumped out to a 13-4 lead to
open the game, but saw it steadily evap
orate as the Gamecocks settled into their
halfcourt offense and outscored the Dogs
42-31 the rest of the half for a 46-44 lead
at the break.
Hall and Watson scored 20 and 18
points respectively for the Gamecocks,
who have lost eight of nine games since
their January win over Georgia in
Columbia, S.C.
The loss wasn’t for a lack of effort
though, as South Carolina fought for
every lose ball and shot 53.8 percent from
the field, eight percentage points better
than their season average of 45.3.
“We were fortunate to win,” Durham
said.
“We needed these last two wins,”
Wilson said. “If we go into Tennessee and
pick up a win well have a lot of confi
dence for the SEC Tournament."
One wonders where Georgia’s confi
dence would be, had Jackson’s shot not
gone down after last week’s heartbreaker
to Vanderbilt and similar early season
losses.
“I knew I had to hit it," Jackson said.
“I just popped up like I would on any
other shot."
The Dogs play their last regular sea
son game against the volunteers in
Tennessee this Saturday, March 6 at 2
p.m.
Georgia will then travel to Lexington,
Ky., to take part in a the SEC tourna
ment March 11-14.