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to speak on women in politics
Cain: Domino’s is going down
McKinney
By MAURA CORRIQAN
Staff Writer
Cynthia Ann McKinney,
Georgia’s first black
Congresswoman, will join the
University’s celebration of Black
History Quarter and Women’s
History Month today as she deliv
ers a speech about women in poli
tics.
McKinney, who is 37 and a
daughter of the civil-rights move
ment, was invited to the
University by Leslie Bates, direc
tor of Minority Services and
Programs.
“She represents the best in
black history and the best in wom
en," Bates said. “And she’s young,
so students can relate to her and
she can relate to students.”
McKinney won the seat of the
newly created 11th district in
November, and prior to that she
served for four years in the
Georgia House of Representatives.
She first ran for a seat in the
Georgia House in 1986 while liv
ing in Jamaica, and although her
father Billy put her name on the
ballot that year, they did not take
winning too seriously.
“We laughed about it," said Mr.
McKinney, who has served as a
state representative for 20 years.
“But we ran so good in ’86 with so
little effort that we decided to real
ly run in ’88."
So when McKinney won in
1988, her father said he was ec
static that his daughter would be
joining him in the General
Assembly.
“We worked very well together
and complemented each other," he
said. “We disagreed on some of the
issues, but agreed on most."
But when her seat was to be
eliminated after 1992, McKinney
decided to shoot for a seat in the
U.S. Congress and emerged victo
rious.
“It’s the culmination of my po
litical dream," Mr. McKinney said.
C I ran for Congress three times
and couldn’t win. She won the first
time out. I guess she is my dream.”
For McKinney’s parents, it
came as no surprise that she end
ed up in politics. “(Politics) was all
I talked about,” Mr. McKinney
said. “Cynthia was well versed on
my version of politics, having
heard it at the breakfast and din
ner tables, and in the evening too."
Mr. McKinney, who was very
involved in the civil-rights move
ment, helped to integrate the
Atlanta Police Department, was
an active participant in many
marches and lived in Resurrection
City for a while.
He said his daughter occasion
ally joined him on his outings.
“She was always an opinionated
person,” Mr. McKinney said. “It all
started when she was about 12 or
13 and she told me that she wasn’t
going to church anymore.”
But Leola McKinney said her
daughter did not intend to study
politics when she entered the
University of Southern California
in Los Angeles.
“She intended to study
medicine,” said Mrs. McKinney,
who retired from nursing last year
and is now McKinney’s scheduler.
“She had exposure to both
medicine and politics at home.”
But McKinney chose a class on
international relations as one of
her electives at USC, and it even
tually became her major.
After graduating from USC,
McKinney received a master’s in
international relations from the
Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy in Massachusetts and
is currently working toward her
doctorate from Fletcher’s.
“I really hope to see her accom
plish her Ph.D., and I think that
she wants to too," Mrs. McKinney
said. “She’s got so many irons in
the fire, but I want her to complete
her doctorate."
Her father said he expects
McKinney will work to make
changes for the country, because
she supported President Bill
Clinton’s platforms for change.
“She'll probably be the first wom
an president," he said. “She’s a
woman of her own mind."
Although McKinney is usually
in Washington from Tuesday
through Thursday, her parents
said they still get to see their
daughter quite frequently.
McKinney will speak at 3 today
at the UGA Chapel on North
Campus.
By ROB SHAPARD
Staff Writer
A mover and shaker in the
pizza industry, producer of that
cheesy staple on which many
students stake their very lives,
had some dire news Thursday
for pizza lovers: Domino’s Pizza’s
marketing strategy may eventu
ally lead to the company’s down-
Herman Cain, president and
chief executive officer of
Godfather’s Pizza, said Domino’s
is following a “strategy for
bankruptcy" by competing on the
basis of both delivery service
and low prices, a move that has
earned tne company the num
ber-two spot in the pizza mar
ket.
He said Domino’s combina
tion of extensive delivery, the in
dustry’s most costly aspect, with
efforts to compete witn the low
rices of companies such as
ittle Caesars may bring the
company down from its place of
prominence.
Cain, who grew up in Atlanta
and graduated from Morehouse
College in 1967, gave an infor
mal speech that was more like a
sermon, delivering his message
with a booming voice and dra
matic pauses, baseball
metaphors and a little poetry.
He said strategies such as
that of Domino’s resulted from
an unwritten set of rules during
the 1980s that led companies to
strive for tremendous size and
diversity, to “hit home runs.”
“There was what I call ‘home
run-itis’: *Let’s go for the big idea
that’s going to catapult us over
the competition, 1 " he said.
However, Cain said, industry
in the 1990s is shifting to a new
emphasis on quality and consis
tency rather than size.
He cited the success of
Godfather’s Pizza as an example
of the importance of this new
emphasis. Since Cain became
resident in 1986, the company
as gone from a money-losing
subsidiary of Pillsbury to a prof
itable corporation owned by
Cain and a group of senior man
agers.
Godfather’s had an estimated
$250 million in sales at 520
restaurants nationwide in 1992
and now occupies fifth place in
the pizza industry.
The first rule of the “’90s
paradigm” followed by
Godfather’s is focus, Cain said.
“We have three things we
sell: pizza, pizza, pizza,” he said.
“We need to focus our menu, so
we can focus our operation, so
we can be more consistent in
producing that wonderful prod
uct that made our company suc
cessful.”
The paradigm also empha
sizes quality. ^You cannot nave
an advantage in product or
price, because someone will
eventually figure it out," Cain
said. “But you can have an ad
vantage in quality, and that
means quality throughout your
organization.
"Quality starts with the CEO,
and it’s a culture, not a concept,"
he said. “When you’re small
enough, you can create a culture
that encourages employees to ex
ceed the customers’ expecta
tions."
Cain resumed his comparison
of business to baseball, calling
on companies to follow the ex
ample of Godfather’s and strive
for base hits rather than home
runs.
“Our strategy is Tet’s develop
a hit after a hit after a hit. When
Ozzie gets on base, it’s show
time,”* he said, referring to Ozzie
Smith, the famous St. Louis
Cardinals base stealer.
Cain exhorted students to use
these strategies in managing
both their careers and their per
sonal lives.
“Anything that I may say
about business success, you can
apply it to a personal paradigm
of success,” he said. "Focus on
the job that you’re doing at that
particular time and place, and it
will be noticed."
Topper’s to keep
By DAVID TWIDDY
Staff Writer
The Topper’s dancers will continue to shake
their thing downtown, despite a recently ap
proved ordinance virtually banning nude danc
ing so close to the University.
Patrons were lined out the door on North
Jackson Street Wednesday night for the weekly
male revue, and co-owner Donnie Gardner said
business has not slackened since the Athens-
Clarke County Commission passed the “nude
performances” ordinance Tuesday night.
The ordinance, among other restrictions,
prohibits nude dancing from being featured
within 500 yards of several public facilities.
“A lot of people don’t understand why (the
commissioners) are doing this,” Gardner said.
“We’re getting a lot of support from our cus
tomers.
Gardner, who runs the business with his
mother Sandra, said he was not surprised the
commission approved the ordinance. “They
have to do what they think they have to do, and
it shakin’ despite ordinance
we have to respect that,” he said.
Jeff Rothman, the Gardners’ attorney, said
the owners are going to keep the club open and
challenge this newest bundle of restrictions.
“We will let the courts decide the constitution
ality of this,” Rothman said.
The Gardners sued the local government
last fall to contest an old ordinance that prohib
ited businesses that served alcohol from featur
ing nude dancing. An ordinance similar to this
in Carrollton was struck down by the state
Supreme Court last year.
Right after the Gardners’ club started fea
turing nude dancing in November, the commis
sion approved a new ordinance that prohibited
nude dancing in any public place.
The government chose to review and possi
bly reword the ordinance, and so it was never
enforced, said Tom Chasteen, 9th district com
missioner.
Rothman says the lawsuit against the gov
ernment is still pending and will probably be
amended to challenge this newest version of
the anti-nude legislation. He said the lawsuit
will be served as soon as necessary paperwork
is finished, but the trial date is up to the judge.
“We still think we have a very good chance
of beating this,” Rothman said.
Chasteen, however, sees the closing of
Topper’s as only a matter of time.
“I feel it’s a good ordinance and the commu
nity will be well-served by a change in the ordi
nance we originally had,” Chasteen said.
“Based on what we’ve seen in similar ordi
nances in other communities, it seems enforce
able."
Chasteen said similar restrictions are placed
on such businesses as liquor stores. He said
that these restrictions have been challenged
across the nation, but most of them have been
upheld.
As of Thursday, Chief Elected Officer Gwen
O’Looney had not yet signed the ordinance. The
CEO has 10 working days to sign or veto the
bill before it automatically passes.
Upon passing, the ordinance goes into effect
immediately, and will be enforced by the city’s
municipal court.
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