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The Red & Black
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1993 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 100, ISSUE 134
Young choreographers
show off their stuff.
See page 5.
3 Closer
Meet Bryndis Roberts.
8
Raw Deal
Eight people got inducted
into the tennis hall of
fame but none from UGA.
Miracle run ends, Dogs lose 5-3
By JOHN GIBSON
Staff Writer
Georgia’s marathon comeback streak
came to a painful end Tuesday night when
top-ranked Southern California defeated
Georgia 5-3 in the NCAA Team
Championship match.
Wayne Black and Kent Seton clinched the
five-hour battle for the Trojans with a 7-5, 6-
2 win over Georgia sophomores Craig Baskin
and Mike Sell at the No. 3 doubles.
The loss ended a three-night run of mira
cle comebacks for the third-ranked Bulldogs,
who finished the year at 25-4.
“We were pushed for three straight match
es and we responded and played hard each
time but just came up short,” said Georgia
coach Manuel Diaz, who guided the Bulldogs
to their third NCAA runner-up finish in his
first five years as coach.
PAC-10 champion Southern California,
which also defeated Georgia in the 1991
championship, finishes the year at 22-2.
Georgia surprised the Trojans by extend
ing them into doubles - many felt Dick
Leach’s squad, which featured seven ranked
singles players, would have a cake walk to
claim their second NCAA Team
Championship.
After battling to a 3-3 tie in the singles,
the ninth-ranked duo of Andras Lanyi and
David Ekerot put USC ahead for good with a
6-2, 6-4 win over Georgia freshmen Jamie
Laschinger and Albin Polonyi at the No. 2
doubles to ease the tension.
The No. 1 doubles match was suspended
with USC’s Brian MacPhie and Jon Leach
holding a 7-5, 3-4 lead over the top-ranked
tandem of Wade McGuire and Bobby
Mariencheck.
The most painful thing about the loss is
that the Bulldogs could have afforded to lose
the No. 2 and 3 doubles if Leach hadn't pulled
off an exciting comeback to beat Baskin at
the No. 4 singles in three sets, tying the score
at the end of the singles.
Leach, ranked 34th, took a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-
5) win over Baskin in just over three hours.
Amazingly, Leach broke Baskin's serve at 3-
5 and 5-5 in the third set to set up the tie
breaker.
In the tie-breaker, he jumped to a 5-0 lead
only to watch Baskin battle back to knot the
score at 5-5. But Baskin finally lost on a pair
of long returns, the first which was appar
ently in but overruled by the umpire.
“That would have given us all the momen
tum in the world if Baskin wins,”
Mariencheck said. “But we fought our hearts
out and just came up short."
The Trojans took an early lead when
Adam Henderson disposed of Polonyi 6-2, 6-
2 in just over an hour at the No. 6 singles.
But then second-ranked McGuire defeated
sixth-ranked MacPhie in a battle at the No.
1 singles, breaking the USC All-American on
his last service game of each set.
However, lOth-ranked Black, who is 43-2
in singles dual matches, defeated
Mariencheck 6-4, 6-4 at the No. 3 slot.
Sell then revived the fading Dogs with a
stellar performance at the No. 2 singles. The
Georgia All-American won the final 11 games
of the match to win a 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 win over
the hard-serving Ekerot.
Laschinger set the tone for what would
have been a huge upset by Baskin at the No.
4 singles, winning a grueling 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-
4) victory over Lanyi at the No. 5 slot.
Rich and Burroughs in SGA runoff
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
Presidential candidates Telvis
Rich and James Burroughs will face
one another in a runoff election May
25. after none of the four candidates
running for the Student
Government Association’s highest
office drew enough votes to win
Tuesday’s SGA election.
At 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, SGA’s elec
tions subcommittee announced that
none of the presidential hopefuls
had received the necessary 40 per
cent of the 2,750 votes cast.
Rich and running mate Ron
Jones came out on top with 32 per
cent of the total votes. Burroughs
and running mate Kimberly Barrow
carried 26.8 percent, followed by
Campbell Vaughn and Ashley
Disque with 24.9 percent and
Thomas Hatfield and Deanna Black
with 16.3 percent.
Candidates for president, vice
president and student senate waited
for hours outside of the Tate Student
Center office where the votes were
counted. When the results were
announced, there were few cheers.
Instead, the reactions of the can
didates heading for the runofT varied
little from those bumped out
of the race.
“It’s like... bittersweet,” Jones
said upon hearing the results. “I was
just pleased with the voter turnout.
And I really would like to thank all
the students who got out to vote.”
The “bittersweet” reaction from
both tickets capped ofT a day of fran
tic last minute campaigning.
“It’s good,” Burroughs said flatly,
his eyes blank with fatigue. “We
look forward to the runoff”
“And another hard week of cam
paigning,” Barrow added.
For Vaughn and Hatfield, whose
campaigns were over, there was
both disappointment and some
relief.
“I guess we did a lot of work and
we’re kind of disappointed,” Vaughn
said. “But it was a good experience,
and I’m glad we did it.”
Hatfield and Black said the race
was hard fought and clean.
“We did the very best we could
and we thank the people that helped
us,” Hatfield said. “They gave tire
lessly to this campaign.”
Rich could not be reached for
comment Tuesday night.
Ten percent of the student body
voted Tuesday, up 1,250 votes from
the 1,500 cast in 1992.
Almost all students interviewed
at the polls Tuesday said they voted
according to who they knew rather
than because of a particular issue.
Tracy Rauch, a sophomore from
Mobile, Ala., said she voted for
Burroughs and Barrow because she
and Barrow are sorority sisters.
That’s what does it for me — if
not, you just feel it’s this big random
thing,” Rauch said. “(Barrow’s) on
top of everything and I really trust
her. But I don’t know (Burroughs)
very well, only from what Kimberly
said.”
Jarrett Arnold, who voted for
Hatfield and Black, said he also
chose by name recognition rather
than by platform.
“Deanna (Black)’s in my astrono
my class and she’s working on a
groovy painting in the visual arts
building,” Arnold said. “I’ve no idea
what the issues are ”
Issues weren’t the only things
some students were hazy about.
When asked which presidential
ticket he voted for, Corey Harper
scratched his head.
“I can’t remember his name,” said
Harper, a sophomore from Athens.
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After losing his first set, Mike Sell won 11 consecu
tive games to claim a victory at No. 2 singles.
A fire burned approximately a 100-foot stretch of the roof and an unknown portion of the attic
of the Hoke Smith Building Tuesday at 5:50 p.m. Keith Grimes, building superintendent, said
a spark from roofers soldering gutters caught the roof on fire. He said it spread to the attic
from there. No one was in the building at the time of the fire. The amount of water damage
and cost of repair has yet to be determined. Employees should not return until notified.
Gay lawyer speaks about his
fight to be legally married
He wants to do what
others take for granted
By HOLLY S. ROACH
Staff Writer «
The government infringes on the Constitutional
rights of homosexuals by not allowing same-sex
marriages, said a Washington, D.C. lawyer who is
suing for the right to legally marry his partner.
Attorney Craig Dean and his partner Patrick Gill
spoke to approximately 100 students and members
of the Athens community at a University Union sem
inar Monday night.
The couple brought the suit against the District
of Columbia in 1990. The first decision in their case
upheld current marital policy and that decision is
now being appealed by the couple.
“If we do not attempt to at least legally pursue
being married... then we would be giving into some
anachronistic and dysfunctional notion of our soci
ety that somehow holds gay and lesbian couples less
valid,” Dean said. “If we didn’t pursue this, or
attempt to pursue this, then we would be giving into
our own homophobia.”
Dean, 28, and Gill, 23, have been together for
seven years. They decided in 1989 that they wanted
to share in the legal advantages that married cou
ples have, such as marital estate, child custody
rights, insurance and tax breaks.
“In the District of Colombia alone, there are more
than 120 marriage-based rights, some are very obvi
ous, some are not very obvious,” Dean said. “We had
run into several instances where we were unable to
do what other couples normally take for granted.”
Their lawsuit is based on the fact that the D.C.
marriage code does not categorically exclude homo
sexuals from getting married and, in prohibiting
Dean and Gill’s marriage, violated its own Human
Rights Act. In the first decision, the court ruled the
reason why D.C. did not allow the ceremony was
because the code does not specifically authorize
same-sex marriage.
The D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977 established
equal opportunity for all people by prohibiting dis
crimination based on sexual orientation.
The broad wording of the Act made it possible for
the Georgetown University Gay Rights Coalition to
win a lawsuit with the university to allow the exis
tence of the Coalition as a student group, he said.
“(In the decision) they held that sexual orienta
tion discrimination, similar to racial and gender dis
crimination, is equally morally repugnant to soci
ety,” Dean said. “So, not only did they uphold the
Human Rights Act, but in no uncertain terms they
said that as loath ns one would be to treat someone
differently on the basis of their race, or their gender,
one should be equally loath to treat them different
ly on the basis of their sexual orientation.
Please see GAYS, page 2
Black Unity Day to emphasize ‘commonalities’ among African-Americans
By TRACIE POWELL
Staff Writer
Valerie Moss a junior from Carrollton,
said when black students cross paths on
campus, they usually speak to one another,
even if they are complete strangers.
But, she added, there are too many
cases when this doesn’t happen.
“We need to be more unified and sup
portive of one another, especially since
there are so few of us,” Moss said.
“Speaking to each other, among other
things, is one way of showing this unity and
support."
Members of the campus National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People said they agree, and decided to des
ignate today as Black Unity Day.
“We are encouraging all African
American students to wear black," said
George Crawley, publicity chairperson for
the campus NAACP.
“This gives African-American students
an opportunity to emphasize our common
alities rather than our differences,"
Crawley said.
He said a fight between two University
fraternities during a black Greek function
at Memorial Hall last quarter was the
immediate impetus for Unity Day.
Leslie Bates, director of Minority
Services and Programs, said although sev
eral black student organizations are work
ing towards more unity, there is still a
ways to go.
“When things like the incident at
Memorial Hall happen, it lets us know how
far we have to go," Bates said.
“It knocks us back two or three steps,
but we can’t let the actions of a few stop
us."
Angela Gay, a graduate student in social
work, said Atlanta University students
observed a similar day for unity last month.
The students at the predominantly
black institutions wore black clothing after
verdicts in the civil rights trials of three
Los Angeles police officers accused of beat
ing black motorist Rodney King.
“Wearing black on Unity Day signifies a
need for blacks to show that we need to
support one another economically and
socially, the same way they did in Atlanta,”
Gay said.
