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baseball team
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MONDAY, MAY 24, 1993 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 100, ISSUE 137
Live with INXS.
Interview and concert.
See page 8.
Poor Pup
The vet school is helping
animals whose owners
can’t afford treatment.
S Really Relay
Men’s relay team sets a
meet and stadium record.
McGuire runner-up in NCAA singles
By JOHN GIBSON
Staff Writer
Comebacks,
second chances,
miracles; the
words pretty
much sum up
the tennis
career of
Georgia star
Wade McGuire.
Career-
threatening leg
injuries, aca
demic ineligibil
ity - not to men
tion countless
great tennis
players from
around the
world -- had all
taken their best
licks on McGuire, but each time the gutsy
senior has walked away as the battered, but
standing winner.
But on the Sunday, last day of his college
Chris Woodruff
career, McGuire never got the second chance
he needed as top-ranked Chris Woodruff of
Tennessee cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over
McGuire in the NCAA Singles final at the Dan
Magill Tennis Complex.
“I anticipated a good match, but I thought
he might be a little nervous,” McGuire said of
his sophomore opponent.
“But he played aggressive from the start
and dictated the game from the baseline,” he
said. “I don’t think I played bad, but he had
great stuff today.”
Woodruff became the first Tennessee play
er to win the singles title and the first No. 1
seed to win the title since Pepperdine’s Robbie
Weiss in 1988.
For McGuire, it was the second straight
runner-up finish. He dropped a 6-3, 6-2 deci
sion to Alex O'Brien of Stanford in the 1992
final.
“I didn’t come here looking at this as a rub
ber match,” said Woodruff, who defeated
McGuire in a close three-set match earlier, but
was whipped by McGuire 6-0, 6-2 four weeks
ago in the SEC tournament semifinals.
Please see mcguire, page 5 Wade McGuire confers with Georgia Tennis Coach Manuel
Experts discuss danger of nuclear proliferation
By ROB SHAPARD
Staff Writer
A trio of American and Russian experts
working to stop the spread of nuclear and
chemical weapons from the former Soviet
Union will convene for a panel discussion at
the University this afternoon.
Noted policy advisers Leonard Spector and
Janne Nolan will join Igor Khripunov, co
director of the University’s Newly
Independent States Export Control Project, to
discuss the problem of weapons proliferation.
The program will be from 1:15 p.m. to 3:15
p.m. at the Mahler Auditorium of the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
“All three are experts in the area of non
proliferation, covering the spectrum of nucle
ar, bacterial and chemical weapons,” said
Martin Hillenbrand, Dean Rusk Professor of
International Relations and moderator of the
afternoon discussion.
“Washington is concerned about the possi
bility (that) some of the weaponry that was in
the possession of the Soviet Union but is now
in the new republics will be sold, or that some
of the technology will leak out,” Hillenbrand
said.
This concern is shared by the three pan
elists, who have built resumes full of accom
plishments and official titles as experts on
arms control.
Khripunov served in the Soviet Union’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1977 until
1992 before coming to Athens.
“(Khripunov) is just returning from
Moscow in time to participate in this pro
gram,” Hillenbrand said. “He was attending a
conference on bacterial and chemical weapons
proliferation.”
Nolan is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings
Institution, a center for policy study in
Washington, D.C., and an adjunct professor at
Georgetown University. She was a senior
designee to the Senate Armed Services
Committee from 1983 to 1986, and an adviser
to President Clinton’s national security tran
sition team.
Spector serves as a member of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, and as chief counsel
to the Senate Energy and Nuclear
Proliferation Subcommittee. He has also been
director since 1984 of the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Project at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace.
The NIS Export Control Project, which
Khripunov co-directs at the University, is an
effort to enhance dialogue among export con
trol specialists and to advise policy makers
dealing with the possible spread of weapons.
“The disintegration of the former Soviet
Union raises the threat of the largest weapons
proliferation in the history of the world,”
according to a written statement from the NIS
Project. “Growing economic hardship and
political instability in the (newly independent
states) make the threat of weapons prolifera
tion very real.”
The discussion of weapons control follows a
morning presentation on national security by
Sen. Sam Nunn and two former federal offi
cials.
Igor Khripunov and two other
experts will discuss the threat of
nuclear proliferation today.
first black president regardless of winner
Telvis Rich says he must attract James Burroughs says race is not
voters of all races to win. a major issue in this election.
SGA will have
Candidates’
supporters sling
a little mud
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
The Student Government Association will
soon have its first black president, regardless
of who wins the SGA’s May 25 runoff election.
But presidential contenders James
Burroughs and Telvis Rich, both black stu
dents, say the issue of race has played a
minor role in their campaigns.
“Telvis and I talked about it, and we were
happy that we’ve come to the point where we
can have something like this," Burroughs
said. “But I don’t really think (race) has been
an issue at all. It’s about capabilities and
issues and ability to be student body presi
dent."
Rich said he had to attract voters of all
races to make it to the runoff.
“We were able to mobilize not just African-
American students, but Asian students and
white students as well," Rich said. “To say the
majority of my votes were African-American
would be a lie."
With both sides expecting fewer votes in
tomorrow’s runoff, current SGA officers and
senators have come out to support their can
didate of choice.
SGA President John Bradberry and Vice
President Ashley Disque called a press con
ference Thursday to publicly support
Burroughs and running mate Kimberly
Barrow.
“James and I have served on SGA for two
years,” Bradberry said. “He is now chair of the
Student Advisory Council which advises the
Board of Regents and therefore has the confi
dence in his abilities to lead SGAs at 34 dif
ferent institutions.”
No SGA senators attended Bradberry’s
press conference.
“We did not try to contact any senators,"
Bradberry said. “(There was a) lack of time."
Bradberry’s support prompted conflicting
and even heated responses from senators
who’d previously stayed away from endorsing
any candidates.
After learning of Bradberry’s public
endorsement of Burroughs, senior senator
Richard Martin was quick to support Rich
and running mate Ron Jones, as well as sling
some mud at the opposition.
“All the former executive board does not
support Burroughs and Barrow, and I sup
port Telvis Rich and Ron Jones,” Martin said.
“I feel Mr. Burroughs will perpetuate grid
lock," he said. “Last year, Burroughs made a
number of enemies on the senate and his atti
tude sometimes was arrogant. The lack of any
senators being (at the press conference)
should tell you something.”
Burroughs said Martin’s opinions have lit
tle bearing on how the rest of the senate feels.
“Richard Martin and I were not friends
before he became a member of the senate, we
were not friends while we were on the senate,
and we’re not friends now,” Burroughs said.
“I have not had any conflicts with any other
senator.”
Senior senator Jay Gemes said he is
“actively supporting" the Burroughs cam
paign.
“(Burroughs) has experience, he knows
what he’s doing, and hell be more effective in
reaching the administration," Gemes said.
“I don’t know a whole lot abut Telvis, but
I know Ron Jones - he’s my RA," Gemes said.
“If he does as well as vice president as he has
as an RA, then student government is in dan
ger of falling apart.”
Jones said Gemes’ statement “could have
been a direct political attack."
“It’s somewhat bothersome that a person
would make a statement like that when they
wouldn’t say it to your face and you see them
everyday on your hall,” Jones said.
Sam Nunn’s
visit may be
protested
While Sen. Sam Nunn (D-
Ga.) speaks about the nation’s
security on campus today,
University junior Amy
Peterson, along with several
others, will be protesting the
senator’s stance on gayB in the
military.
Nunn is part of the Richard
B. Russell Symposium on U.S.
Security Issues, being held in
the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education.
Peterson said Friday she is
expecting 50 protesters to
show, but said there could be
a greater turnout. She said
the protest will last for three
hours Monday, beginning at
8:30 a.m., a half-hour before
Nunn will begin his sympo
sium.
“I think that everywhere
Senator Nunn goes, he needs
to be met with protest,” said
Peterson, originally from
Charlotte, N.C. “The reason
we’re protesting is because he
does not want the (military)
bon lifted, and a lot of gays
and lesbians voted for him.
“It’s really important for
him to know that there is a
strong opposition,” she said.
The protesters will picket
along Lumpkin and Carter
Streets just outside the
Georgia Center.
As of Friday, the Lesbian,
Gay and Bisexual Student
Union had not made plans for
the senator’s appearance.
University Police Capt.
Rich Deter said he is unsure
whether police will beef up
patrols, but as long as the
protesters are peaceful, he
said there shouldn’t be any
problems.
“So long as they don’t inter
fere with the academic setting
of the University and so long
as they’re not disruptive, they
have the right to protest,” he
said.
- Cathlccn Egan
Black Unity Day misinterpreted by some as anti-white
By TRACIE POWELL
Staff Writer
Organizers and supporters of the recent
Black Unity Day said students accused of post
ing signs against the event failed to realize its
purpose.
“They misinterpreted it as being anti-white,
instead of what it was really about - pro-black,
and an expression of a need for African
Americans to be more unified,” said Leslie Bates,
director of Minority Services and Programs.
Last Tuesday night, five students were
accused of posting white unity day signs in
undesignated areas of Creswell Hall.
The signs read: “We share in their ‘strug-
gle’/We share in the bias and discrimination/ So
why not share in their stupidity/ White Unity
Day/May 19, 1993.”
The signs were apparent reactions to a Black
Unity Day sponsored by the campus National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People.
The incident has prompted W. Tremayne
Green, president of the Black Affairs Council, to
mail a copy of the flier and a letter to every black
student on campus.
“My purpose is is not to provoke any anger
but to promote awareness,” Green said. “I
respect the individuals’ rights to express their
opinions, I just hate the manner in which they
went about doing it.”
In his letter, Green asks all black students to
tack the fliers to their bulletin boards as a
reminder of present race conditions at the
University.
“Every time you feel a little complacent with
racial sensitivity on campus, I ask that you read
it (the flier), then go outside and look around,”
the letter states.
The incident also prompted University hous
ing officials to contact University police, hold
meetings and refer students involved in the inci
dent to the student judiciary.
Pam Schreiber, assistant director of housing,
said it is housing’s policy to call the police any
time the department has an incident that may
be classified as a hate crime.
However, Schreiber said officers investigat
ing the incident did not classify it as such, and
University Police Chief Chuck Horton said his
department may not have anything else to do
with it.
“It is my understanding that housing is send
ing the young people involved to the student
judiciary," Horton said. “We may not be needed
if the proper administrative channels can handle
it.”
Schreiber said housing referred the matter to
student judiciary because one of the signs was
hung on a particular student’s door which is a
violation of disorderly conduct.
A University Housing incident report states
that one of the fliers was posted above the peep
hole on George Crawley’s door. Crawley is a res
ident and one of two CLASS Advocates - hous
ing staff members who address the concerns of
black students living in residence halls -
assigned to Creswell Hall.
Bates said his office would not respond to the
incident because it was an isolated incident
which he does not want to blow out of proportion.
“These were actions of a very few, and I don’t
thihk the vast mtgority of the University com
munity would condone this type of behavior,"
Bates said. “Instead of asking or trying to under
stand the meaning of what black unity meant,
they ignorantly and immaturely behaved."
SGA runoff tomorrow
Tuesday will be the second
time in 14 years that University
students will vote in a Student
Government Association runoff
election.
There were four president-
vice president tickets running
for office in last Tuesday’s elec
tion, and because neither of the
leading candidates earned 40
percent of the 2,750 votes cast,
a runoff election must take
place according to the SGA
Constitution.
Candidates Janies
Burroughs and Kimberly
Barrow will face Telvis Rich and
Ron Jones in Tuesday’s election.
There will be one polling
place and two voting sites at the
Tate Student Center between
9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
“I was very pleased with the
voter turnout,” said Russ
Willard, SGA elections sub-com
mittee chair. “It’s due in large
part of the candidates running
for president, vice president and
senator. They all ran really
strong campaigns. I have no
idea what the voter turnout will
be (in the runoff) because it’s so
unusual.”
The most recent SGA presi
dential runoff was in 1979.
There were nine presidential
candidates, five students run
ning for vice president and more
than 100 senatorial hopefuls.
With approximately 4,300
students voting in the 1979
elections, a runoff election took
place between the top two can
didates.
Harold Mulherin ran for
president on the notion that if
elected, he would abolish the
student government.
He received 1,661 of the
3,276 votes cast and SGA was
disbanded until 1988.
- Cathieen Egan
