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TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1993 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 100, ISSUE 138
Sen. Nunn speaks while students
CHRIS RANK/ The Rod and Block
Sam Nunn spoke about the post-Cold War climate.
By ROB SHAPARD
Staff Writer
The United States must develop
new strategies to deal with the pos
sible spread of nuclear weapons and
ethnic conflicts unleashed by the
end of the Cold War, U.S. Sen. Sam
Nunn and two top policy advisers
told a University audience Monday.
Nunn said the U.S. should inter
vene militarily in the former
Yugoslavia only in a joint effort with
its allies, and that Muslims in the
region should be allowed to arm and
defend themselves before the U.S.
considers any intervention.
"I think the president was right
in saying we should only move with
our allies,” Nunn said.
Nunn was at the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education for a
panel discussion among prominent
experts on issues of national securi
ty as part of the first annual Richard
B. Russell Symposium. Robert
McNamara, former secretary of
defense, and Stansfield Turner, for
mer director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, joined Nunn on
the panel.
The panelists emphasized the
idea that the U.S. must recognize a
new set of problems which exists in
the post-Cold War world.
“The end of the Cold War was
without a doubt a wonderful turn of
events in the world,” Nunn said.
“We have a renewed hope in the
world for peace and prosperity.
“But there is a negative side. The
end of the Cold War also marked the
end of the restraint placed on the
rest of the world by the superpow
ers.”
Much of the discussion focused
on the fighting between Muslims,
Serbians and Croatians in the for
mer Yugoslavia, a conflict which
Nunn said has broken out because
of this void of restraint.
Nunn said the current embargo
on arms to Bosnia should have been
lifted a year ago.
“We have denied all access into
the (Muslims’) area, as if that creat
ed a level playing field,” he said.
“The Muslims are tragically in a sit
uation where no one can get arms to
them."
McNamara, who served as secre
tary of defense for Presidents John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, also
called for a lifting of the arms
embargo. He expressed the doubt
shared by Nunn that air strikes
against Serbian positions would be
effective in stopping the conflict.
“The advocates of air power over
state what it can accomplish, and
they are overstating today what it
can accomplish in Bosnia,”
McNamara said, pounding on the
arm of his chair for emphasis.
In addition to ethnic clashes, the
post-Cold War world faces the possi
ble proliferation of nuclear weapons,
the panelists warned.
“The threat of an accidental or
unauthorized nuclear launch has
gone up, not down, because there
are four (former Soviet republics),
not one, with nuclear weapons,”
Nunn said. “There is less command
and control of these nuclear
weapons than there was under the
Soviet Union."
Turner, who headed the CIA dur
ing the Carter administration, iden
tified economic strength as an
important factor in national securi
ty.
“Our economy can thrive only if
the world’s economy can thrive,” he
said. “If we are going to compete in
global economic markets, our nation
needs good economic information.
“The CIA could produce all kinds
of meaningful information on such
subjects, and publish it quite open
ly,” Turner said.
Turner’s statement brought
warnings from Nunn and
McNamara.
“I believe the CIA is the best
intelligence organization in the
world, but they make serious mis
takes,” McNamara said.
Turner was quick to agree, say
ing, “I’m the guy who lost Iran. We
didn’t adequately predict the fall of
the Shah.”
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New academic honesty policy challenged
By JANA STRICKLAND
Staff Writer
Some University student leaders are lobbying
University Council members to reconsider pro
posed changes in the academic honesty policy
before they vote on Thursday.
Amy Groves, chief justice of student judiciary;
Clint Crosby, director of Defender-Advocate
Society; and Student Government Association
President John Bradberry mailed letters against
the changes to the members on Friday.
Proposed changes to the academic honesty poli
cy include: changing the standard of evidence for
cases from “a clear and convincing" standard of evi
dence to “a preponderance of evidence” standard;
prohibiting lawyers at the hearings; assigning
automatic F-X grades for cheating convictions; and
involving faculty in the initial review of cases.
Clifton Pannell, chair of the academic honesty
committee, said the policy’s goal is to strengthen
honesty at the University and not to get more con
victions.
“Our mission is to promote a climate of honesty
— we’re not out to get anybody,” Pannell said.
Groves said the groups wanted University
Council members to be aware of student concerns
before voting on the proposal.
“We wanted University Council members to
realize there were some students who were con
cerned about it,” Groves said.
In the letter, the student leaders said they are
against the changes because of the unequal effect
the new policy will
have on students.
“The proposal
does not allow stu
dents to choose their
own representation,
lowers the standard
of proof from ‘clear
and convincing’ to a
‘preponderance of
evidence’ and
assigns an inappro
priate minimum
sanction,” the letter
states.
The proposed F-X
grade would unfairly
hurt seniors while
giving younger stu-
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Clifton Pannell clear their records,
the student leaders
said.
A student with a F-X on his transcript can peti
tion to remove the grade after one year.
“The penalty is ineffective because most of the
time no one will know the grade is on the tran
script,” the letter stated. “Only seniors who are
applying for jobs or graduate programs will be
asked to explain the F-X grade on their tran
scripts.”
Please see HONESTY, page 3
protest outside
Amy Peterson (I) led protesters in cheers Monday
saying ‘Hey, hey, ho, ho Sam Nunn has got to go.'
Small group hoped to
influence Nunn’s stance on
homosexuals in the military
By HOLLY S. ROACH
Staff Writer
A small group of protesters
gathered Monday morning
outside the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education to
demonstrate against visiting Sen.
Sam Nunn’s stance banning
homosexuals from the military.
Rick Russo, a junior from
Tucker and one of the 15
protesters, said he hoped their
presence would influence Nunn’s
position on the ban.
“I don’t know if it will actually
change anything in his mind, but
he will know there is a represen
tation of the voting people that do
not like what he stands for,”
Russo said.
Nunn said Monday he supports
the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
which means recruits would not
be asked to provide any informa
tion about their sexual orienta
tion, yet they would be dismissed
if they disclosed that information
voluntarily.
Nunn was part of a symposium
on national security held at the
Georgia Center Monday.
The demonstrators paced the
sidewalk in front of the Georgia
Center on Lumpkin street, waving
posters and shouting “Sam Nunn,
no more tricks, you’ll be out in
’96.”
Cindy Clark, a protester and
journalism school staff member,
said Nunn has been one of the
most vocal supporters of the ban
on homosexuals.
“I don’t know if it’s Sam Nunn
who has the power, but homopho
bia is a pretty powerful fear and I
think that’s where the power is,"
she said. “I don’t think it is Sam
himself."
Bogart resident Denise
Castleton said she demonstrated
because she disagrees with
Nunn’s stance on several issues.
“I think right now, in general,
the Republicans are more happy
with Sam Nunn than the
Democrats,” she said. “He’s more
in line with Jesse Helms than he
is with President Clinton. I think
that Clinton’s more open approach
to people in general is becoming
more of a standard way of think
ing, at least among Democrats,
and this old-school conservatism
has got to find its place in the exit
door."
‘I think right now, in
general, the
Republicans are more
happy with Sam Nunn
than the Democrats.’
- Denise Castleton
demonstrated against
Sam Nunn
Claudia Knott, an Athens resi
dent and former University staff
member, said the military should
be more concerned about the sex
ual activity of its heterosexual
men, especially in light of the
Navy’s Tailhook scandal.
“I don’t see that it’s any prob
lem that gays and lesbians have to
prove that their behavior is way
above everybody else’s in terms of
morality," she said. “It looks to me
like if there’s any problem with
morale and morality it’s not with
us."
Nunn said he did not know
exactly when the two opposing
sides of the issue would come to a
final resolution.
“I’m not sure if anything in this
business is final,” he said. “We’ll
have to wait and see what the
president comes out with.”
Burroughs and Rich duke it out for SGA
By RUSS BYNUM
Staff Writer
Student body presidential
candidates Telvis Rich and
James Burroughs will duke it
out at the polls one last time
today in the Student
Government Association’s runoff
election.
Two polling tables will be set
up at the Tate Center Plaza
between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Both candidates said they
expect fewer voters to turn out
today than the 2,750 who partic
ipated in SGA’s May 18 election.
Throughout the election, both
tickets have differed more
regarding the value of their
experience than their platform
issues.
Both tickets, Burroughs and
running mate Kimberly Barrow
and Rich and running mate Ron
Jones, have made getting more
students involved in SGA the
spearhead of their platforms,
with campus safety ranking sec
ond.
Burroughs has been an SGA
senator for two years and was
currently chair of the Board of
Regents’ Student Advisory
Council.
His SGA experience and SAC
position would ease the transi
tion period after he takes office,
Burroughs said. He said it would
enable him to motivate the SGA
senate and student leaders to be
more involved.
“We’ve harped (our idea) of
the president’s advisory commit
tee constantly - having student
leaders there, not just black and
white, but people of different
backgrounds and cultures,"
Burroughs said.
Rich, on the other hand, has
never held SGA office. Instead,
he has campaigned on the
premise that SGA has failed to
serve the student body and an
outsider is needed to set it
straight.
“James (Burroughs) is the last
hope for SGA to continue the way
it is,” Rich said of his opponent.
“As a ticket, we shocked the
house of SGA. They were really
shocked, I think, with a turnout
of 828 votes for what they
thought was a last place ticket.”
A job about reasoning with drunk people
Bouncers don’t need brawn just brain
By JOHN EDWARDS
Contributing Writer
It’s late Tuesday night and a
group of bar hoppers ready their
IDs as they form a line outside a
packed Lowery’s. The only thing
that stands between them and
the bar is Stan Deal.
Deal, a senior from Baxley,
Ga., has been a bouncer and door
man at Lowery’s for about eight
months and said he’s had his
share of action at the door.
“There’s no glamour or clout in
this job,” he said. “It’s just a way
of getting through school. We get
paid just as much as any other
college student."
At 6 feet, 185 pounds, he isn’t,
at first sight, an intimidating fig
ure.
Deal leaves town once a
month to serve as a corporal in
the National Guard. Although he
is a bouncer and a Manne, Deal
said he has always been a passive
sort of guy.
“I usually try to avoid vio
lence," said Deal. “All my life, I’ve
only gotten into fights after some
one has really pushed me."
Deal said he doesn’t see him
self as the classic bouncer with a
Schwarzenegger frame and a bad
attitude. For many bouncers in
the Athens area, the job involves
more brains than brawn.
For Steve Lewis, who graduat
ed from the University last year
and works as a bouncer at
O’Maliey’s Tavern, barroom
behavior isn’t a matter of being
passive or aggressive.
“Bouncing is not about hurting
people,” Lewis said. “It’s about
getting people out without get
ting them hurt.”
Confrontations between
bouncers and patrons break out
about once every two weeks, he
said.
“It varies. Sometimes every
thing will be fine for weeks,” he
said. “Sometimes, fights can
break out five nights in a row."
Lewis carries a stun gun,
about the size of a flashlight,
which he uses “only as a last
resort.” Although Lewis has used
the device on other people before,
he said he is familiar with its
effects.
*To be certified to carry (a stun
gun), I had to be shocked myself
on the back, arm and stomach,"
he said. “We have to be able to
testify in court that we know
what type of pain we are inflict
ing.” Lewis is certified by the
Georgia Academy of Law.
He said most of the people he
throws out of the bar are not
injured.
“If a problem erupts, we
always try to use reasoning
before force,” he said. “Most seri
ous problems erupt in the park
ing lot, anyway - usually
between locals and college stu
dents."
Lewis’ duties at O’Malley’s
also include sweeping the floor
and keeping the bar supplied
with ample amounts of liquor.
Apart from responsibilities to
the establishment, bouncers
must also comply with state law,
which includes up to $1,000 in
fines for admitting underage
drinkers. Adam Drogan, a bounc
er at the Uptown Lounge, said
people who try to break this law
are the main cause of bouncer
“moodiness.”
Please see BOUNCER, page 2
Stan Deal, a Marine and
bouncer, says he’s a passive guy.