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Knapp has MAC recommendations
By STACEY BRYANT
Staff Writer
More than one year has passed since the cre
ation of University President Charles Knapp’s
Minority Advisory Committee - an attempt to im
prove campus race relations - but the University
has yet to see any results of its efforts.
Katheryn Davis, committee spokesperson, said
the members spent the past year developing a pro
posal to achieve Knapp’s goal of racial unity, and
their ideas are now in Knapp’s hands.
Knapp formed the 14-member committee, which
is comprised of students and faculty of different
races, in response to racial tensions during the fall
of 1992, when Pi Kappa Phi fraternity published a
pledge pamphlet that contained a racial slur.
In a letter to The Red & Black on Dec. 2, 1992,
Knapp said the committee would be responsible for
providing him with advice and council regarding is
sues of racial diversity.
After reviewing the proposal, which is still in its
formative stage, Knapp will meet with the commit
tee in mid-February to discuss the recommenda
tions, according to University Spokesperson Tom
Jackson. The only information Jackson revealed
about the proposal was that it will address five ar
eas: faculty, staff, students, athletics and communi
ty.
Davis said it would be premature to reveal any
details of the recommendations before Knapp re
views them.
“If it was easy to make changes and make sug
gestions we wouldn’t need a committee in the first
place,” said Davis, adding that taking a year to draft
the proposal was necessary. “It’s not one of those
things where you can sit and say we need to change
A, B and C. The committee was not developed to
solve all the problems at the University. It would
take work from everybody to do that.”
Leslie Bates, director of Minority
Services, said he doesn’t know what sug
gestions the committee has made.
“With this kind of length without know
ing what’s going on, I’m going to have to as
sume that the recommendations will be ex
cellent ones and will be strongly supported
by Knapp and the administration,” he said,
adding that he thinks a year is a long time
without updating the University on its de
velopments. “Without progress reports of
any kind, we assume they will make some
great changes in the climate of race rela
tions on campus."
Even if the committee has nothing to
show for the last year, Davis said at least
it got some people talking.
“If nothing else, lots of folks have talked
to lots of folks who wouldn’t have ever
talked before,” she said.
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The Red and Black • Wednesday, January 19* 1994 • 3
- a year later
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Chemistry professor promises, delivers dyed blue hair
By STACI STURROCK
Staff Writer
Henry Schaefer has been looking a little
blue lately.
TTie chemistry professor lost a bet to
some graduate students - a bet that re
quired him to dye his beard blue.
He unveiled his new blue ’do last
Thursday at a meeting of the students, who
erupted into spontaneous applause and
laughter as Schaefer proudly displayed his
turquoise tufts.
“Two janitors saw me walking up here
and nearly collapsed,” he said.
But how did Schaefer, a world-class
chemist who has been nominated for the
Nobel Prize several times, get involved in
something so, well, sillv?
It all started last November when he
promised his students he would dye his
beard if they submitted 15 papers to scien
tific journals by the end of the year.
“It wasn’t that they hadn’t done the
work," Schaefer said. “What they hadn’t
done was write it up. And in the scientific
world, if it’s not in the journals, it doesn’t
exist.”
Schaefer said he thought he was making
a safe bet, but the students not only
reached the 15-paper mark, they surpassed
it. #
Justin Fermann, a graduate student
from Mount Kisco, N.Y., said the pure
goofiness of Schaefer’s dare was what mo
tivated the students.
“Most people who don’t know him per
sonally wouldn’t expect him to do this,”
Fermann said. “It’s really rather out of
character for him.”
Schaefer said another graduate student,
Johnny Galbraith of Orchard Park, N.Y.,
was the inspiration for the bet.
Galbraith, sporting the remnants of a
red dye job in his brown hair, had previ
ously dyed his hair blue - just for the heck
of it.
Schaefer said he was going to wash out
the dye after a couple of hours, even though
coloring his beard turned out to be a hairi
er task than he had hoped for.
“It was hard work making it this blue,”
he said. “I expected it to be brighter, but I
think you have to peroxide it first.”
Despite the trying process of dyeing,
Schaefer has already offered his students
another deal: If they publish 42 more pa
pers by Jan. 1, 1995, he said he will plas
ter a stick-on tattoo to his head.
The students said they felt sure they
could meet the goal, but Schaefer said he’s
not worried.
“They’ve got a chance, but I think it’s
still 3-to-l in favor of my head remaining
untattooed,” he said.
$100K for transportation study
By BARBARA W1 ELAND
Staff Writer
University student Kay Barnes
said she has some definite ideas of
how $100,000 of state funds
should be used to improve local
transportation.
“Olie hundred thousand on
transportation?” asked the sopho
more from Richmond Hill. “How
about fixing my car?"
However, Gov. Zell Miller had
different plans in mind as he vis
ited Athens on Tuesday to deliver
a $100,000 check earmarked for
studying the problems of
Northeast Georgia’s transporta
tion system.
“This plan will examine ways
to spread economic growth
through commuter rail lines, air
ports and highways linking com
munities to the interstate sys
tem," Miller said.
Miller delivered the check
while promoting his Georgia
Business Expansion Support
Team - or Georgia’s BEST -
package of legislation. The pack
age is aimed at improving busi
ness and resource development on
a region-by-region basis.
A report by the Governor’s
Development Council identified
an inadequate system of trans
portation %as a major barrier to
economic growth in the Northeast
Georgia region.
However, Athens-Clarke
County Chief Elected Officer
Gwen O'Looney said no money
has actually been given to fix
these problems.
That $100,000 is for a study,"
she said. That doesn’t go toward
improvements.”
Zell Miller
Even if
the BEST
package is
passed,
O’Looney
said, there
are no
plans to
fund any
improve
ments rec
ommend
ed by the
study.
O’Looney
said the
transportation plan uses Athens
as the economic center connecting
the region to Interstate 85 and
1-20. Additionally, the study will
investigate a proposed commuter
rail line linking Athens to metro
Atlanta, though O'Looney warned
the train wouldn’t be completed in
the near future.
“A lot of people unrealistically
see that as something that will be
done tomorrow, but it’s pretty far
in the future,” she said. “I don’t
see anything being put on the
boards until after 2000.”
Some University students re
mained optimistic that the pro
posed railways may be completed
sooner than the turn of the centu
ry-
“I’d like to get a tram from
Athens to Atlanta," said Sean
Williamson, a freshman from
Savannah.“TTiat way, it would be
easy to go to Atlanta for the day.”
Bryan Johnson, a junior from
Marietta, said he’d like to see
Athene’ Ben Epps Airport expand
ed.
“Have you seen the Ben Epps
field?” he asked. “It’s tiny."
If you missed it this fall...
Informal winter Rush begins next Monday
BY CRYSTAL PAULK
Staff Writer
Some sororities are offering an
opportunity for University women
who missed fall Rush, to take part in
an informal winter Rush beginning
Jan. 24.
The Panhellenic Council allows
sororities to accept new pledges if
the chapters did not fill their quota
in the fall or if there were a signifi
cant number of graduates in the fall.
However, not all sororities have
openings or choose to fill them. Only
Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha
Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, Delta
Phi Epsilon, Gamma Phi Beta, Pi
Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma
Kappa and Zeta Tau Alpha are par
ticipating in winter Rush.
Winter rush parties are very dif
ferent from the formal Rush parties
in the fall, said advisor to sororities
Claudia Shamp.
There will be no themes, skits or
band shows during the Rush period,
Shamp said. Instead, a rushee may
be invited to a dinner or dessert or
asked to attend a social event with
the sorority.
“Signing up for informal Rush
does not automatically guarantee
that you will be contacted by a soror
ity,” she said, also adding that the
rushee is not assured a bid at the
end of rush, and is not obligated to
accept a bid.
The big difference between fall
and winter Rush, Shamp said, is
that a rushee is not required to at
tend every function offered and the
application process is much shorter.
Interested females can sign up in
the Greek Life Offices this week.
SORORITY WINTER RUSH
Informal Rush Schedule
JANUARY 18-20
JANUARY 21
JANUARY 24-28
FEBRUARY 1
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Office216 Memorial Hall
Eligible Sororities are given
Participants’ Names
Informal Rush Parties
Sororities turn in bids to
Panhellenic by 12 noon
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