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THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1994 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 101, ISSUE 152
Foreign students need
Mix-up prohibits
state licensing of
international drivers
By MICHAEL CASS
Staff Writer
When Chandy Karnum bought a car two weeks
ago, he simply hoped it would enable him to conduct
interviews to research his thesis topic.
Instead, the student from India has a car he can’t
legally drive. He says he is no longer sure the inter
views will take place.
“I might not be able to do that part of my research
if I can’t drive,” said Karnum, a graduate student in
agricultural economics.
Karnum is one of many foreign students, profes
sors and researchers affected by a new Georgia law.
Designed to prevent illegal aliens from getting driv
er’s licenses in the state, the law instead has kept
many foreign visitors who are in the state legally
from obtaining or renewing licenses.
“Somewhere there has been a misunderstanding
of the wording of the law,” said Jan Sandor, assis
tant director of International Services and Programs
at the University. “Licenses should be available to
people residing legally.
“We’ve had a lot of calls (from students),” Sandor
continued. “A lot of students in plant sciences, for
example, need to be able to drive around to check
their crops.”
The misunderstanding apparently stems from a
section of Senate Bill 518 that says people will not
be considered residents unless they are U.S. citi
zens, resident aliens, aliens with employment autho
rization from the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service, or other aliens presumed to
be residing in the United States legally.
“Students have been asked for employment
authorization documents to show INS authoriza
tion,” Sandor said. “Certain classes of foreign
nationals don’t have those cards, but they are in an
employment classification that has legal authoriza
tion built in.”
But the wording of the law should not cause such
problems, according to state Sen. Griffin Pollard, a
co-sponsor of the bill who said he had not heard of
any problems for foreign residents until told by a
Red and Black reporter.
“We thought everyone was covered (by the resi
dent-alien clause),” said Pollard, who represents the
24th District in Columbia County, near Augusta.
“We had no intentions of causing anybody any prob
lems. We were just trying to clarify who is a bona
fide resident.”
not apply
Officials at the University’s Office of Student
Affairs and the Board of Regents said the Georgia
Department of Public Safety is scheduled to present
to its board cn July 6 a set of revised guidelines
regarding the issuing of driver’s licenses. Local offi
cials said they have not seen the revisions.
“After the new guidelines are issued, we’ll have to
see if our students are affected,” said Betsy Neely,
assistant executive secretary of the Board of
Regents.
Lawyers for the Department of Public Safety
could not be reached for comment.
Sandor said she believes the state should bring
its regulations in line with its support for foreign
residents.
“I think it’s important, if the state advocates
internationalization, that our legislature adopt
laws, policies and procedures that convey that,” she
said. “We’re trying to promote the idea that we’re
part of the world. We can’t have laws and procedures
that seem discriminating. This law has had a nega
tive impact on contributing members of our econom
ic and educational systems.”
Until he learns the fate of the law that keeps him
from driving, Karnum will continue to hope for the
best, he said.
“I got a good deal on the car, and I have a learn
er’s permit,” he said. “I’ll keep it until the laws
change. I’ll cross my fingers and hope things work
out.”
MARY SAMS /The Refl and Black
Chandy Karnum, a student from India,
says he’s unable to drive his new car due
to a new state law that prevents him from
obtaining a Georgia drivers license.
Athens gets a taste of World Cup soccer
By KATHLEEN RAGAN
Staff Writer
Behind a table draped with the
Spanish flag and covered with
empty beer pitchers, Santiago
Garcia-Castandn, a University
professor of Spanish, jumped out
of his seat when Spain’s team
scored during the first period of
Tuesday’s match against reigning
World Cup champs Germany.
Olympic soccer won’t be in
Athens for two more years, but the
World Cup has certainly arrived.
Nowhere is this more evident
than at Peppino’s, the Broad
Street pizzeria known for its year-
round displays of soccer parapher
nalia. Students and faculty have
been gathering there all week to
view the games, which are being
played for the first time in the
United States.
“I’m not a big soccer fan, but
the World Cup is a world affair,”
Garcfa-Castafi6n said, wearing a
red and gold ribbon around his
head and a shirt emblazoned with
“Espafia.” “In Spain, I’d be watch
ing this at home, but here there’s
the mystique of rivalry and the
diversity of the fans.”
The World Cup is international
soccer’s championship tournament
involving teams from all over the
world. What makes the World Cup
unique among sporting champi
onships is that it is played every
four years. Games being played
now are part of the first stage, in
which the 24 qualifying teams
play three times. Winning teams
MANDi WRIGHT/ The Red and Black
Speedy Arnold, a teacher in the American Language Program, groans after the
Spanish soccer team misses a shot during its World Cup match against Germany.
will advance through the tourna
ment to the final games July 16-
17.
And all summer long, students
will gather at Peppino’s to watch
the action.
Ana Maria Morillo, a senior
from Seville, Spain, said she’s not
a big soccer fan, but the World Cup
“is more exciting.”
Please see SOCCER page 7
Athens Jam exports
local music to Atlanta
By JOHN EDWARDS
Staff Writer
As June rolls in and the romp
ing days of spring quarter dissipate
into the more mellow times of
summer, students returning home
to Atlanta find themselves lost in a
city that collects fake IDs like
candy.
What’s more, after the ultimate
blow-out at Superjam IV, the sud
den absence of the constant music
flow in Athens could be somewhat
depressing.
To help ease the transition, two
local production companies have
attempted to transport the aura of
Athens into Atlanta. Friday night
at the Wreck Room on Marietta
Street, Simonsongs and Trilear
Productions will present the first
Athens Jam, a showcase of Athens
music and visual art featuring 11
local bands and two artists.
According to Simonsongs coordi
nator Drew Willmon, the project
came about as a result of the Wreck
Room’s desire to display up-and
coming bands from the capital city
of alternative music.
“I spoke to the Wreck Room
about booking some bands in
there,” Willmon said. “And they
asked me if I could come up with
some Athens talent. So I called ’em
back a week later and had put
together the whole conception of
the show: to come up with some
bands which I thought truly
reflected the music scene here at
the moment.”
Headlining the show are, among
others, Trinket, Hayride and Fuzzy
Sprouts, bands who specialize in
straightforward, power driven rock
’n’ roll. Also included on the bill is
Affliction, a more or less grunge
band, and Addison Blue, a tradi
tional-alternative band in its
infant stages.
Willmon maintains that the acts
are not simply bands available for
the weekend, but the result of
seven weeks’ work in preparing a
true preview of the next wave in
the Athens sound.
“In picking these groups,”
Willmon said, “we didn’t just to get
any bands that we could get. We
really went and approached every
one and said to them what we were
trying to do and reflect in the show.
“If we went back 12 or 14 years
ago and did this very same thing,
we might have people on there like
REM, Dreams So Real, Squalls -
the people at that time.”
The biggest problem here might
not be in booking an accurate dis
play, but in attracting a wide audi
ence to a club known for booking
just about every high school kid
who picks up a guitar and pick.
Also, Athens residents might be
unwilling to make the drive and
the Tech and Emory students who
haunt the Wreck Room may be
oblivious to the entire concept.
Please see JAM page 7
MARY AAMt/The Rad and Black
Chris Powell
Victim’s mom:
By STACEE DANIEL
Staff Writer
After a year-long wait, Chris Powell and
his family received more justice than they
wanted for the hazing incident that put him in
the hospital on May 30, 1993.
Powell, a sophomore from College Park,
testified before the Student Judiciary on June
2 that members of Kappa Alpha Psi fraterni
ty paddled him so severely that he required
emergency surgery for an infection to the but
tocks.
His testimony resulted in the four-year sus
pension of the traditionally black fraternity.
Powell’s mother, Cynthia Jackson, said on
Wednesday that although her family wanted
fraternity’s suspension for hazing too harsh
the University to recognize that hazing was
going on, the fraternity’s sentence was too
harsh.
“I have nothing against the Kappas,” she
said. “We just wanted the University to recog
nize the fact that hazing is going on.”
Powell and members of the fraternity could
not be reached for comment.
Leslie Bates, director of minority services
and programs, said the sentence was fair and
enabled the fraternity to get a fresh start after
the suspension.
“I thought the intent was to have the group
suspended so all of the current members
(involved in the incident) could graduate,” he
said.
“When the fraternity is reinstated a new
group can take over. I was disappointed that
the fraternity I belonged to was banned from
campus.”
Powell testified on June 2 that he had been
involved in the initiation process for more
than five weeks in 1993 when he went into
convulsions and was rushed to the hospital for
emergency surgery. Some members of the fra
ternity forced pledges to perform calisthenics
and endure approximately 15 paddle blows a
night, five days a week, during this period,
according to Powell.
Kappa Alpha Psi received the suspension
on June 10 after being found guilty of six of
the 10 charges they were brought up on. The
suspension will last for sixteen consecutive
quarters, at the end of which the fraternity
must present a workable plan to prevent haz
ing and other forms of violence.
The fraternity was charged with violating
four sections of the disorderly conduct regula
tion, the hazing regulation, all sections of the
shared responsibility regulation, and all sec
tions of the falsification of records/information
regulation.
Kappa Alpha Psi was not found in violation
of the three parts of the shared responsibility
regulation or the first section of the falsifica
tion of records/information regulation. This
portion of the regulation states that no official
document shall be completed falsely to supply
misleading information.
The fraternity has filed an appeal to be
heard later this quarter.
Despite heat, summer students earn higher grades
Undergraduate
Enrollment
Avg.
GPA
Summer 93
10,959
2.82
Fall 93
20,553
2.75
Summer 94
11,312
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Source: UGA
Rob Sheperd/The Red and Black
By LEAH BALL
Staff Writer
Whether to make up for dropped
classes, to graduate early, or to sim
ply ei\joy summertime in Athens,
more than 11,000 students have vol
untarily forfeited their summer
break in order to remain at the
University.
Whatever the reason, students
new to the notion of summertime
school say they are a little appre
hensive about what lies ahead: Will
it be like all the other quarters? Will
I be able to catch a bus? Will my pro
fessors even show up for class?
However unsure they might be,
students should find that, aside
from the sweltering heat, summer
quarter bears more similarities to
the regular session than it does dif
ferences.
While many seem to think that
the campus is desolate in the sum
mer, more than one-third of all
University students choose to attend
summer session.
This summer, 11,312 undergrad
uate day-school students are cur
rently enrolled.
This represents a 3.2 percent
increase from last summer’s 10,959
undergraduate total.
And while their fellow classmates
are busy working, traveling, or just
goofing off, University summer
undergraduates are earning the
highest GPAs of the school year.
Last year summer undergrade
earned an average GPA of 2.82, as
compared to a fall average of 2.75, a
winter average of 2.79, and a spring
average of 2.79.
Many students said their sum
mer GPAs were higher because they
took a smaller course load.
McClure Webb, a junior from
Columbia, South Carolina, is in his
second summer of classes at the
University.
“Last summer I only took 10
hours," Webb said. “Since there was
less to do, I was able to have a more
structured schedule and I got better
grades."
The drop in enrollment also
affects University services. Most
University facilities remain avail
able to summer students, but with a
few modifications.
Gilbert Health Center maintains
its regular hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
and the Main Library runs as usual
with the exception of Fridays, on
which it closes three hours earlier at
6 p.m.
Although campus buses are
adhering to their normal running
schedule, the number of buses in cir
culation has been reduced from 28 to
14 in response to the smaller
amount of students enrolled.
Despite the reduced bus service, stu
dents say they are having no trouble
getting to class on time.
The Tate Center Theater is
abandoning its regular movie sched
ule in favor of one that is more
relaxed. Rather than show movies
on a daily basis, the theater will
offer films sporadically throughout
the quarter. The summer theater
schedule will be available Friday.
What is it about summertime in
Athens that compels so many stu
dents to stay?
Megel said people seem to be more
friendly during the summer.
“When you go out at night,
there’s less people in bars and
they're a lot more friendly because
there’s less people to talk to * she
said.
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