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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1994 » ATHENS. GEORGIA • VOLUME 102, ISSUE 14
Dogs flee
Athens for
Alabama
By TED KIAN
Staff Writer
Although the Georgia Bulldogs
are a near touchdown underdog,
and are visiting a town where they
haven't won since 1913, they
appear to be in prime position to
upset Alabama in Tuscaloosa
Saturday night.
For a number of reasons, the
Bulldogs (3-1, 1-1 in the SEC)
believe they have a good chance of
knocking off No. 11 Alabama (4-0,
3-0 SEC). Kickoff is scheduled for
7:35 p.m. (EST.) on ESPN.
“Obviously it’s a big football
game," said Georgia head coach
Ray Goff. “We need to go out and
play well. W T e didn’t play well
against Tennessee on national TV.
1 think it’s important for us to
compete like we are capable of."
Georgia looked impressive last
week in beating Ole Miss 17-14.
All the areas the Bulldogs had pre
game concerns about played well.
Despite losing three starters
before halftime last Saturday, the
Bulldog offensive line continued
its impressive play. It must give
Heisman Trophy candidate Eric
Zeier ample time in the pocket for
the Bulldogs to win Saturday.
Georgia’s running game was a
major question mark before Ole
Miss. Even with Terrell Davis
sidelined with a pulled hamstring,
and Hines Ward playing hurt, the
Bulldogs controlled the clock by
Brice Hunter after scoring a touchdown during last Saturday’s Georgia-Ole Miss game.
mixing up their play selection.
Davis will not play Saturday, but
Goff said he’s confident with Ward
and the emerging Larry Bowie in
the backfield. Bowie accumulated
a 146 total yards against the
Rebels.
“We’ve got to be able to run the
football, we’ve got to be able to
throw it," Goff said. “But I don’t
think we can go out and make a
living doing either one. We’ve got
to have a good mixture.”
The Georgia defense, which was
run over by Tennessee for 383
yards, has looked impressive in
the past two weeks. It has spent
this week preparing for Alabama
star running back Sherman
Williams, who leads the SEC with
a 153 rushing yards per game
average.
Behind the right arm of senior
Jay Barker, Alabama’s passing
offense is ranked last in the SEC
at 116.5 yards per game. Their
offensive line has also struggled.
“Our defense, I feel like we’ll
play pretty good,” Goff said. “We
can’t leave them on the field too
long. I think that the key to our
defense is not having to ask them
to play 70 plays or more.”
Led by senior defensive back
Willie Gaston, the Alabama
defense is ranked No. 1 the SEC
(238 yards per game).
“Their defense is a typical
Alabama defense,” Goff said.
“They are a good two-deep on the
defensive line. Their linebackers
run well and three of the four guys
in the secondary are seniors.”
Zeier said,“we’ve gone two
weeks in a row playing the No. 1
defense in the conference, so it’s a
big challenge. It’s important to get
off to a good start, play well and
keep from getting behind. We don’t
want to be in a situation of playing
catch-up all day.”
Georgia is 1-6 all-time when
playing in Tuscaloosa.
“It’s an opportunity for this
team to do something some of the
others haven’t done,” Goff said.
“Coach Dooley never won there."
By CRYSTAL PAULK
Staff Writer
Although a University student
didn’t attend his Student
Judiciary Main Court hearing
Thursday, the justices heard the
case without his testimony.
Aubrey Richard Hilley, a
sophomore from Atlanta, couldn’t
be located by the judiciary when
he failed to attend his hearing for
possession of fireworks on
University property and
underage intoxication.
Hilley had planned to defend
himself in the hearing.
The three justices decided to
hear the case because the
University advocate had a
witness present and the advocate
said the defendant received
notification of his hearing on
Aug. 19.
Kathryn Bruce, judicial
programs adviser, said it is
unusual for a defendant to miss
his hearing.
University Police Officer
Heath McNutt testified in the
hearing that he was dispatched
March 10 to the Chi Phi
fraternity house to investigate a
noise violation.
“As I pulled into the Chi Phi
parking lot there was someone
shooting bottle rockets from a
window toward Broad Street,” he
said. “When I entered the house I
saw a guy holding some bottle
rockets. I asked him about the
bottle rockets and noticed that
his speech was slurred and that
he was obviously intoxicated.”
McNutt arrested Hilley for the
possession and use of fireworks
on University property and
intoxication of a minor.
The hearing concluded without
any testimony from the defense,
as no one was present to
represent the defense.
The justices will decide which
sanctions Hilley will receive by
Oct. 6. Hilley can appeal his
sanctions three days after he
receives the decision, Bruce said.
“The decision will be mailed to
the defendant's last known
address,” Bruce said. “He can
appeal to the judicial council just
as if he had been at the hearing.”
The procedures of the
University Judicial System offers
three grounds for an appeal:
•The hearing body deprived
the defendant of his rights
according to the rules governing
University judicial hearings and
the decision was therefore
affected.
•The decision was not
supported by the evidence.
•The sanctions imposed were
unreasonably harsh.
After repeated calls, Hilley
could not be reached for comment
at press time.
Biocontainment Research Center
Bill grants $2.4M for construction
By DANA SIEGMUND
Staff Writer *
A recently-passed bill has granted the
University’s College of Veterinary Medicine
$2.4 million to build a Biocontainment
Research Center on South Campus.
The money, granted by the Consolidated
Agricultural Appropriations Bill, will pay for
some of the $16 million the center will cost.
“This completes the $8 million
congressional appropriation, with the state
money, it’ll complete the funding,” said John
Bowen, associate dean of the veterinary
school. Bowen said construction will not start
for a while because President Clinton still
must sign the money over to the University.
The first installment of the appropriation,
which was granted in Oct. 1993, was not
released to the University until July 1994.
University officials said they are eager to
get the $2.4 million as quickly as possible
because inflation causes a grant to decrease in
value until it is released.
Final plans for the center can not be made
until the grant isxeleased.
Students for Environmental Awareness are
planning to combat the construction with a
letter writing campaign because they believe
the public has been kept in the dark.
“This has not been adequately explained or
talked about publicly,” said Ali Jones, SEA co
chair. “The plans include an incinerator that is
capable of burning medical waste.”
Jones said she was informed that the
University does not plan to use the incinerator
for medical waste, but she said it would be
easy to offset the center’s cost by burning
waste from area hospitals.
SEA is worried that the burning of medical
waste would emit pollutants into the air.
Jones said she was concerned for the people
living in family housing.
“Those are the people who will be exposed
to this every day.” she said.
Bowen said all plans for the center comply
with Georgia air quality standards.
“If (SEA) is unhappy with the Georgia air
quality standards, they ought to take up the
issue with the Georgia air quality standards,”
he said. He added that activists have a
tendency to misrepresent the facts.
Jones said SEA is not sure if their
information is correct because they have had
difficulty in receiving current information
about the center.
food at weekend festival
wife Nancy, was a Grammy nominee for
best traditional folk recording.
On Saturday, University art
professor Art Rosenbaum will give two
bapjo performances.
Although music may be the main
attraction, it’s not just the Woodstock of
folk. Last year, the festival had an area
for everyone to play traditional folk
games such as marbles.
If festival food is usually a turn-off,
vegetarian dishes such as veggie pizzas
will be available. The
Bluebird Cafe will be
preparing vegetarian
selections, and to make
the event a Southern
thing, the Athens Moose
Club will provide
burgers and barbeque.
Go for the music but
don’t miss the animals.
Sheep and turkeys will
be in the petting zoo, so
go over and be a kid
again.
Festival coordinator
Angela Henson said last
year’s big attraction will
be back: the man with the snakes. “He
was the biggest hit last year because he
brought a boa constrictor,” she said.
This year he plans on bringing snakes
indigenous to Georgia in keeping with
the North Georgia theme.
The North Georgia Folk Festival is
today and Saturday at Sandy Creek
Park off Commerce Road (441). Tickets
are $6 for adults, $4 for kids and free for
senior citizens and kids under 4.
Fiddles, folk,
By LEAH TATUM
Staff Writer
It’s late Friday afternoon, and there’s
no home game tomorrow. For a glimpse
into another local music scene, venture
to the North Georgia Folk Festival at
Sandy Creek Park.
The three-day
festival of traditional
music, food and
crafts begins tonight
with opening band
The Warblers and
concludes Saturday
with banjo playing
and storytelling.
In addition to two
stages of musicians
will be games,
crafts food and farm Norman B|ake
animals.
Norman Blake will perform twice
Saturday with James Bryan, his former
partner from the Rising Fawn String
Ensemble. Blake is widely acclaimed as
a guitar, mandolin and fiddle musician.
Blake’s 1989 album “Blind Dog,” a
collaborative effort he made with his
BAND PREVIEW
Dillon Fence brings power pop to Athens
By JOHN EDWARDS
Staff Writer
About 250 miles northwest of
Athens, halfway between Raleigh
and Greensboro, N.C., lies another
of the South’s most prominent
college cities, Chapel Hill. The
home of the University of North
Carolina, it not only resembles
Athens with its raging nightlife,
high elevation, and too many hills,
but it’s also home to a wealth of
local bands.
Dillon Fence, who plays tonight
at the Georgia Theatre, represents
the purist form of rock V roll that
has developed in Chapel Hill. Lead
singer Greg Humphreys described
the music scene as an undefinitive
genre, unlike the alternative staple
of Athens bands.
“1 don’t really think there is a
Chapel Hill sound," Humphreys
said. "I know that sounds like a
cliche, but I think in this case it’s
really true."
Humphreys said the culture
was, however, heavily influenced
by the Athens revolution and punk
movement of the last decade. This
combination, not surprisingly, also
perfectly depicts the moving sound
of Dillon Fence.
“The Chapel Hill community has
its roots in a combination of the
Southern pop movement and
hardcore movement of the early
’80s," he said. “We’re more on,
probably, the power pop
sound."
A soft spoken character
who chooses his words as
carefully as the notes of his
music, Humphreys said he’s
always felt an inner drive to
create. That drive became
reality in 1988 when, along
with UNC chums Scott
Carle, Chris Goode, and
Kent Alphin, he formed
Dillon Fence.
The band produced an
independent EP in ’89, then
signed with North
Carolina’s Mammoth
Records in 1991. Their
latest disc, ‘Living Room
Scene,” marks their third
LP release.
The album shows a band
who’s crafted their art on
stage, effectively
translating their energy
into the studio. Filled with
hypnotic guitar
strummings, the pace of ‘Scene’
ranges from bouncy to surreal, yet
remains amiably as unflinching,
unadulterated rock W roll.
One of the standout tracks,
“Coffee Cup,” was inspired by Bob
Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street,"
Humphreys said.
“Coffee Cup’ is something that
some Athenians might be able to
relate to," he said. “It’s just about
the feeling of doing something and
Chapel Hill’s Dillon Fence plays the Georgia Theatre tonight.
the people who give you shit for
what you represent to them, and
it’s more about themselves than it
is about you."
Other powerful tracks include
“The Right Road” and “Queen Of
The In-Between,” an examination
of the space between former lovers.
For fans of Dillon Fence,
Humphreys promised to play a
couplt of songs from each of their
past albums and said he hopes the
show will match their last
memorable date in Athens last
spring.
“The best shows are always
when the crowd is with you and
lifting you up, when they're into the
performance and into the music
and they’re as much a part of the
show as you are,” he said.
Ticket s for Dillon Fence an $6.
Bloodkin open*.
Lady Spikers face
Wildcats
By KEVIN PRICE
Staff Writer
After opening the Southeastern
Conference schedule with three
away matches, the Lady Bulldogs
volleyball team returns to Athens
for its SEC home opener Sunday
sporting an unblemished
conference record.
The Lady Bulldogs thumped
Tennessee Wednesday night in
straight games 15-11, 15-7, 15-9.
The win improved their record to
10-4, 3-0 in the SEC as they enter
Sunday’s showdown with the
Kentucky Lady Wildcats at 2 p.m.
in the Women’s P.E. Building.
Traditionally an SEC
powerhouse, the Lady Cats have
struggled somewhat this season,
compiling just a 4-9 worksheet, 2-0
in the SEC.
Top 20 teams like Nebraska,
Oregon State, Notre Dame and
Ohio State dealt the Lady Cats
four of those losses. Kentucky
faces Tennessee tonight.
“Even though they’ve struggled,
Kentucky always puts up a good
match,” said first-year assistant
coach Jans Belanger, who played
for Kentucky last year.
History shows the horns team
usually has an advantage when
the two teams meat. Last season
Georgia defeated Kentucky 3-1 in
Athens and fall to the Lady Cats 0-
Sunday
3 in Lexington.
“Georgia traditionally doesn’t
play well at Kentucky and we
don’t play well there," said
Kentucky head coach Fran
Ralston-Flory, “and I don’t have an
explanation for that."
Ralston-Flory is optimistic
about her team’s chances in the
match, but expects Georgia to be
the Lady Cats’ toughest SEC
opponent to date.
“Georgia has a bunch of great
athletes and they’re a very solid
team," Ralston-Flory said. “Jim
lams has done a good job of
putting together a good corp.
“We have to play a very
consistent and controlled game.
They have the ability to run a
string of points against you,
Ralston-Flory said. “Before you
know it you’re way behind. We
have to keep those runs to a
minimum."
On Wednesday, Georgia quickly
put points on the board against
the Lady Vols, whipping them in
just over an hour.
Senior Priscilla Pacheco spiked
16 kills and junior Nikki
Nicholson added 10. Freshman
Beverly Uipi had three service
aces and sophomore Kristy
Johnson added 11 digs.
SEC digs leader Cissi
Lennartaon, a senior at Tennessee,
had a match-high 15 saves.
