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Baseball’s gone and business owners are worried
By SEAN LOOK
Staff Writer
Had the 1994 Major League
Baseball ‘season continued, the
playoffs would have begun
Tuesday. Local bar and restau
rant managers could have expect
ed some extra revenue for their
businesses, especially if the
Atlanta Braves were to make the
post-season.
But that’s not the scenario this
fall, and it may not be the scene
next spring either, a time when
students anxiously await the
start of a new Braves season.
However, according to Jeff
Humphries, the University’s di
rector of economic forecasting, the
local economy should not be af
fected by the absence of the play
offs. He said that people will find
alternative ways to spend their
leisure money after the baseball
season was canceled Sept. 14 be
cause of the players’ strike.
"I think that overall impact
will be minimal because people
will shift their entertainment
budget other ways,” he said. “The
dollar did not disappear, people
will just spend it other ways. Bars
and restaurants may suffer be
cause they draw large crowds for
baseball. There will be winners
and losers, but it won’t affect the
overall economy.”
But, as Humphries noted, the
nightlife scene may endure a de
cline in sales, and that’s exactly
what Peppino’s manager Joe
Cortese said is bothering him.
“When (the players) don’t play,
I can see the sales dropping,” he
Scenes like this one following a Braves’ victory last fall won’t be repeated this year ow
ing to the season’s cancellation. Some downtown business owners are worried sales
will drop since their establishments won’t be frequented by crazed baseball fans.
said. “We’ll feel it, and I think ev
eryone else will feel it. When they
cut this out, we’ll all feel better.”
David Sybrandt, the manager
at Lowery’s, said that he’s antici
pating a decrease in business
with no baseball this fall, but also
said that the Braves’- perfor
mance, had they made it to the
playoffs, would also have an im
pact.
“There would probably be a
sales decline for the playoffs and
World Series, but it all depends
on how the Braves would do,” he
said. “Even if it does come back
next spring there’s no telling how
many people are going to be in
terested considering that (the
Vplayers and owners) have already
(messed) it up.”
Sybrandt also said that, com
pared to next spring, there would
probably be more of an economic
decline this fall because of the ex
citement that brews around
Athens when the Braves are play
ing for the world championship.
He said that even if the Braves
failed to make the playoffs,
Lowery’s would still carry the
post-season on television to gen
erate some extra revenue from
those still interested.
“If (the Braves) didn’t make
the playoffs we would still have it
on,” he said. “But crowds wouldn’t
be as big as last year or the year
before.”
Common sense is the key to security on campus
By WINDY SUTTON
Staff Writer
Imagine walking into the class
room a few minutes after you left
it and coming back to find that
your wallet, keys and your friend’s
pocketbook are missing.
This is what happened to Lauri
Johnson, a graduate student from
Winter Park, Fla. She said that
she and her friend left their purs
es in the therapy room in Aderhold
Hall for about 15 minutes unat
tended on Sept. 21. When they re
turned to the room, Johnson’s wal
let and keys and her friend’s purse
were missing. She said that the
person probably stuffed her wallet
and keys into her friend’s pocket-
book and then left the building.
Johnson said, “We need to be
aware in every situation, even in
those where we feel the most com
fortable.”
She said that all of the items,
except $8 and her friend’s
bracelet, were recovered in the
Science Library the next. day.
She said the thief was never
caught.
Sgt. Michael Sproston, of the
University police, said that hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
worth of property get stolen each
year from the University.
From July 1, 1993 toilune 31,
1994, the University police report
ed 586 theft-related incidents on
campus. At least 57 of those re
ported occurred in residence halls.
James Day, the director of
housing, said, “We publish materi
al to raise student awareness.” He
said the University also employs
people who walk through resi
dence halls to check for propped
doors and suspicious persons.
Day said that rovers and resi
dents are encouraged to confront
unescorted guests.
“If people see someone of the
opposite sex, they can ask the per
son if they can help them,” he said.
“People who do not belong in the
building usually get the message
and leave.”
Most of the residence halls have
an access control security system
that forces students to use a card
to gain access into the building.
However, Sproston said access
control won’t stop all theft inside
the dorms.
“A lot of this theft is not out
siders coming in, it’s people inside,
a hallmate, someone on the hall or
someone in that dorm,” he said.
Students can prevent crime by
not giving out personal informa
tion or lending belongings.
Students shouldn’t post schedules,
or lend keys, drivers licenses or
meal cards.
Another way students can
avoid theft is by not hidingfthe
keys to their room on top of the
door frame or inside mailboxes.
Students should lock their doors
and windows at afl times.
Valuables should be placed
away from the door because it only
takes someone eight seconds to
steal your belongings.
“Our detectives do a real good
job, and they work hard in clear
ing those cases, but again when it
takes someone four to eight sec
onds to commit a crime, you don’t
get many leads,” Day said.
Students who are concerned
about their property can make
sure that it is covered under their
insurance policy or have it en
graved by the University police.
Brian Schleter, a junior from
Atlanta said, “In the three years
that I’ve been here, I haven’t
heard of any crimes except a guy
who got his wallet stolen out of the
shower, but that’s about it.
Usually I don’t feel like it’s a prob
lem.”
Jermaine Foster, a junior from
Rosville said, “I feel extremely
safe in the residence halls. I don’t
feel like it’s a problem, or I have to
worry about theft.”
RANKINGS: Parents are the
polls’ targeted audience
From page 1
“I also want to find out what
the criteria are, and whose opin
ion it is,” Nix said. The criteria
for the ranking are very impor
tant, he said, but it is usually
unclear in the magazine articles.
Albright said the magazines
revise their rankings systems al
most every year and he encour
aged people to read the criteria
on how the rankings are formu
lated.
The popularity of college
rankings is a new phenomenon,
Albright said.
“It is just in the last four or
fivA years that ranking services
have become prominent,” he
said.
He said he thinks that the
ranking affects the tension be
tween public and private col
leges that compete for students.
“We’re in this league of col
leges that have very good re
sources and we are attracting
students who 10 or 20 years ago
were going to Ivy League col
leges,” Albright noted.
“We get more interest from
prospective students at top col
lege preparatory private high
schools,” he said. “Those stu
dents figure that they can get a
good college education for
around one-fourth the price of
their high schools.”
Albright said parents are the
real audience Tor the national
rankings.
“Parents are encouraging
their children to make the deci
sion on their own, but the deci
sion on where to go to school is
still mainly a family decision,”
he said.
“I think parents are going out
and buying the national maga
zines and rankings,” he said. “I
just had this experience with my
daughter. My wife and I made
her look at every college in the
United States, and she only ap
plied to one.”
Albright’s daughter, Cullen,
is a freshman at the University.
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CONFERENCE: Turnout is
considered a great success
From page 1
Gaines spoke eloquently of
themes and experiences that
drive his writing. But other pre
senters shone, too.
One of the most passionate
speakers Beverly Guy-
Sheftall, a professor of English at
Spelman College. She mentioned
the 1909 founding of the Black
Mammy Memorial Institute, an
Athens industrial school for black
women who would learn to cook in
white homes.
Guy-Sheftall said David
Crenshaw Barrow, chancellor of
the University from 1906 to 1925,
suggested the name of the insti
tute. X
“I doubt very seriously that
many people know that part of
the history of the University of
Georgia,” Guy-Sheftall said.
Members of the audience also
spoke out.
“I’m a public school teacher
and I tell my students I’m not nor
mal,” one woman said. “Some
days I’m black, some days I’m
white, some days I’m Chinese,
some days I’m Indian. I don’t
know of anything that is full-bred
except for a few dogs.”
But Gaines may have summed
up the conference’s purpose most
accurately with the last part of
his keynote address. He told of be
ing asked what group he would
say he writes for if a gun were
held to his head.
“T would say that I write for
the African-American youth of
this country and especially the
South, because I want him to
know who he is,’” Gaines said.
But the interrogator asked
Gaines what other group he
would mention if the gun were
still held to his head.
Gaines responded, “I would say
that I write for the white youth of
this country and especially the
South, because if he doesn’t know
his neighbor of 300 years, he only
knows half his history.”
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Oct 23. An opening reception will be held from 6 to
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and the reception are tree and open to the public.
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child, will present Inside Schindler's List tonight,
Mon, Oct 3 at 7:30 pm in Georgia Hall. Admission
is $1 for UGA students and $3 for non-students.
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$6 for UGA students and $15/$18 for non-students.
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on Thurs, Oct 13 at 8 pm in Georgia Hall. Tickets
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