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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1994 • ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 102, ISSUE 16
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Construction to close library Thursday night
By DEBBIE HUMPHREY
Staff Writer
Student* who use the
University’s Main Library to study
for tests and to prepare term papers
will be asked to leave Thursday
night when the library closes its
doors three hours early and turns off
its water and gas lines to accommo
date construction at the Law School
South.
David Lunde, administrative
director for Campus Planning, said
a water and gas outage will take
place at 9 p.m. 'Thursday in order for
a relocation and reconnection of the
lines.
“There are a lot of valving and
connections to make and then the
lines must be flushed out," Lunde
said. “It can’t be done in 10 min
utes.”
In order to accommodate stu
dents, the closing was originally
scheduled for Friday after 9 p.m. a
time when the library isn’t used as
frequently. But John Yelverton,
associate director of libraries, said
Athens-Clarke County decided to
push the date forward to Thursday.
Lunde said the city didn’t want to
risk having construction on Friday
spill over to Saturday during the
football game because it would make
the library restrooms unavailable
for fans to use.
Glenn Coleman, division manag
er with public utilities, said, “We
weren’t sure what we would
encounter if we waited until Friday
night and had problems. We risk
that our material suppliers might be
closed for the weekend."
In addition to worries about
potential problems arising and the
risk of material suppliers being
closed for the weekend, Coleman
said he could not deny that this
weekend’s football game influenced
the decision to close the library on
Thursday.
The idea of closing the library
during study hours rather than on
game day didn’t make sense to sev
eral students.
Chris Sharp, a junior from
Carrollton, said because he plans to
start buckling down with his stud
ies, he will be inconvenienced by the
library closing.
“I think they should close it on
Friday night no matter what the
football team means to this town,”
he said. “I think the students are
what this University is all about.”
Suzie Santos, a senior from
Warner-Robins, said she didn’t
think closing the library on
Thursday was fair to those students
who are used to studying on
Thursday nights because many pro
fessors schedule tests and papers for
Friday.
“I think they should’ve done this
on a weekend, because now students
have to go somewhere else.”
According to Coleman, public
utilities wanted to shut off the water
last weekend, but there was a prob
lem with the coordination of sched
ules.
Lunde added that construction
was planned to start in the summer
so workers could wait until the
break between summer and fall
quarters to shut off the water and
gas. However, the construction
delay resulted from the bidding peri
od for the Law School South taking
longer than the University antici
pated.
Matt Rabren, project manager for
Ra-Lin, the company responsible for
constructing Law School South, said
the project went over budget and the
University had to rebid and wait for
an award at a date later than previ
ously expected. Therefore, Ra-Lin
was unable to make the water and
gas line relocations necessary to
begin construction.
Enrollment: A constant
challenge for University
By ANDRE SHIROMANI
Staff Writer
Swelling student enrollment,
estimated at a record high of 29,400
this fall, is a problem that has con
fronted University President
Charles Knapp since he took office
in 1987.
The University has suffered a
decline in the number of instructors
in the past seven years, while stu
dent enrollment has continued to
grow.
When faced with the enrollment
problem, Knapp has prescribed the
same solution: increasing admission
standards in hopes of curtailing
freshman enrollment.
However, despite maintaining a
constant level of freshmen, total
enrollment has increased during
Knapp’s term in office.
On Monday, Knapp said there
are factors other than freshmen that
contribute to increasing enrollment.
“In addition to students that are
in there as freshmen, you also have
to look at all the transfer students
coming in," Knapp said. “It’s not a
static situation. You’ve got freshmen
coming in, you’ve got transfers com
ing in, you’ve got retention persis
tency from class to class - a lot of
stuff is going on in there.”
Although the largest increase in
transfer students during Knapp’s
term has been 266 students and the
number of freshmen has declined,
Knapp said that these groups are
still the main cause of the enroll
ment increase from 27,176 in 1988
to an estimated 29,400 in 1994.
Claire Swann, director of admis
sions, said she thought the increase
in enrollment over the years has
been caused by students who stay
longer than four years to complete
their undergraduate degrees and by
the increased number of graduate
students.
However, Knapp disagreed with
Swann and said he doesn’t have any
plans to reduce the number of those
students.
“My sense of the numbers Tve
seen, that is not a significant part of
the growth in overall enrollment at
the University,” he said. “If you have
people who are just collecting cred
its and staying in school and trying
not to graduate, I think that’s a
problem.”
Knapp also said that the increase
in graduate enrollment hasn’t war
ranted an enrollment cap on gradu
ate students.
Instead, he attributed the rise in
enrollment to inadequate freshman
admission standards.
“As we have increased standards,
the number of qualified applicants
to the University has increased at
the same time,” Knapp said. “What
you do is make the best estimate you
can at a point in time. I haven’t
Freshman
Enrollment
Total
Enrollment
1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994
Pres. Charles Knapp on Enrollment
"Kids still want to apply, but I am
determined to reduce the size of the
freshman class because it is
educationally sound." April 1988 •
27,547 students.
“I would like to limit the freshman
class to 3,350. Bigger is not
necessarily better in regard to a
university.” Oct. 1988 - 27,176
students.
"Last year we agreed with the admissions committee
on an increase in freshman and transfer standards
that we thought would generate the right number of
students. The net effect is that we'll be somewhere
around 28,500 or 29,000, and that's just too many.
It’s more students and less money to teach the
students, so what we have to do is bring the total back
down." Sept. 1991 • 28,691 students.
“We're going to have to bump
the admission standards for
transfer students and
freshman. Without additional
resources we can't allow the
creeping upward of
enrollment." Sept. 1994 -
29,400 students.
DANIELLE RONEY/The Red and Black
made perfect decisions since I’ve
been president. We make the best
decisions we can, then we try to
recalibrate and decide what we’re
going to do next year.”
Knapp said the University will
again try to set freshman standards
for next fall that will have an effect
on enrollment.
“Whether we guess that correctly
next fall remains to be seen, but
we’ll sure do our best jobs in terms
of trying to figure out what those
numbers should be,” he said.
Knapp said there are several fac
tors to consider when raising admis
sion standards.
“There are a lot of people who
want to get in and they’re all going
to be disappointed if they don’t,” he
said. “We’re also concerned about
the geographic balance of students.
There are differences in urban and
rural in terms of average SAT
scores.”
Knapp said he couldn’t comment
on how much of a standards
increase he will recommend for stu
dents to be admitted fall quarter
1995.
Although he views transfers as a
cause of the increased numbers of
students, Knapp said he didn’t know
if he wanted to increase the required
GPA for transfer students.
Currently, the minimum GPA is
2.2 in college courses.
However, Knapp did say he
wanted to make core courses
required of transfer students before
they’re accepted at the University.
But he said the action won’t affect
enrollment.
“I really don’t believe that’s going
to have any significant effect
because once you announce it, then
people are going to say ‘I’ve got to
get my English and math out of the
way.’ All that really does is help us
by getting those courses out of the
way before they get to the
University.”
A couple dances to
the folksy tunes of
the Norman Blake
Trio on Saturday at
Sandy Creek Park’s
North Georgia Folk
Fest.
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Follow my lead
Holocaust survivor recounts experiences
By MICHAEL CASS
and CRYSTAL PAULK
Staff Writers
Alexander Rosner choee not to
use either of the stationary micro
phones available to him Monday
night
But as he paced through a
standing room only Georgia Hall
crowd with a wireless mike
attached to his coat, he made sure
every word he said was audible.
Rosner, a survivor of the
Holocaust who was saved by Ger
man industrialist Oskar Schindler
during World War II, shared his
experiences with the captivated
audience.
Schindler's deeds, which saved
1,100 Jews from extermination in
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the 1940s, were recounted in the
Steven Spielberg movie
'Schindler’s List,’ in which
Rosner’s family was among the
Jews portrayed.
'One difficulty in talking about
the past is that forces present in
those days, when remembered,
come into the present,’ Rosner
said. “They go for the throat To the
degree that I can stay in the pre
sent, I am successful; to the degree
that I can’t, I’m a failure.’
Yet Rosner, 59, eloquently
recounted living in the Nazi ghet
tos and concentration camps of
Poland and Austria between the
ages of 5 and 10. He told of the first
of many twists of fate that kept
him alive: his decision to go for a
walk one day when the children
and the elderly of his ghetto were
“taken away.”
“When I got home, I noticed a lot
of people were gone,” Rosner said,
pausing to compose himself. *1 was
the only (child) left’
After surviving the death
camps, he and his father reunited
with his mother in April 1945 after
they were liberated from Dachau
and Auschwitz.
’All trauma in childhood leaves
effects, and it is our job to mitigate
and overcome them,” he said. “We
must transcend them completely.
We have that capability as human
beings. Love is the antidote to trau
ma.”
Rosner said "Schindler's List” is
generally authentic, but if any
thing, is understated. The film is
significant, he said, because it
focuses on the individual’s power to
oppose injustice.
“What makes the movie so pow
erful is that it reminds you and me
that we have the opportunity -
there is a chance - that we can
stand on the side of right,” Rosner
said. ’Once a human being steps to
the plate and his motive is pure, he
is endowed and empowered.”
After Rosner’s address, he
answered questions from the
packed audience.
Jenny Cruse, a graduate stu
dent from Athens, said she was
impressed with the presentation.
”1 think he’s raising basic ques
tions to a higher level so that peo
ple will think more when they get
home,” she said.
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Commission to vote on
ordinances governing
parking, sidewalk cafes
By CRYSTAL PAULK
Staff Writer
A proposed parking ordinance
aimed at keeping commuters from
parking on residential streets
near campus may be adopted
tonight by the Athens Clarke-
County Commission.
The commission will meet at 7
p.m. in City Hall.
Although it was placed on
tonight's consent agenda, mean
ing no commissioner objected to
it, Chief Elected Officer Gwen
O’Looney expressed “concerns"
about the proposed ordinance at
the commission’s Sept. 20 com
mission meeting.
The ordinance states that a
person who parks his car in a res
idential parking zone must be a
guest of a resident, and may not
violate any existing traffic laws or
block someone’s driveway. The
ACC police would be responsible
for implementing and enforcing
the policy.
Commissioner John Barrow, a
supporter of the ordinance, has
repeatedly assured the public
that the proposal is designed to
combat the commuter problem of
students using city streets as
commuter parking lots.
However, as the proposed ordi
nance is currently written there is
no mention of the University or
the streets that will be affected.
Also on the agenda is a propos
al to amend the existing sidewalk
cafe ordinance.
The amendment states that
the owner of a restaurant with
tables in front of the building
must:
■Pay a nonrefundable admin is-
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trative processing fee of $25.
•Pay an annual operating per-]
mit fee of $25.
•Pay an additional $5 dollars
for each table and each table must
have no more than four chairs.
•Provide a covered trash con
tainer with a disposable liner in
each sidewalk cafe area.
•Provide an umbrella with a
weighted base to cover the table.
Some downtown restaurant
owners disagree with the pro
posed amendments.
“I don’t understand what
incurs a cost from outside tables,”
said Ashby Lawson, owner of
DsPalma's on Broad Street. ’It
seems like a lame way for the city
to make money.”
Cindy Spangnolo, owner of
Sneaker’s on Broad Street, said
she also thinks the proposed
amendments are unfair.
’This is just something that
will make money off me for some
one else,” she said.
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