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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1996 * ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 103, ISSUE 120
Student Government Debate
The hot
topics:
apathy
and fees
By JAMES COOK
Staff Writer
After the three pairs of presi
dential candidates finished debat
ing their platfoims for next
Tuesday’s election, they agreed
on one thing: the need to change
how student fees are distributed.
But they couldn’t agree how
the change should come about.
Wednesday night’s SGA pres
idential debate at the Tate
Student Center attracted about
50 students, including many
friends of the candidates.
“Everything goes back to the
same issues we’ve debated all
night, and that’s student alloca
tion fees and combating student
apathy," SGA presidential candi
date Steven Preiss said.
Preiss and his runningmate
Stephanie Kirijan suggested all
allocations should be under SGA’s
control.
Brett Bates and his running-
mate Tisa Chambers said SGA
should have partial control of
allocations. He said he talked to
an “unnamed administrator” who
‘Why should we trust you with our money?’ junior Kristen Stripling asks the candidates.
guaranteed Bates this if he won
the presidency.
Bart Newman and running-
mate Jason Waters want to let
students decide how fees are
allotted through a check-off sys
tem on OASIS.
Kristen Stripling, a junior
from Newnan, asked what would
happen if students gave certain
organizations little money.
“There are some organizations
who wouldn’t receive as much
money as they had in the past,"
Newman said. “It won’t be what
Bart and Jason want, but it’s
what the students want."
None of the candidates said
how they would implement their
plans, and they argued over how
to get more students involved.
Bates and Chambers said the
way to make SGA effective is to
unite.
“We must stop having splin
tered organizations and come
back to SGA,” he said. “I’m not
suggesting others give up their
autonomy, but by becoming one,
we create a unified, cohesive
front,” Chambers said.
Preiss was pragmatic:
“Students aren’t going to wake
up tomorrow and say, ‘SGA is
great!’”
“They all stated that there is
student apathy,” said Brian
Frost, a sophomore from
Marietta. “But none said how
they are going to get students
involved with the process. SGA is
very isolated and doesn’t get
everyone involved. You get more
caring when students are
involved.”
Race a factor
in fall ’96
admissions
‘This is the first time that we’ve ever collected or
used information other than academics' to make
enrollment decisions, says an admissions official.
By DAN BISCHOF
Staff Writer
The University used race as a
factor in the admissions of more
than one-third of the undergradu
ate students for fall 1996. said
Tom Jackson, director of public
information.
“This is the first time that
we’ve ever collected or used infor
mation other than academics,”
said Nancy McDufT, director of
undergraduate admissions.
Undergraduate students were
admitted to the University in four
waves, she said.
The 5,400 students with the
highest grade-point averages and
SAT scores were admitted first.
Based on the 1995 freshman
class, admissions officials esti
mated 4 percent of the first wave
of students would be black.
The admissions office then
requested additional information
from 6,000 other applicants.
About 1,500 of those appli
cants were admitted on the basis
of extracurricular activities, acad
emic competitiveness and demo
graphic factors, including race,
gender and South Georgia resi
dency. The University adopted
this practice because as admis
sions standards were raised,
“overall diversity... (was) becom
ing difficult to maintain,” admis
sions documents stated.
The University also admitted
375 students after admissions
counselors reviewed their applica
tions. McDufT said.
“The idea is to look at anything
that may have been missed in any
of the other reviews that make
the student stand out," she said.
Finally, a handful of students
with special talents or skills arc-
admitted after University
President Charles Knapp reviews
the students on an appeals basis
Jackson said these students, who
typically number from 12 to 30,
include artists, musicians and
some athletes on scholarship.
Muscle spasms may sideline Angeles
By C. TRENT ROSECRANS
Staff Writer
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The timing just
couldn’t be worse.
Junior Leslie Angeles could be sidelined for
the NCAA Gymnastics Championships, start
ing here this afternoon, with muscle spasms in
her back.
The 1995 NCAA Floor Exercise Champion
sat out practice Tuesday, and Georgia head
coach Suzanne Yoculan said Angeles’ status is
“questionable."
Angeles had competed more on all-around
due to the injuries of Julie Ballard and Karin
Lichey and is ranked fifth in the country in all-
around competition and second on the floor
exercise.
With the absence of Angeles, more of a bur
den will be on the Gym Dogs’ top two healthy
gymnasts, Lori Strong and Leah Brown, but
Yoculan said it will not bother the two.
“Lori and Leah only have to do what they are
capable of doing,” Yoculan said. “They can’t
score a 10.2 or 10.4; they can only do what they
have been doing."
Angeles’ injury comes at an inopportune
With the
absence of
Angeles,
a greater burden
will be on the
Gym Dogs'
top two healthy
gymnasts,
Lori Strong
and Leah Brown.
time as Georgia has to compete not only with
the other six teams in today's semifinals, but
also with the ghosts of last year’s collapse at the
NCAAs in Athens.
“The pressure is really off of us," Brown
said. “We aren’t in the situation we were in in
’94 or last year where we were really peaking.
In ’94 we went through the season No. 1, went
through SECs and then though the Regionals
and we were just jammin’, but then lost.
“If we win this meet it will be because we
were mentally stronger than any other team.
We are not physically the same team we were
four weeks ago (at the SEC Championships).”
Georgia went into last season’s NCAA
Championships as the No. 1 seed at home, and
favored to win the title. But the Gym Dogs did
not as they had troubles on the balance beam
and finished fifth. Last year’s finish was the
first time they had not been in the top three
since 1988.
This year it is Alabama who has the pressure
on as the No. 1 seed and the host of the event.
“This is what we wanted.” Alabama senior
Kim Kelly said. “I couldn’t think of a better way
to finish my career."
With the pressure on the shoulders of the
Crimson Tide, the Gym Dogs are left without
the pressure that destroyed their title hopes
last year.
“The pressure will not affect this team
because they won’t let it," Yoculan said.
The second-seeded Gym Dogs will compete in
the afternoon session, which begins at 2 p.m.
EST, along with Brigham Young, Michigan,
UCLA, Penn State and Nebraska. The top three
teams from the afternoon session will advance
to Friday’s Super Six, where the team title will
be decided.
Texas ruling will not
affect UGA policy
By DAN BISCHOF
Staff Writer
A federal appeals court deci
sion that temporarily allow’s
Texas universities to use race as a
factor in admissions and scholar
ships will not affect the
University’s admissions policies.
“Right now nothing has
changed with us," said Nancy
McDufT. director of undergraduate
admissions. “We've heard nothing
from the Board of Regents which
will affect how we do business.”
The same court that stopped
Texas universities from consider
ing students' race in admissions
and scholarships last month put
its ruling on hold with the under
standing that the Supreme Court
will rule on the constitutionality
of race-based preferences.
Two weeks ago. State Attorney
General Michael Bowers recom
mended that state universities
eliminate policies that use race as
a factor in admissions.
It is expected that the Regents
will discuss race-based prefer
ences at its May meeting
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in New Orleans granted a
stay on the decision until May 13
The court didn't back off its earli
er ruling, but said the stev would
give Texas time to appeal the case
to the U.S. Supreme Court
Texas A&M University said it
planned to immediately resume
using race as a factor in its deci
sions. University of Texas pro
grams that previously used race
as a factor also will resume doing
so, at least until the Supreme
Court acts, UT officials said.
- The Associated Press
contributed to this article
Student shoots, kills himself
By DAN BISCHOF
Staff Writer
A University sophomore died Monday in
his Milledge Avenue apartment from a self-
inflicted gunshot wound, Athens-Clarke
County Police said.
David Anderson Carter, 21, of Atlanta,
shot himself with a pistol in the forehead and
died before emergency medical technicians
arrived, according to a police report.
Sgt. Greg Paul said ACC Police are treat
ing tJhe death as a suicide. Richard Bateman,
who lived with Carter at 587 N. Milledge
Ave., said he and Carter’s other friends
believe the death was accidental.
Bateman told ACC Police he heard Carter
fire the gun at 1:50 p.m., then found Carter
lying in his bed.
Bateman said he thought Carter had been
firing the gun out of his bedroom window.
Bateman said Carter occasionally fired the
gun out of his bedroom window at a business
sign on an adjacent parking lot.
“It was weird," Bateman said. “It was
almost like I did a double-take. I had heard
him do it before, but for some reason 1 went
in anyway. I don’t know if it was a premoni
tion or what. Actually, I was going in to yell
at him."
Dr. Jack Newman, a dentist whose office
owns the sign, said he filed a report over the
sign shooting with ACC Police two months
ago. Police spoke with people in the house
where Carter lived, Newman said.
Bateman said Carter, an Eagle Scout, had
recently become interested in guns and
owned two handguns.
“He always preached gun safety to other
people," Bateman said. “I saw too many times
when he didn’t practice it himself."
Bateman pointed out a two-inch hole in
Carter’s bedroom he said came from a gun
shot.
Michelle McClure worked with Carter at
Gyland’s Bar & Grill, where he was a cook.
Special to The Red and Black
David Carter, a 21-year old sopho
more, was a cook at Gyland’s Bar
& Grill.
She said she knew about Carter firing the
gun out his window.
“You know boys and their toys," she said
with a nervous laugh that turned to tears.
Bateman said Carter wasn’t a violent per
son and didn’t have any enemies.
James A. Carter, David’s father, said he
knew his son had fired guns at tin cans as
target practice, but didn't know whether
David was a gun enthusiast.
“I didn’t know he even had a gun until this
accident or whatever it was," Carter said.
“The anger I have about all of this is about
handguns.”
The interment will be at Alta Vista
Cemetery in Gainesville at 10:30 a m. today.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be sent to
the Boy Scouts of America, St. Anne’s
Episcopal Church or the Salisbury School in
Salisbury, Conn.
Talking Diversity
200 debate merits of multiculturalism courses
By CARRIE E. GIBSON
Staff Writer
One thing is certain about the issue of a cultural diversity
requirement — about 200 people felt strongly enough about
it to turn up at the Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center
to voice their concerns.
“The diversity issue is something I’ve been working on for
a long time — it’s part of me," said student panelist Bonny
Ling, a junior from Atlanta.
During the opening remarks, panelist David Newman, a
professor of forest resources, said implementation was a
major problem.
“I think it is a serious, serious, implementation problem,"
he said, “and up until now we’ve been saying ‘it’ll take care of
itself.”’
Panelists differed on what a multiculturalism
requirement should accomplish.
“I still haven’t figured out what the goal of
multiculturalism is,” Newman said.
“(The proposed requirement! fosters a *we versus them’
mentality," said Darwin Smith, a professor of chemistry.
“The whole problem with multiculturalsim as it is proposed
here ... we don’t know our own culture ... the Western
tradition."
When audience members were given a chance to speak,
Angel Gaines, a C.L.A.S.S. advocate from Savannah, said
she's heard a lot about diversity issues, and thinks a
requirement would help.
“When you implement culturally diverse classes," she
said,"... all students can feel welcome.”
The ad hoc committee examining the problem has
decided that a diversity requirement must be implemented.
The question is how — not why
Committee head Sandy Martin told the audience that no
specific proposal was on the table yet. At its last meeting, the
ad hoc committee looked at models of various colleges at the
University who already have a diversity requirement in
place, and are considering various options.
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Marie Cochran, an art professor from Georgia
Southern University, said the University should
hire quality faculty members who can teach diver
sity courses.