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ENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 103, ISSUE 121
Edwards
to sit out
G-Day
By ROB KITCHEL
Staff Writer
Georgia takes the
field Saturday at 2:30
p.m. at Clarke Central
High School to unveil
new head football coach
Jim Don nan’s Dogs to
the public. It won’t be
“between the hedges"
because of Olympic
construction at Sanford
Stadium, and Georgia's
top star, running back
Robert Edwards Robert Edwards, won t
be in action.
Donnan came up with a solution to
everyone’s problem of not getting the chance
to see Edwards play in the G-Day game.
“Maybe we’ll just run Robert out there and
have him wave to the crowd, and then cancel
the game," Donnan said with his tongue
firmly planted in cheek.
Edwards, recovering from an ankle injury
sustained in an intramural basketball game,
hasn’t participated in full-contact workouts.
Quarterback Mike Hobo also has been held
out of contact drills all spring while
recovering from a broken right tibia against
Ole Miss last year. Bobo will start for Team
2, but Donnan won’t allow him to be hit.
“He won’t hit the ground," Donnan said.
“Nobody’s going to touch him"
G-Day will feature Donnan’s new system
and will give fans a chance to see the new
coach roving the* sidelines for the first time.
In addition to Edwards, strong safety
Alandus Sims had surgery Thursday to
correct a hernia and won’t play Saturday.
Linebacker Kahmon Cooper also will be out
with a hamstring injury. Nose guard Travis
Stroud suffered a concussion in practice
Tuesday and missed Wednesday’s workout,
hut is expected to play Saturday.
THE SCORECARD
G-Day Game
Saturday 2:30 p.m.
Clarke Central High School
Please see our G-Day preview on page 5
TATE MACQUEEN/The Red and B
At the foot of Athena
War and wisdom: A sculpture of Athena, the Greek goddess of war
and wisdom, gets finishing touches from Phil Goulding, an artist who
holds a graduate degree in art from the University and who helped
install the sculpture outside the Classic Center. Joan Westmacher, a
sculptor from Gainesville, created the piece which was commissioned
especially for the Olympics. Some marble for the sculpture came from
Carrara. Italy, where Michelangelo got marble for some of his work.
Dry Twilight
still ‘exciting’
By CRYSTAL PAULK
Staff Writer
This weekend’s Twilight
Festival will be downtown
Athens’ most exciting event of
the year, according to a senior
who has watched the race
since his freshman year.
“It’s a professional event with tons of
entertainment,” said Kevin Deely. of Atlanta.
“I get so caught up in the race itself that 1 pay
hardly any attention to the standings."
The Twilight is an annual event held in
downtown Athens since 1980. The two-day
festival of live music and cycling culminates
with the Twilight Criterium. a 60-kilometer
cycling event to he held on closed city streets
at dusk Saturday.
The Criterium is divided into three races,
with 2,500 racers competing for $20,500 in
prize money. It’s considered one of the
nation’s fastest courses with four tight turns
and a small hill, according to Gene Dixon,
event coordinator.
“The race is at night, so cyclists think
they’re going faster which makes them go
faster. The crowd gets more excited and the
cyclists go faster still," he said.
Average speed for a similar race is 27 to 28
mph, but Criterium racers average 30 niph.
Dixon said.
But top speeds can cause crashes and
several have taken place in front of packed
establishments where spectators
have routinely spilled out onto the
raceway.
Deely said crashes add to the
overall energy of the event.
“It’s the tension of watching
someone suffer," he said “You have
an attitude of better them than me.
That gets amplified after drinking for awhile,
and it gets humorous. It’s instinctive "
However, Deely said the essence of
Twilight has changed since 1995 when
Athens-Clarke County passed an ordinance
banning open glass containers in public and
restricted alcohol consumption to fenced
outdoor cafes. This was done to decrease the
massive amounts of trash previous festivals
had left and to prevent danger to cyclists.
“1 remember the days with people on the
street corners with kegs, wandering from bar
to bar with your own pitcher," Deely said
“The fun has been toned down a lot."
John Jones, a senior from St. Simons
Island, said he understands the reasons
behind the ordinance, but that the city should
have found another way to deal with alcohol-
and trash-related problems.
“It’s a loss for the businesses downtown,
he said. “One day of cleanup for two days of
great business and fun for the people of
Athens."
A look at the event, page 8
Olympic tickets to go on sale
By CHARU KUMARHIA
Staff Writer
The Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games will make 240.000
tickets available to the public April
27, including tickets to events on
campus.
Tickets for the soccer semifinals
and finals at Sanford Stadium,
rhythmic gymnastics and
preliminary volleyball at Stegeman
Coliseum will go on sale. The
tickets being released are seats identified as
having obstructed views, or tickets that were
wrongly booked. After the release, tickets for
the currently sold-out rhythmic gymnastics
sessions will be available.
“All the demand for gymnastics has been
incredibly high." said Laurie Olson,
director of communications for
ACOCi.
The release of tickets will make
more than 3.6 million tickets still
available. These tickets include 377
sessions in 19 different sports.
Rhythmic gymnastics tickets cost
$25 each, indoor volleyball tickets
are $16 each and tickets to soccer
games are $53 each.
Tickets can be ordered Saturday
from 9 a m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday
from 9 a m. to 5 p.m. Buyers shouldn’t get
discouraged by busy signals, said Scott
Anderson of ACOG. ACOG’s ticket sales
hotline is (404) 744-1996. Orders may be
placed via the Web by accessing ACOG’s
Home page at www.atlanta.olympic.org.
Frat men hand out fliers to find rapist
By MARY SUE KOPECKO
Staff Writer
About 70 male University
students worked to identify the
“Five Points Rapist" in their
community Thursday afternoon.
The volunteers, most of whom
were members of fraternities, went
door to door in the Five Points
area passing out fliers with
sketches of the “Five Points
rapist."
They also posted fliers on
Baxter Street and downtown, said
Jim Lawrence, student director of
Safe Campuses Now and a senior
from Waycross.
Police suspect the man in
connection with three rapes, one
attempted rape and a sexual
assault. The more recent incidents
occurred March 17.
Fliers contained three sketches
of the suspect, a written
description of the man and a
notice of a $5,000 reward for
leading to the rapist's conviction.
“Everybody is excited about
getting this guy,” said Headen
Embry, a junior from Gainesville
and president of Lambda Chi
Alpha.
“The rapist has evoked extreme
anger among the males on
campus," he said. “All men get a
bad rap when only a few commit
crimes. Men care. There’s still a lot
of chivalry going on.”
“I think this event reflects
positively on the males around
campus." said John Radcliff, a
junior from Columbus and vice
president of Delta Chi. “It shows
that this crisis does not only affect
females. Everyone’s safety is
compromised."
“It’s nice for guys to
participate," said Nancy Zechella
of Safe Campus Now. “It may not
affect them personally, but it
affects their friends.”
Students with information can
call ACC Police at 613-3337.
ALICIA HANSEN ’ne Red and Black
Frances Dawson, a recent graduate in recreational resource
management, talks with Matt Horn, a freshman
international business major and Kappa Alpha member who
distributes fliers with sketches of the Five Points Rapist. -
Heart attack, surgery don’t stop ‘rockingest’ Stone
By AMY FRAZIER
Staff Writer #
For some singers, a quadruple
bypass surgery and a mild heart
attack would have been enough to
call it quits for awhile But country
singer Doug Stone keeps going,
proving perhaps he is the man
with a heart of stone.
Stone, who performs tonight at
8 at the Classic Center, said his
recovery from surgery in April
1992 and heart attack in
December 1995 has been painful.
“You don’t know how much you
depend oh that little muscle." he
said. “I ni exercising pretty regular
right now and watching what I
eat. I stopped smoking, too."
Stone’s sixth album, “Faith In
Me, Faith In You" departs from
from previous works, with more
up-tempo songs and fewer ballads.
THE LOWDOWN
Country singer Doug Stone
plays at the Classic Center
tonight at 8. Tickets are
$18 and $20.
“I wanted to see what would
happen, but my record label didn’t
release them," Stone said. “It’s
hard to break out of the mold. You
get stuck in the mode of being the
romantic balladeer, which isn’t
bad But I’d also like to have the
title of ‘rockingest guy out there.*"
Another first on Stone’s latest
album is his debut .as a solo writer
with “You’re Not That Easy to
Forget.” It tells the story of a
husband trying to face the reality
that it’s over with his wife and
that he can no longer lie with his
children. Stone said he wrote the
song from personal experience, hut
doesn't plan to have any solo-
written songs on his next album,
which he expects to have out in
either spring or fall.
“It’s a lot more fun writing with
other people," he said. “When it’s
just me, it’s like pulling teeth.”
Stone, who grew up in Newnan,
said he played several Georgia
clubs before hitting it big with his
1991 Grammy-nominated “I’d Be
Better Off (in a Pine Box)."
“Starting out. I played a lot of
hole-in-the-wall places where you
go for a fight and hope a party
breaks out," he said “One time, I
got the windshield of my car
busted out with a firewood log."
Music hasn’t been Stone’s only
project He founded the Have a
Heart Foundation, which gives
money to people in need.
“We bought a baseball team
some new suits and helped a
church pay for some land,” he said.
Stone also made a cameo in the
Disney film, “Gordy." He plays the
lead singer of a traveling country
band who finds his dream with the
help of Gordy, the talking pig
“My kids watch it all the time,"
Stone said. “I have plans to do
more (movies), but 1 don’t know if
they have plans for me. I’d like to
do something where I can invent
my own character."
Stone said he has seen an
increase in the number of young
country music fans and attributes
it to Garth Brooks.
“He made it a very popular
thing," he said. “I guess the rest of
us are just tagging along having a
good time I guess you could call
him the ‘King of Country’."
Gym Dogs rocket
to top of NCAAs
By C. TRENT ROSECRANS
Staff Writer
TUSCALOOSA. Ala - The Gym
Dogs advanced to the “Super Six"
for the 11th straight year, hut for
the first time in her career at
Georgia, Lori Strong will not be
named an All-American on the
uneven bars.
Georgia finished the
meet with a 196.4 in
Thursday’s NCAA
Championship pre
liminary round. The
Gym Dogs finished first
in their session and
first overall. Also
advancing to tonight's
final were top-seeded
Alabama, which scored
a 196.325, Utah. UCLA.
Michigan and Oregon
St.
Strong, a senior from
Whitby. Ontario, fell on
her uneven bars routine
in Thursday’s competition. The
preliminary determines who will
compete for individual titles on
Saturday as well as which teams
will compete for the team
championship tonight. Gymnasts
with the top eight scores in each
event move on to Saturday’s
competition and are named All-
Americans.
Strong had been an All-
American on the event each of her
three previous years and won the
NCAA title in 1994
“That was a very disappointing
event," Strong said. “I was just
going for it real hard, and I went
too hard."
Georgia's bye after the uneven
bars gave Strong enough time to
refocus to score a 9.9 on the
balance beam, good enough to
secure All-America honors on that
event.
“She’s a team player," head
coach Suzanne Yoculan said. “She
put the beam behind her and
concentrated on what she had to
do. That's what makes her a great
competitor."
Georgia’s strong vaulting team
broke open the traditionally tight
scoring in the afternoon session
After good vaults w’ith lower than
expected scores by Lisa Kurc
(9.65). Jenm Beathard (9.75).
Leslie Angeles (9 8)
and Strong (9.875 >.
Kim Arnold scored a
9 975 and Leah Brown
earned a 10. ,
“1 was very happy
w ith the vault.” Brown
said. “I’m not talking
about the score, but
the vault. 1 did what I
was supposed to do."
Beathard earned
All-American honors
on the uneven bars
with a score of 9.925.
“I was pretty
excited." Beathard
said. “It is the one
event 1 do well on and I did."
Karin Lichey competed for the
first time since the March 9 meet
at Michigan. After that meet,
doctors discovered Lichey had two
fractured vertebiae.
“I felt great," Lichey said. “I
was very happy to compete for the
first time since the beginning of
March and to hit."
Brown was an All-American on
beam along with Lichey and
Strong.
But several gymnasts did not
qualify to compete in Saturday's
individual competition.
“1 hate individual titles,"
Yoculan said. “It wasn’t just Lori.
It was Leslie on floor and bars,
and Kim on the beam. Kim is one
of our top beam workers, and she
went hard and didn't make it."
Kentucky's Jenny Hansen's 10
on the vault was the 28th of her
career, breaking the NCAA record
held by former Georgia gymnast
Hope Spivey-Sheeley.
