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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 103, ISSUE 124
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• Profiles
of promising
local bands
Brooke Purrington, a wildlife biology major from Atlanta, successfully clears another hurdle
with joker. Purrington is one of seven members of UGA's equestrian team competing for the
Intercollegiate Horse Show Association's national championships to be held in Los Angeles
this weekend. UGA qualified for the event, which draws 500 competitors from all over the
United States, by winning regional and zone titles, which cover the Southeast.
Harassment
hearing
continues
today
Jumping Joker
Music professor accused
of sexual harassment
denies accusations
By CRYSTAL J. PAULK
and GEORGE WHITEHURST
Staff Writers
A sexual harassment hearing
for a music professor accused of
appearing nude in front of three
former University students moves
into its second day of testimony
today.
Alexander Ross has been
charged with violating the Board of
Regents’ sexual harassment code.
His defense, led by attorney David
Sweat, denied the allegations.
They are subject to a great deal
of rumor,” Sweat said.
The accusing women were not
under Ross’ evaluation at the time
of the alleged incidents, Sweat
said, and they didn’t take actions
to remove themselves from his
instruction. Sweat said the allega
tions stem from jealousy within the
music school.
Assistant Attorney General
Rebecca Mick presented the case
for the University.
Six of Ross’ former students tes
tified against him. Only one of the
women is enrolled in the
University. Three of the incidents
occurred during the 1988-89 school
year, the first year Ross was
employed at the University. Before
the trial started. Sweat tried to
exclude some of the charges from
that year, since no formal com
plaints were filed until about five
years later.
Three of the witnesses testified
that on separate occasions while
they were alone with Ross at his
home he left the room and returned
nude:
• Jennifer Wilkin said she went
to Ross’ house for a party after a
orchestra concert in 1988. She fell
asleep on his futon after consum
ing two glasses of red wine. When
she awoke, everyone had left and
Ross was nude on top of her
attempting to remove her clothes.
When she resisted, Ross dressed
and drove her home at her request.
• Lynn Webster Bennett said
she went to Ross’ house with a
male friend for dinner in 1988.
After her friend left, Ross appeared
nude and asked for a back rub.
Bennett said she laughed, and
Ross got dressed. She said she for
got about the incident until later.
• Amy Ellington testified she
was at Ross’ house for dinner in
December 1989. She said she
drank a couple of glasses of wine.
Ross left the room and returned
nude. He tried to get her to touch
his “flaccid" penis. When she
resisted, he got dressed and
stopped his advances.
Testimony from the three other
women included:
• Heather Winship said she left
the University because of Ross'
inappropriate conduct. She said
Ross tried to kiss her when he
drove her and her roommate home
after attending a club performance
of a mutual friend.
• Amyra Shaheed, a senior from
Alpharetta, said Ross gave her a B
instead of an A after she told him
she was switching out of his class.
During their argument, Ross told
Please see HEARING, page 3
By ANDREW HEALAN
and JAMES COOK
Staff Writers
For the first time since 1992,
the Student Government
Association’s president and vice
president are sitting members of
SGA.
Bart Newman and Jason
Waters, sophomore senators,
won the presidency and vice
presidency of SGA, respectively,
with 62.2 percent of the vote.
Brett Bates and Tisa
Chambers followed with 21.5
percent, and Steve Preiss and
Stephanie Kirijan picked up
14.5 percent.
A total of 2,248 students, or
about 7.5 percent of the student
body, turned out to vote.
“I think it is a vote of confi
dence in student government,”
said Carol Easterlin, elections
sub-committee chairman.
Current president Jud
Turner also was pleased with
the turnout.
“It’s a feather in the cap for
SGA,” he said. “More voting and
interest shows students are
plugged in. The candidates got
out the message to vote.”
Waters said experience was a
key factor in his ticket’s victory.
“Students saw the experi
enced candidates and voted for
us,” he said.
The new leaders’ work will
begin almost immediately as
they try to put together their
committee chairs, Newman said.
“We’ll have put together a
good administration so we can
have strong leadership through
out SGA," he said. “We’ve got a
great group to choose from. We’ll
fill the positions and make sure
SGA continues to work for the
students.”
Kirijan said she felt confident
SGA was in good hands.
“We all had pretty much the
same platform, and I would like
to see it carried out," she said.
SGA may help increase its
voice on campus with three sen
ators who will serve on
University Council: Doug Black
in the College of Business. Ross
Burris in the College of Arts and
Sciences and Missy Rivers in the
College of Journalism and Mass
Communication
Two other Council members.
Walt Parks in Agriculture and
Environmental Science and Joe
Caudell in Forest Resources,
also ran for SGA senate seats.
They will be joined on the
Council by Brandon Bruce,
Kimberly Fleek and Karin
Wallace from Arts and Sciences,
and Keli Faria from Graduate
School. The remaining seats on
University Council will be filled
by special elections in the fall
•Here are the new senators
•Michael Dixon, College of
Agriculture and Environmental
Science
•Christy Bryant. Ross
Burris, Chris Chalk, Stephen
Dew, Jonathan Howard. Kelly
Kautz, Andrew Kirk, Ryan
Oliver and Amy Young, College
of Arts and Sciences
•Kevin Abernathy. Doug
Black and Rebecca Heinzer.
College of Business
•Tiffany Hines and Bryan
Smith, College of Education
•Ashley Smith, School of
Forest Resources
•Missy Rivers. College of
Journalism and Mass
Communications
•Amie Hudson School of
Social Work
Ex-Netter Sell
falls to Chang
By CJ. JOHNSON
Staff Writer
ATLANTA — A year ago, former
Georgia All-Amencan tennis player
Mike Sell watched Michael Chang
on television. Tuesday night, in the
first round of the AT&T Challenge,
he was on the court with the world’s
fourth-ranked player.
Chang welcomed Sell to big-time
tennis by defeating the hometown
favorite 6-3, 6-4 in front of a parti
san Bulldog crowd.
“It was a dream come true," Sell
said. “Here, I am playing the No. 4
player in the world in front of an
Atlanta crowd.”
Among the 7,072 who showed up
to watch the match were Sell’s fam
ily and former teammates.
Sell opened the match quickly,
winning the first three points and
holding on to break the serve of
Chang, the 1989 French Open
Champion. But Chang broke back in
Sell’s first service game. Sell broke
Chang’s serve five times, but Chang
broke Sell’s seven times.
The battle of the baseliners con
tinued throughout the first set, as
long rallies were the norm on the
clay surface. Chang took control of
the first set in the fifth game, win
ning his serve at love He then took
the next three games, eventually
winning the set 6-3.
Sell came out looser in the second
set and got the crowd more involved.
Whether it was hustling down a lob
to make Chang commit an error or
serving an ace to force Chang to
serve for the match, he appeared to
be at home among the game’s elite.
This match definitely brings me
a lot of confidence to do well in the
future," Sell said. “I’m not really as
intimidated anymore. I was
exchanging groundstrokes with
Chang, and I feel like I can play
with anyone in the world."
Chang, the tournament’s two-
time defending champion, recalled
his first match against a world’s top
10 He faced John McEnroe in the
1988 French Open and remembered
McEnroe’s pre-match intimidation.
“He said before our match that
he was ‘going to teach this guy a les
son,”* Chang recalled with a smile
"Hiis was a great opportunity for
Mike, and it will definitely help him
out in the future."
TATE MACQUEEN The Ped and Black
By ROB KITCHEL
Staff Writer
The Diamond Dogs agreed that
they weren’t ready to play last
night, but they don’t know why.
Georgia fell to in-state rival
Georgia Tech 10-3 in front of 1,287
fans Tuesday at Foley Field. The
loss left coach Steve Webber and
several of his players searching for
answers.
“We just didn’t come out ready
tonight,” Webber said. “I wish I
knew why, but I don’t.”
Sophomore Josh Gandy, who
came into the game with a 4-0
record against non-conference
teams, started, but only lasted 2 2/3
innings. He gave up four runs in the
second inning and and three in
third, as Georgia fell behind 7-0.
“I felt pretty good before the
game,” Gandy said. “But I started to
get my pitches up and you can’t do
that against Tech.
“We played real hard at Florida
over the weekend, unfortunately,
we lost two of the games. By we
were playing our biggest rival and
just didn’t come out ready to play
tonight. I can’t explain it."
Erik Robinson, who had a two-
run double in the fifth, also didn’t
know what was wrong with
reason we just weren’t ready to play.
I don’t know what everybody elses’
mood is, but I just want to win. You
come out and you want to win."
Gandy was replaced by Bruce
Link, who got the Dogs out of the
second. In the fifth, the Yellow
Jackets added to their seven-run
lead when Tucker Barr hit his sec
ond home run of the night, a line
drive down the left field line that
traveled more than 400 feet.
“It was a fastball that was sup
posed to be low and away," Link
said. “I left it a little high and he
turned on it. That’s what good hit
ters do."
Link finished the game for the
Dogs, giving up three runs in 6 1/3
innings, but the Dogs weren’t able
to mount a comeback.
“We weren’t successful getting
them out early," Webber said. Then
we weren’t able to comeback later."
Webber has to try to come up
with the answers quickly because
Georgia goes to Macon this after
noon to play Mercer. Webber will
probably pitch sophomore Doug
Bridges, who played for the first
time in more than a month last
Saturday at Florida. He gave up five
runs while pitching the first three
innings of Georgia’s 9-8 extra
inning loss.
Yellow Jacket batter Michael Sorrow watches a called
strike pass. Sorrow walked in the first-inning at bat and
went 2-for-4 in the game. Tech won the game 10-3.
Georgia. physical mistakes early, I made one
“We made some mental and error," Robinson said. “For some
B-52 Schneider to fly solo at 40 Watt tonight
By NICKI HENDRIX
Staff Writer
Although Fred Schneider’s voice and face
are as familiar to Athens as Washington
Street, his appearance at the 40 Watt Club
tonight may well throw the town for a loop.
Schneider will appear in support of his first
solo album, “Just...Fred,” with stress on the
word “solo."
To fans of the B-52’s, (Schneider was one
of its vocalists for over a decade), the new
album is sure to be a surprise.
“After (‘Good Stuff) came out (in 1992),
we decided not to do another album right
away," Schneider said. “I was sitting around
doing nothing and decided to try writing
some songs on my own."
“After such a long time (with the B-52’s),
I didn’t Know I could write by myself any
more," he said. “Not that I was unhappy
with the band, but writing with an ensem-
CONCERT PREVIEW
THE LOWDOWN
Where’s my umbrella? Gonna wear
my antenna. Fred Schneider brings
his cathartic, decidedly un-&-S2’s
sound to the 40 Watt Club tonight.
Admission Is $S. An All-Star lineup
opens?
ble is totally different from writing your own
music. I had a real mental block about it.
"When I did sit down, I wrote about peo
ple I knew, experiences, music, everything
— it just came rushing at me."
“Just...Fred" documents a catharsis
splayed out across 11 tracks. Steve Albini,
who also produced albums for Nirvana and
PJ Harvey, worked with Schneider on the
album.
The album is very personal. The words
came almost subconsciously,” Schneider
said. “I wrote 15 songs and used 11. I’ve
never worked so fast in my life.”
His reputation as the B-52’s frontman
has not been an obstacle to his tour or his
album.
“Writers have gotten the word out, and I
think people know this isn’t going to be
’Love Shack’," he said. “People seem to know
this is different."
In Schneider’s live shows, he enjoys tak
ing the music to new sonic levels — literal
ly (it’s really loud).
“See the show...it’s never what people
expect," he said. “It’s going to be wild. I’m
having a great time doing the tour thing,
and I’m ready for Athens. It’s just me and
the band, me shouting my ass off."
Schneider has released a solo album.
Uninspired Dogs fall to Tech
Newman
ticket wins
SGA vote