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■ Georgia loses top recruit to Tech - 5 The Red & Black An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ■ INSIDE • Housing soap opera 'Roomers' develops following • University plays host to daughters THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1997 » ATHENS, GEORGIA • VOLUME 104, ISSUE 119 Not your average cover model Ramsey Center, Uga V receive top SI honors By C. TRENT ROSECRANS Staff Writer Bulldog fans have seen Georgia mascot Uga V panting on the sidelines at Sanford Stadium. Now people all over the world will see the English bulldog’s tongue, and the rest of him, on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated. Uga V was named the top mascot in the country by the publication and is pictured alone in all his glory on the magazine’s cover for the April 28 issue. Sports Illustrated’s cover story is on America’s Top 50 Jock Schools, and though the University was listed as No. 21, Uga V took top honors in the mascot category in the “Best of Everything” survey. The Ramsey Center also was named the nation’s Best Recreation Center in the same portion of the magazine. Uga V not only has his mug on the mag azine’s cover, but also three other places in the magazine. Taking second to the top dawg is Leo II, a nine-year-old male lion from the University of North Alabama. “It’s fitting recognition and long over due for the mascot we here at Georgia have always known is the country’s great est,” said Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley. Despite the honors bestowed upon the famous canine, don’t expect him to snub you next time you want to pet the mascot. “Right now Uga’s excited like the rest of us,” said Sonny Seiler, Uga V’s owner, in a telephone interview Wednesday. “He’s taking it all in stride and keeping focus on his No. 1 priority — that’s being a good representative of the University of Georgia.” The solid white English bulldog was bom on March 6, 1990, just weeks after his father, Uga IV, died of kidney failure. Uga V’s registered name is “UGA’s Magillicuddy Two,” named in honor of for mer tennis coach and sports information director, Dan Magill. Perhaps Uga V’s proudest moment came in the first quarter of last season’s Nov. 16 game against Auburn. Auburn receiver Robert Baker scored a touchdown on a 21-yard pass from quarterback Dameyune Craig. As Baker ran through the end zone, the Bulldog mascot leaped at the Auburn player and tried to put the chomp down on the Tiger pass catcher. In awarding Uga V the title, the maga zine says, “If you can’t appreciate the swaggering gait and Churchillian physiog nomy of Uga V, the Bulldogs’ bulldog, you must be a cat lover.” Of course, the author should have added: “or a Gator fan.” “What we appreciated most is Sports Illustrated naming Uga V the No. 1 mas cot in the country,” Seiler said. “Not only is it good for him, it looks good for all of UGA and the athletic department.” But Seiler said there are no plans for a pooch party. “We’re not planning a thing in the world right now,” he said. “We trying to keep his head from getting too big right now.” Uga V isn’t the only Bulldog recognized by Sports Illustrated recently. In the premiere issue of the Sport Illustrated Women | Sport, San Diego Padres outfielder Tony Gwynn picked for mer Georgia basketball player Saudia Roundtree as the female athlete he would trade places with if he had the chance. “She’s a lot better basketball player than I was (Gwynn, an ABL junkie, was a star point guard at San Diego State from 1978-81),” Gwynn told the magazine. “She can dish, score, run the break, penetrate.” - Managing Editor Beth MacFadyen contributed to this story. MATY ZIMMERMAN i he Red and Black University President Charles Knapp talks with 3-year-old Kate during an ice cream social at the McPhaul Center Tuesday afternoon. The event was designed to bid farewell and extend best wishes to Knapp. It’s 9:15 a.m. on a typical Tuesday, and Charles Knapp is sipping coffee near a window in his Victorian-style North Campus office. His desk is neat — all the files he’ll need this day are stacked in an orderly fashion on the comer of his desk. He holds a note card with the day’s itinerary. First, he’ll meet with the Brazilian dele gation, a group of about 20 college presi dents and high-ranking politicians. 9:20 a.m.: The delegation is meeting in a conference room at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Knapp departs from his personal parking space next to his Lustrat House office and heads for the Georgia Center. Knapp and two escorts interrupt the Brazilian’s meeting in a second-story board room. Immediately, the delegates seem to realize they are in the presence of one of the nation’s highest regarded edu cators. “Bom dia,” Knapp quips, with a crooked smile and a wink. He seems sur prised he can recall the Portuguese phrase for “Good morning” he learned in the car on the way to the meeting. Although he stays at the meeting less than 16 minutes, Georgia’s highest-rank ing education official seems to have left an impression on the Brazilians. 9:50 a.m.: Knapp leaves Georgia Center and returns to his office for a 10 a.m. meeting. After that, Knapp makes phone calls and does paper work. Then it’s back to the playing field. 11:55 a.m.: Knapp departs his Lustrat House office for Georgia Center — again. 12:08 p.m.: He’s running late, but the Woodruff Arts Scholars don’t seem to mind. Most have met the president before. Others are overwhelmed by his presence. Once again, everyone appears charmed. After presenting certificates to the scholarship recipients, Knapp mingles with D.W. Brooks, the 95-year-old bene factor of the foundation. “Any man who is 95 and still tells you to go into the world and make a difference will never run out of energy,” Knapp will say later. 12:55 p.m.: Lunch is barely cleared off the table, but Knapp’s got a busy schedule and it’s time to move on. He drives back to his North Campus office. More phone calls consume the next hour. 1:55 p.m.: Knapp is running late for an ice cream social at the McPhaul Center in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences. About 40 children are playing on the playground at the day care center. Even the kids seem to realize Knapp’s commanding presence when he appears. After he charms the children and their adult supervisors, Knapp and his wife, Lynne, are recognized at an impromptu, informal ceremony. He receives a bowl containing slips of paper on which the children have written their answers to “What does a university president do?” “He gives us toys,” wrote one child. Knapp basks in the moment. Everyone’s laughing. Dozens of children gaze up at the powerful man. Lynne looks on with admiration. The moment seems perfect. But it in the fast-paced life of a university president, these scenes don’t last long. 2:55 p.m.: Knapp heads back to North Campus. “It seems like all we do is ride back and forth from my office,” Knapp says. He’s still just as alert as he has been all day. “If you’re the kind of person who needs 10 hours of sleep,” he says, “this isn’t the job for you." 4:00 p.m.: Knapp has been making more calls and working behind the closed doors of his office for the last hour. He resurfaces now for a scheduled meeting of the Arts and Sciences Advisory Board in his conference room that houses two fire places and a table that could accommo date a state dinner. 5:15 p.m.: The meeting is over and Lynne meets Knapp at his office. They will soon depart for Atlanta, where Georgia education’s luminaries will throw a party in honor of the couple. They won’t return until late this night. On this day, Charles Knapp has made five public appearances, which he says is not out of the ordinary. It’s been a long day of photo-ops, shaking hands — and shifting gears on the fly. But, at the end of it all, Knapp and his wife relax in their lavish home on five acres of wooded land on Prince Avenue. All in all, the life of a University presi dent is a good one, Knapp says. But in less than two months, the Knapps will move to Washington and the Aspen Institute. They leave with mixed emotions but know the time is right. Tve still got 20 good years left in me,” Knapp boasts. “I think it wouldn’t be pro ductive for me or for the University for me to stay.” Knapp sighs. “Ill miss it here.” Please see Knapp Q&A on Page 3. W £ tg 1 ■ u p m If n llll ys mu lii a* 30, llll m h m tw * pjf| iff pH ■■ . 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The Area Five Regional Special Olympics comes to the University’s track, located on Lumpkin Street, from 9:45 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Organizers are requesting University student volun teers to help out with tasks such as watching the finish line during races, measuring the soRball throw and escorting the participants from the competition to the award cere monies. “Well have enough work for everybody who shows up. and spectators would be great, too,” said Glenn Goodman, Georgia Special Olympics Area Five director. According to Goodman, participants in the games include the mentally handicapped, people diagnosed with an IQ of less than 70, and people with closely related devel opmental disabilities. The Special Olympics were founded in 1969 by John F. Kennedy’s sister, Eunice Shriver. Special Olympics holds competitions at the local, state and at the international level, which is known as the World Games. During the 1995 World Games, a participant from Madison County, Ga., won two gold medals and a silver medal in track and field and long jump events. The regional competition includes 500 athletes from 10 different agencies and eight counties, including Barrow, Clarke, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton. Competitors participate in a multitude of events includ ing relays, long jump, shotput, softball throw and develop mental skills competitions, which are modified to incorpo rate people at lower skills levels. The event encompasses three age groups: 8-11 years, 12-15 years and 16 years and up. Winners will continue on to the state level competition, called the Chapter Games, which will be held Memorial Day weekend at Emory University, May 23-25. Admission to the Special Olympics is free. Memorial celebrates Dodd’s creativity By ABBY BRACH Staff Writer Colorful images of a lifetime of art work set to music celebrated the life of late University art teacher Lamar Dodd at a memorial service Wednesday. “The Colors of a Soul,” a six-part art and musical tribute to Dodd, was performed for 175 friends and family who gathered in the Performing Arts Center to remember his life. Composed and performed by Lee Johnson, head of the music depart ment at LaGrange College, the music represented major periods of Dodd’s life and work. “Throughout the planning and composing of this work, I held firmly to the belief that this great artist should be celebrated by the creation of art itself,” Johnson wrote in the program notes. “This symphony is my personal musical response to Lamar Dodd.” Dodd, an art professor at the University for 35 years, died at age 87 last September. He dedicated his University life to building the art school into what it is today from an original staff of only three teachers. He also was instrumental in the establishment of the Georgia Museum of Art with Alfred Holbrook in 1948. University President Charles Knapp spoke at the memorial and said Dodd would have liked the idea of his memorial being a celebration. “He was genuine and loving, and gave the best years of his life to students, and to the University," Knapp said “He shaped the lives of countless students.” Knapp recounted some of the past year’s events involving Dodd, including the dedication of the art school to him and the opening of the new Georgia Museum of Art. “We were able to celebrate those events because of what he created,” Knapp said. “He was the source." Dodd’s work is currently on dis play in the Georgia Museum of Art He painted images from his life in Athens, New York and places he trav eled. He was commissioned by NASA to document the exploration of space between 1963 and 1968. He continued to paint through his last years, even though he was restricted by health problems. Today, a gallery in the museum and the University art school bear his name. “We have had the rich opportunity to share in the life of a very special person," said Evan Firestone, University art school director, at the memorial. "His life and work has meant a lot to this University, and it has been a legacy.” File Lamar Dodd * ¥
