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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.
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GMCQ GATLIN /The Red and Black
President’s
day leaves
no nap time
By CHANDLER BROWN
Associate News Editor
Athletes come to University for Special Olympics
By LINDSAY RIDDELL
Staff Writer
More than 500 people are praying for sunshine on
Friday.
The past two rainy years in Athens have lea Special
Olympics competitors without a place to compete, but par
ticipants, as well as the University, are hoping this year
will be different.
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.”
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