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September 24,1998
Vol. 106, No. 23 | Athens, Georgia
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MACHA MEN
► Local band Macha will play
tonight at the 40 Watt PAGE 6
Arrests drop
as Adams'
campus plan
takes hold
By ANDREA JONES
Thk Rid « hi a, k
University President Michael Adams said
Wednesday the huge dive in University police
arrests this fall is evidence that his goal of a more
student-friendly campus "has taken hold."
Statistics provided by University police show a
sharp decline in the number of arrests this fall, from
60 last September to one arrest so far this month.
Adams said he recently spoke to University
police and told them he "pays them to know and
execute law. and for their judgment.”
"We'd all be better off with a heavier dose of judg
ment." Adams said he told the department
A heavier dose of Judgment — rather than cita
tions — seems to be what University police are dol
ing out. with the only arrest this September which
Involved a male visitor who struck a student.
The decline in University police arrests comes
nearly two months after Allan Barber, senior vice
president for finance and administration, called for
a re-evaluation of the Public Safety Division.
In a memo to Public Safety Director Asa
Boynton. Barber said the department needed to be
clearer in differentiating "student pranks" from seri
ous criminal acts.
Adams echoed Barber's sentiment at his
Wednesday morning press conference, saying he felt
there were "few hardened criminals" at the
University
Police cracked down on underage alcohol pos
session last fall — arresting 16 students in one week
in September, according to police reports.
There have been no alcohol-related arrests since
the beginning of this school year, although police
reports show officers have responded to situations
involving intoxicated minors.
University Police Chief Chuck Horton, reached
by phone Wednesday, wouldn't comment on the
drop in arrests.
National alcohol arrests on college campuses
jumped 10 percent in 1996, according to The
Chronicle of Higher Education. Police and college
officials said increased enforcement, not use.
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caused the hike. With national numbers increasing,
the University's apparent "hands-off" approach to
minors this fall isn’t one shared by many colleges.
"The national trend on college campuses (is) an
increase of alcohol and drug arrests since 1994,"
Nancy Zechella. director of Safe Campuses Now,
said in a statement. “It is reported that this is due
to a tougher enforcement, not more substance
abuse."
"This enforcement is a pro-active step in pre
venting crimes involving college students,” said
Zechella, who emphasized the need for tougher
crime prevention. "Without this police protection, it
makes students vulnerable and at risk for increased
victimization, whether that be DUI car accidents,
armed robbery or assault.”
Vocal critic Paglia to speak at University today
By JONATHAN REED
Thk Rkd a Black
When Camille Paglia turned on the
television the other morning, the
notorious culture critic
wasn't worried about the
Clinton crisis or anything
else the media had grabbed
onto lately.
The 51-year-old State
University of New York and
Yale graduate has stood up
for her beliefs amid
firestorms of controversy,
yet on this day she was ner
vous, talking faster than
she usually does in her dis
tinctively Pennsylvanian
accent. She was concerned
about the path Hurricane
Oeorges would take once it hit the
East Coast.
“There was a big arrow pointed at
the Georgia-Florida border," Paglia,
who will speak tonight at the Tate
Student Center, told The Red &
Black hurriedly from an office at the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia,
where she is a professor of humani
ties.
From there, Paglia rushed from
one topic to another, noting how she
has stirred debate in a num
ber of areas, not the least of
which being the mainstream
feminist establishment.
"We have really been gain
ing a lot of attention in the
'90s," she said of the wing of
feminism that is pro-sex and
pro-porn, among other
things "My ideas have tri
umphed in feminism
whether people like it or
not.”
A self-proclaimed '60s
enthusiast, Paglia has been
criticizing different estab
lishments of American culture since
she graduated with a Ph D. in English
literature In 1968. Her dissertation on
sex in high art and literature eventu
ally became her first book, “Sexual
Personae," in 1990. From there,
Paglia was catapulted into the public
eye.
Since then, she has become an on
line columnist for Salon magazine,
becoming what she called “the first
intellectual of the Internet." Her out
spoken views have gone on to attack
the post-structuralism in academia
that she said is destroying the
humanities on Ivy League campuses.
“It's horrendous and awful," she
said of the pedantic nature of
academia that began with the French
School theorists years ago. “I think
that's destroyed several years of the
humanities ... It's destroyed
American academia."
Another movement she actively
opposed was the political-correct
ness movement of the early '90s.
“I was one of the very first voices
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Camille Paglia: American Culture
at the End ot the Century"
When & where: 7:30 p.m.. Georgia Hall
(Tate Student Center)
Ticket*: Free lor students. $2 tor non-students
to show what PC was. Suddenly, it
became clear that it was horrible
garbage,” she said.
Paglia has been a vocal critic of
campus speech codes that have
become popular in recent years.
Other issues she has become fasci
nated with are the mass media and
Hollywood, the latter of which she
admires greatly. Of course, her admi
ration has been met with criticism —
she thinks many of today’s hot
actresses, like Gwyneth Paltrow and
Renee Zellweger, are for the most
part talentless.
Her latest passion, however, has
been the Internet and its effects on
modern pop culture. The speed of
dispersing information fascinates her,
and she is interested to see the long
term effects on society this “Internet
Generation" will have.
“Anyone who's entered college in
the 90s is a part of this Internet
Revolution." she said. “I think it's as
huge as the pop culture revolution of
the 1960s which made my generation
what it is."
PAGLIA
Committee
to examine
TA benefits
By RUSS HENDERSON
The Red a Buck
The health benefits battle waged over the past
year by some University teaching assistants may be
over.
University President Michael Adams said at a
press conference Wednesday a commission will be
appointed by the Board of Regents to discuss full
health coverage for teaching assistants.
"This is certainly a breakthrough," said Patrick
McCord, co-chair of the Georgia Graduate Forum,
who has fought for graduate teaching assistant
benefits for more than a year, “I think it’s great, and
that it's about time, that Adams and the regents
have taken this kind of action."
Adams said he supports the
change because it’s a way for
the University to remain com
petitive. He said that though
overall enrollment at the
University has increased by
about 200 students over last
year, graduate and professional
enrollment has taken a plunge
of more than 112.
“Benefits are the largest
thing impacting graduate
recruitment and retention,”
Adams said. “I was a TA once,
and I was married at the time. I remember those
days, so I am sympathetic to the call for health
care.”
Adams and Georgia Tech President G. Wayne
Clough spoke with Stephen Portch, chancellor of
the Board of Regents, last week about health cov
erage. The three decided a committee should be
created to discuss how the benefits could be given
to graduate employees in the entire University
System of Georgia.
“We decided to get together a small working
group of experts," Portch said, “to gather facts, see
what steps are necessary to implement this, and to
see what our peers are doing."
Last week. Portch asked university presidents
to recommend experts from other Georgia univer
sities for the committee. The committee will rec
ommend a plan to the regents Eventually, the
board's actions will have to be approved by the
state legislature, Portch said. The committee
should be formed within two weeks, Portch said,
but it will be a long time before anything is done.
“I don't want to falsely raise hopes that this will
be a matter of a quick look and a quick action," he
said in a telephone interview. “I’ve learned that
when you're changing something fundamentally
that requires legislation and funding, it doesnt
happen overnight.”
McCord said graduate students should remem
ber the university system’s action on benefits is
happening for a reason. "Things like this don't hap
pen in a vacuum," he said. "This happened because
pressure was exerted to get benefits for graduate
employees, and pressure should continue to be
exerted to improve their status."
INSIDE
► Adams addresses University issues in press conference. 3
A FAIR REFLECTION
▲ Clay Griggs, from Butler, has worked for the Geren Rides
fair for nine years. The fair Is running through Saturday at
the Bl-Lo parking lot on Lexington Road.
Despite problems, Lady Bulldogs still focused
XHEAHOLKW' T.. K.d ."BuuI
A Stacey Buerger, a freshman right side hitter, bumps the
volleyball during team practice.
By JOSH KATZOWITZ
The Red a Black
The beginning of the season
was a time of optimism and con
fidence for the Georgia volleyball
team.
After winning 15 of their last
18 matches last season and nar
rowly missing an NCAA tourna
ment selection, the Lady
Bulldogs came to practice this
summer as a more experienced
team, and they wanted to secure
a spot in this season's NCAA
tournament in December.
“I had pretty high expecta
tions early this year," Junior co
captain Mindi Westfall said. “We
had a good preseason as far as
practice goes. We Just went
through a little bit of a downfall.”
Unfortunately for the Lady
Dogs, their downfall started in
the first game of the first match
of the year. At Clemson, senior
co-captain Allison Dickinson
tore her anterior cruciate liga
ment and was lost tor the sea
son.
Georgia went on to lose that
match in five games and pro
ceeded to win only one of its
next six contests.
"(At the beginning of the sea
son) I didn’t think we would
have had this kind of record,”
head coach Jim lams said of his
team's 2-7 mark. “But the com
petition has been tough.”
Of the nine teams Georgia has
faced this season, six participat
ed in the NCAAs last year, and
three of those teams (Notre
Dame, Colorado and
Washington) were ranked in the
top 25 when the Lady Dogs
played them.
“We should have beaten the
ranked teams," setter Westfall
said. "We have so much poten
tial, and our record doesn't show
how good of a team we are."
Injuries also have played a key
role for the team as Dickinson,
junior middle blocker Cassie
Brill (fever), freshman right side
hitter Stacy Buerger (sprained
ankle) and freshman Kristene
Keese (inflamed shoulder) all
have spent time in the trainer’s
room this season.
“As a coach you don't want to
make those excuses," lams said.
"But it’s very difficult to expect
(those injuries) not to affect us.
Objectively — with injuries and
because I haven’t been able to
start the same lineup — it has
ended up costing us.”
The Lady Dogs may have
finally exorcised their demons
last Saturday night when they
took on the Duke Blue Devils at
the Outback Invitational. After
two tough losses to Oral Roberts
and Villanova earlier in the tour
nament, the Lady Dogs came
out aggressively and swept Duke
in three games to gain some
much-needed confidence.
For now. though, the Lady
Dogs want to look ahead to their
upcoming SEC schedule, which
begins this Friday at Ole Miss
and Sunday at Mississippi State.
"We're a much better team
than anyone will anticipate,"
lams said. “We'll Just have to use
that to our advantage."
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