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By CHANDLER BROWN
The Red a Buck
Athens-Clarke police may be close
;3B arresting several suspects in a
string of holiday break-ins at the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
, house.
A-C Police Sgt. W. R. Hammond
said Thursday the investigation is
■“coming along" and that officers were
close to identifying the perpetrators.
"We've interviewed those involved
and hope to have a description (of
the suspects) and an arrest soon,”
Hammond said
As expected by fraternity mem
bers, Hammond said they believe
more than one person <s responsible
for the burglaries, which resulted in
about $7,000 in stolen property.
Hammond would not say when the
arrests might come.
Nor would he say whether police
had recovered usable fingerprints
from the scene.
Sometime between Dec. 17 and
Jan. 2, a group of thieves broke into
the house, located at 247 Pulaski St.,
police said.
During several subsequent break-
ins, they stole high-priced electron
ics, appliances and clothes, according
to police reports.
The total amount of damage and
stolen goods was $6,789, which
included .$2,500 worth of clothes
taken from one fraternity member,
police said.
Fraternity members said the per
petrators broke into their rooms by
breaking the locks and kicking down
interior doors.
The robbers apparently gained
entrance into the house by breaking
ground-floor windows and destroying
the lock on a bolted door, according
to police reports.
The sprawling, white-columned
house has an alarm system, but it
“malfunctioned” during the rob
beries, said fraternity president Cliff
Orr, a senior from Gainesville.
In addition to the fraternity mem
bers’ individual belongings, a $300 TV
was stolen from the living room, Orr
said.
From lectures to concerts,
Athens remembers MLK
“DREAM IN COLOR”
Sunday: Gospel Concert at the Presbyterian Student Center at 6:15 p.m.
Monday: Flying King's Colors Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center from
> noon to 4 p.m. Call 613-3623 tor more information.
Tuesday: Gospeltest featuring local artists at Hugh Hodgson Hall at 7 p.m.
Wednesday: Art exhibit and lecture exploring the work of Benny Andrews at the
Georgia Museum of Art at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday-Friday: Voter registration at the Kroger on Broad Street and the
Harris Teeter in the Beechwood Shopping Center from noon to 0 p.m.
Friday: Women's Studies Program Lecture featuring guest speaker Chana Kai
Lee in Memorial Hall Room 407 from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. Cinema Roundtable in
Park Hall Room 265 at 4 p.m.
Wed., Jan. 26: Annual King remembrance march and rally at the Tate Student
Center at 2 p.m. Commemorative service, following the march, at the University
Chapel at 3:30 p.m.
By KATHLEEN BAYDALA
Thk Red a Black
Martin Luther King, Jr., the
man who promoted peace and
tolerance during the turbulent
Civil Rights Movement, will be
remembered next week by the
University and the Athens com
munity.
"Dream in Color" is this
year’s theme for the week and a
half of community celebration.
A gospel concert by the
Athens Voice of Truth will kick
off the celebration Sunday. The
planned events also include a
Gospelfest featuring local
gospel performers, an art exhib
it and lecture, community ser
vice projects and voter registra
tion.
The Gospelfest features
Athens groups such as the
University African Choral
Ensemble, singer Teresa Haynes
and the Athens Voice of Truth.
Nationally-renowned artist
Benny Andrews of Morgan
County is scheduled to lecture
on his artwork at the Georgia
Museum of Art.
University professor Chana
Kai Lee will give a women's
studies lecture titled “African
American Women in the Black
Freedom Struggle," to be fol
lowed by a cinema roundtable
at Park Hall. The roundtable
will discuss the topic,
"Hollywood and African-
Americans in the Year 2000:
How Much has Changed Since
Blaxploitation."
"Dream in Color” will close
with a march and rally honoring
King followed by a commemora
tive service at the University
Chapel.
The march's theme is
“Improvement through
Involvement: Working in Our
Community to Improve
Community.” The march will
begin at the Tate Student
Center at 2 p.m. and end with
the service at 3:30 p.m. The
march is being sponsored by
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Sherwood Thompson, direc
tor of Minority Services and
Programs, said he believes each
event is worthwhile.
Each is designed to create
positive contact with a diverse
number of people in the com
munity, he said.
“King’s gift to us is his call for
peace and harmony across
racial lines," Thompson said.
“Hopefully this celebration will
give our community a renewed
sense of purpose and fellow
ship.”
All events are free and open
to the public.
Every year since the early
1990s, a committee comprised
of students, faculty and staff has
planned the King festivities.
Vanessa Wiliiams-Smith, associ
ate director of Minority Services
and Programs is chairing the
committee this year.
“The message I hope every
one gets from the program is
that we are all in this together,”
said Williams-Smith. “Regard
less of color or who we are, we
need to come together in har
mony."
In addition to the University-
sponsored “Dream in Color” cel
ebration, the Athens-Clarke
County Democratic Committee
is awarding an Athens high
school student with a $1,000
scholarship in honor of King.
Celestina Ngeve will be pre
sented with the scholarship at
the Athens Area Human
Relations Council Banquet
tonight at the Georgia Center
for Continuing Education.
“We were looking to give our
scholarship to a student in this
area who will use the money to
educate themselves beyond
high school in a manner useful
to the community,” said Bob
Cunha, chairman of the
Democratic Committee.
Cunha said this was the first
year the committee has given a
scholarship, but he hopes to
continue awarding one student
each year.
Student suspended for
having BB gun in dorm
By SAMIRA JAFARI
The Red a Black
One resident of Oglethorpe House was
suspended and a second was placed on pro
bation for taking part in a BB gun incident
last semester.
On Dec. 2, Robert Williams III, a fresh
man from Blackshear, allegedly aimed
another student's BB gun at a female
O'House resident at approximately 11 p.m,
according to police reports.
The victim reported the incident to
police four days later and said the situation
made her feel “uncomfortable and threat
ened,” according to the report
The BB gun belonged to Wesley Miller, a
freshman from Atlanta, also a resident at
Oglethorpe.
Miller admitted, in an informal student
judiciary agreement, he was harming him
self with the gun while intoxicated.
Williams also admitted to drinking in the
dorm. Both residents are underage.
According to police reports, Williams saw
the firearm in Miller's room and asked
about it. Miller then allowed Williams to
take the gun into the hallway.
Williams then “laughingly aimed” the BB
gun at the victim and made her “allegedly
nervous that the gun might go off."
Both possession of a firearm and han
dling a firearm within a residence hall are
against University housing policy and con
duct code.
By signing the informal disciplinary
agreement on Dec. 10, Miller agreed to be
suspended from the University until fall
2000. When he returns to campus he will be
placed on probation until Mar. 18, 2002. He
can be expelled for further violations of the
University firearms policy.
Williams also waived his right to a formal
disciplinary hearing by signing an informal
agreement on Dec. 13. Williams has been
placed on probation and can be expelled
from the University if he again violates
housing policies.
Miller and Williams are both expected to
complete individual educational assign
ments with the University as part of their
sanctions.
Talks today cover global
society and universities
A symposium will be held today
to discuss global changes and their
effects on research universities.
The event, titled “Year 2020: The
Research University in a Global
Society” is co-sponsored by the
Center for Humanities and Arts and
the Office of the Provost.
“We'U be looking at how these
changes, which are likely to intensi
fy, effect our responsibilities to the
state, the nation and to the world,”
said Del Dunn, a political science
professor who helped plan the
event.
The symposium is hosting three
guest speakers from various parts of
the country.
James Duderstadt, a professor of
science and engineering from the
University of Michigan, will deliver
his address at 9 a.m.
He authored “The Future of the
University in an Age of Knowledge”
and “Can Colleges and Universities
Survive in the Information Age?"
Patricia Gumport, director of the
Stanford Institute for Higher
Education Research at Stanford
University, is speaking at 11 a.m.
She worked as co-editor of
“American Higher Education in the
21st Century.”
Michael Janeway, director of the
National Arts Journalism Program
in the Graduate School of
Journalism at Columbia University,
will speak at 2 p.m. He is former
executive director of The Atlantic
Monthly and former editor of the
Boston Globe.
A panel discussion made up of
University faculty panelists will fol
low each discussion.
“The panel members come from
diverse places on campus,” Dunn
said. “Their discussion will show
how the subjects will apply to differ
ent types of settings on campus.
The symposium is at the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education.
The event is free, and the public is
invited to attend.
— Paul Fulton Jr
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