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THURSDAY
April 6, 2000
Vol. 107, No. 133 | Athens, Georgia
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FOOTBALL
Tickets
on sale
Monday
By DARREN EPPS
The Red a Black
Student tickets for per
haps the most-awaited
Georgia football season in
recent memory go on sale
April 10 — and students prob
ably won’t have to fight to get
them.
Ticket manager Dave
Williams said he’s opted to
use last year’s system of sell
ing tickets — where students
have an entire week to make a
trip to Stegeman Coliseum
and pay a $5 deposit. This
comes as good news to any
one caught in the masses dur
ing the 1998 ticket disaster,
when thousands of students
rushed Stegeman Coliseum
booths three and four.
“It’s 100 percent improve
ment over two years ago,"
Williams said. “Whether you
wait until the last second on
Friday or you’re the first in
line Monday morning, you will
get a seat reserved."
Students can pay their $5
deposit next week between
8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at booths
three and four with their
UGACard. The maximum
number of ticket packages
that can be sold to one stu
dent is two, provided that
student has two IDs.
“In our estimation, it was
very successful,” said assis
tant athletics director Freddy
Jones of the change in ticket
procedure. “It only took
between three and five min
utes to complete the process,
and we never really had any
long lines. There was no ques
tion we would do it again."
Students can pay their $13
balance and pick up their
tickets in August, also at the
coliseum. The season begins
Sept. 2 against Georgia
Southern at Sanford
Stadium. One Web site
ranked Georgia No. 2 in the
nation in its pre-preseason
poll.
Tickets for away games go
on sale April 17-19 with only
one change from previous
years. Tickets will not be
mailed. Instead, they can be
picked up at the coliseum in
August. Georgia's away
schedule includes trips to
South Carolina, Arkansas,
Kentucky, Florida (at
Jacksonville) and Auburn.
“There are some lines the
first morning,” Jones said,
“but we've never really had
any problems with away tlck-
A lottery will be held if the
made reservations outnum
ber the amount of available
seats for home games. Last
year, a little more than 10,000
tickets were sold and a lottery
was not required.
“The new system is better
as long as there is not a lot
tery," said Junior Brian
Dattilo, who has experienced
both systems of selling tick
ets. “I'd hate it if I got upper
level seats next year as a
senior and be forced to sneak
down into the lower level. I’d
rather fight it out again for
five hours than get upper level
for my last year."
A separate sale will be held
in the fall for incoming fresh
men and transfer students.
HOME FOOTBALL GAMES
Sept. 2
Georgia Southern
Sept. 23
New Mexico State
Oct. 7
Tennessee
Oct. 14
Vanderbilt
Nov. 18
Ole Miss
Nov. 25
Georgia Tech
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May I Have This Dance?
BECKY REID Tu Kid a Bun
A Members of professor Mark Wheeler’s beginning ballroom dance class work on their rumba moves Monday
afternoon. The class features dances such as swing, waltz, cha-cha and fox-trot.
Dean donates space for charity
By PAUL FULTON Jr.
The Red a Black
One student said goodbye
for a month to hectic bus rides
and the crowded Coliseum
Commuter parking lot after
placing the winning bid on one
University dean’s South
Campus parking spot at an on
line auction site.
"I was really hoping I’d have
the opportunity to put in the
highest bid, and I wasn't going
to go any higher than $65, so I
was glad nobody outbid me,”
said Charlie Dorminy, a senior
from Tifton and winner of the
space reserved 24 hours a day
for Gale Buchanan, Dean of
the College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.
“I had to surrender my com
muter stick
er, but that
was fine
with me,”
Dorminy
said. Now,
he said, he
only has to
walk about
50 yards to
his first
class.
The pro
ject was
designed as
members of
and Environmental Economics
Club, of which Dorminy is also
president. Students had the
opportunity for eight days to
post bids online. Bidding
began at $40 and increased in
$5 increments.
The club president said he
casually mentioned the idea to
one of Buchanan's secretaries
in passing one day.
She took the fund-raising
idea to Buchanan, and he
agreed to donate his parking
spot for the month of April.
Dorminy said.
“We really appreciated his
donation,” said Steve Turner,
professor of agricultural and
applied economics and adviser
for the Agricultural and
Environmental Economics
Club. “Parking spots on cam
pus can be very limited, so it
was very generous of him to
agree to this auction "
But Buchanan said he
hasn't been inconvenienced at
all by the donation of the
prized spot. He was glad to do
it to help out one of the clubs
on South Campus, he said.
“There's just not enough
things you can do for stu
dents,” Buchanan said. “It’s
not much of an inconvenience
for me. I come to work at 7 in
the morning, and there’s plen
ty of parking spots for
me. Some of us on South
Campus come to work pretty
early.”
The dean said the idea was
unique, and he said it showed
off the business skills of
University students.
“It’s just a small gesture to
support one of our student
clubs," Buchanan said. “It
seemed pretty interesting, and
it showed entrepreneurship on
the part of our students. I was
glad to do it.”
BUCHANAN
a fUnd-raiser by
the Agricultural
Students lay ground for ‘fruitful’ future
BECKY MDO | Tbi Rid a Black
a Abbey Myszka, a sophomore from Atlanta, Joins
other SEA members In planting apple trees near the
By KYLE WINGFIELD
The Red a Black
Johnny Appleseed may have
been a myth, but a University
student group is working to
provide real fruit trees on cam
pus for future generations.
Students for Environmental
Awareness is planting apple
and pear trees in several loca
tions, both on and off campus,
to give students and faculty a
snack food option other than
vending machine fare.
“Our main focus is to pro
vide a healthy alternative to
junk food,” said Hans Sin, the
co-executive coordinator of
SEA who is heading up the
project.
John Duffett, vending ma
chines supervisor for the
University, said there are 120
snack machines on campus
and 17 cold food machines that
have apples, sandwiches, milk
and other foods.
“We do keep apples in the
cold food machines, and it's a
good item,” he said.
Duffett said he could not
comment on the amount of
money spent in the machines
every year.
SEA members planted four
apple trees behind the pool at
Oglethorpe House Wednesday
afternoon. Sin said it might
take five to 10 years before an
“adequate harvest of apples” is
available, but eventually there
will be an ample supply of
pool at OgMhorpo House.
Yellow Delicious, Golden
Delicious, Granny Smith, Full,
Spitzenberg and McIntosh
apples. He also said the apples
will be free of pesticides and
other chemicals.
“We’ve got strict organic
standards for these trees,” Sin
said. “If we do come across
pest problems, we’ll use natu
ral solutions.”
Sin praised Dexter Adams,
manager of the Physical
Plant’s Grounds Department,
for his department’s help with
the project. The Physical Plant
helped the group locate plant
ing spots and obtain organical
ly-grown plants.
“Overall, they were very
receptive to having fruit trees,"
Sin said.
In addition to the O-House
trees, Sin said SEA will plant
trees near the Physics
Building, Memorial Hall and
Tucker Hall. He said the group
already has planted three
apple trees at the Boys and
Girls Club, as well as four pear
trees at Family Housing. Sin
said SEA paid for the trees by
raising money and using part
of its budget, which comes
from student fee allocations.
Chris Lee, a senior from
Clayton, said the project Is
Important because “it's always
good to plant a tree.”
“In five years, we'll be able
to see the fruits of our labor,”
he said.
Crystal Leaver, a sophomore
from Tucker, said she hopes
students realize that not all
food comes pre-packaged.
“It’s good for students to
see food comes from trees, not
the grocery store,” Leaver said.
ATOs
mourn
brother
By KRISTEN WYATT
The Red a Black
Friends of Ben Grantham, the
Alpha Tau Omega member killed in a
car wreck last week, will gather in the
University Chapel tonight for a memo
rial service.
The service starts at 8 p.m., and the
public is invited.
Scott Lakas. a freshman who was in
the car with Grantham at the time of
the accident, said the whole fraternity
feels the loss.
“The thing about ATO that was
great was everyone was best friends,”
he told The Red & Black. “So every
single person in the fraternity is best
friends. We all lost a best friend. He
was our brother.”
Grantham died when he was
thrown from a pledge's Infiniti QX4
Thursday night south of Watkinsville.
The driver, Walter David Penn, 20,
apparently lost control on the gravel
road and hit a tree, flipping the car,
investigators have said.
Grantham's fraternity was suspend
ed Tuesday when allegations surfaced
that Grantham was being “road-
tripped” — handcuffed, blindfolded,
then left in the woods to find his own
way back — at the time of the crash.
Two other cars — and up to six
more people — were traveling with the
Infiniti, but those cars left before
police arrived, said Scott Berry, the
Oconee County sheriff.
Evidence of alcohol was found at
the scene, and tests revealed that
someone removed handcuffs from
Grantham after the accident, Berry
said.
Also, investigators want to know
why some fraternity members left
Grantham and Rob Dailey, who was
seriously injured, on the side of the
road.
The fraternity's national director
has said the men left to get help but
wouldn’t say who removed
Grantham’s handcuffs or whether the
men had been drinking.
Possible charges won’t be filed until
the Georgia State Patrol releases its
report next week.
Charges could include leaving the
scene of an accident when there’s a
serious injury, a felony, or tampering
with evidence, a misdemeanor, said a
spokesman for the state attorney gen
eral.
But while the investigation contin
ues, the scenario has already been
reported, said Richard Mullendore,
the vice president for Student Affairs,
who talked to some of the men there.
"It appears that the media
accounts are accurate,” he said. “We
have a situation where several people
went out, and it didn’t end the way
they thought."
The University could make a state
ment next week about possible sanc
tions, he said.
Also Wednesday, Grantham’s family
attorney said that Ben’s parents,
Benjamin and Diana Grantham,
won’t make any decisions about a law
suit until they see the state patrol
report.
“No lawsuit has ever been dis
cussed,” Attorney Stephen Scarlet
said. “The family is planning to wait
until the investigation's over. ... It's a
very tragic time for them.”
■ECftY REID I T>1 Kid a Bun
A Alpha Tau Omega will hold a
memorial service for Ben
Grantham in the University
Chapel tonight at 8.
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