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THURSDAY
February 15, 2001
Vol. 108, No. 105 | Athens, Georgia
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Haynes arrested, released on bond
By SAMIRA J AFAR I
sjafari@randb.com
Georgia fullback Verron Haynes
was arrested Tuesday evening and
charged with stalking, simple bat
tery, criminal trespass and making
harassing phone calls during an
altercation with the mother of his
child.
Haynes was released from Clarke
County Jail Wednesday afternoon for
a $7,500 bond after his 3 p.m. bond
hearing at the Clarke County
Magistrate Court.
The junior from Bronx, N.Y.,
stood before his family, the victim
a Family Housing resident —and
her family and agreed to an April 18
arraignment. After the hearing
Haynes, whose right arm was in a
cast, was escorted past his mother
by police officers
and back to jail to
await his release.
The victim, a
University stu
dent, accused
Haynes of push
ing her down dur
ing a fight in her
apartment at
about 2 a.m.
Sunday. Haynes
“snatched a cellu
lar telephone
from the hand of
(the victim) and pushed (her) when
she tried to take it back from him,”
according to the arrest warrant
signed Monday by the victim and
Magistrate Court Judge Michael
Coleman.
Their child wasn’t in the apart
ment during the fight, University
police said Wednesday.
The victim told police that
Haynes left her residence after she
threatened to call the authorities.
Haynes then made eight phone
calls “for the purpose of annoying
and harassing” the victim from the
the parking lot outside the apart
ment, according to the warrant.
The woman told police that
Haynes later followed her to the
Marriott Courtyard hotel on Finley
Street, where she went to visit some
friends at about 4 a.m.
Haynes allegedly attempted to
break into the hotel room, and
the victim called 911. Security
guards escorted Haynes out of the
building.
The victim has the opportunity to
press further charges, including
criminal damage, against Haynes to
compensate for shattering the cell
phone — valued at $429.99 — and
any other alleged damage to her
apartment.
She and her family declined to
comment after the bond hearing.
Associate Athletics Director
Claude Felton said head football
coach Mark Richt has considered
punishment for the athlete.
“A measure of internal discipline
has been imposed already, with the
possibility of more discipline being
imposed later, pending the outcome
of the court proceedings — or at
some point between now and then,”
Felton said.
Felton also said that it was “pre
mature to project the status” of
Haynes playing during the 2001 foot
ball season.
l T
HAYNES
Nolan returns to the lineup against Kentucky
By DARREN EPPS
depps@randb.com
With the women’s basketball sea
son winding down to the last two
weeks, early prognosticators have
already begun mapping out the
NCAA tournament field and deter
mining the top seeds in each region.
So with March Madness on the
horizon, the main concern of coach
Andy Landers and his Lady Bulldogs
is — Kentucky?
Kentucky, as in the SEC’s
youngest team and losers to
Tennessee by 72 points earlier this
year?
“The reality is, when two teams
meet, someone is going to lose,” said
Landers, as his fifth-ranked Lady
Bulldogs (20-4 overall, 8-2 SEC) pre
pared for tonight’s 7:30 game against
the Lady Wildcats (5-17, 1-9) at
Stegeman Coliseum. “Their record
doesn’t indicate alack of talent. They
just have to start alot of freshmen.
Still, it’s hard to ignore the way
the nation’s top teams are shaping
up for the tournament, which begins
March 16 at campus sites.
As it stands now, Georgia will not
earn its second straight No. 1 seed
despite a No. 3 RPI ranking and the
toughest schedule strength in the
nation. Notre Dame (22-0), Tennessee
(25-1), Connecticut (20-2) and Duke
(21-2) all have strong locks on No. 1
seeds, barring any upsets. Jerry Palm
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
vs. Kentucky
7:30 p.m.
Stegeman Coliseum
of CollegeRPI.com has Georgia in the
East region as a No. 2 seed.
“It’s an advantage to at least get a
No. 2 because it puts you as far away
from the No. 1 as possible,” said
Landers, whose team is 0-3 against
the aforementioned potential top
seeds. “As far as region placement
goes, it’s out of my hands. We just
need to do our part and win.”
Winning this week’s games
shouldn’t be as daunting a task as
Georgia usually faces. After facing
Kentucky, the Lady Bulldogs play
their last home game of the season
against Arkansas (15-9, 5-6). Georgia
is a perfect 11-0 at Stegeman
Coliseum this season.
’"We’re jtist taking it one game at a
time,” said freshman Christi Thomas.
“It’s always been a dream of mine to
make the NCAA tournament, with the
ultimate dream of winning a national
title. But right now our focus is on the
next game, and that’s Kentucky. We
don’t want to get upset.”
That scenario is all the more
unlikely with the return of starting
guard Deanna Nolan tonight. Nolan
broke her hand against Florida Jan.
11 and has not played since. Nolan
▲ Starting guard Deanna Nolan, second from the right, has had
to watch from the sidelines since Jan. 11 due to injury, but she
is cleared to play against the Wildcats tonight.
started in 14 games and averaged
12.8 points and 3.2 assists before the
injury. Senior Kiesha Brown and
sophomore Mary Beth Lycett saw
extended minutes in the eight games
she missed, a 6-2 stretch for the
Lady Bulldogs.
“We’ve got her practicing now,”
Landers said. “We’ll give her some
minutes against Kentucky, get some
medical information and play it by
ear.”
KENDRA WAYCUILIS | The Red * Black
Decision
reached
in lawsuit
Judge orders a payment of
$569,000 for wage discrimination
By JEFFERY WHITFIELD
jwhitfiel@randb.com
A federal judge Tuesday ordered the University to pay
three female employees more than $569,000 for wage
discrimination.’
Jean Cleveland, Juliett Dinkins and Denise Horton origi
nally filed a lawsuit in 1995 under the Equal Pay Act, alleg
ing that their male counterparts were receiving higher
wages.
When the case was tried before a jury in October, both
parties’ attorneys requested that the court award damages.
Tuesday, Judge Duross Fitzpatrick, who presided over
the case, ordered the University to pay $241,780 to Horton,
$218,708 to Cleveland and $109,142 to Dinkins.
John Beasley, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said Wednesday his
clients were pleased with the decision.
“It’s as much as we could’ve gotten under the law,”
Beasley said.
Daryl Robinson, deputy counsel for the state attorney
general, said the University hasn’t decided whether it will
appeal the decision.
“In the next two weeks, we’ll make a decision as to what
course of action we’ll take,” he said.
Lawyers for the University have 30 days to decide
whether to appeal, Robinson said.
Horton, an information specialist in the University’s
Office of Public Information, said Wednesday she had spo
ken with her lawyer about the decision.
“We’re waiting to see what happens next — if the
University appeals — and to see if the end is in sight,”
Horton said.
In the lawsuit, Cleveland and Horton said Phil Williams,
director of Public Information for the Franklin College of
Arts and Sciences, unjustly received an annual salary
$12,000 greater than they did.
Dinkins, associate editor of Georgia Magazine, also sued
the University for pay inequities, claiming that Kent
Hannon, editor of Georgia Magazine, was unjustifiably paid
more money than she was.
Dinkins declined to comment about the decision Wednesday.
In the trial, Beasley said he sought to prove the women
demonstrated “equal effort, responsibility, and were
under similar working conditions” as their male
counterparts.
“Our clients are very pleased and believe the jury
assessed all the evidence and reached the correct result
and this order of the court is consistent with that,” he said.
Cleveland was unavailable for comment Wednesday.
► Jeff
Rountree, an
alumnus of
the
University,
walks his dog
Squirt in the
Oconee
Forest Park.
A corner of
the park is
one of four
possible sites
that
administrators
are consider
ing as a possi
ble area for
the new
Greek housing
village.
. STEPHEN JONES | The Red • Black
Officials discuss Greek Park sites
By DENA LEVITZ
dlevitz@randb.com
No bulldozers are plowing through campus
yet, but the University is eyeing four possible
sites on which to build a Greek housing village,
administrators said Wednesday.
The plan is still in a “conceptual stage,” said
Associate Vice President for Public Affairs Tom
Jackson.
But, he said, if a Greek Park does become a
reality, it probably would be housed in one of four
16-acre locations:
► at the “very southwest comer” of the
University’s Intramural complex adjacent to the
Athens Perimeter Highway at the Milledge
Avenue exit ramp
► at the western end of Lake Herrick
► near the intersection of Milledge Avenue
and Will Hunter Road next to the Women’s
Athletic Complex
► interspersed with Brumby and Russell resi
dence halls along South Finley Street
If the first location — in an area called Oconee
Forest Park — is chosen, a “dog run” would need
to be relocated, which has upset some park-
goers, Jackson said.
But he said the project is still “speculative,” so
there is an equal probability of the complex being
at any of these places.
“I wouldn’t place any bets on anything right
now,” he said, noting that the final location could
even be at a different site. “Each of these sites
has their controversies.”
Student Affairs officials have been “trying to
work up what a Greek Park might look like,”
Jackson said. Then they will ask for input from
members of the Greek community at an April
meeting.
Plans for a Greek Park indicate that 11 small
houses, with 22 people in each house, will be
built.
Fraternities and sororities would individually
decide whether they wanted to live in the com
plex, said Claudia Shamp, coordinator for Greek
Life.
Shamp and Jackson both said on- and off-
campus Greek organizations may be affected by
the Greek Park’s inception.
“So far there have been a lot of mixed
reviews,” Shamp said. “Groups don’t want to
leave where they are, but they see certain
benefits.”
Delta Phi Epsilon sorority owns its house,
located on Lumpkin Street, while the University
owns the land the house sits on, said sorority
member Kelly Trenarg. But Tau Kappa Epsilon
fraternity is one Greek organization which com
pletely owns its property, said Chris Nahstoll, vice
president of Tau Kappa Epsilon.
“We don’t want to be forced to move out of our
house,” he said, noting Tau Kappa Epsilon prob
ably wouldn’t subscribe to the Greek Park plan.
Richardson, Greenwood want 24-hour OASIS access
SCHEDULE OF PROFILES
By JUSTIN B. RUBNER
jrubner@randb.com
Tired of waiting in long OASIS
lines during drop-add?
Student Government Associa
tion presidential candidate
Chuck Richardson and his run
ning mate Dixon Greenwood are.
Richardson, a junior from
Roswell, said he would campaign
for students to have the option to
access OASIS 24 hours a day
from the comfort of their homes.
“There’s no reason to get up
and cram in those lines,”
Richardson said. “Now, if you get
home at 8 (p.m.), you can’t get
online.”
He said that if OASIS were
offered online all day, there would
be less server demand. Currently,
the system offers off-campus
► Richard Butler, Susan Maples —
Friday, Feb. 9
► Asma Anwar, Lisa Timmons —
Monday, Feb. 12
► George Azih, Aaron Tullar —
Tuesday, Feb. 13
► Lhoris Wilson, Trapper Key —
Wednesday, Feb. 14
► Chuck Richardson, Dixon Greenwood —
Thursday, Feb. 15
► Haylee Vance, Allie Smith —
Friday, Feb. 16
► Timothy Chen, Taylor Hunt —
Monday, Feb. 19
► Tunde Ezekiel, Daniel Carnegie —
Tuesday, Feb. 20
access from 5 to 7 p.m. during
drop-add. Richardson said
OASIS administrators have told
him the 24-hour online access
isn’t offered for fears of the sys
tem crashing.
“It should take away the rush
to get on OASIS at 5,”
Richardson said. “Their argu
ment doesn’t make any sense.”
Greenwood, a sophomore from
Knoxville, Tenn., said that if
OASIS can’t handle these
demands, then the University
should buy new programming
and hardware.
“The OASIS system is so out
dated,” Greenwood said. “We
need to get a new program. It
seems like pure ignorance to have
a system like that.”
The job of the SGA vice presi
dent is to conduct senate meetings.
Greenwood said when he first
started going to these meetings,
he was struck by the air of
bureaucracy and inefficiency.
“Things were so inefficient,” he
said. “It shocked me.”
Platforms among many of the
candidates are similar. But
Richardson and Greenwood say
they actually have a plan to make
their ideas work.
They plan to have several
committees tailored for concen
trating on individual issues, such
as OASIS reform, parking and
safety. They said they have writ
ten a comprehensive constitution
describing their platform as well.
On tackling the prickly issue of
parking, Richardson said that
like all issues, he plans to give
students the chance to speak
out.
And if elected, he would favor
freshmen still being able to park
on campus.
“Our campus is so spread out
that it helps having a car as a
freshman,” he said. “The major
problem with parking is getting
on campus, and most freshmen
live in the dorms.”
Addressing safety concerns,
Richardson said he would cam
paign for more foot patrols on
North Campus.
“I’d like to see North Campus
safer,” he said. “No one should be
scared.”
They both said they believe
they have a good chance of
winning.
“I think we have a rock-solid
platform,” he said. “Dixon and I
have the leadership qualities to
get this done.”
To see the full list of their plat
form, go to (www.richardsoncd.
homestead.com/chuckhome.
html).
SGA
2001
RICHARDSON GREENWOOD
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