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THURSDAY
November 29, 2001
Vol. 109, No. 701 Athens, Georgia
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GIVE BLOOD!
>■ Sigma Pi fraternity
hosts a blood drive
Friday. PAGE 3
M AFTERHOURS: A spotlight
on celebrity look-aiikes
around campus. PAGE 2
IN SPORTS: A look at the
Bulldogs’ bowl possibilities.
PAGE 7
Memorial in ‘discovery phase’
By JONATHAN TONGE
jtonge@randb.com
The creation of a campus
memorial that will honor
University students who died in
military service is in the
“discovery phase,” according to
one official heading the
proposal.
Loch Johnson, chairman of
the University Council Facilities
Committee and of the subcom
mittee planning the memorial,
met with students Wednesday in
an open forum to receive their
feedback and suggestions.
About 25 students attended
the forum to vocalize their ideas
on the placement and design of
the proposed memorial.
Currently, there are six possi
ble sites the subcommittee is
considering for the memorial:
► between New College and
the University Chapel
>- on the comer of Lumpkin
and Broad streets
>• near the new Student
Learning Center, behind the
Army ROTC building
> by Reed Hall, in front of
Memorial Hall
>• near Coimor Hall
>- near the Ramsey Center by
the river
“We want a place where peo
ple actually travel — where (the
memorial) could be seen,”
Johnson said.
“We want people to be able to
think about the service that stu
dents have given to this coun
try,” he said. “But we don’t want
the area to be too isolated or
frenetic. It should be a place of
reflection.”
During the forum, students
also mentioned that the impor
tance of the memorial should be
visible and that its purpose
should be clear. Some suggest
ed including flagpoles that
would signal the meaning of the
memorial.
“(The students) don’t want it
to be mistaken for another
campus garden. They wanted it
to have a design to it that sig
nals it is a memorial,” Johnson
said.
The proposed memorial was
the subject of debate last spring
when some members of the
University community said the
wording of the proposal was
exclusive to different groups,
according to staff reports.
The proposal has been
reworded, but there is still dis
cussion over exactly who will be
honored.
“One student spoke about
not limiting the memorial to
honor just uniformed soldiers,”
Johnson said.
Some suggestions presented
at the forum were to include
foreign service officers, Peace
Corps volunteers and members
of the U.S. Agency for
International Development.
Allen Stovall, environmental
design professor and member of
the subcommittee, said
they will meet Friday to discuss
the suggestions from the
forum.
First U.S.
death in
combat
The war against terrorism suf
fered its first U.S. combat casualty
Wednesday, according to a CIA offi
cial.
CIA Director George Tenet con
firmed the death of Johnny
Michael Spann, 32, who worked for
the Directorate of Operations,
which includes covert operations.
Tenet said Spann was “where he
wanted to be — on the front lines
serving his country.”
Spann was killed during the
Mazir-e-Sharif prison uprisings.
Also on the war front, U.S.
Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld released information
that a leadership compound was
targeted by U.S. forces on Tuesday.
“Whoever was there is gonna
wish they weren’t,” Rumsfeld
said.
Wednesday in Afghanistan,
Taliban officials denied that the
leadership compound had been hit.
Abdul Salam Zaeef, the
former Taliban ambassador to
Pakistan, said Taliban leader
Mullah Mohammed Omar was still
alive.
“Mullah Mohammed Omar ... is
safe and sound,” Zaeff said.
U.S. troops were searching
Afghanistan Wednesday for Taliban
and al Qaeda leaders, specifically
suspected terrorist Osama bin
Laden.
Zaeef said the Taliban does not
know the location of bin Laden.
“We don’t know about his where
abouts. He is not in our territory,”
he said.
Also on Wednesday, the negotia
tions between the United Nations
and the Northern Alliance hit a
snag.
>• See UPDATE, Page 5
Picnicking in November
▲ Blair Everline, left, a junior from Jacksonville, Fla., shares a picnic lunch on
Herty Field Wednesday afternoon with Nathan Ralls, a senior from Richmond
Hill. The students took advantage of the days’ unseasonably warm weather.
LAURA EL-TANTAWY | For The Red a Black
Budget
cuts by
Dec. 1
By RACHEL VOTTA
rvotta@randb.com
The University will implement plans for a
$8,181,548 budget cut for the 2002 fiscal year by
Saturday.
The State Office of Planning and Budget
recently relayed the final decisions regarding a
•2.5 percent budget reduction to the Board of
Regents and the University System of Georgia.
Hank Huckaby, senior vice president for
Finance and Administration, said his office was
disappointed that the level of the budget cut was
not reduced.
“The Office of Planning and Budget required
each institution to submit two different plans.
One plan proposed that some reductions be
absorbed by programs out of their office, giving
the University some relief,” Huckaby said. “They
decided not to do that.”
However, Huckaby said the University was
pleased that the hiring slowdown, mandated by
the Office of Planning and Budget, had
ended.
“Since they approved budget plans it is no
longer necessary to add hiring management to
the restrictions; it is accounted for in the reduc
tions,” Huckaby said.
Nonetheless, he asked each department to
“exercise fiscal restraint” when hiring — filling
critical positions only.
“We will still be very cautious when approving
new hires at the University,” he said. “Critical
hires include public safety hires or health services
employees.”
The $53,333,175 in reductions statewide are
divided into two units: A and B. Unit A consists
of institutions that are formula funded, while
Unit B consists of programs that are line item
funded, Huckaby said.
Both sets of reductions must be implemented
no later than Saturday, according to a letter from
Huckaby to the deans, directors and unit heads
of every college or school at the University.
The largest cut in the University’s budget will
be in the area of personnel services, Huckaby
said.
“Personnel services is not faculty,” he said. “It
consists of staff and staff support services.”
Personnel services, along with travel, operat
ing supplies and equipment expenses, face the
largest reduction statewide — a $34,956,327 cut.
The two areas in Unit B with the greatest cuts
statewide are the Agricultural Experiment
Stations and Cooperative Extension Service.
They will each be reduced by $1,568,898 and
$1,455,435, respectively.
Both of those departments, along with most
other Unit B programs, exist at the University.
The Office of Planning and Budget is still
determining budget recommendations for 2003.
The full impact of those changes will be
unknown until Gov. Roy Barnes presents his rec
ommendations in January, according to a Nov. 16
letter sent by Bill Tomlinson, director of the
State Office of Planning and Budget, to Stephen
Portch, chancellor of the University System of
Georgia.
Huckaby said he was hopeful the office would
adopt the less financially burdensome
budget they rejected this year for the 2003 fiscal.
year.
When ‘Five’ Become One
▲ Ben Folds plays the 40 Watt tonight.
Tickets are $17. Story, Page 6
Terry College admissions may change
By LONA PANTER
lpanter@randb.com
Terry College of Business administrators are
working to make changes to their admission poli
cies that would allow only juniors and seniors to
be enrolled in the school.
“What we would like to do is go to a two-year
college like (the) Grady (College of Journalism
and Mass Communication),” said Robert
Gatewood, the associate dean of academic
programs at Terry.
With this plan, freshmen and sophomores
would remain in another college and apply for
entrance to the business school at the beginning
of their second semester sophomore year,
Gatewood said.
In order to change the admission policy, the
proposal must be approved by the University
Curriculum Committee, which is part of
University Council.
The switch to a two-year college would allow
Terry to create smaller classes and create a more
personal environment, Gatewood said.
“We don’t have much faculty-student interac
tion,” said Gatewood, adding that the large class
es limit the style, quality and structure of
teaching.
Some University business students have had
first-hand experience with the problems at Terry.
“It’s hard. Some people try to get classes, and
they can’t,” said Daniel Aarons, a sophomore
from Birmingham, Ala. “All my classes have 200
(to) 300 people.”
Aarons said offering more classes with fewer
u
“What we would like to do is go to a
two-year college like (the) Grady
(College of Journalism and Mass
Communication)”
ROBERT GATEWOOD
• Associate Dean of Academic Programs at Terry
students would greatly help with teacher-stu
dent interaction.
Enrollment at Terry has increased by 2,745
students since the 1992 fall semester.
The college also has hired 24 new faculty
members since fall 1998, but the increase in
faculty has not significantly decreased class
sizes.
Upper level classes have 80 to 85 students in
them, Gatewood said. Other University colleges
have an average of 22 students per upper level
class.
As the economy slows, more and more stu
dents become business majors, Gatewood said.
“It’s a national phenomenon,” he said. “A lot
of business schools I know of have increased (in
size).”
Gatewood said many students feel more mar
ketable in a slowing economy if they have educa
tion in a specific area of business. Both under
graduate and graduate school applications
increase when the country is in a time of reces
sion, he said.
HOUSTON GAME
Tickets up
for grabs
A “limited number” of tick
ets to Georgia’s noon show
down with Houston on
Saturday will be available
Friday morning at Stegeman,
said Kelley Lawrence of the
University Ticket Office.
Sales begin at 8:30 a.m.
Friday at booth No. 4 and will
continue until all tickets are
gone. Lawrence estimates
between 150 and 200 tickets
will be for sale.
The Bulldogs (7-'3)_will
battle for bowl position while
the Cougars (0-10) are looking
for their first win of the
season.
The Georgia-Houston
game was originally scheduled
for Sept. 15 but .rescheduled
due to the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks on New York and
Washington.
— Gentry Estes
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