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THURSDAY
March 13, 2003
Vol. 110, No. 126 | Athens, Georgia
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COLE ACCUSATIONS
Court denies injunction, students protest
MEGAN NADOLSKI | The Red & Black
▲ Jarvis Hayes puts on a “Tony Cole Sucks” shirt in front of a hoard of rallying students at
the Administration Building Wednesday afternoon. Hayes promised there would be “one last
game” played the Thursday after spring break.
Hearing to take
place Monday
By BRADLEY HANDWERGER
bhandwerg@randb.com
Two Georgia basketball players
lost a last-ditch effort to remove
the University’s self-imposed ban on
postseason play when their request
for an injunction was denied by an
Athens-Clarke County judge.
On Monday, University President
Michael Adams and Athletics
Director Vince Dooley announced
that Georgia would not participate
in any postseason tournaments
because of academic fraud and
impropriety in the basketball
program.
The University, the Board
of Regents and the Athletic
Association all were named in the
suit filed Tuesday by senior guard
Ezra Williams and junior forward
Steve Thomas.
“A lot of players are upset, but
these are the two that had the
strength to come out,” said
Mary Byers, one of the attorneys
representing Williams and Thomas.
“A lot of them are scared of the
repercussions.”
Judge David Sweat denied
the injunction request Wednesday,
setting another hearing for Monday
at 9 a.m.
Georgia law states that an
injunction must be followed by a
five-day grace period in which the
defendant in the case can be notified
of the suit, Byers said.
“I feel like (the University) knew
about the five-day waiting period,”
she said. “I’m just a little
suspicious.”
Monday, however, would be too
late for the Bulldogs, who were
almost assured of gaining a spot in
the NCAA tournament before the
scandal broke Feb. 27.
The NCAA makes its tournament
selections Sunday evening, less than
24 hours before the Monday hearing.
Paul Lancaster, another of
Williams and Thomas’ attorneys,
said the team of lawyers has been
talking with the NCAA.
“We are making some contact
with the NCAA to see what their feel
ing is,” Lancaster said. “At this stage,
we don’t know. We’re hopeful.”
NCAA Selection Committee
Chairman Jim Livengood told the
Associated Press the possibility
of holding out for the hearing is
“impossible.”
“The bracket we put out Sunday
night is the bracket we intend to play
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday of next week,”
Livengood said.
Matt Winston, assistant to the
president, told The Red & Black
before Wednesday’s rally on
North Campus that “there really is
no reaction.”
“You’re telling me the judge’s
decision, so I can’t say anything,”
Winston said.
Lancaster said he thought the
University’s decision was made to let
future Georgia teams remain in good
standing with the NCAA.
“They’ve taken opportunities that
these players earned on the court
and have given it to unknown
players in the future,” he said.
“That’s injustice.”
Freshmen basketball players Nick
and Jay McAuley both said the first
they had heard about an injunction
was at Tuesday’s team meeting.
“We heard it might take place and
hopefully, it does something,” Nick
McAuley said before learning of the
decision.
Sophomore guard Damien
Wilkins said he only knew a little bit
about the injunction.
“We just want to get a decision
made to let us play,” he said.
Jarvis Hayes, a junior guard who
declared for the NBA draft on
Tuesday, said he wasn’t in on the
decision to try to get an injunction
and wasn’t sure how the decision
was made.
Players take stage
at student rally
By HILARY HILLIARD
hhilliard@redandblack.com
Their marker-and-cardboard
signs and their booming, organized
chants said it all: they wanted their
team to play, and they were mad as
hell at Tony Cole and Michael
Adams.
The couple hundred Georgia
fans who turned out at the
Administration Building for a stu
dent-organized rally in support of
the basketball team Wednesday
were there to make a statement —
about the former basketball player
who released a scandal at their
school and about the University
president who, they believe,
mishandled the situation.
The fans carried handmade
messages: “Tony Cole can’t read
this sign,” “Send Adams to Iraq,”
“We want an apology.” They sported
T-shirts with “Tony Cole Sucks”
sprawled across them, and they
chanted, “Let them play.”
Sophomore Chip Barber said he
organized the event so fans could
have their voices heard.
But on Wednesday, at least, they
wouldn’t be heard by Adams —
the man Barber originally said the
rally was aimed to inspire.
He spent the day in Atlanta at a
Board of Regents meeting and
headed to New Orleans Wednesday
evening for a meeting of SEC school
presidents.
“He would, in fact, like to be here
to talk to you as I am now,”
University Provost Arnett Mace told
students in his first day on the job.
But even though Adams couldn’t
make an appearance, fans were
satisfied by the quasi-celebs who
did: the basketball players.
After about 30 minutes, Jarvis
Hayes, his twin brother Jonas and
Damien Wilkins came strutting
through the crowd. Jay and Nick
McAuley, freshmen on the team,
were there before their arrival.
► See PROTEST, Page 6
Student dies
in car accident
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
awomack@randb.com
Black sheets covered the
letters of many Greek houses
Wednesday as fraternity and
sorority members mourned the
death of one of their own.
Chris Crane, a sophomore
pre-pharmacy major from
Thomasville and a member of
the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity,
died Tuesday in a car accident
on U.S. Highway 441 South.
About two-tenths of a mile
north of the highway’s junction
with Georgia Highway 53 —
near Watkinsville — Crane’s
gray 2001 Honda Civic left the
road and hit a parked tractor
trailer truck, said Edward Kuza,
communications equipment
officer for the Georgia State
Patrol.
He said the driver of the
tractor trailer truck parked the
truck on the side of the road to
fix a mechanical problem.
Crane was pronounced dead
at the scene, Kuza said.
No one was reported as
traveling in the car with Crane.
Another vehicle traveling
in the same direction as Crane
also was involved in the
accident.
Kuza said that vehicle’s
driver was injured.
The tractor trailer truck
driver also was injured, he said.
Further information regard
ing the driver of the second
vehicle and the tractor trailer
truck driver was not available
as of press time.
Kuza said the accident still is
under investigation.
Crane’s family will receive
visitors at Allen and Allen
Rineral Home, located at 110 W.
Hansell St., in Thomasville,
Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The
funeral
will be held
at 11 a.m.
Saturday at
Thomasville
First Pres-
b y t e r i a n
Church.
Crane’s
fraternity
brothers are
wearing
black electrical tape over the
letters on their fraternity
T-shirts in his memory for the
next 30 days.
“We’re wearing it because
we’re all brothers, but also
because it’s a black mark — a
sign of mourning,” said
Greg Wright, a junior from
Marietta and president of Phi
Kappa Psi.
He said Crane was a
member of the fraternity’s
fall 2001 pledge class.
“Chris was really easy going
— an all around pretty good
guy,” Wright said. “And one hell
of a cook.”
L.D. Murray, a sophomore
from Savannah and a member
of Phi Kappa Psi, said Crane
was a “very fun-loving guy.”
“You could always pick him
out in a crowd,” he said.
Roy Johnson, a junior from
Marietta and a member of Phi
Kappa Psi, said Crane always
was telling jokes to make
people laugh.
“He made everybody he was
around laugh,” Johnson said.
The members of Phi Kappa
Psi are sad over the loss of their
brother, he said.
“We’re all very sad that
(the accident) happened,”
Johnson said. “It just goes to
show you that it can happen to
anybody at any time.”
CRANE
ELISSA EUBANKS | The Red & Black
HUNDRED
MAN MARCH
◄ Sobek Ma’at Amun-re, a
member of 1.9 percent, an
organization dedicated to
increasing diversity on cam
pus, speaks with Athens-
Clarke County Lt. C. Epps
about proper protest per
mits. The group held what
they called a 100 Man
March Wednesday, walking
from the Tate Student
Center to the Arch, stopping
at the Office of the
President to discuss their
proposal for hosting an open
forum. For more about
the 100 Man March, see
Page 3.
Bomb threat evacuates Snelling
By AMY LEIGH WOMACK
awomack@randb.com
Students’ hunger pangs
were put on hold Wednesday
night when Snelling Dining
Hall was evacuated follow
ing a bomb threat.
University Police Chief
Chuck Horton said Athens-
Clarke County 911 received a
call stating that there was a
bomb at Snelling at about
5:45 p.m.
He said the call was made
by a man, but no other infor
mation was available as of
press time Wednesday night.
Dining hall staff then
were notified of the threat
and the building was evacu
ated, Horton said.
Alan Faulkner, a senior
from Jefferson, said he
was eating with friends
at the time Snelling was
evacuated.
“Somebody came
through waving their arms
and telling everybody to get
out,” he said. “Then aU the
employees started running.”
Michael Floyd, director
of Food Services, said the
dining hall was evacuated
according to procedure.
“We got all the customers
out within a few minutes,”
he said.
As students stood across
the street from Snelling
on Sanford Drive, bomb
sniffing dogs and University
police officers scoured the
building for a bomb.
Other officers dusted
the pay phone outside the
building for fingerprints.
As of press time, no
information regarding what
was or was not found had
been released by the police.
Employees returned
to work — resetting the
dining hall for customers —
at 6:47 p.m.
Students were offered
chocolate chip cookies as
they waited to go back into
the building.
Floyd said other campus
dining centers were alerted
to the situation at Snelling
so they could be prepared to
take extra customers.
He said students were
allowed to return to the
dining hall about 30 minutes
after employees resumed
work.
One employee — after
returning to work — told
someone she was having
chest pains and thought
she was having a heart
attack, Floyd said.
He said dining hall work
ers called an ambulance that
quickly arrived at Snelling.
The employee was exam
ined and treated, Floyd said.
“Fortunately, she did
not have a heart attack,”
he said. “It just goes to
show what effect stress
can have in these kinds of
situations.”
dan McLaughlin i the red & black
▲ University detective
Alex Morrow, right, and
University police officer
Anthony Ragan, left,
examine a telephone
for fingerprints outside
Snelling Dining Hall
Wednesday evening
after a bomb threat was
called in.
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