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BLUE EDITION Tuesday, September 26,1995 Vol.68, No. 21 / On-campus phones Check out all the latest on the new 688 <• prefix, call waiting and long distance George-Anne authorization Georgia Southern University's Official Student Newspaper statesboro, Georgia 30460 Founded 1927 codes for all dorm telephones. Please see story page 5A Construction delayed Committee searches By Christopher Cole for new athletic director BRIEFLY... Editor The construction on both By Ronnie Swinford to have a recommendation to Reconstruction to attract sides of Georgia Avenue be- Sports Editor President Nicholas Henry by tween Chandler and Fair roads GSU has received 53 appli- November," Van Tassell said. new Albany State president is expected to be complete by cations for the job of athletic "We are looking for some- director to replace David The Associated Press Sept. 30, but weather and other one who has an entrepreneur- problems have delayed the pro- "Bucky" Wagner. One of the ial and organizational back- ALBANY—The $ 103 million rebuild- cess. applicants is interim director ground, like we have had be- ing of Albany State College after the "We hoped to be through by Frank Ellwood. fore," Henry said Monday. "I 1994 floods should help attract good now," said Bonnie McMakin, a "When you get into a field think that this is a choice candidates for its soon-to-be-vacant spokeswoman for the Depart- like this you want to go as high job." presidency, University System Chan- ment of Transportation, Fri- as possible, and that would be The position opened in cellor Stephen Portch said. day afternoon. "It shouldn't the director's job," Ellwood July when Wagner resigned "People will want to come here," Portch take more than a couple of said. from the job he had held for told the college's search committee. "You weeks." 'Tdon't know if I am the top 14 years. During that time, have had a flood and other challenges, candidate for the job. I'm not the Eagles soared to four 1- ; McMakin said rainfall and but those things won't stand in your workload from other contracts on the committee," he said. AA football national champi- way. What president wouldn't want to has delayed the project. Ellis The list of applicants in- onships and a trip to the come into a brand new campus with Wood Construction Company cludes seven current athletic College World Series. money to take a graduate program to a of Statesboro is working on the directors, such as the Univer- Wagner also oversaw the national level of pre-eminence?" contract, which has a comple- sity of Georgia associate Ath- building of Paulson Stadium, Portch, who appointed the nine-mem- tion date of Sept. 30, she said. letic Director John Shafer, and major renovations to Hanner : ber panel, told the group to consider Wood, the company's owner Duke University assistant and the new baseball build- hiring a search firm to help find a re- and spokesman, did not return Barry Wilson. ing. placement for Billy Black, who will re- several telephone calls by press Shafer has been an associ- "It takes an entrepreneur tire in June after 16 years as president. time. ate for 12 years at UGA. to be athletic director at Portch challenged the committee to The city of Statesboro con- Wilson, a native of Savan- GSU,"Wagner said. "You be aggressive in selling the historically tracted the project with DOT James Hill nah, served as the head foot- must be able to generate mon- black college to prospective applicants. ball coach at Duke for four ies for the coaches." to widen that portion of Geor- The west side of Georgia Avenue between Players Club and He said the pool of semifinalists should years. gia Avenue into a three-lane College Cinemas is undergoing contruction of a sidewalk while the Wagner said the hardest include individuals of different race, gen- "We need to do some home- part of the job is keepi ng com - road — two traffic ways and a entire road is being widened to three lanes. der and academic backgrounds. center turn lane. McMakin said work on the candidates," said munication open between the "I'm certain that race has nothing to Statesboro began the project Before concrete can be few" more driveways must still Lane Van Tassell, dean of coaches, players, boosters and do with qualifications," said Veula because of "high traffic volume" poured, the soil must be com- be cleared. Once that is done, graduate studies and head of the NCAA. Rhodes, the committee chairwoman and on the roadway. pacted — an impossible task she said, the sidewalk will be the search committee. "There is no middle ground head of the college's history and political The construction also in- when the ground is wet. poured and the road asphalt "We will try and narrow in the job," Wagner said. "You science department. cludes a new sidewalk along "Once the widening is done, overlayed. the list to between five and 10 must be prepared to work 18 Serving a historically black student the western side of Georgia rain wouldn't hurt," McMakin She said that besides the in the next week or so. We will hours a day." body remains important, even as the Avenue between College Cin- said. "But when the soil is wet, weather problems, the con- then narrow those down to be- 'The reason anyone would college works to increase diversity, ema and Players Club. The new you can't get compaction." struction is seeing progress. tween three and six and have take the job is because of the Portch said. sidewalk is part of the reason McMakin said the drainage "It looks pretty good out them come on campus for in- people and the school," he the project has taken so long. pipe is complete, but that "a there," she said. terviews in October. We hope said. WORD OF THE DAY accismus (akSIZmus) n. a pretended §QfflQgOf 22ff0fS Stutl&HtS Off fffflflGf ©Cf£ICcl»IOW refusal ordisclaiming, as when a guest By Ashley Hunt rejects the host's initial offer of a drink "The lottery funds have been a great change for our see what publications are available. News Editor state, and it has made it possible for us to do some "Everything we have in our system would be acces- in the hope that the host will insist that State Senator Jack Hill discussed "changes of fantastic things," he said. sible to you," he said. the guest have a drink, or when a direction" in higher education to the student govern- Hill also said another goal is to register students Hill also said Georgia's Regents budget was rela- politician insists that he or she has no ment Sept. 20. for classes by telephone beginning sometime around tively high due to an increase in students. The budget plans to run for office while secretly "What I want to talk about... is what I see as the the first of the year. grew in 1993-94 by 10 percent and by 12.5 percent in hoping to be nominated change in direction of higher education and what I "I don't know where we are in the process down 1994-95. see as the changing environment of our state," Hill "Georgia is unique; it is one of the fastest growing Source: Weird Words said. "THE LOTTERY FUNDS HAVE BEEN A states in the country," he said. "We have a growing Hill, a Democrat from Reidsville, is chairman of enrollment in our institutions of higher education, the Senate Higher Education Committee. His dis- GREAT CHANGE FOR OUR STATE, AND IT one of only five or six states a year ago that had an 'BORO WEATHER trict includes Bulloch, Screven, Tatnall, Evans and actual increase in the number of students. Unlike Jenkins counties. HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO DO any other states, Georgia does have an increasing Today One "change in direction" that Hill said he sup- SOME FANTASTIC THINGS." enrollment, which is wonderful for our state because ports, along with University System Chancellor we can sell higher expenditures for higher educa- Cloudy with a 20 Stephen Portch, is to concentrate more on students. — SENATOR JACK HILL tion." percent chance "What we are attemptingto do through him [Portch] Sen. Hill also discussed some changes in the HOPE of showers and ... is to focus on students, focus on better service program. a high near 80. {£% delivery, and putting our resources where we can do here, but that is the statewide goal," he said. No other state has a program like the HOPE students the most good," he said. All the improyements in campus technology are a scholarship, and other states are attempting to imple- Wednesday Hill also discussed several initiatives from the way to bring students and faculty closer together and ment scholarship programs, he said. Partly cloudy Board of Regents. One of these, Hill said, is to make to make a student's introduction to college and col- Hill said he estimated there are over 33,000 with highs in better use of technology.