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Petty resigns
By Roboknh Olbba
Editor In Chlof
Dr. Bill Petty professor and former dean
of the College of Business Administration
officially resigned at the end of March
said Dr. Royce Money vice president and
provost.
Petty was on leave for a year from
January 1990 to January 1991 as a visiting
professor of finance at the University of
Texas at Austin.
He said he resigned because of an op-
portunity at Baylor University to do
research and teach in the entrepreneurial
finance area.
Petty said he will begin in the job in the
fall.
Dr. Phil Lewis dean of the College of
Dragging sggits
Ag club team members Collete Kuykendall senior from
Abilene left and Stella Hampton senior from Abilene
Marx ill cancels Friday's concert
By Grctcfun Scrtultz
Managing News Editor
Rock singer Richard Marx who was
scheduled to perform Friday at Taylor
County Coliseum canceled his show
because of throat problems said Students'
Association president Wes Smith.
MuK not only canceled his Abilene
Woman discusses
difficult Soviet life
By Katlo Hooten
Optimist Staff
Irina Shvetsova McClellan a Soviet
woman separated from her American hus-
band for 11 years spoke to students
Thursday about her life in the Soviet
Union and the difficulties she experienced
with its government.
Shvetsova met her husband Woody
McClellan while working in the interna-
tional relations department in the Soviet
Union. She said she was scared of falling
in love with a man the Soviet Union con-
sidered to be an "evil capitalist" but they
started seeing each other. He went back to
the United States and two months later
she was "Invited" to visit the KGB.
"For me it was the first encounter with
the KGB and I felt very insulted about
conversing about my private life" "she
said. She was told she would be sent to
Siberia if she did not stop seeing Mc-
Clellan.
Although American and Soviet relations
were good in 1972 having a relatonship
with a foreigner was still a crime. Because
of her relationship with McClellan Shvet-
sova had to resign fiom her job and teach
English instead.
In the Soviet constitution a husband a
wife can live wherever they want to. Mc-
Clellan and Shvetsova got married in
1974 hoping to solve their difficulty by
moving to the United States. Instead of
letting them both go the KGB sent Mc-
Clellan home to stay. Shvetsova said she
1 was told she needed ;one year to clean my
head out."
Fpr 11 years the couple tried to find
some way to stay together. McClellan
pulled every American string he could.
Business Administration said Petty will
hold the Vill Caruth Chair of Small
Business Finance at Baylor.
Petty will continue as a visiting pro-
fessor at UT-Austin through the first six
weeks of the summer to fulfill his com-
mitment there.
He resigned as dean of the college May
9 1989. Four business professors resigned
in early March causing questions and
controversy among business students.
About the resigning of the four business
professors Petty said "I'm very disap-
pointed that ACU will be losing some of
the finest faculty it has."
Lewis said he could not comment about
whether Petty's resignation related to the
resignations of Dr. David Osborn Dr. Joe
Alexander and Dr. Paul Wertheim.
right go for a ride during the calf scramble competition at
the Intramural Rodeo Thursday night.
concert but also his entire spring tour
schedule said Smith senior art major
from Granbury.
Smith said Marx was scheduled to per-
form at three other Texas universities and
to tour with singer Tina Turner in Lon-
don. Major Entertainment Committee chair-
man Steve King said "We gave it 110
Shvetsova applied to all the agencies and
government groups she could. She even
demonstrated against the KGB. Nothing
seemed towork.
While they were separated Shvetsova
said she felt like she was in limbo. "I
couldn't be active like I was before."
Soviet and American relations were
deteriorating and she did not feel safe in
the Soviet Union. Her friends shunned
her and her daughter. Times were difficult
for them she said.
"I felt as if I was betrayed by the whole
world" she said.
Although she was not an avid church-
goer she had been baptized by her
grandmother years before. "All of my life
is shaking all my life is unbalanced I
didn't know where to go" she said.
She went to a Catholic church but the
iriest could not speak to her until she
earned a Latin prayer. She did not know
Latin and could not understand what the
prayer meant so she went to a Russian
Orthodox Church. There the priests
mumbled and she could not understand
what was going on.
A friend recommended a different
church so Shvetsova went. "When the
service was over I felt I had found my
place in life" she said. She offered a
prayer for a friend and realized she felt at
peace.
"Before I was angry at KGB
authorities everyone. But I stopped
demanding. I prayed to the icon to decide
my fate. Slowly my life was changing for
the good" she said. She found a priest she
could trust and began reading prayer
books and helping the priest baptize
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as professor
Money said he thinks Petty's resignation
probably ties in with the frustration in the
College of Business Administration but
he believes Petty's decision is independent
of the other three business professors'
decisions.
Money said his relationship with Petty
is cordial.
Petty said he encouraged students to
work closely with the faculty and ad-
ministration to continue to build a strong
college.
When asked if he had a personality con-
flict with President William J. Tcague
Petty said "I would not call it a personali-
ty conflict."
Teague said "He will be missed. I
regret his loss. We owe him a great debt ui
gratitude. Baylor University will provide
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percent but unfortunately it didn't work
out.
"That's how the music business is.
You're never really sure what's going to
happen when you arc involved with the
entertainment industry" said King senior
biology major from Mesquite.
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Jazz legend Ernio Watts performs with the Jazz Ensemble during the annual
ACU Jazz Festival in Cullen Auditorium Friday night. Watts has worked with
the Rolling Stones Lionel Richie and Whitney Houston and has contributed
his talents to movie soundlracks of "Qhostbusters" and "Tootsle."
him great opportunities for his research
and writing."
The administration knew Petty might
not return when he asked for his leave of
absence Money said.
He said he received no explanation
about the resignation in writing or per-
sonally but Lewis received a resignation
letter and showed it to Money.
Lewis said the resignation letter he re-
ceived from Petty was dated March 22.
Money said the administration hopes he
will someday return to ACU.
Petty originally planned to return as a
professor to ACU Lewis said.
"We're very sorry to see him go"
Lewis said. "He's been a great asset to
ACU and the College of Business in the
past. He will be missed."
Election
results
in runoffs
Dennis Coleman and Gary West are in
the runoff election for president of the
Students' Association after the election
Tuesday.
Jeff Orick also was a candidate for SA
president. Orick received 227 votes Col-
eman received 315 votes and West re-
ceived 371 votes.
Randy Vaughn was elected vice presi-
dent; he received 723 votes. He ran
against LaNita Burgess who received 194
votes.
Brent McCall and Steve Brannon are in
the runofT for the treasurer position. Jon
James also ran for the position of treasur-
er. James received 80 votes Brannon re-
ceived 394 votes and McCall received 441
votes.
The run-off election for the executive
" fiIces"wilr-beconduaed Wednesday in
the Ticket Window of the Campus
Center.
A runoff election is called between the
two candidates getting the most votes if no
one has 50 percent of the total vote.
The election committee disqualified
Paul Ramsey from running for president
because of violation of the Students'
Association By-Laws Section III C. 1. b.
It states: "Each candidate must submit an
official petition bearing the signature and
LD. number of one hundred (100) quali-
fied voters before a set deadline."
In the same section the by-laws state:
"Any violation of election procedures will
disqualify a candidate from that particular
office."
Ramsey failed to turn in his petition be-
fore the Friday deadline.
"I really respect Paul for the way he's
handled the situation that he's in and I
think a lot of people respect Paul because
they see how lie's handling it" said Wes
Smith SA president and senior art major
from Granbury.
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Mrs. Don H. Morris p. 3
The Grandmother of ACU was
born two years before the establish-
ment of the university in 1906.
Track p. 6
The men's and women's teams did
not fair as well as expected in the
Texas Relays in Austin.
Horse judging p. 4
The team tied for first place last
weekend at the Southwest Region
Horse show in Lubbock.
U.S. crime capital
gets bad publicity
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta's des-
ignation as the nation's big-city crime
capital for the second consecutive year
b a pdblic relations disaster that
could affect the city's bid to host the
1996 Olympics a pollster said.
"This did for the reputation of
Atlanta what the Titanic did for the
reputation of ocean liners"
Claibourne Darden president of
Darden Research said Monday.
According to The Atlanta Constitu-
tion which analyzed FBI statistics for
1989 that were released Sunday
Atlanta had the highest number of
serious crimes reported per 1000
population of any big city those
with at least 300000 residents dur-
ing 1989.
The Atlanta figure was 210 per
1000. Miami ranked second with 189
per 1000; Dallas was third with 168
per 1000
The crimes counted include
murder rape robbery aggravated
assault burglary larceny and auto
theft.
Greyhound suit
excuse to bargain
WASHINGTON (AP) - Union of-
ficials accused by Greyhound officials
of organizing strike violence contend
a $30 million civil suit filed by the
company is merely an excuse not to
return to the bargaining table.
"We have consistently asked this
company to present its evidence. We
know that there is no evidence.
They've simply pointed the finger of
blame at employees and used the issue
as a smoke screen" for not resuming
negotiations union spokesman Nick
Nichols said Monday after
Greyhound filed suit in U.S. District
Court in Jacksonville Fla.
The suit claimed unlawful anions
by the Amalgamated Transit Union
and 20 union officers have cost the
company at least $10 million. It ac-
cused the union of violating provi-
sions of the federal Racketeer Influ-
enced and Corrupt Organizations Act
which allows triple damages to be
assessed.
Low ratings cause
Sajak to be axed
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A com-
plete overhaul failed to revive the
sagging late-night fortunes of "Wheel
of Fortune" host Pat Sajak whose
CBS talk show goes around for the
final time next week.
The one-hour time slot at 11:30
p.m. will be replaced after the April
16 show with reruns of other pro-
grams until fall when original pro-
gramming will be introduced Rod
Perth the CBS vice president of
late-night programs said Monday.
The 15-month-old show long
rumored to be heading for cancella-
tion has been at the bottom of late-
night talk show ratings for most of its
short life. In February the. network
gave the show a new look to try to
boost the number of viewers.
The Optimist regrets reporting in-
correctly in the front page headline in
Friday's edition that Randy Vaughn
and Deeann Comolli selected the In-ter-G
leaders. Dennis Coleman and
Lynette Fikes selected the leaders for
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