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I GA Botanists Study-
Greenhouse Plants
Richard I) O'Barr, former manager of technical publi
cations with Southern Airways. Atlanta, became manager
of the University greenhouses in July.
O Barr received a degree in Ornamental Hortic ulture
from Auburn Prior to his University appointment, he was
affiliated with the* Chrysler Space Division at Cape Ken
nedy and in Huntsville. Alabama
The greenhouses provide teach
ing materials and house re
search projects for faculty and
graduate students. There are
representative plants from var
ious geographic areas, includ
ing citrus plants, orchids, and
cacti.
In the Baldwin greenhouse*.
Dr. Sam Jones. Jr., is involved
in research to determine if
certain plants formerly believed
to be separate species might
actually be hybrids
On the graduate level. O.
C. Lamb and Joe Bill Camp
bell are experimenting with ash
and sweetgum seedlings from
every state in the Union to
determine whether differences
in these trees in each state are
deter mint'd by environmental
factors, such as day length,
or by genetic differences.
McCarthy
Supporters
Make Plans
The Clarke County chapter of
the National McCarthy for
President Club held its weekly
meeting Monday night at 8:00
p.m. at the Westminister House
on S. Lumpkin Street.
During the* meeting, the
members discussed arrange
ments for forthcoming events
which will include an open
house on August 1st from 5
p.m. to 9 p.m. at the local
McCarthy headquarters at 151 1 z
E. Clayton St. and a Georgia
Democrats for McCarthy con
vention in Macon on August 10.
The purpose of the Macon
convention is to form a delega
tion to challenge the official
Georgia Democratic Party dele
gation appointed by Gov. Mad
dox. said a spokesman for the
group
Dr Phinizv Spalding, chair
man of the group, said that oth
er current activities of the local
chapter include a telephone
canvass of voters by a group
called “Housewives for Mc
Carthy.” the petition cam
paign for signatures against the
method of selec ting the delega
tion to the Democratic National
Convention, and general cam
paigning for the candidate
Other activities discussed in
cluded the* recent caravan to
Atlanta to meet Senator Mc
Carthy during his visit to ad
dress a dinner sponsored bv the
Fulton County democrats.
Approximately 50 people at
tended the Athens meeting on
Mondav
The greenhouses are main
tained at an average tempera
ture of 60 degrees at night
and a maximum of 85 degrees
during the day. Both the soil
and the pots used in research
are sterilized in ovens set at
270 degrees F with thirty pounds
of steam pressure.
During the next twelve to
eighteen months, the Univer
sity will acquire another 11.000
square feet of greenhouse area.
This struc ture, provided for by
a recent Federal grant, will
be located on College Station
Road near the Forestry Office.
He says the values of mulch
ing are countless. It keeps the
ground cooler around the plant,
keeps the moisture in. voids the
formation of a hard crust on
the soil s surface, helps con
trol weeds, and allows water
penetration as well as gaseous
interchange
Organic mulc hes decompose
slowly to feed microorganisms
in the soil, facilitating plant
growth.
Reprimands Mailed
To Demonstrators
Official Warnings Sent
To All Petition Signers
The plant operations depart
ment was busy yesterday let
ting off steam. Anyone in the
Graduate Research Building
ended the day with tightened
ear drums as the Bulldog ver
sion of "Old Faithful" spouted
forth its message to all pas-
sers-bv.
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High School Debaters
Gather for Workshop
Candidate Says
Talmadge Lacks
Former Power
Earl Patton, candidate for
the Republican nomination to
the U.S. Senate from Georgia
recently visited Athens. During
his stay, he met with represent
atives of the University student
body.
Patton discussed his chances
in a race against U.S. Senator
Herman Talmadge.
"The Talmadge name does
not have the vote pulling power
it once had
"While he formerly counted on
the rural support in the st£.te,
too many farmers have become
dissatisfied with his work in
Washington and are ready for a
change.'’ Patton said.
In referring to the desire of
many of Georgia's rural citi
zens. Patton said. "The night 1
qualified for the Senate race, a
farmer in South Georgia called
me up and told me that his
cows were going to milk better
now that he could vote against
a Talmadge."
Patton will face fellow Repub
lican Jack Sells, state senator
from Atlanta, in the September
primary. The winner of that
race will face the winner of the
primary race between Tal
madge and Atlanta attorney
Maynard Jackson
By LAMAR CROWLEY
Approximately 125 high school j
students from 18 states are now
gathered at the University for
the third annual University
Summer Debate Workshop
The Workshop is directed by
Dr. Richard C. Huseman.
Director of Debate at the Uni
versity.
Students are being instructed
in methods of debate by profes
sors Tom McClain. Northwest
ern University. Herb James.
Darmouth College. Merwvn
Hayes. Wake Forest University,
and Richard C. Huseman and
Chester Gibson, both of the Uni
versity.
During the two weeks' in
struction period, the students
will participate in practice
rounds of debate and do inten
sive research.
Herb James and Tom Mc
Clain are well known in the
field of debate. James has
coached several national cham
pionship teams and was chosen
coach of the year by George
town University in 1966 He is
currently the Director of De
bate at Dartmough College
McClain. Director of Debate at
Northwestern University, has
coached a national champion
ship team and was named
coach of the year by George
town University in 1965
Representation in the Third
Annual Workshop is the most
widely spread geographically in
the* history of the workshop.
Students are attending from Al
abama. California. Florida. Ha
waii. Illinois. Indiana. Kentuc
ky. Louisiana. Michigan. Minne
sota. Missouri. New York.
North Carolina. South Carolina.
Tennessee. Texas, and Wiscon
sin. The students are chosen
from those recommended by
the high school debate coaches
throughout the country.
Dr. Huseman is teaching
a course. "Directing Debate." in
connection with the summer in
stitute. This course prepares
high school debate coaches to
understand better debate tech
niques. Those coaches taking
the course act as counselors in
the dormitory and judge the
practice rounds in debate.
By BRUCE FITZPATRICK
In accordance with a previous
announcement, the Dean of
Women and the Doan of Men
will issue approximately 350 let
ters of reprimand this week
These letters will be sent to
the students who. during the
sit-in demonstrations in April,
signed a petition saving that
they were involved in the dem
onstration.
Dean of Men William Tate
said that there will bo approxi
mately 150 letters issued to
women students and approxi
mately 200 issued to men stu
dents
One petition that many stu
dents signed said. "We the un
dersigned men hereby declare
our connivance* in all the ac
tions taken by the women in
volved in the march and subse
quent sit-in demonstration that
have taken place on the day of
April 10. 1968."
According to the Dean of
Men's office, there were manv
petitions, but all of them were
worded similar to the above.
The letter of reprimand will
read as follows.
"Dear (Miss or Mr I —,
In April. 1968. a group of stu
dents occupied a University
building after regular hours in
defiance of written requests
from both the Dean of Students
ami the* President of the Uni
versity to vacate these premis
es. Your signature appeared on
a list submitted to the* Dean of
Students, stating that you. as
an individual, were willing to
accept joint responsibility for
the conduct at this sit-in dem
onstration. Your participation in
this demonstration was no part
of any constructive steps by
which the* rules of the Universi
ty for student (*onduct are
made or amended
"This letter is vour official n<>-
ttae oi reprimand a copy of
this letter will be* retained in
your files by this office and an
other will be sent to your par
ents. This letter will, therefore.
Curtis Sees Center
As Great Challenge
"It’s quite a challenge and I
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATERS
have found much work to be
done." Dr. John R. Curtis re
marked when asked how he
was enjoying his new position
as Dirwtor of Health Services
for the University.
"The receptivity of the ad
ministration. staff, and students
has been quite good, and I am
pleased with the backing of
such people as the President,
the Vice President for Instruc
tion. the* Comptroller, the Dean
and Assistant IX*an of Students
"We are trying to encounter
the needs of students with the*
best possible medical care, not
only serving the physical health
needs but also the emotional
problems of students
"Next year, if we are fully
staffed, the University will have
one of the most comprehensive
facilities, providing a full pro
gram ot counseling and therapy
as well as minor and transient
problems .
Dr Curtis also said that the
professional men of the staff
will not remain in the Infirma
ry building at all times. They
will speak to various campus
groups for the purpose of teach
ing University students what
good medicine ought to be
Dr. Curtis would like to in
volve students on campus as
much as possible in the overall
health service program.
He has several ideas for im
proving the health service spon
sored by the University which,
he believes, will prove benefi
cial to the students For exam
ple, a campus organization, a
fraternity or sorority, could
adopt the Health Service as a
project for the extension of a
better community attitude to
ward good health lenriew II'
suggested that students could
set up blood donation centers
and be helpful in times of epi
demics and the like
stand as a firm warning that
future serious disregard for re
gulations could result in your
separation from the University
of Georgia.
"The University always regrets
the need for disciplining a stu
dent. and this office stands
ready to discuss this instance
with you at any time that you
might make an engagement to
do so.
Sincerely yours."
The letters were either signed
by Dean Tate or Dean of Wom
en, Daiise McBee.
Doan Tate said, "these letters
will not affect the status of re
turning students for the Fall
Quarter, but these students
should be extra careful not to
get in any trouble '
William Bracewell. counselor
to men. said, "we have worked
hard to verify these signatures
to make sure the names and
I D. numbers match. We realize
someone might have written in
someone else’s name and we
have tried to eliminate the ob
vious phonies."
There have been five students
suspended from the University
in regard to the sit-in demon
strations.
Only one of these students.
David Simpson, lias appealed
His appeal has been turned
down by the Dean of Students'
office and will next be heard by
tlx* Faculty Committee on Stu
dent Affairs.
Ambrose Set
For Concert
August 6
Amanda Ambrose, sponsored
by the Cultural Affairs associa
tion. will present an open air
concert at 8 30 p.m. August 6th
in the Memorial Hall Quadrangle
To the delight of her listeners,
she presents a diversified pro
gram of folk songs, show tunes.
Irish ballads and contemporary
numbers Her repertoire is com
plemented by highly svtlized vo
cal and instrumental arrange
ments.
It is not very often that one
finis a performer who mounts
the stage alone except for her
piano and shares with her aud
ience a complete range of human
emotions, sav her fans
Miss Ambrose's success might
be traced to the intangible qua I
ity commonly labeled as "soul "
For when she sings, her voice
is edged with a sound that could
'University History, Part I
UNC Argues Validity Of ‘Earliest’ Claim
By WILLIAM TATE
Dean o? Men
(Editor’s note: Dean of Men
William Tate has become as
much a part of the Univer
sity as the arch of the Bull
dog. He is probably more quali
fied than any other indi
vidual to comment on the his
tory of the campus and the
Institution. The Red and Black
has invited Dean Tate to write
a three part series on the story
ol the University. Ilis personal
touch and grand <*ollcction of
experiences and stories cer
tainly do much to help make
the history of our college color
ful and real. Following is the
first of the three part series.!
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE
UNIVERSITY
In discussing the very color
ful history of the University,
the importance of Dr K Mer-
to Coulter's College life in the
Old South should lx
which to me is the most in
teresting book ever written
in my
for forty years, should be or
ganized and published
The phrase. "First State Char
tered University." is presumed
by some people to be a catch
phrase* with no significants*,
however, it marks us as the
first major institution to be
entirely under secular and politi
cal control, not only defined in
our first charter, but so re
defined in the several consti
tutional provisions by the* pre
sent Board of Regents
For the entire history of
the University, our final govern
ing body has been appointed by
the Governor
This has meant that the Uni
versity in Athens should be
peculiarly the child of the legis
lature and of the* political (low
ers in Georgia, not to be di
rectly governed by them but to
be sensitive to their interpre
tations ol our I unction within
Ibt Halt
they had a campus at Chapel
Hill, a faculty and a student
body by 1796. whereas we bought
our campus in 1800. Old College
was built, then we had classes
in MM
The University of South Caro
lina claims to be the* oldest and
really the only state univer
sity in the entire country, since
h‘*r charter says that no na
live of South Carolina can be
charged tuition but must be
not have originated in the vocal 1 a 1 |* , V t
thinking 1 would urg< every
Lovely I mss
The Red and Black "Girl of the Week for the first issue
of second session is Billie Ann Bolton, a first quarter fresh
man from Commerce. Billie enjoys reading, swimming, and
dating Shi* says she has a special fascination for debate team
captains and is serving as a temp»>rary secretary lor Debate
Team coach Dr Richard Huseman
Asked what her first reaction was to the University. Billie
replied that since she lived so close to the Umveisity all her
life it didn’t seem like anything new
organs It mostly comes from
some place deeper, possibly the ,
storehouse of emotions that those
with faith refer to as "soul"
There is something for every
one in the moods she sets, from |
mild hints of protest in a num
ber like The Door Swings
Both Ways" to the serious and
at times humorous bits around
the g«>spel number Let It Shine
It is difficult to decide in which
vocal mood she excells most
to read it.
P Brooks
and also Dr
more formal
This in turn has meant, more
I than would be true* in a private
or traditional school, that we
have been particularly eager to
have been of social and eco-
nomic service to the state in
The Lniversilv ol Georgia t. Ua < hl "K ultur,.. forestry
d<r Sixteen Administrations. ** ,h * ,,,h, ' r P ract,cal
In addition of rour-. there and ™ nnin f "»“«“•«“ <*
are dozens ol studies and short lha' have a very practi-
arttcles about the history o( | <*1 and political significant*
the University Sooner or later Rather humorously, our claim
the material organized by In- i ur be the first state university
cle" Tom Reed, a member «j# i has brought forth some argu-
the class of 1888 an issociate | rnents We were chartered in
of Henry Gradv and a mem- ITJfi. earlier than the Umver-
ber of the University staff j <jjtv of North Carolina, but
I AM TATE
given a free education; yet
we once charged $240 a year
for "tuition" whereas they were
charging $262 a year for "main
tenance”.
I wonder whether it made
any difference to a student,
since hi* had to shell out the
same kind of money in both
cases.
After these comments on
the charter. I suppose the* next
interesting point would be the
trip of the committee into North
Georgia to select a site for
the University which was to
be far away from the fever,
the poison air. and the swamps
along the Savannah River
After looking at several places,
including the town of Greens-
boro where the Senatus Academi-
cus (the title of the first govern
ing board > owned some land,
the committee chose this pla-
I! teau near Cedar Shoals, the*
name given to the several houses,
the gnst mill, and the saw
mill run by David Eadij where
|| the North Oconee poured over
a rock ledge
A thousand dollars was paid
for 632 acres, a college yard of
37 acres was laid off. and
the town of Athens was named as
the future home of Georgia s
first university
There was no faculty, but
a president was to be hired
from Yak* He was Josiah Meigs
who then turned south to be
the custodian of a campus
which had no buildings, no facul
ty, and no students
(Next Week The Earlv Years »
Four Men Die
Al University
Four University maintenance
men were electrocuted and two
were hospitalized when their
ladder fell against a power wir*
at the Fine Arts Auditorium
Wednesday. July 24. at 10:40
a.m.
Dead after the construction
accident were Darold Joseph
Crocker, 19. of Commerce; Ri
chard Fleming. 18. of Bowman,
\11inn R Smith SS oI Wintm
ville. and William Davenport.
33. of Athens.
Those crewmen hospitalized
were James I^angford, 63. of
Athens and Grady Pushatt, 31.
of Athens
The seventh member of the
work crew. Michael G. Miller,
21. of Douglas, was not injured,
a University spokesman said.
The maintenance men were
inserting structural steel rods in
the building to give it additional
support when the 40 foot sec
tional metal ladder they were
attempting to col lapse overbal
anced and fell across the power
lines.
Miller told the police he "was
about to climb the* ladder when
I saw it falling and jumped out
of the way It overbalanced and
fell across the line."
The injured men were at
tempting to hold the* ladder up
right for him to climb and re
lease the* latches which held the
collapsable section
When the ladder became un-
ballanced Miller stepped aside
as it fell across the power wire
According to University offi
cials, the accident <K*curred to
the rear of Fine Arts adjacent
to a parking lot.
When the accident occurred,
"fire just started popping from
the soles of their feet and they
all fell." said one* witness.
Two students a professor,
and a campus policeman assist
ed in administering first aid.
artificial respiration, and trans-
p«)rting the injured men to St
Mary’s and Athens General
Hospital
The accident was described
by one authority as the worst
electrocution accident he could
recall in Athens
One of the fatalities. Crocker,
was captain of the Commerce
High football team his senior
year He was working for the
University this summer plan
ning to return to college in the
Fall Fleming was a Nlav gradu
ate of Elberton High School