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The Red and Black
Thursday, November 20, 1969
Ci)i fteb anb IBlacfe
Michael Howell, Editor
Sandra Scaramucci
Business Manager
Michael Howell
Editor
Pat Rogers
Managing Editor
The UGA paradox
In many instances the University
is a paradox Hut in no other area
of university affairs is this afflic
tion more pronounced than in the
process of faculty promotions It is
not congruent with the supposed
educational intent of the institution
to base an instructor's chances for
advancement purely on the signifi
cance ol his research and the vol
ume of his publishes) work
According to policy statements
and natural mission, the University
exists to teach, with research and
services entering the picture when
they are supplements to this pri
mary instructional mission The
University should not be a service
agency, or if it elects that role
should cease teaching and exist
completely to assist farmers in
raising better soybeans.
The instructor who bridges the
gap between student and inspires
these bodies to think for them
selves. independent of the forms
and norms of the past, is the man
who is of then greatest value to the
University. It is the good teacher
who builds the reputation of the
school, not the man who is given
teaching time credit because he
has received a mediocre grant to
study a mediocre subject
We do not deprecate the role of
research in education It is only
through looking past standing
knowledge that progress is made
Our complaint is with the sacrific
ing of the emphasis on instruction
which the publish or perish'' sys
tem has created Since the Univer
sity exists for the education of the
student, a system which demands
that the instructor place teaching
second to pursuits affecting the
outside rather than the inside of the
University can only be termed a
poor effort at achieving objectives.
Students are 'aught that such ig
noring of an objective is bad busi
ness.
The research budget at this Uni
versity has grown in volume at a
galloping rate and this increase has
brought a great deal of honor and
national recognition to the Univer
sity. This achievement rating
which the University has attained
is something all of us are glad to
see However, we feel the Universi
ty must make a basic decision as
the quest for national eminence
goes. on. Is this institution going to
follow the well-travelled road of
the "publish or perish' promoting
sysem. or is it going to break away
trom the pack and implement a
unique system by which a teacher
is rewarded on his intructional
ability rather than his syntax?
National eminence is a wonder
ful thing, but glory is not the "rai
son d'etre" for the University The
premier function of the Universi
ty is to teach those who meet the
requirements lor enrollment.
When research serves this end, it is
necessary. If instruction can re
ceive top priority, we find no grip
with the program
Until the University rewards
teaching first and voluminous writ
ing second, we tear true excellence
of the national variety sought will
be slow in coming
Review involvement
Elsewhere on this page is a black
box containing the anonomyous
summation of several cases which
have come before the courts of the
Student Judiciary The article
gives the charge ievied. the rules
those charges break, the verdict
and any punishment assigned
It is hoped that these synopsises,
run regularly in the paper, will help
inform the students on the judici
ary and its operations We feel the
student needs to know about the
system which is judging him We
hope this series will lultill that
role
The Judiciary is seeking, in all
its actions and decisions, to protect
and enhance the rights of the stu
dent defendant It has cooperated
with the Red andd Black in the
compiling of the information in this
first article
We urge students to use this
medium to learn about the practi
cal workings and decisions of the
Judiciary
A basic need
Now that the home football sea
son is over the Athletic Assoclauon
is taking its less than popular re-
sarved seating system and begin
mng a winter long review and reno
vation of the system in the hope
that the 1970 ticket situation will
not be faced with the roar of stu
dent disapproval which the 1969
institution of the system caused
We encourage those disgruntled
students who have complained
through the fall to voice their ideas
constructively this winter to the
group which will be reviewing and
changing the system Jefl Me
Kibben. Price Corr and Athletic
Business Manager Loran Smith are
on the committee and have evid
enced their willingness to listen to
and consider proposals from inter
ested students
One aspect of the reserved seat
ing system which few of those
complaining have bothered to in-
vestigau- is die tael that the Uni
versity has one of the most student
oriented ticket policies in the na
tion ' Few other schools have stu
dent seats on the fifty-yard line and
most charge an athletic fee specifi
cally for tootlmll tickets The
prices for student tickets are, in
most instances, a good deal more
than the $1 per ticket charge levied
here Another aspect is that at
some schools like Auburn, tickets
are sold by se.. -on specific seats
One must hope in an instance such
as that that to remain friends with
whoever occupies the adjoining
seat as that person will be there at
every game
Admittedly the reserved system
was less than perfect Hopefully,
the inconsistencies will be reme
died by the next tootball season.
Whatever the jutccmc. reform
can only come through student in
volvement and interest
Welcome change
Today s passage by the Senate of
reform in the draft law will open
the way for a lottery selection sys
tem and the inducting of 19 year
olds first The plan will also reduce
the draft vulnerability of a young
man from seven to one year
W'e are glad to see this fust step
in making the draft fall equally on
all who come under it If military
service is going to be complusorv.
it is only right that all be required
to serve and not be able to slip by
serving because of political pull on
the draft board
Too many instances have come
to light in the past of the use of the
draft as punishment of those who
protested against the system itself
or any other injustice which the
often elderly members of the local
boards considered sacred
We look for a speedy approval
and implementation of the change
as a step towards the day when the
draft might be abolished in favor of
a volunteer army
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A look to the past to gauge the future
As the end of the quarter approaches
at a gallop and papers and projects
wait to be done, this writer has discov
ered that the calm before the final
storm is the best time to look over the
fall months and see how the vaunted
and publicized plans he had for the Red
and Black have worked out Has the
writing and what is written about im
proved'' Has the paper travelled at all
along the road toward returning its edi
tonal emphasis to the students who
support it and for whom we have tried
to publish it.
This round of looking back does not
have the finality that has characterized
previous occupants of the editor s
chair This editor will most likely have
a second quarter in which to undo or
further the damage he might have
brought about during the First
Term
The Red and Black is one of the old
est college newspapers in the nation
which has maintained continuous publi
cation and is the largest and most fre
quently published college paper in
(Georgia
The question of whether or not the
paper has fulfilled the promise of its
past or if it is making the* best of its
future potential is a question which
only the individual reader can estimate
and decide
The individual reader is the one
toward whom we have tried to aim the
paper We have felt that he wanted ar
ticles of interest on activities and peo-
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pie both on campus and oft To this end
we have introduced more concentrated
in-depth reporting which has relied
heavily on interviewing of involved
people rather than a recapping of a
number of dry events. The addition of
the fledgling national news summaries
has likewise been started as a service
to students who often do not have the
time or the inclination to read a daily
new spaper in detail
A sign of encouragement for the
staff has been the lack of the old criti
cism of the paper which had flowed at
a steady rate into the offices Many
former critics have praised the
changes which have been sought and
their interest was appreciated more
than their compliments These signs of
interest relieved a fear the staff had
nurtured before the response the fall
quarter papers received We (eared the
image of the Red and Black and the
attitude toward it had become one of
total indifference — in other words,
people had tuned the Red and Black out
of their consciousness This, alone,
would signal the doom of a thing that
is. by nature, an organ of communica
tion
As was stated previously, this writer
is luckier than most of his predecessors
in that he has another quarter at the
helm of the paper Hopefully, this
quarter s mistakes will not be repealed
and what improvement that has cume
will be continued and expanded into
ANOTHER VIEW
next quarter's editions of the Red and
Black
Among the things the staff hopes to
see in next quarter's Red and Black
are an increase in the national news
section and the eventual use of some
wire service copy to give the best infor
mational service possible for the Uni
versify students We hope to tighten
further the coverage of the paper so
that it will cover all aspects of student
interest
We promise to continue our effort to
improve the Red and Black so that its
quality will warrant daily publication,
a change the staff is working toward in
the near future
We know we have not pleased all
elements of the student body with what
we have elected to cover and what we
have decided not to include in the news
columns of the paper However, popu
lanty has not been our intent We have
tried to give the paper the all-campus
flavor it did not have before
We welcome student suggestions
We appreciate student participation
We must have student interest.
Ritual of the draft
Once upon a time in the country
called WonUerfuland. there was a ritu
al known as The Draft. The Elders
thought it up And. being fair minded
men. they worried and worried and
worried about how to make it fair.
riie ritual was basically simple The
Elders would seek a glorious cause
worth fighting and dying for - like
Economic Self-Determinism in South
east Asia Or Unimpaired Political
Hegemony in Northwest Africa
Then, having found a cause worth
fighting for. they would send The
Young Men off to fight and die for it.
"This is eminently fair." The Elders
told The Young Men "We being elder
and wiser, are obviously best suited to
finding glorious causes to fight and die
for And you. being younger and strong
er, are obviously best suited to do the
fighting and dying.”
The Young Men said they guessed
that sounded fair. So everybody
thought the idea was fair
But a problem arose in selecting
Tom Giffen, Columnist
Seating dilemma demands involvement
The new reserved seating plan insti
gated for use this fall in Sanford Stad
ium certainly did not live up to its ad
vance billing
Looking back over the four home
games in which the plan was used,
some people looking over their shoul
ders may say that it caused more prob
lems than it was worth
Students have complained about the
program, to be sure And it is certain
that it cause them many headaches in
trying to be sure they had tickets (or
each and every game
It s funny though because Loran
Smith and lus staff in the athletic busi
ness office and the Student Senate
committee on ticket sales suffered
even more headaches
The situation is iwasi most ironic
because Smith and his associates de
vised the plan with the students in
mind The whole idea was to aid the
students, but somehow the whole idea
backfired in the athletic department
anl student s (aces
Since there were many problems
encountered in this new plan this fall,
there are going to be many wrinkles to
iron out now that the home season is
over
The program was going to be over
hauled and revamped according to in
formation received from Price Corr
and Jeff McKibben. while the commit
tee was going through the unwanted
agony of deciding lo sell more tickets
to the Kentucky. Tennessee and Au
burn games
The situation as it existed this fall
was bad in that its organizers failed lo
see problems which would arise
Now Smith. Corr. McKibben and
cumpany face the problems of finding
out what was really wrong with the
setup They haven't got all the time in
the world, either, the 19TO football sea
son will be here soon, and they will
have to start diseminating informa
tion and selling the new program to now
dubious students
In as much as the problems are
many far mure than the students will
ewr even know about, their complain-
ing included, the students should make
an effort to help the re-organization
committee
The students are most involved be
cause it is their future that ttrse plait
tiers are discussing It is their tootball
team hopefully, and they should, there
fore, be interested in seeing the games
Stifled dissatisfaction breeds frus
tration. and with the situtaionas it has
developed this fall, there are a lot of
frustrated students
However, this is not a call for a gianl
cry of the "wronged " It is one asking
for cooperation of the University stu
dent body with the athletic department
and the student senate
This cooperation, if it is to be chan
neled in constructive directions, should
consist of interested students taking
the time to talk to the people doing the
planning, discussing their gripes and
offering suggestions as to how the seat
ing arrangement should take place
Herein is one such suggestion
The plan now allows students to re
deem their coupons as late as Saturday
morning at II am. prior to the day's
game
Under this setup the athletic ticket
office has no idea of how many stu
dents to expect, they don't have time
to count the tickets
Within the framework of the new
seating arrangement which will be
worked up. it is strongly urged that
students not be allowed to redeem cou
pons or guest stubs after noon <12i on
Friday
The reason this will allow the ticket
office to make an accurate tabulation
of the number of students coming and
correlate that information with the
number of seats available in the stu
dent reserved section
In this manner those seats not taken
can be put on sale to the general public
Saturday morning before game time,
thereby avoiding empty seals, as e:pe-
cially witnessed Iasi Saturday against
Auburn
There are always people looking for
tickets across the campus Saturday
morning and this plan would not only
fill up Sanford Stadium but would also
keep spectators from having to pay
"scalper" prices of SlO-and up to see
the game
Students are urged to voice their
dissatisfaction in a constructive man
ner. whether it be to committee mem
bers. Red and Black letlers-lo-the-edi
tor or whatever
After all. the football team repre
sents the University and its students,
whether they support it or not
It doesn't make any difference who
is working for the students, because
the plan will become a fiasco, as many
said of 1969 unless students sincerely
voice their opinions in an effort to help
themselves
There are many problems to be
faced; it cannot be dime by the com
mittee alone, nor the critics alone
The plan, is as much as it is for the
students, is important There should
not be any foul ups next season The
new plans should benefit from the
numerous mistakes of 1968
which Young Men to send off to fight
and die Being fair-minded men. The
Elders wanted to select them by the
fairest possible method So they wor
ried and worried and worried about
which method was U» most fair
The Elders made lots and lots of
rules to make sure the method was
fiar
This article is reprinted from the
October 27, 1969 edition of the
Atlanta Constitution. It is by
syndicated columnist Arthur
Hoppe
They ruled that a Young Man must
be 18V, years old before being sent off
to fight and die It wouldn't be fair to
send a Young Man who was 18 3 8.
They ruled that a Young Man must
be healthy It wouldn't be fair to send
an athlete with a trick knee
They ruled that a Young Man must
be too poor to go to college or too stu
pid to stay in It wouldn't be fair to
send the rich and the smart
And they ruled that a Young Man
must believe that God thought it was
all right to kill people It wouldn't be
fair to send some kind of religious nut
To make the ritual even more fair,
little groups of Elders were set up in
each neighborhood lo pick The Young
Men personally from among their
friends and neighbors But some Eld
ers personally didn't like Young Men
with long hair Or black skins Or odd
political ideas
The Young Men found that Iheir odds
of being picked depended on what
neighborhood they lived in There was
a lot of grumbling "Somehow." said
The Young Men, "it doesn't seem quite
fair "
The worried Elders thought up new
ideas "How about picking just about
everybody” 1 they said But just about
everybody didn't like this
"How about a lottery 1 " they said
"Then everybody would have a chance
at the honor of serving his country — if
he's lucky ' But that sounded strange
"How about paying them more mon
ey," the said, "so they wouldn't mind
fighting and dying 1 " But that sounded
mercenary
The Young Men grew more and
more bitter They didn't like the wor
thy causes They didn't like fighting
and dying And they didn't like The
Elders
Eventually, of course. The Young
Men tried to overthrow The Elders
There were terrible riots and battles
Many Young Men fought and died in the
attempt
And the odd thing was. none of them
had to be drafted
Moral: If you find a cause worth
fighting and dying for. do so If you
don't, don't That's fair
Judiciary Hearings
Court summarizes sample cases
CHARGE: Forged Grade Changes
llniv Regulations Section VU. para
graph 21
V ERDICT: Guilty
DISCIPLINARY MEASURE: lm
mediate suspension — suspension for
one year
• • •
CHARGE: Book Theft (University
Regulations SecUun XIV - 2»
V ERDKT: Guiltv
DISCIPLINARY MEASURE: One
quarter probated su-pension if found
guilty of another major offense within
probated surpcnsian period, one year
stspenswn would remit
This article introduces a new
feature in the Red and Block.
The synopsis of a number of
cases which have come before
fhe Student Judiciary will be
published in the hope of in
forming students of the charges
made and subsequent punish
ments given out by the courts.
CHARGE: Attempted theft of exam
(University Regulations Section 1-5
Sec XIV-2)
VERDICT Guilty
DISCIPLINARY MEASURE:
year probated suspension, will g<
permant record if found guilty of
other major offense
• ••
CHARGE: Plagiarism (Univer
Regulations Section 1-4
VERDICT: Guilty
DISCIPLINARY MEASURES:
Three quarter su-pt-nsion a I low is
finish current quarter
• ••
CHARGE: Cheating on ex
1 L'mversitvReguUtnirh Section 1 11
VhRDICT: Not guilty