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VOLUME LXXVI
NUMBER 31)
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
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| Draft May Take 300 s p 2
If draft quotas keep pace throughout
jjthe year with January and February
|i rates, then it is possible that number 360
;j: may not be sale from the call, according
S to an article by reporter Terry Hill
|
s:You and Your Surroundings ,p.3
Staff writer Cathy Grady investigates
what the University is doing to control
pollution on campus and improve the envi-
ROTC, Clouds of Confusion, p 4
Senator Tim Mundy discusses the pros
and cons of removing academic credit for
ROTC courses
Eaves Tells of Changes p 6
Athletic director Joel Eaves tells as- y
sistant sports editor Robert Friedman of j
changes he expects to sec made at the *
SEC meeting which begins tomorrow
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By Dwight Otwall
Staff Writer
Proposals
will improve the safety of the intersec
tions, he added
Report Advises
Book Discounting
By TOM GIFFEN
Managing Editor
A recommendation to lower textbook
prices at the University Bookstore by five
per cent, effective next September, is
being considered by the University admin
istration
The recommendation was submitted to
John L. Green, Jr., vice-president of busi
ness and finance, by a Student Govern
ment Association committee chaired by
Brooks Franklin, minister to business and
finance
GREEN WAS optimistic about the pro
sed reduction in prices, but cautioned
that there would be no decision made
known until April.
The proposal must be included in the
University's budget plans Green, while
indicating support for the measure, said it
would have to clear both University Presi
dent Fred Davison and the Board of Re
gents.
THE BOOKSTORE, according to
Green, is backing the plan if it can be
worked out financially.
"We are optimistic about the students'
recommendations,' * 1 Green said, "and
with bookstore support the measure
stands a good chance of passing '
Franklin, whose committee has been
studying such a rev ummendation for quite
some time, explained that the proposal
was relative to the financial situation of
the University Bookstore, and. if the rec
ommendation was passed — lowering the
prices by five per cent next fall — further
reductions in prices in the near future are
possible.
“THE BOOKSTORE lost money last
year." he pointed out. "and is making
money this year.
"Since the bookstore has no reason to
make money, the money being made now-
can be passed back to the students in the
form of a book-price reduction
"And, with an increasing number of
students buying their books there, more
money can be passed back to the students
through price reducations." he explained
"PRICES WILL continue to go down,
and. maybe, students will be able to get
their books at wholesale prices.''
The University Bookstore, according to
Franklin, sells the books now at about a
ten per cent increase, while the faculty
gets a discount from the publishers
Faculty members either receive one
desk copy of a textbook free from the pub
lisher or have to pay the wholesale prices.
All of this money goes straight to the book
manufacturers
"Under this proposal, the bookstore
will continue to defray the costs of operat
ing by the sale of other goods, which are
not necessities to the students." Franklin
said
"STUDENTS NEED the books, and
they shouldn't have to pay the marked up
prices for them, as they are necessary for
his existance it the University."
Students soon may not have to search
for nickels and dimes to ride a University-
bus as a result of the recommendations
made by tlie University Traffic Commit
tee last Thursday
The committee recommended a move
to a free bus system which would decrease
the time taken-up by students searching
for bus fare. This would help buses move
faster and drivers maintain schedules
THE COMMITTEE discussed recom
mended solutions to traffic problems
which were offered in a traffic circulation
study by De Lew, Cather ii Company. Chi
cago engineers and planners
The move to free bus transportation
can be accomplished without raising stu
dent fees, W E Hudson, director of cam
pusplanning believes.
"The money would come from fines,
parking permits, and money from vending
machines," he said.
THE COMMITTEE followed the
recommendation of Do Lew, Cather &
Company in proposing to make Sanford
Drive and Agriculture (Ag) Drive one
way going opposite directions from
Green, which runs by the Coliseum and
Georgia Center to Cedar Street near Mey
ers Hall and the Home Economics Build
ing.
Another recommendation provided for
the reconstruction of the intersections of
Cedar Street with Sanford Drive, near the
home economics and physics buildings,
and East Campus Road which runs paral
lel to the railroad tracks.
"They will be reconstructed as T in
tersections." John Cox. secretary of the
University Traffic Committee said "The
present islands will be removed, and this
INDIVIDUAL reserved parking spaces
will be gradually phased out as the move
toward gated locks continues, accord
ing to Cox
The study by De Lew. Cather & Compa
ny recommended that "curb returns at
intersections should have radii of 30 feet
for passenger cars only and 40 to 50 feet if
there arc buses in the traffic stream "
This will be done as rapidly as funds per
mit. according to Hudson
A proposal that Hearty Drive, which
runs through North Campus and the west
side of the library, be converted into a
pedestrian mail was tabled pending the
completion of construction on the business
administration building and the infirmary,
according to Cox
THE TRAFFIC circulation study pro
posed that Baldwin Street around Park
and LeConte Halls and the Journalism-
Psychology Complex be restricted to au
thorized vehicles only between 8:30 a m.
and 4:30 p.m on class days. The street
would be guarded by control booths, and
only cars with valid permits to park in
that area would be allowed on the street.
This proposal was not accepted because
Baldwin is a city street, and the Universi
ty does not have the power to make
changes.
"It would probably require action
through the General Assembly of Geor
gia." Hudson said
A RECOMMENDATION in the study
that Jackson Street, which runs beside the
Visual Arts building and the east entrance
to the main library parking lot, be operat
ed one-way northbound between Baldwin
and Borad Streets met with the same op
position It is a city-owned street
The study included a long-range recom-
LEGISLATION PUSHED
Group Backs Marshes
A group of students, faculty members
and townspeople have formed an ad hoc
committee concerned with preventing
wasteful exploitation on Georgia Marsh
lands
Richard Murlless. a graduate student
in zoology and co-chairman of the Save
the Marshes committee told an interview
er the committee is working to gain sup
port for a strong marshlands bill in the
state legislature
About 100 people attended a salt marsh
workshop Friday which was held to edu
cate people on campus as to why marshes
are important. Murlless said. Speakers at
the workshop were Dr Eugene Odum.
AROUND THE WORLD
Carswell Wins ABA Okay
The American Bar Association yester
day voted unanimously that Judge Har-
roid Carswell is qualified to serve on the
Supreme Court, but declined either to
endorse him or to criticize him
The former University student, Nixon's
appointment to fill the seat Clement Hay-
nesworth failed to win, lias been attacked
for a 22-year-old statement he made dur
ing a political campaign which strongly
dorsed white supremacy
• ••
A Nixon-backed Senate proposal ex
pected to be passed soon would lower the
penalities for drug users and sellers The
new law would do away with mandatory
prison sentences for first offenders, but
win Id allow for a possible one-year sent
ence and $5000 fine for first offenders and
a two-year sentence for second-timers
The exception to the bill would be sell
ers who the court deemed "professional."
who would he subject to a five-year prison
sentence for the first conviction and at
least a ten-year sentence for each subse
quent conviction.
• • •
Gov Lester Maddox has vowed to go to
the Supreme Court with his appeal to
overturn the constitutional prohibition on
governors succeeding themselves The
state Supreme Court recently denied his
appeal
• • •
As a result of a ruling yesterday by the
Supreme Court, local draft boards will no
longer be able to reclassify college-de
ferred war protesters to 1-A based on
their protesting
The recent decision disallows classifi
cation from any deferred category to 1-A
catagory It follows by one week another
Court ruling which said that draft hoards
could not rush the drafting of war protes
ters already classified 1-A.
alumni foundations professor, and Dr
Dirk Frankenburg, chairman of the Uni
versity Zoology department
Odum is an internationally known au
thor of a textbook on ecology and has done
recent research in marsh ecology Fran
kenburg has been active in research on
the oxygen balance of marsh setiments
Odum. Frankenburg and Rep Robert
Harrison of Brunswick will speak at an
other public meeting tomorrow night at 8
in the P-J complex
At this time Georgia's marshes have
been relatively undisturbed, according to
Murlless. but many other states have lost
a great deal of their marshlands to in
dustrial exploitation "Our objective is to
head off the situation before it becomes
too serious. " he said
He said last year a large corporation
tried to get permission to mine phospho
rous in Georgia salt marshes
A WETLANDS bill now in a state Sen
ate committee is expected to provide ade
quate guidelines for the use of salt marsh
es. Murlless said
The bill will come out of the committee
today and go to a House-Senate confer
ence committee for a compromise bill
and then go back into both the House and
Senate for approval, he continued
Tuesday, January 27, 1970
Submitted
inundation to extend East Baxter Street,
which runs by Stegeman Hall and the Uni
versity Hook Store, to East Campus Rood
The possibility of continuing East Baxter
Street eastward benealh the Sanford
Drive viaduct and north of the Sadium
was noted This would provide a thorough
route for non-University traffic, accord
ing to the study This plan was not consi
dered by the traffic committee.
NADER SPEAKS BEFORE OVERFLOW CAMPUS CROWD
Ciusoder Emphasised Militant Consumerism
Nader: Industry Foe
Of Free Enterprise
By Joel Blackwell
Staff Writer
"The consumer in the United States
dix>s not have enough product information
(or the free enterprise system to work."
said consumer crusader Ralph Nader last
night
Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd
in Memorial Hall, the consumer lobbyist
blasted industry and government for lack
of responsibility to the consumer
"THE FREE enterprise system de
pends upon Ihe consumer having enough
information to make an intelligent cho
ice," Nader said. "But how can there be
competition when you can't tell the differ
ence in the products you buy? "
"It is time to apply technology to the
everday needs of 200 million people in
stead of qiarr exploration, defense, com
puters and automation," he said
Nader indicted Ihe automobile industry
both as a producer of unsafe vehicles and
as the principal polluter of the environ
ment in this country
"SOCIAL COSTS from the automobile
— deaths, crash costa, work time lost,
money diverted from other sources, etc.
— equal or exceed the gross sales of the
entire auto industry every year." Nader
said.
Nader authored "Unsafe at Any
Speed," the book credited with spurring
passage of the highway safety act of 1968.
the first federal legislation relating to
automobile safety
' The real violence in this country is not
in the streets, "he said, “It is in the corpo
ration offices where life and death deci
sions are made on a basis of whether or
not profits will be maximized
NADER CITED color television radia
tion as a classic example of "silent viol
ence The design of cars in another case
in point, he said
"Did you ever ask whether those (ins on
cars are safe?" he asked He listed immo-
bik' rear view mirrors, rigid steering col-
ums and fully-tinted window glass as
examples of unsafe automobile compo
nents
"The public must establish a tradition
of questioning product design, instead of
blindly trusting industry to market only
safe products." Nader said
"THE BIGGEST opponent of free en
terprise is industry Without accurate,
intelligent, authoritative information
about products there cannot be free com-
pebtion or consumer sovereignity," he
said
“Another type of silent violence is envir
onmental pollution" Nader said "This
kind of violence is even more serious
than street violence It affects more
people, more seriously, it even affects
their descendents "
Nader cited the explosion of a gas pipe
line in Indiana where 41 deaths resulted
fills event got hardly any press coverage
while 38 dead in riots convered the front
pages." Nader said
Student Senate
ROTC Credit Vote Due Tomorrow
By PATRICE WALTERS
Assistant News Editor
Tomorrow night Ihe Student Senate will
vote on a recommendation to the Univer
sity Council on whether credit will be giv
en for ROTC courses in the future
Whenever the controversial issue of
taking awav ROTC credit appears, it goes
hand in-Und with a proposal to lower the
minimum number of hours required for
graduation to 180 It appears that these
two proposals counteract each other in
balancing the academic requirements
for graduation
At the Student Senate meeting Dec 3,
I960. Sen Tim Mundy i Arts and Sciences i
presented the academic affairs commit
tee s motion concerning ROTC and PE
credits
I move that the Student Senate recom
mend to the University Council that the
mnimum number of hours required for
graduation be 180 academic hours, and
that no credit hours toward graduation,
within the required 180 hours be given in
ROTC or basic physical education
Sen Tern Sullivan (Arts and Sciencesi
ed to amend this motion by deleting
, It. m ROTC Sen Paul McBride
raduate Mike Willoughby 'Arts and
Sciences! and Mundy spoke against the
amendment, saying that if the number of
hairs needed to graduate is changed from
195 to 180 and credit is given for ROTC.
then a student could take ROTC as an el
ective toward graduation, and this would
weaken his major field
Sen Sullivan. Curtis Blackwood
(Graduate! and Jimmy Sheriff
' Graduate i argued for the amendment.
"Without student and institution
support an ROTC program will
eventually die."
saying that if a student elected to take
ROTC. he should get credit tor this just as
he would for any other elected subject
A vote tlien was taken, and the amend
ment passed with 29 for and 25 against
With the Senate almost evenly divided,
action on the main motion was postponed
until the next Senate meeting
Earlier, on Dec 2. the faculty of the
College of Arts and Sciences asked that
the credit-hour requirement for gradua
tion in that college be reduced from 195 to
180. with no credit given for physical edu
cation or ROTC About 300 faculty mem
bers voted to send the request to the Uni
versity Council
In his address to the Student Senate on
Jan 14. student body President Randall
Seabolt endorsed the proposal to reduce
the minimum credit-hour requirement for
graduation to 180 and take away credit for
ROTC and basic physical education
When asked if academic credit should
continue to be given for basic and adv
anced ROTC. Col Robert Crow professor
of aerospace studies, said
“I am of the opinion that removal of
credit (or ROTC would cause undue hai-
slup on dedicated students adversely af
fect the image of the University, and seri
ously affect the ability of the ROTC to at
tract a sufficient number of men, dedicat
ed to the service of their country, to meet
the continuing needs of the armed serv
ices.
"A student interested in a military ca
reer would be penalized both financially
and work load wise if academic credit
should be withdrawn I am certain that in
many cases this would be the deciding
(actor for non-par ticiaption in the ROTC
program Without student and inshlution
support an ROTC program will eventually
die."
COL CROWE pointed out that an advi
sory panel on ROTC Affairs, composed of
eight civilian educators and chaired by
Dr Herbert E. Longenecker, president of
Tulane University, made the following
statement in a recent report to the U. S
secretary of defense:
"We must also comment that denial of
academic credit for all military taught
courses may lead to a situation in which
there are no longer enough candidates
We recommend that appropriate academ
ic credit be given for ROTC courses
Ronald Mitchell. Air Force ROTC ca
det colonel, reports that there are now 164
institutions offering ROTC programs, of
which 159 give credit for ROTC courses
Five nonmilitary schools offer a degree
with a major in military science, and 25
offer a minor in military science, accord
ing to Mitchell
Mitchell stated that in a poll taken of
both advanced and basic Air Force ca
dets. "it is the feeling of ROTC cadets
that aerospace studies is relevant to their
college degree program
"Forty per cent of the cadets said they
fell it would be an infringement on their
academic freedom if credit was removed
from ROTC and they would not be in the
program if no credit was given, said
Mitchell
Col Walter Short, professor of military
science, stated. "If academic credit were
eliminated, that could well serve to force
the withdrawal of the program, effec
tively denying University students the
opportunity to study military science and
obtain a reserve commission concurrent
with their degrees
Short reports that of the 281 campuses
in the United States which offer Army
ROTC programs. 279 give academic cred
it for military science courses taken un-
"Pursuit of a commission through
ROTC does not constitute an
academic burden if the graduation
criterion is 180 hours."
der the program There are 31 nonmili-
lary universities which grant degrees with
either a major or a minor in military sci
ence. according to Col Short
Maj Merlin Darling, assistant profes
sor of military science, slated
I don't go along with abolishing credit
for ROTC, because I believe that here at
the University you receive a specialized
education in whatever profession you
choose, and if a man wants to be a soldier,
we should offer him an education in mili
tary science "
Mundy explains that ROTC has
enough intrinsic value to lure its partici
pants One who enrolls in ROTC is doing
so to gain a commission and achieve offi
cer status in the armed services If he
wants his commission, working for it a
few hours a week will not stop him; if he
does not want it. gaining academic credit
will not entice him
Willoughby chairman of the academic
affairs committee, which advanced the
original proposal to abolish ROTC does
not constitute an academic burden if the
graduation criterion is IS) hours The Arts
and Sciences faculty have found this to be
the bare minimum number of hours essen
tial to any degree. ROTC is not essential
to any degree and finds no relevant place
in this minimal requirement
"ROTC reaps its own rewards and dopes
not present a birden disproportionate
with these rewards if the graduation re
quirement is 180 hours "
The Council and the Board of Regents
must approve the proposes I change for it
to take effect