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Pag* 4
The Red and Black
Thursday, January 29, 1970
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Sandra Scaramucci
Business Manager
Michael Howell
Editor
Tom Giffen
Managing Editor
Howell Medders
Associate Editor
The
new
breed
Change has been tritely defined
as the one constant in the world of
men The fact that progressive or
retrograde evolution is inevitable
has been the force which has
caused a great many wars, a great
many deaths and a great deal of
hatred and division.
Yet, change is not always the
retrograde variety chacterized
above Often it is a movement from
mediocrity to greatness, from the
bottom of the barrel to the top of
the world The University has expe
rienced, in the last several years, a
great deal of change which has
been mostly beneficial with tar
nishes in several spots Still, in the
total view the University of Geor
gia and the people who make it are
better and more aware of their
mission than ever before
In the two years since the sit-in
and the first big rules change, the
tone and outlook of the people on
the campus has changed to the ex
tent that the hellraiser is no longer
the campus idol He has been re
placed with the person who is seek
ing to contribute, not just consume
The change in this very fiber of
the University student is best ex
emplified in the change that has
come in the Student Union In the
fall of 1966, the Student Center, as
it was termed thenj was the place a
student went if no other social en
clave on campus would have him.
With the advent of the University
Union, the program improved and
the people which frequented Mem
orial became the first of the new
breed of student who had an inter
est in the academic shaping of the
University for the ultimate good
that reform would make rather
than using his involvement in an
attempt to force liberalization of
the social regulations so that Joe
College could raise hell easier
The change has been noticeable
in the student government, the
Greek system and the other out
standing aspects of campus life.
We only hope that the change will
not end in a student body who care
nothing about life outside the class
room and who are not interested in
the responsibility they have to keep
the University on the move. That
responsibility also includes making
sure that the policies and ideals of
the school do not become so set
that change becomes a nemisis and
the proponents of that change bear
the title of anarchist.
Musical quotes about changing
times have little relevance in chac-
terizing the "about-face" in stu
dent orientation at the University.
This change formed the University
into a school which knows its students
are there and because of that knowledge
continues to form and reform an insti
tution which primes those people
for the continuing education of a
lifetime.
SGA constitution
The Student Government Asso
ciation. once considered an experi
ment in student-administration
relations and which for a time only
existed to provide individuals an
opportunity to practice parliamen
tary procedure, has evolved into a
necessary institution with positive
influence on administration poli
cies and as a responsible interpret
er of student's needs and wants
SGA has reached a point in this
evolution where it has become nec
essary to evaluate the system's
internal machinery and make cer
tain alterations This task has been
undertaken by an SGA constitution
al revision commission which has
drawn up proposals concerning the
executive and legislative brrnches
and will soon submit alterations to
the student judiciary.
It has been proposed that the
number of student senators be re
duced by one half, increasing the
senator-student ratio from 1-200 to
1-400.
We believe such a reduction cuts
too doeplv into the base of the sys
tem which is gradually proving it
self The system is good, the need
for change is in the quality of its
components, the senators, rather
than the number Such alterations
can not be written into the constitu
tion
They will only come about as
students become more aware of
the merits of the system, develop a
sense of responsibility concerning
the functions of the Senate and
transfer this awareness and sense
of responsibility to the ballot box
We have optimistic visions of a
changing University student who
will meet this challenge and we say
give him a chance
Under the new constitution the
student body secretary would be
responsible for drawing up a budg
et for SGA, with the Senate’s ap
proval for adoption. The Senate
allocates student activities money,
part of which goes to the student
government More rigid budgeting
procedures for SGA itself would be
consistent with the stringent re
quirements made of other campus
organizations that want money We
support the change
We endorse the proposed revi
sion of impeachment proceedings
which will require a two-thirds vote
of the Senate to bring impeach
ment charges against any justice
or elected student body officer and
a three-fourths vote at a subse
quent meeting for removal from
office.
We support the recommendation
that graduating seniors be al
lowed to run for office as graduate
students upon being accepted into
graduate school.
It has been recommended that
standing cabinet positions be abol
ished and the president of the stu
dent body have the authority to
establish such positions in his ad
ministration and appoint ministers
subject to senate approval The
Red and Black favors this move to
allow more flexibility in the execu
tive branch.
Michael Howell
Studies in gray
The controversy over abolition or
retention of credit for ROTC and PE
and the Senate debate accompanying
that controversy were another instance
of the way issues can become clouded
in the mind of an individual as time
goes on and the words, charges and
opinions fly
As can be ascertained from the mail
which has flowed across this desk, the
editorial stand to support the deletion
of ROTC credit will not be ranked
amont the Red & Black endorsements
which have a broad base of support.
Nevertheless, the Editors were not
seeking the stand which would give the
paper the greatest popularity The rea
soning behind the stand that was made
can be summarized in a terse state
ment The Editors of the Red and
Black have responsibility to offer a
forum for the opinion of those who
make up the student body of the Uni
versity and to offer the views of the
paper as determined by the Editors
concerning campus issues
We have not in the past and do not
plan to start presently to hail the
stands the paper makes as infallible
and beyond question We rather seek to
formulate the paper s editorail stand in
accordance with what the aforemen
tioned editors feel is the stand which is
most beneficial to the University and
its students Any member of the stu
dent senate has this same responsibili
ty and we support this role
The Red and Black is not trying to
ram its opinions down anyone's throat
and the editorial page exists to offer a
wide range of opinion Page four has
not, under the present editors, sought
to weed out the opinion which has come
across the desk
Arguments concerning the ROTC
controversy brought to light some new
ideas, opinions and considerations
which temper a personal view of the
situation Yet. the editorial page of the
paper does not exist to give 168 inches
of one person' s opinion twice a week
This writer was personally glad to
see that the Senators were actively
involved in the controversy and made
Robby Williams
Change must come in public attitudes
Any person who pursues his educa
tion seems to place himself voluntarily
in a slate of protracted adolescence, an
extension of society's designation for
an individual who is not yet a producer
The cultural anxiety produced by the
protracted adolescence is caused by
the requirement imposed on young
people by an advanced technological
society that they prepare themselves
for adult responsibiliUes long beyond
the age when they are physically, men
tally and emotionally mature This
anxiety has manifested itself in the
form of campus protest, an event
which shocked the entire nation
The same parent who equates matu
rity with holding a job is the same par
ent who urges his children to attend
college But when that student enters
college, the parent strives to implant
his principles into a student who is sur
rounded bv peer pressure to seek more
than job training So the state of ado
lescence is protracted and the paradox
ical parent becomes a frustration No
longer is adolescence a protected
state, because the parent or the col
lege. if it deems it necessary to prac
tice in loco parentis, is unable to de
fend the student, even if the student
sought such protection
Each student seeks to reach out, to
parUcipate rather than belong, to fight
his own battles, and lo suffer his own
mistakes It is the world that he would
encounter if he had gone immediately
to work upon reaching age 16 to 18 The
world of protracted adolescence is a
false world, a Utopia farther removed
from reality than even the plans of
idealistic youth It is a plan striving to
control that forces rebellion, a plan to
protect that weakens the young; and a
plan to teach that can't accept the new
The idea that protracted adoles
cence is unfair to the person who stays
in school seems to have permeated to
the strata of the high school student.
As can be evidenced in the recent pro
tests of the students in Atlanta, today's
high schooler, like yesterday's college
student, is seeking to express his views
without the interpretaUons bv social
institution, parents, or even the Gover
nor
My attempt is not to advocate the
strong posiUon which the Krench stu
dents espoused in the Paris revolts of
last year, a position which sought com
plete state support for students, but
rather to expose the cynic to a feeling
which governs much of the actions of
today's young To simply place laws on
books which give people the right to
certain freedoms does not mean that
these people will always seek to do the
best they can with these rights. Neither
is the reverse true The restrictions
placed on adolescents merely because
they have yet to contribute to the
G.N.P. demeans the selective nature
of higher education It is to be hoped
that protracted adolescence will meet
its death, not in the legislature, but in
the attitudes of the American public
i Reader Reaction«
statements either in support, defense
or rebuttal of points made in the de
bate
Right and wrong like a number of
other things are in the eye or the mind
of the beholder and to this end must be
viewed as such There are few people
in the Student Senate, on the Red and
Black or in the world who can claim
truthfully, a record of 100 per cent cor
rectness
Causes, opinions and editorial
stands are not absolutes, but rather are
studies in gray because the people es
pousing, stating or making them are
humans with pre-colored disposition to
opinions Still these people have the
responsibility to make the stand, state
the opinion and espouse the cause be
cause in the final analysis the individu
al is responsible for the opportunities
he missed to stand for or against a
question.
The point of all this hoop-la about
responsibility and chances missed is a
statement that the Editors, specifical
ly this writer, have never purported the
editorial stands of the paper to be infal
lible gospel concerning what should or
should not be done The responsibility
we see is that of stating the opinion of
the paper as that — another opinion
from which the final solution to the
question must be forged either by
complete victory, utter defeat or com
promise of various opinions
Writer criticizes R&B ROTC stand
TO THE EDITOR:
For a campus publication that
prides itself on objective dissemination
of pertinent facts, the Red and Black's
editorial supporUng elimination of
academic credit for ROTC unfortun
ately lapsed into complacent stereotyp
ing and unsubstantiated statements.
Tile Red and Black certainly has the
privilege to express its sentiments for
or against academic credit, yet I feel
any policy statement should be based
on some foundation of credence — sta
tistical or otherwise
The editorial stated "the snail time
alloted for these classes and the
amount of information covered do not
warrant academic consideration."
These are reasonably presumptuous
words that evaluate a course's aca
demic relevance by "time alloted."
For the record, basic cadets have a
three-hour per week responsibility
while advanced cadets incur six hours
Obviously, the content of any course
is the major criterion in considering
academic relevance, and only cadets
enrolled in the program are actually
qualified to evaluate its academic re
levance. In a poll taken on January 14-
15, 87 per cent of 437 AROTC cadets
felt that academic credit for the study
of Military Science is as relevant and
necessary as credit received by many
elective courses Also, the UGA faculty
curriculum committee has reviewed
Military Science courses and consi-
In clarification
TO THE EDITOR:
I would like to clarify some of the
misunderstanding and disappointment
concerning the dance held in Memorial
Hall Friday, Jan 9 Many students who
have expressed their unhappiness with
the University Union over this dance
should channel their efforts in another
direction. This dance was not spon
sored by the Union but by the Young
Democrats. In the future students
should always look for the Union logo
on dance posters sponsored by the Un
ion Another aid in identity ing a Union
dance is that the dances are usually
free
I hope that this has cleared up the
confusion over this dance If any stu
dent has any suggestions or complaints
concerning University Union spon
sored dances, they will be appreciated
These suggestions should be referred
to the Entertainment Division of the
University Union.
CADERCOX,
PRESIDENT,
UNIVERSITY UNION
Letters policy Call for opportunity
TKo Editors welcome contributions
to Reader Reaction as an example of
the student interest in the University.
However, the Editors reserve the
right to edit contributions to conform
to style, good taste, decency and libel
laws. Letters should be typed doubled
space and should not except in rare
instance exceed 300 words in length.
Tom Giffen
Equal educational opportunity
The school desegregation plans and
teacher-transfer orders for the south
ern school systems are dispicable in
the form which they are now taking
In as much as only southern states
are being totally affected, the courts
are violating the consututional rights
of all the citizens of the South
And. as it stands, it is only a wrong
attempting to right another wrong
Two wrongs never did make a right,
and the repercussions to both wrongs
will be inescapable for years to come
Gov. I ester Maddox o( Georgia and
Gov Utaude Kirk of Florida have been
completely jusUfied in calling for uni
formity in these laws across the coun
try
Hopefully the U S Supreme court
wall rectify this situation and see that
every child, black, red. yellow, or
white, gets an equal opportunity at get
ting an education
However, if the last 100 years are
any guage. certain individuals in these
united states surely will not allow the
Supreme Court to dictate to them who
is eligible for an education
Robert B Patterson, secretary of
the association of eiUzen's councils of
America, has sounded this battle cry
"To be subjected to integration is
one thing, but to submit to it is quite
another If we are subjected to it. we
can resit it. contain and eventually
expel it. but if we submit to it and ac-
dept it the destruction is likely to be
permanent and irrevocable
To be sure, that statement speaks
for itself
And it certainly sounds like the hat-
tie cry heard for many years but never
voiced so eloquently
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Well, there could be some debate on
terminology in this case
The separate theory, even with
black organizations backing is lacking to
some extent In fact, it even holds quite
a bit of merit, if the participants agree
to the segregabon connotations it holds
But
With the last 100 years (especially
the last 15i as testimony, the theory is
totally irrevelant until one major
change is made
Equality in education is the biggest
difference today
If whites don't want their children
going to black schools because of "infe
rior" education, then the whites should
make a solid effort to get the education
they consider so valuable to the blacks
Training is the vital key. and consi
dering the future of the United States
rests with its youth, this youth, collec
tively. should receive all the benefits
that education in American has to of
fer
That isn't happening now. North or
South or East or West Segregation,
integregation — the establishment
owes an education to those who desire
it
And the Supreme Court shouldn t
have to make rulings to assure this
right to anvone'
TO THE EDITOR:
The Red and Black endorses the
removal of R OTC credit. They give
as their reasons these: That not enough
time is alloted for the classes, that the
amount of information covered does
not warrant academic consideration;
Defends
views
TO THE EDITOR:
The letter published in last Thurs
day's Red and Black by one "James B
Jordan" is as guilty of being "illiter
ate" and "incompetent” as Miss
Leet’s supposedly was.
I think James B Jordan would be
astounded to learn that the Vietnam
war is indeed a civil war. North and
South Vietnam were once united, since
one section is now fighting the other I
would call it a civil war Using James
B. Jordan's line of reasoning, one could
say that the American Civil war was
not a civil war because one separate
nation (the United States: attacked
another 1 the Confederate States 1
And where does he get the idea that
President Nixon supports bills to give
the poor relief’ "Anyone who can read
a newspaper" will surely remember
ttat Nixon threatened to veto Sen Al
bert Gore's bill that would have provid
ed tax relief for middle and lower class
taxpayers
Perhaps James B Jordan should
take th< time to "analyze the news"
with sunie degree of fairness Then he
wuuid realize that Miss Leet's column
is just that: a column of opinion and
not a reporting of the news
GREG PIKE
and that the production of officers for
the miitary is not of the highest priori
ty in the University objectives.
Granted, classes do only meet two or
(our times a week, and also granted,
that the material covered is not as
much as is covered in some other
classes.
But let me ask you these things
(ll Who is it going to help if academ
ic credit is taken away? Certainly not
the poor souls who are having to re
main because they drew a low lottery
number or because they are truly Inter
ested in the military
Certainly not our country If young
men are discouraged by the removal of
academic credit and are drafted, we
might end up with all privates and no
one to lead them
(21 Stating it another way: Who is it
going to hurt if academic credit is kept
for R O T C.?
Certainly not the more fortunate
people who had a high lottery number
And will ROTC credit have any
effect on anyone else except the people
taking it? I say No
As for the Red and Black's last
statement: I'm not clear on what the
University's objectives are, but 1
should think that one ol its primary
objectives would be for the student to
strive for a well-rounded education I
personally believe that one should go
through at least one year of R O T C,
just to get the point of view from the
military’s angle And even II you
should not agree with inis personal
view. I should hope that you would
agree that everyone should have the
opportunity to seek his one orofession.
And if one should choose the military
as a profession, he should not be denied
the opportunity for academic credit
STL McCARITY. JR
dered them acceptable for academic
credit.
How does credit for ROTC stand
across the nation? Of the 283 campuses
offering ROTC, 277 grant academic
credit. Are the needs of the University
of Georgia that unique (as compared to
27 per cent other colleges and universi
ties) that ROTC, as an academic dis
cipline, cannot remain an integral part
of the UGA campus for over 1200 stu
dents?
The editorial continues to stale that
the "demands made and the general
attitude of the ROTC program. . . arc
the antithesis of what is the stated pur
pose of college ' This sentence implies
there is some sort of silent coercion of
cadets in this program. ROTC is an
elective, therefore every student is
enrolled in the program because he
wants to be. The cadets have the right
to expect ROTC to be a viable micro
cosm of the future branch of service.
While every realizes their primary ob
ligation at UGA is to receive an educa
tion, if a student feels he can enhance
himself and his education by studying
Military Science, he should have that
perrogative
Another stereotype: The Red and
Black states that “the ideal student-
teacher relationship is one based on
questioning partnership, rather than
the officer-enlisted man relationship
." A recent poll of advanced Air Force
cadets revealed that 91 per cent of
them felt a "harmonious or very har
monious relationship existed between
themselves and their instructors.'
What do Army ROTC cadets think of
their instructors’ Ninety-five percent
of 437 cadets polled feel their Military
Science instructors are equally or bet
tor prepared than instructors o( widely
taken general courses, i.e., english,
mathematics, history, etc.
The cadet-instructor relationship in
Army ROTC is one of mutual respect
It has to be, because no other relation
ship would be tolerated by a student in
an elective course. The recurring prob
lem is that many people forget ROTC
is an elective
The Red and Black contends that the
"production of officers for the military
is not the highest priority." I agree
But when the list of priorities is deline
ated I consider training (or the defease
of one’s country well above the many
mindbending electives that pervade
nearly every school or college on cam
pus
CADET COLONEL DARREL BEGNAUD
Army ROTC Brigade Commander
'Peace'
TO THE EDITOR:
We are writing this letter before the
vote on academic credit lor ROTC We
are opposed to the idea of giving credit
tor ROTC because by doing so the Uni
versity seems to be condoning the
American trend toward militarism
11 the University insists, however,
on continuing to give such credit or
even to allow the teaching ol such
courses on the campus, we would rec
ommend that it also provide funds and
establish a Peace Department on a
similar scale
Courses in the new Peace Depart
ment could be offered in such areas as
Nonviolent Methods Love, Justice
Equably. The Brotherhood of All Men.
Why Wars Ultimately Fail, and even
The Value of Diplomacv
KEITH AND TRIU1A GRAHAM
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