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Tuesday, February 3, 1970
The Red and Black
PAGE 3
STUDENTS WORKING
State Gains Interns
By JIM GOODWN
Staff Writer
"They are good, concerned
people and astute politicians
even if some of them are red
necks or John Birchers. I don't
think they're pawns." Jeff
Sewell has a much higher opin-
tcn of the Georgia legislators
now that he is brushin shoul
ders with them every day.
"They don't make points on
petty, party politics, " he said
"Hie make good points based
on political differences " A
third-year law student from
here. Sewell and 14 other col
lege students from across the
state participating in a legisla
tive internship program in the
Georgia House of Representa
tives.
OFFERED FOR the firet
time this year, the program is a
joint endeavor of the House and
the Institute of Government at
the University. It aims at
promoting more youth involve-
the Committee on Industry and
the Retirement Committee In
each case, research is carried
out in the Judicial Building
State Library across the street
from the golden dome and in
the Emory Law Library
The students put in several
huurs of work at night un occa
sion, in addition to their nine to
four work day, and are paid
$350 a month Our hours vary
according to when the legis
lature convenes and adjourns,
savsBragg
HOUSE SPEAKER George
L Smith was intramental In
helping to start the program,
which is the only one of its kind
in the South. DeKalb represen
tative Larry Thomason oversees
the program and works directly
with the students
The interns said these men
seem eager to help youth shoul
der responsibility and profit
from the project. But Sewell
said there are some represent
atives who do not rely on their
students' abilities that heavily
making copies of codes, laws,
and statutes researching the
history of rlate past legislation;
and studying the potential ef
fects of each bill if passed
After this research is con
ducted, then the students re
port their findings and advice
to their commiteemen
THE FYPFRIFNCE and
pay is not all they get out of
their work Credit is given in
their various fields of study,
and their observations provide
material for term papers That
experience, however, may
come in handy for their future
occupations
"I feel like I'll gain tremen-
dixis insight into Georgia t IN
GGENERALl AND THEN
PRACTICE PUBLIC RELA
TIONS. PROBABLY IN Geor
gia." Bragg said Miss Skid
more predicted. "I ll go to
graduate school and concen
trate on urban affairs - how to
gget state aid through legislative
programs "
Only Sewell is getting no
Crime Woes
Preventable
***** credit for the internship. A
"They are good people, astute politicans even if Navy veteran, he said. 1 had
some of them are rednecks or John Birchers.
»»»MWAVW/
ment and understanding in
government In addition to
Sewell, two other students from
here are "youth involved" —
Cindy Skidmore and Ray
Bragg
"Most of the legislators are
a lot younger than I thought
They are extremely capable
My bad imressions were un
founded. said Miss Skidmore
A senior in political science,
she had her illusions shattered,
gand is joined by Bragg, who
feels much the same way
Bragg, a journalism gradu
ate student, said that the legis
lators have been extremely
helpful and that they have "ac
cepted" the three.
Their work consists of
conducting research for the
legislators and watching the
action during House sessions or
committee hearings Each one
has a slightly different work
load, according to the commit
tee in which he has been placed
STUDENTS FROM Georgia
State University. Morehouse
College, Emory University,
Agnes Scott College, and the
University are interns during
this session Miss Skidmore and
Bragg started serving in the
House when the session opened
Jan 12 Sewell began Dec 29.
two weeks early, on his job in
the Office of Legal Council
Miss Skidmore is on two
committees — Education and
University Systems, research
subcommittee Bragg serves on
Pollner Dies
In Accident
Near Colbert
Teran Kay Pollner. a 21-
vear-old University coed from
Jacksonville. Fla . was killed
Friday night when the car in
which she was riding left the
road and turned over
The accident occured about
three miles east of Colbert in
Madison County
Injured in the accident which
killed the former resident of
Creswell Hall was John R
Templeton. 21 of Augusta
Templeton was charged by the
State Patrol with failure to
have his car under control and
driving too fast for conditions
He said that some of the stu
dents are "not much more the
glorilied pages "
Working now on the Judici
ary Committee and Special
Judiciary Committee. Sewell
has been writing legal memos
and short briefs of a legal na
ture He said that his bosses
are giving him a lot to do. but
that some of his 14 colleagues
have superiors who are not
keping their charges busv. J
MISS SKIDMORE and
Bragg had a bit of spare time
during the first two weeks "be
cause of the new constitution
No new legislation was intro
duced during the debate over
it." according to Miss Skid
more. But now they are verv
busy
"We come in each day, or
ganize our individual program
for the day. talk to our own
committee chairman, and start
on our assignments." Bragg
says those assignments call for
to drop out of school to do this I
did it for expeience and con
tacts and other personal rea-
gsons If I get a good job out of
it it II be worth it. "
How did these three get into
the program? Thev saw signs
advertising for applicants,
wrote short essays on how their
academic courses would help
them in the program, and sup
plied grade transcripts Then
on a competitive basis, the
three were chosen by a board of
the Insitute of Government
Photo by DAVID IEVIE
CRIME PREVENTION STILL POSSIBLE GEORGE SAYS SALERNO
Crim* Expert (r) diicutiet problem with students before recent speech on campus
AT THE UNION
Law Officials Discuss Crime
"Crime Growth and the Stu
dent." a program discussing
the problem of crime as it re
lates to today's youth, will be
presented Thursdy night at 8
in the Memorial Hail ballroom
The University Union spon
sored program will include a
panal of four law enforcement
officials from federal, state.
local and campus levels who
will present statistics on the
rising crime rate and answer
questions
Inspector David W. Bowers
of FBI headquarters in Wash
ington, D C. will speak on
crime at the national level The
University graduate will be
joined by the following panel
Car Hits Student, Officer
NEWS
BRIEFS
A special meeting of Gamma
Sigma Sigma service sorority
will be tonight at 8 30 in 411
Memorial Hall. Pictures will be
taken
• ••
The University Union is
sponsoring • Crime Growth and
the Student.' a program about
how crime relates to youth.
Thursday night at 8 in the
Memorial Hall ballroom
• • •
Students interested in forma
tion of a veterans' organization
on campus are asked to call
Chuck McPherson at 549-5455 or
Nick Wvnnc .it 541 5117 The
proposed group would be a
social-service organization to
represent veterans." said
McPherjion
• • •
Populations — How They
Live and How They Die will be
the topic of the Principles For
Action colloqium on environ
mental problems Thursday
night, in the Forestry Re
sources auditorium at 8
George Child and Hank Shugart
of the Institute of Ecology will
speak
A University police officer
and a University student were
injured last Thursday in what
University police Captain Er
nest Nix referred to as “just
one of those Ireak accidents
Officer Donnie Taylor and
Ed Burton. 22-year-old gradu
ate student in business, were
struck when Taylor's police car
which had been parked on Jack-
son St. rolled driverless down
the hill toward Baldwin Street.
TAYLOR STATED that he
was sent to the parking spaces
ton Jack on St. next to the Li
brary in response to a call for a
tow a wav
“I waited for the wrecker to
come and then helped to push
the car out 1 started to walk
toward my car and then I heard
a popping sound and the vehicle
started coming toward me
"1 opened the door and tried
to stop the vehicle I could see
that there were students on the
sidewalks and cars stopped for
a red light on the right side of
the street
•i COULDN’T get complete
ly into the car I saw that the
vehicle was heading directly
toward a student and I yelled
for him to get out of the v ay. I
turned*he steering wheel to the
left aoi ‘he* car cross the road
"I’m iot sure whether lh«*
door of the car hit mi* or exact
ly what happened after that I
was knoiked unconscious tor a
few mnutes and when I woke up
there were quite a few people
around me.’Taylor said
Burton said that he was
walking up the sidwalk of Jack-
son St. by LeConte Hall when he
realized that the police car was
gmoving toward him
"THE OFFICER looked as
though he was fixing to get into
the car when it began to roll.
He saw it was going to hit me
and tried to stop it.
“He was tryng to stop the
car when it hit me and that is
all I remember. "Burton said
He stated that his hip and
shoulder had been injured
According to Captain Nix.
who investigated the accident,
eye witnesses said that the pe
destrian was walking north on
Jackson St. when he was hit by
the station wagon and knocked
onto the hood He thei roled off
onto the street
LYNN RAMAGE, an educa
tion senior from Atlanta, was a
witness to the accident She
said that she had been walking
down Jackson St toward Bald
win Hall when she saw the car
begin to roll
"The policeman tried to
jump in the car but could not
He turned the wheel; however,
before the car turned, it hit the
boj
"Really, it hit him about
three times; first, with the
right side which knocked him
into the other side Th°n he
jumped to avoid the car but it
hit him agai." she stated
"I DID not see the police
man get hit I heard him yell.
and then the car hit the tree."
Miss Ramag stated
After hitting Taylor and Bur
ton, the vehicle crossed the
street, ran up on the curb and
hit a tree near the intersection
of Jackson and Baldwin St.
dwon from Baldwin Hall. Cap
tain Nix stated There have
been no estimates of damages
to the car.
The accident occurred at
approximately 11:00 a m . said
Captain Nix.
Taylor and Burton were car
ried to Athens General Hospital
where Burton was treated and
released Taylor was kept in
the hospital overnight for ob
servation and released the fol
lowing day.
ists Tom McGahee. assistant
chief of the Athens Police De
partment; a representative of
the state Attorney General's
Office; and Major Paul Dumas,
from the University Depart
ment of Public Safety
President Nixon, in his 19GR
campaign, promised he would
halt the rising tide of crime in
the nation However, after his
first nine months in office, “vi
olent crimes are more numer
ous than ever Nationwide they
jumped 12 per cent, according
to a Time magazine article.
By TERRY HILL
Staff Writer
Organized crime is not yet
an overwhelming problem in
Georgia, according to an expert
on organized crime
R It is growing but is in a stage
at which one can still talk pre
vention Ralph Salerno told a
law school audience Thursday
night
SALERNO, now a consultant
to • U. S Department of Jus
tice and the National Council on
Crime and Deliquency. served
20 years with a police* intellig
ence unit and is the author of
the recent book,“The Crime
Confederation
Salerno advocated attacking
organized crime through its
profits, rather than bv massive
enforcement He called for
reducing tin* syndicate’s profits
and increasing its operation
costs One of the steps in his
plan is to legalize gambling He
estimated that — with a con
centrated effort — organized
crime could be destroyed ••
five years
Government action has been
slow in coming. Sak*rno said In
19W> the Presidential Crime
Commission was allocated only
30.000 dollars to study the prob
lem. Even so. Salerno said of
the Mafia. "They’re on the* run
now as they've never been be
fore '
TIE DEFINED organized
crime as “a selfperpetuating
continuing criminal conspiracy
for profit and power utilizing
fear and corruption and staking
maintain immunity from the
law
One study, although it pur
posely and grossly underesti
mated figures, put net profits
of the illegal gambling opera
tions alone between six and a
half to seven billion doll rs
Salerno said That amount
remained even after such ex
penses as two billion dollars
were paid to public officials on
every level of government, he
added
Prosecutions are made diffi
cult because the government
cannot guarantee* tin* safety of
witnesses and prosecutors,
according to Salei no As of
Thursday night. 2»> people were
being guarded on military re
servations for their protection
in-stated
ORGANIZED CRIME, de
scribed as an entity combin
ing elements from both hig
business and government, had
as it proving ground the Prohi
bition era
Organized crime peddled
liquor in the 1920’s. Now opera
gtions include gambling narcot
ics. and loan sharking The
syndicate has yet to be seen in
marijuana trade but Salerno
said the syndicate might step
into this business in the near
future.
According to Salerno, the
United States is now making
mistakes similar to those make
in the 1920 s. We are maintain
ing unpopular statutes, which
we can't enforce, restricting
tlx* sale of goods and services
which many people want to buy.
resulting in confusion in law
enforcement
Saiemo discussed the possi
ble rise of black and Spanish
syndicates Organizations such
as the Black Panthers have the
guns, the disiphne. and the dif
ferent chapters necessary for
such a formatior. ho said
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