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VOLUME LXXVI, NUMBER 54
"America's Pre-eminent College Newspaper"
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
1970
Davison states policy Funds allotted
University Prudent Fred C. Davi
son released a statement Monday
summarizing tlte views he expressed to
campus demonstrators last week
The statement reads:
As president of the University ol
lieorgia I am charged with such super
vision and direction as w ill promote
the efficient operation of the institu
tion. and I am responsible to the Chan
cellor for the operation and the manage
ment of the institution and for the
execution of all directives of the Board
of Regents and the Chancellor I am
responsible for the maintenance of a
climate conducive to the educational
processonthiscampusand intend to do all
within my power to maintain a dispas
sionate atmosphere in which learning. J
the extension of knowledge and the ;
gain of new knowledge through re- •
search can take place
In matters of public policy, I am :
not the corporate conscience of this i
institution In our university communi- ■
ty of approximately 27,000 students. ■
faculty, and staff, each has his or her ;
own right to a private opinion on politi- j
cal and public policy matters and 1 '■
respect this right It would be pres :
umptuous of me to speak on behalf ot
all of these people on such matters
This institution is also committed
to respect for the due process of law
and to equal treatment of all its citi
zens under the law We will continue to
support this position
Hurley appoints
Committee formed
to express views
By TOM CRAWFORD
Assistant news editor
The newly formed “Committee for a
Responsible SGA” is planning to circulate
a petition among students tiLt expresses
opposition to a Student Senate motion
condemning the four Kent State deaths
and the war in Cambodia
Composed, in large part, of members of
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF).
the committee will attempt to show that
most students on campus do not support
expressions of partisan political views by
the Senate.
The petition reads:
We the undersigned students at the
University of Georgia urge the Student
Senate to defeat the following resolution
being presented before the Senate
" We the immbgfl at tht Student Sen
ate of the University of Georgia condemn
the tragic killings on the campus of Kent
State University, and the use of violence
by any person or group
‘“FURTHERMORE, we condemn the
military presence of the United States in
Southeast Asia and urge a total withdraw
al
Thirdly we feel that both the Kent
State incident and the Vietnam War are
careless and tragic wastes of the lives and
potentialities of young Americans.
While regretting the Kent State stu
dents’ deaths, we do not feel that it is the
role of student government to speak out
on political issues on which students of the
University of Georgia have divided opin
ions. We urge the Student Government
Association to spend its time more wisely
solving the problems facing students on
campus."
The motion referred to in the petition
allegedly was drawn up by the special
Senate committee which was created at
Monday s Senate meeting, according to
YAF vice chairman Martin K O’Toole
THE SPECIAL committee was to in
vestigate the motion made by Senator
David Alonso that the Senate condemn the
deaths of the Kent Senate students and the
war in Cambodia
Speaking about the petition. Sam Dick
son. past state chairman of YAF. said.
Bob Hurley and Mike Willoughby are
very ambitious politicians and when they
see opposition they’ll drop it < the Senate
motion' like a hot potato."
YAF's committee to circulate the peti
tion was formed at a meeting Tuesday
night, at which a panel discussion was
held on the movie "Operation Abolition."
Operation Abolition ' recounted the
efforts by the American communist party
to disrupt House Un-American Activities
Committee hearings in San Francisco in
1960
THE FILM contended that student
demonstrations are instigated by “profes
sional communist agitators' who "dupe”
the students into going along with them.
These agitators “ spread the virus of
communism” to "unwitting dupes,
who perform like puppets” the film said.
After the film, a panel composed of
Dickson and Steve Barnes, campus chair
man of YAF discussed the relevance of
the film.
When you have a demonstration-type
situation people can be sucked in and
whipped to a frenzy by people trained
in professional agitation." Dickson said.
Barnes said that the main push fof
demonstrations comes Irom groups like
the Young Student Alliance and Studrtits
for a Democratic Society.
"In groups like SDS you do have com
munists in very high positions,” Said
Dickson
DICKSON SAID Mike Klonsky. “na
tional chairman for SDS.” and some writ
ers for The Great Speckled Bird were also
known communists.
(See COMMITTEE FORMED, Page 2)
By TOM CRAWFORD
Assistant news editor
Allocations for the upcoming year were
decided on last night at the Student Senate
meeting, with controversy arising over a
few organizations.
Student body president Bob Hurley also
announced his new cabinet at the meeting
Most of the controversy centered
around money for the Georgia Agricultur
ist magazine It requested $4500 and the
allocations committee gi anted its full
request.
SAM RICHWINE (Arts and Sciences)
blasted the Agriculturist's request, saying
“ This seems irresponsible to me. It's a
magazine I've never seen around cam
pus."
He also questioned the wisdom of cut
ting the allocation for the Impression,
which is a more campus-wide magazine
Hugh Ruppersburg (Arts and Sciences)
also spoke against the Agriculturist, say
ing it didn't merit its money because it
doesn't benefit the whole campus
Pat Swindall (Arts and Sciences) asked
why the Agriculturist should get $1500
more than it got last year.
SENATE TREASURER Tom Hamby
(Agriculture) said that the magazine
wanted to go back to printing twice a
quarter
The vote on the allocation was a 31-31
deadlock
Price Coit. senate president, tried to
avoid having to break the tie by calling for
a revote. Senate rules prevent this, so he
voted against the Agriculturist, with the
stipulation that it be sent back to commit
tee.
Joe Fowler (Arts and Sciences) moved
that the Agriculturist be sent back to
committee and restudied The motion
passed.
Controversy also arose over the Red
and Black allocation The newspaper re
ceived $34,000 last year and asked for
$46,050 this year. The committee pro
posed an allocation of $25,450
TREASURER Hamby said that cuts
were made in salaries (the Red and Black
requested $26.000» and wire service costs
i $2.000».
Hambv also said that a $22,000 balance
was predicted for this fiscal year.
Red and Black business manager Jo
Ann Rock pointed out that the figure was
inflated, since printing costs for April
(around $7,000) hadn t been figured in.
Charles Henderson 'Journalism) spoke
in favor of increasing the Red and Black
allocation, saying that no activity, with
the possible exception of student ID.
comes into such continual contact with
the students
Kyle Branan (Agriculture) supported
the committee's allocation, saying that
the Red and Black would have $HD.0U0 to
work with next year
RUPPERSBURG asked if it would be
possible for the Red and Black to enlarge
and expand on the committee's allocation
Miss Rock said it would not.
The Impression got $5,000 last year and
asked for $5700 this year
Hamby's committee proposed only
$2400. eliminating salaries for the staff
and pointing out that the Impression is
printed at the most expensive plant in
town
Raymond Goodwin (Graduate) violent
ly objected, saying This is not support,
this is a farce '
Ruppersburg said that the Impression
is a feature magazine that needs higher
quality printing than a newspaper He also
said that the co-editors should be paid
since they "live at the printer’s for a
week when the Impression goes to press
THE COMMITTEE S allocation pro
posal passed. 46-20.
Some senators opposed allocation mon
ey for student identification, saying the
University should pay for it The proposal
passed however. 49-21.
The University Union program division
requested $81,600. more than double the
$39,000 it got last year. The allocation
committee proposed $66,200. and the Sen
ate passed it.
The SGA allocation proposal included
paying the executive officers and the pres
ident and treasurer of the Senate They
would be paid tuition plus $50 a quarter for
books
t This motion was defeated, most sena
tors feeling that the senate secretaries
and vice-president should also be paid
A special committee, chaired by David
Alonso (Arts and Sciences), will study the
proposal
THE CAMPUS RADIO station alloca
tion ($23,000) was passed unanimously
The Pandora requested $52,500 from
the allocations and got it.
Some senators questioned the cost of
photography for the yearbook John Cox.
Various views expressed
concerning campus protest
By ROBBI BLANTON
Staff writer
The Academic Building will never be
the same
Few traces remain of last week's anti
war disturbances. Custodians have re
placed the glass broken by rocks thrown
by angry hands and directed by frustrated
hearts The charred remains of the small
fires built on the sidewalk for warmth in
front of the building have been swept
away
The grass trampled by approximately
6.000 feet is attempting to grow back to
serve its original purpose However, few
students, faculty members or adminis
trators will soon forget the mass protests
and marches which resulted in a two-dav
class suspension last week
Said to be the largest demonstration
ever held at a higher institution of learning
in Georgia, the protest last week was in
opposition to the killings of four Kent
State University students who were dem
onstrating against President Nixon's deei-
Harding defines Black Awareness
By HOWELL MEDDERS
Associate editor
Black people are moving to take over,
to put the world back into the hands of
human beings was the explanation of
what Black Awareness is all about of
fered by Dr Vincent Harding
Harding director of the Institute of the
OR VINCENT HARDING
'Ain't my Uncle Sam'
Black World, delivered the opening
speech for Black Awareness Week yester
day in the Memorial Hall quadrangle
THK NEW TURK NATI'E who helped
plan the Martin Luther King Memorial
Center in Atlanta, prefaced his address
with some remarks on the situation that is
presently developing in Athens, saying he
was unaware of the racial disturbances
here before he arrived.
He said two words. Athens and Geor
gia. represent all of the arrogance of the
white western world — a tradition of
wrongness and injustice and certainly
nothing black
He said it was a basic contradiction
for black people to be in Athens, adding
that blacks have always been a basic con
tradiction in America
Harding said that in order to under
stand black awareness, blacks must begin
with an awareness of themselves, where
and who we are and how we got here ’;
and a determination of where we go
from here
He asked the audience of some 200 peo
ple to view black awareness in a large
perspective as "part of a larger drama
that is being and has been acted out on the
stage of this nation He said such a dra
ma of black students during the last 10
years would begin with black music that
has characterized the movement through
out the decade
THE ACTION, he said, wculd begin with
four black students at North Carolina A
and T who began a social revolution when
they decided to sit at a white lunch counter
in Greensboro
They decided on the importance of the
dignity and pride of black people.' he
said, "and decided to move ahead
He said part of the action would be
"marching and singing and getting beaten
and put in jail and still singing The
drama would reflect a generation of
blacks who had found a purpose for their
lives, he said
The first act would end. Harding contin
ued. with the beatings turning into killings
and blacks recognizing the hardness of the
American society they thought they could
change He said the stage would be full of
black students wandering about full of
doubts and fears about their movement
He added, almost as a footnote, that
small groups of blacks would be invited
onto white campuses in little trickling
dabs of black
HARDING'S SECOND ACT would be
gin with hard black music and Malcolm X
standing centerstage 'bold and black.'
rapping about what was happening to blacks
and using phrases like black power to instill
in his people a sense of being black and
(See HARDING DEFINES. Rage 2)
director of student activities, said that
only $5,000 was spent for photography The
proposal passed 48-9
Hurley reslructed his cabinet reducing
it to four ministers and their advisors
Tim Mundv was named minister to
academic affairs, with Eddie Cheeks
l admissions I and Maureen Mdziughlin
(faculty-course evaluation) serving as his
advisors
Terry Sullivan is the minister to stu
dent affairs, with John Hotard i student
regulations!. Tom landrum Mike Davis.
Mike Webster and Nelson Garnett as his
advisors.
RANDY SH1NGI.EK is minister of
University relations, and John Albright.
Carroll Travis. J on Smith and Mike Ag-
new are his advisors.
Don Gilmore was named minister of
business and finance Ed Dunbar. Joe
Belew. and Jan Blanchard will serve as
his advisors.
Photo, by ROB NOVIT
PRESIDENT PRICE CORR PRESIDES OVER LAST NIGHT'S SENATE MEETING
Petitions and funds allocations were main orders of business
Changes pondered
sion to send U S. troops to Cambodia
REACTIONS from participants and
spectators of the demonstration have
been varied. Some of the more activist
students expressed the idea that “it was
good to see 4.000 students at the* Universi-
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ty doing anything for anything Others
said the fact that students who had never
participated in any activities here belore
were finally standing up for something
they believe in would help to disprove the
University's reputation of having an apa-
thetic campus.
The activists interviewed also said they
had lost respect for University Presi
dent Fred C Davison because he acted
as the puppet ot the Board o( Regents in
stead of acting on his own initiative "
These students were referring to the fact
that Davison declined to sign the letter
criticizing President Nixon s Cambodia
decision which has been endorsed by
many University presidents
When confronted by this accusation.
Davison replied that he would have to
evaluate carefully the contents of the let
ter before he considered signing it. Stu
dents who had participated in the demon
strations revealed that they were happy
with the results "because we did achieve
one of our demands a twodav shutdown
of the University
DALE IIARDMAN. one of those dem
onstrating. disclosed that he was happv
with the marches especially because of
the spontaneity of the people involved
He indicated that they did not need any
organization, but were alt one group unit
ed in a common cause - to show concern
over the Kent State killings
f nceming President Davisons stand.
Hardman said "Davison has no leader
ship abilities This is why the students
jeered turn last week If he had tried to
understand us. ’Dean Williami Tate and
IV'ct- Preside"' George' Parthemos did.
negotiations would have been better
(See PROTEST Page 2)
By RAY TILLEY
StaH writer
The Arts and Sciences faculty has fin
ished reviewing curriculum changes pro
posed by its special in-depth study com
mittee, but the proposal remains tenta
tive pending action by the University
Council.
Action on Bachelor of Science require
ments was recently completed The facul
ty finished its work on Bachelor of Arts
requirements late last quarter
Dr Richard Dangle, assistant dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences, noted
that various points in the curriculum pro
posal will require approval by the Univer
sity Council to take effect The most nota
ble of these is the proposed reduction to
180-hour minimum in credit hours re
quired for graduation
THOUGH THE FACULTY itself has
authority to make many o! the changes it
has voted, the entire proposal will not
take effect until the necessary parts get
University Council approval said Dangle
Students probably won't see a change in
the requirements they must meet before
the 1971 72 academic year, he said, since
final University Council action is not likely
to come before the 1970-71 term
The proposed B.S curriculum is
• Social Science — 5 hours from An
thropology. Economics, History. Geogra
phy 'not physicali Philosophy. Religion
Political Science. Psychology • Sociology
or Speech Communication
• HUMANITIES and social science
electives — 15 hours Courses in Fine
Arts, Foreign Language. Literature or
Social Science
• Mathematics 10 hours Mathemat
ics through one quarter ot calculus (Math
AROUND THE WORLD
253) is required If Math 100 is required,
no c redit toward graduation is given
• Physics — 10 hours Physics through
128 or 138
• Chemistry — 10 hours Chemistry
through 122 or 128
• B'nlogy — 10 hours Biology 101 and
102
• Earth Sciences — 10 hours from Geol
ogy. Physical (Geography or Botany
• SCIENCE and mathematics electives
— 10 hours These are recommended by
the major department and may be chosen
from any physical or biological sciences
division courses
• Major — 40 hours Major subject a
minimum of 20 hours of senior division
courses must he taken in one subject
while in residence Major division: 20 ad
ditional hours either in the* major subject
or in the biological or phvsical science
(See CHANGES PONDERED, Page 2)
Grade changes
still possible
for seniors
tirades and grade changes for gradual
ing seniors can still be recorded, accord
ing to Mrs Agnes Storey, assistant regis
trar
Mrs Storey explained this policy is
applicable to all quarters except the cur
rent one
No deadline has been set when grades
can no longer be changed Mrs Storey
emphasized, however, that students
should make any authorized changes as
soon as possible
Supreme Court seat filled
The U S Senate in a 944) vote Tuesday
confirmed Judge Harry A Blackmun s
nomination to the Supreme Court.
The appointment of Blackmun. a mem
ber of the U. S 8th Circuit Court of Ap
peals for 11 years, ends President Nixon's
long fight to fill the seat vacated by Abe
Fortas last May
• • •
NEW INDICATIONS of possible sniper
fire in the Kent State University shootings
which killed four students have been re
ported by the Ohio National Guard
Guard spokesmen, who contended that
troops opened fire during a confrontation
with anti-war demonstrators after a sni
per began shooting said Tuesday a 32 cal
iber pistol had been fished from a nver
and tour weapons - two hand guns and
two rifles - had been taken from persons
arrested the day of the shootings
• • •
PRESIDENT NIXON has sent hand
written letters of condolence to the par
ents of the four students killed during the
recent demonstrations at Kent State Uni
versity
The letters came to light after the
White House was asked if it would make
them public l)eput> press secretary Ger
ald L Warren said the President consi
ders the letters extremely personal” and
declined to release them
Mr and Mrs Louis A Schroeder of
Lurain Ohio, said they received a letter
on White House stationery , dated May 6