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The Newspaper of University of Georgia Students
VOLUME 77, NUMBER 11
ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1970
3 NEW PLANS
Calendar changes seen
From the moon
A moon rock, one of the geological
samples collected by astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Edwin Aldrln during
the Apollo 11 mission, is on loan to the
University for two weeks. It will
spend its first weekend in the main
library and move to more familiar
surroundings at the Geography-Geol
ogy building during the second week
The specimen, taked from the Sea ol
Tranquility, weighs 21.13 grams.
By TOM GIFFEN
Staff writer
Three new plans to change the Univer
sity biennial calendar have been proposed
for study this fall, according to Dr
George Parthemos. vice president for in
struction. and Joel Wooten. acUng chair
man of the calendar revision-registration
task force formed at Dialogue 70
Various problems have arisen with the
present system and have prompted this
aeUon. Parthem'-; will meet with Univer
sity President Fred Davison Monday to
request that a committee be st up to study
three new proposals and the system now
being utilized.
"I will make my recommendation to
the president that we move ahead in this
matter to explore each of the plans." Par
themos said Wednesday afternoon, but it
is also my feeling that we shouldn t move
too quickly until we have a chance to study
each of the alternatives carefully."
THE UNIVERSITY calendar year is
set up biennially, and this is the time to
plan for the 71-72 and 72-73 school
years.But. according to Woolen, a deci
sion has been made to plan onlv one year
ahead at this time, giving the proposed
Suit, Carter begin race;
campus debate scheduled
By ROBERT FRIEDMAN
Assistant news editor
Plans are underway lor a debate be
tween the two major candidates for gover
nor. Jimmy Carter and Hal Suit, later this
month in Memorial Hall
The Ideas and Issues Division of the
University Union has invited the candi-
iates to square off at 8 p m on Oct. 15
Suit has accepted, and a reply is expected
from Carter this week
Suit, former news director of WSB-TV
in Atlanta, made his political debut in a
seemingly uphill struggle against Comp
troller General Jimmy Bentley, a veteran
of statewide campaigns
HE BREEZED to a resounding no-run-
off victory harping on his "campaign of
the people and classifying himself as the
only non-politician in the race
Carter's campaign, like Suit s and per
haps by design seemed woefully inferior
to the polished coordination of his oppo
nent Georgians, however, reverted to the
rationale that led to the election of Lester
Maddox in 1986. and voted for the major
candidate for better or worse, least re
sembled a professional politician
Suit made the first move to break up
the ill-fated friendship "All through the
primary campaign. I had considered
Jimmy Carter a non-politician." he said,
"but now 1 see he's hanging around with
the same old political bosses that have
been running Georgia for too long '
He mentioned Carter's dealings with
bosses" in three counties. Richmond.
Long and McIntosh-all carried by Sand
ers
So. as the political allies turn them
selves into ogres in each other's eyes,
their upcoming series of debates could be
the highlight of an already eventful cam
paign
\eivs
analysis
CARTER BACKPEDALED from a tel
evised debate with Sanders when it be
came evident that the ex-governor had no
chance of rebounding in last week's run
off. but he was strangely eager to jump on
the tube with Suit, an even bigger under
dog Suit closely resembled B'rer Rabbit
being thrown in a briar patch when he
received word of Carter s challenge
Way back last spring, a longtime state
newsman predicted a November victory
for Suit at a time when most Georgians
would have staked their sex lives that he'd
be crushed in his own tiny primary
A dogfight in the Democratic primary,
he said, inevitable from the start, could
only hurt the party's eventual nominee
He was obviously right on that count
Despite the smiles of their leaders. Sand
ers and Carter supporters exhibit the
mutual unity of competing Mafia fami
lies.
ON THE OTHER HAND a hard fought
Republican campaign can't possibly alien
ate many Republicans, because there just
aren’t many Republicans to alienate, the
gray, old reporter argued Instead. Ben
tley and Suit received as much statewide
exposure as their Democratic counter
parts. despite a smaller original voter
appeal
The old journalist was also cagey
enough to realize that Bentley, though
better known statewide, would be unable
to whip Suit, who had the backing of a
majority of the party's influential local
leaders across the state
committee time to study alternatives
However. Parthemos indicated that the
University will undoubtedly continue
with tne present pattern next year Next
year's calendar is due for approval by the
middle of October bv the University ad
ministrative council
The three alternative plans to be consi
dered include the La Grange plan, the
Danner plan and changeover to the semes
ter system.
The system selected should handle sev
eral major problems, sources said
• Development of three equal quarters
- fall winter and spring - or the calen
dar
• Coordination of summer school with
the fall beginning of public school
• Insurance of adequate vacation time
for faculty members between summer
quarter's end and the opening of fall
quarter
• Providing for students to attend home
football games, as the start of the season
moves up a week starting next year
• Uncramping of winter and spring
quarters
THE WHOLE SITUATION began to
develop last spring when Walter Danner.
University registrar, proposed the devel
opment of a new biennial calendar to Par-
thraos
Since that time. Dialogue 70 set up a
task force to study calendar revision ad
registration procedures and Parthemos
said he has been trying to get prelimi
nary reactions from faculty members and
students regarding ihe University calen
dar
The committee Parthemos will propost 1
to President Davison Monday is expected
to include members of the administration,
students and faculty I feel sure that stu
dents will be included.' Parthemos said
Wooten also added that Parthemos as
sured both Mike Willoughby, student body
vice president, and him that students
would be included
Of the three plans proposed to be stud
ied. the (^Grange plan has the backing of
the Dialogue task force.
THE I^AGRANGE plan is now in prac
tice at I.aGrange College and entails the
following fall quarter starts early in Sep
tember. sometime right after Labor Day.
and ends at Thanksgiving Students then
have a holiday until the first of January,
when winter quarter begins
The disadvantages to this plan are that
it will not solve the University’s problem
with winter and spring quarters being
jammed up and each of those quarters
having less than 50 class periods Also.
University buildings will lie in disuse for
five weeks
Advantages include the lacts that stu
dents will be back in time for the football
season opener and students will be able to
*et Christmas jobs easier and make more
money Also, (ieorge Abney of the jour
nalism school has proposed an enrichment
program for that period
Abney's proposal would give students a
chance to get extra work in areas in which
they need help, branch out of their own
fields, or specialize in then particular
fields This would go on a student's record
as having been attended but there would
be* no college credit given for participa
tion
The Danner plan entails starting school
at the same time as the LaGrange plan
and ending fall quarter at Thanksgiving
Winter quarter would then begin a week
after Thanksgiving, thereby spreading
winter and spring quarters out
ADVANTAGES TO THIS plan include a
week vacation between winter and spring
quarters as well as an extra day at Easter
and spring quarter's ending the third week
in May with graduation between May 20
and 25 Students will also be able to get
back in time for the football season open
er
Disadvantages include a break over the
Christmas holiday in which instructors
would be able to assign research papers or
reading This would interfere with Christ
mas employment as well as job oppor
tunities.
The semester plan would be set up so as
to finish in lime to have an early gradua
tion and an adequate summer school
Advantages include more time for
graduate school students to do detailed
work. Disadvantages include the winter
break being short and splitting the first
semester
The summer school problem, according
to Danner, can be worked out whatever
system is implemented Summer school
will have to be started earlier
Presently, with our summer school
getting out the third week in August and
public schools starting a week later, we
have caused our faculty to be cramped
ami lose a vacation if thev have children
or spouses involved in local public educa
lion. he pointed out
THE SIMMER QUARTER is defi
cient in time also, we noticed this espe
cially last summer with many more
courses lasting the whole summer, he
said
The Dialogue committee, according to
Wooten, met Monday and discussed the
merits of each plan coming up with a sys
tem of priorities within the proposals ill
(^Grange plan, provided a working sys
tem can be found (2> the present system.
(31 the Danner plan
We did not consider the semester plan
as we felt it would be out of tune with the
University.' Wooten said
We also felt that unless the l,aGrange
plan can be implemented, the University
would be taking a step backwards with the
Danner plan. and. for that reason, we
would favor continuing with the present
system, unless another proposal is pre
sented.
Parthemos. in indicating the present
system's use next fall, said he felt that the
students should be able to see the opening
game here at home
In the event the University changes its
calendar, the entire University system
will probably change sources said
Atlanta conference to plan
strategy for SE mobilization
The Atlanurt&nference will be an ac-
tion-oriented one to plan massive peaceful
anti-war action in the South for the fall, in
particular the Oct 31 demonstration.'
said Frank Grinnon. coordinator for the
Atlanta Mobilization Committee
Plans for the conference, according to
Grinnon. include preliminary meetings
beginning Saturday and Sunday at 11 a m
m the Alumni Memorial Building of Emo
ry University.
After Saturday morning s session,
there will be afternoon workshops begin
ntng at 2 30 In the workshops delegates
will be developing actions for the fall
Workshops will include the areas of the
black community and the war. the war.
ecology and inflation campus strategy ,
women, high schools and labor and the
war. Grinnon said
In Sunday morning s meeting, discus
sion will be centered around the proposals
which some from the workshops. Grinnon
explained
At 2 Sunday afternoon the Southeast
Student Mobilization Committee will con
duct a meeting to discuss U. S interven
tion in Jordan, the auto worker's strike in
connection with the war and campus com
plicity with the war. in terms of ROTC.
etc. ' he said
The mam sponsors of the conference.
Grinnon stated, are the Georgia State
Faculty and Students United against the
War. the Emory Mobilization Committee
Student Group and the Atlanta Mobiliza
tion Committee
The major purposes of this weekend's
conference will be to make definite organ
izational plans for the Atlanta march,
which will travel f city hall to the Fee
eral Building, housing the Defense De
partment. and to make proposals on cam
pus complicity with the war through
ROTC. the Mobe coordinator said
Oct 31 is the day which has been desig
nated as an international day of massive,
peaceful demonstrations and protest
against the war. Grinnon added
AROUND THE WORLD
3-month extension on draft call made
Men entering the 1970 draft pool lottery
,* whose numbers have already been
reached by their local boards are affected
by a three-month extension of their liabili
ty by order of President Nixon yesterday
The extension will affect any man who
loses a deferment or exemption and be-
• comes I-A during 1970 after his local
board has called lottery numbers as high
as the one he holds
The Selective Service Commission, in
announcing the executive order, said it
will not affect many It does not replace
the plan that moves those with numbers
no higher than 195 not called in 1970 to a
lower priority in 1971
• • •
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY closed
for 12 days last spring in a national wave
Classes off
Fifth-period classes will be dismssed
I today for students and facultv members to
hear the second annual State ot the Uni
versity address by President Fred C. Dav
ison at noun in the Fine Arts Auditorium
The address is being sponsored by the
Ideas and Issues Division of the Universi
ty Union and is open to the public as well
as the University community Bob Hurlev.
student bodv president will introduce
Davison
The annual Slate of the University ad
dress is the result of a recommendation
made by students two vears ago at UGA
Dialogue 68
of campus unrest, opened for the fall
quarter without incident Wednesday
About 46.000 students are enrolled at the
Columbus campus
• • •
ATTORNEY GENERAL Tom Hughes
of Australia grabbed a Viet Cong flag
from a student in Canberra yesterday and
threw it to the ground at the Australian
National University Hughes was address
mg a student meeting when the flag was
waved over his head
• • •
THE PRESIDENTIAL Commission on
Pornography recommended in Washing
ton that U S adult censorship laws be
repealed Its recommendations, however
will most probably go unheeded by the
Nixon administration since the Commis
sion was appointed by former President
Lyndon Johnson in 1W7 at the direction of
Congress
The White House has intimated that
results of the Commission s study would
not be heavily weighed by Nixon
Calling the laws ineffective, unwarrant
ed and often wrongfully enforced and un
supported by most Americans, a majority
of 12 of the 18 members offered the rec
ommendations
• • •
ON THE FIRST VISIT ever paid to
Communist Yugoslavia by an American
President. Richard Nixon began his two-
day stay amidst cheering crowds and a
300-gun salute
Yugoslav leader Marshall Tito met
Nixon and his wife at the Belgrade air
port Tito and Nixon are expected to dis
cuss peace prospects for Ihe Middle East-
much speculated about since the death of
Gamal Abdel Nasser
East-West relations are another sub
ject expected to be discussed bv the men
• • •
A COMPROMISE $19 9 billion military
purchasing bill, including the funds for
two additional Safeguard missile sites and
authority for unlimited aid to Israel, has
gone to the Senate for final consideration
The bill was approved by the House
Tuesday 341-11.
It is expected to win final approval in
the Senate, despite a fight being bunched
by Sen William Proxmire. D-Wis. who
says the conference butchered money
saving features of the measure
In separate action, the Senate ap
proved 73-0. a $1 68-billum military con
struction bill authorizing new buildings on
military bases in the United States and
abroad
• • •
THE AIR FORCE conceded Tuesday
that some of its policies are out of line
with the recent emphasis on women s
rights." and gave women another step
forward in their battle for equal rights in
the military
Faced with a tawsuit charging sex dis
crimination the .Air Force tossed out its
long-standing policy of preventing women
with children from remaining in the serv
ice
The action came a day after Capt
Tommie Sue Smith, a 35-year-old divorcee
from Johnson City. Tenn sued the Air
Force, charging the regulations do not
apply to men and therefore violate her
constitutional rights
HrwoDy 0*ain Fitzpatrick
Till next summer . . .
This eye sore, across from the new Education build
ing. will remain a feature ot South Campus until "some
time next summer. ' according to contractor
Wayne Hailey of Baugh and Goody construction com
pany Hailey's company, builder ol the Chemistry
building addition, is using the University property on
Carlton Street as storage space for building supplies
Apparently the appearance ol the lenced area resem
bled a junk yard to someone — a reclining chair sits
among the scattered boards and boxes Hailey said the
ground will be cleaned gradually as the materials are
used "Some people have asked for stuff in there and
we've given it hi them, he said That's the closest
we’ve tome so far hi cleaning it up
