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ITT THE RED AND BLACK
The newspaper of University of Georgia students
VOLUME 77, NUMBER 48
ATHENS. GEORGIA 30601
TUESDAY MARCH 30, 1971
Discount plan
to begin soon
By PATRICE WALTERS
News editor
Student shoppers soon will be leaving
cash registers with something they ha
ven't seen in a good while — change
At the end of this week the Student
Government Association will begin dis
tributing student discount booklets
around campus. The booklets will contain
coupons from 16 local businesses, giving
students discounts on regular prices each
time they buy goods from participating
merchants
Terry Sullivan. SGA minister to student
affairs and coordinator of the discount
program, said students need only present
their ID cards to received discounts.
Lowered rates will be given on a variety
of goods ranging from gasoline to paint
SGA HAS ATTEMPTED to plan stu
dent discount programs for several years,
but this is the first time a program has
passed the scrutiny of both University
administrators and the business commun
ity. Sullivan said.
This year's project was originally be
gun in conjunction with Student Consumer
Enterprises, a business lormed several
years ago by a group of University of
North Carolina students. The company
contracted with SGA to involve Athens
businessmen in the venture and to provide
discount booklets to University students
at a charge of $1. Of the dollar. 75 cents
was to go back to the company and 25
cents would have been handled bv SGA
and used to further Communiversity pro
grams.
When SGA discovered that Student
Consumer Enterprises was charging Ath
ens merchants to place ads in the coupon
booklet to advertise their discount prices,
business dealings with the North Carolina
company were cancelled SGA then began
a program of its own to provide students
with lower prices at no charge to either
the merchant or the student
LDCAL MERCHANTS were contacted
by mail and in person and asked to partici
pate in the program. Sullivan said. He
said the majority of students don t live
here and don't have to purchase here' and
that the project will help student pocket-
books as well as helping merchants by
encouraging studerts to buy locally
“It s really totally illogical to charge
both students and merchants for partici
pating in a discount program. Sullivan
said The booklet put together by SGA is
better than the one offered initially by
Student Consumer Enterprises, he said,
“simply in terms of the amounts of dis
counts offered.”
Sullivan said the merchants participat
ing in the program are enthusiastic
They want student business and are will
ing to lower their prices to get it."
Many businessmen wanted to wait a
year arid see how the program s trial run
goes before deciding whether or not to
participate. Sullivan said The pro
gram’s success this spring will determine
how it goes next year- this year’s project
involved many tedious ground-breaking
procedures
“STUDENTS SHOULDN’T expect this
booklet to be a massive savings program,
but rather the groundwork of what we
wish to be a significant discount pro
gram.” Sullivan said He said the booklets
which will be issued at the end of the week
will be good through the end of the sum
mer. and then the merchants will be con
tacted again for next year s program
We would like to move in the direction
of other schools which have 60-70 mer
chants participating who display discount
emblems in their store windows." Sulli
van said
SGA will pay the cost of printing the
booklets, which will be distributed to
dorms and fraternity and sorority houses
later this week Students living off cam
pus may pick up their booklets at the SGA
office.
Galley found guilty;
Manson gets death
IT. WILLIAM L. CALLEY
Outside Ft. Benning courtroom last week
BY MARRIED STUDENTS
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
FT BENNING, Ga. - Lt Wil
liam L Callev Jr was found pulty Mon
day of premeditated murder of at least 22
Vietnamese civilians at My Lai - the first
US. soldier convicted in the March 16.-
1968, massacre
Calley. his face flushed pink, snapped a
weak salute when he heard the verdict
The jury will now decide whether to sent
ence him to death or life imprisonment
The 27-year-old defendant, who stood
trial for 102 murders, also was convicted
of assault with intent to murder a two-
vear-old child A witness testified Calley
shot at the child, but did not see the bul
lets hit—thus the jury, which deliberated
13 days, lowered the murder count to as
sault
Calley s attorney, George W Latimer,
said he intended to appeal the case as
high as possible—90 grounds or so ."
The whole process of delivering the
Day care center planned
By TOM CRAWFORD
Assistant news editor
A day care center for children of Uni
versity students may be established next
year if funds are allocated to it by the stu
dent Senate
The Married Students Council is pres
ently lobbying for a $9500 allocation from
the student activities fund in order to get
the center started, according to Steven
Patrick, chairman of the Student Senate
subcommittee on day care
The day care center 'could not only
care for the child but also place him in a
learning situation." said a subcommittee
report
"There is presently no day care availa
ble for married students with kids." said
Pat Skees. president of the Married Stu
dents Council. "Were trying to provide
quality and low-cost day care
THE ALLOCATION request will have
to go before the Senate Finance Commit
tee hearing It could go before the com
mittee at Thursday’s hearings but will
probably be heard at a later date. Patrick
said.
Three locations are being considered
for the center: the Lucy Cobb Institution
next to the Varsity. Joe Brown Hall and
the married students pre-fabs
Plans call for the center to have one 4-
hour session involving 15 children fall
quarter, two 4-hour sessions winter quart
er involving IS children each session and
two 4-hour sessions spring quarter involv
ing 30 children each
The cost to students would be $20 a
month for each child.
Yearly operating expenses for the cen
ter will come to about $15,700. said Pa
trick Besides getting $9500 from the ac
tivities fund, the center would take in
$6300 from the children enrolled.
Skees said the Married Students Coun
cil was asking for an allocation because
we re trying to make use of the funds
we've been paving all these vears "
MARRIED STUDENTS usually have
no time to attend the events their student
activities fees pay for. Skees said
"Not much more than 20 or 30 per cent
of married students use their ID s at all."
he claimed
After getting the center established the
Mamed Students Council hopes to get the
University to take it over through its aux
iliary enterprises division. Patrick said
The day care center would be beneficial
to the University in three ways, said Pa
trick's subcommittee reports
It would "render an important service
to married students." offer their children
a situation where they would "learn
through individual attention." and give
education majors "on-the-job experience
in working with young children." the re
port said
THE SUBCOMMITTEE report also
said that a "majority of married stu
dents" were in favor of a day care center
The report listed comments made by
married students on a questionnaire sent
out by the subcommittee:
"I fully endorse this for new families
with young children Good nurseries and
babysitters are hard to find in Athens
"It is desperately needed for those of us
trying to get a degree so we can in turn
support these children. "
"Nursery as well as kindergarten ex
penses are outrageous and students just
can't afford to pay them. "
Expenses for the Day Care Center in
clude the hiring of a teacher-director,
teaching assistants, utilities, mainte
nance help and classroom equipment.
Patrick said.
Committee asks extension
of centralized drop-take
By CINDY LUKE
Assistant news editor
The committee on Registration, headed
by Mrs Connie Sasser, director of orien
tation. unanimously passed a motion yes
terday to continue drop-take in a central
ized location with all procedural arrange
ments being made by the registrar s off
ice.
The committee which is studying such
problems as drop-take and fall preregis
tration, passed the motion after Calvin
Hasbrouck. chairman of a subcommittee
on drop-take, reported that it was the con
sensus of the subcommittee that the idea
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of centralized drop-take does seem to be
good enough to try it again "
Hasbrouck stated, however, that after
the trial run in the Coliseum March 23 he
and his subcommittee recognized a need
for "somewhat better organization "
MEMBERS of the committee seemed to
agree that three major factors contributed
to the chaotic condiUons in the Coliseum
One of the major prublems stemmed from
the physical facilities The physical fa
cility wasn't like we would have wanted to
-ee it." said Walter Danner, registrar
Danner added that the situation could
have been improved by stationing such
departments as English and mathematics
and the business school on the floor of the
Coliseum instead of in the corrider
A second problem stemmed from a lack
of communication and participation of
departments, although the confusion here
is not clear
JUDY LANTZY, a senior statistics stu
dent. said she waited in line (or 45 minutes
to drop a course before anyone arrived to
help her Janice Davis, a junior in elemen
tary education, said the worst thing
about it was that the elementary educa
tion table didn t know what was coming
off They didn t know how to help you "
Students seemed to agree that the con
cept of centralized drop-takes is a good
one but they felt that the process needs to
be more efficiently organized
Kitty Farkas. a senior in sociology-ed
ucation. said she felt the idea was a good
one. but they needed more people from
more departments She addeed "This is
especially good for new students who
don t know their way around campus
THE THIRD PROBLEM that arose in
the trial run of centralized drop-take de
veloped from the mob of students that
pushed into the corridors of the Coliseum
According to Ronnie Durst, a business
major. “There were too many people
crowding each other pushing tables It
was a mob acting animal-like — no one
conducted themselves like mature indi
viduals ”
Members of the committee recognized
the need for regulating the number of stu
dents and recommended that the regis-
tear s office study the possibility of incor
porating a priority system, similar to that
used at registration into the drop-take
process
DetaiLs of Ume locaUon. physical lacih-
ties and regulation of students were dele
gated by the committee to the registrar s
office
verdict was accomplished between 4 29
p m., when the jury entered the room, and
4:33 p.m. The jury filed out at 4:38 p.m..
ending the long trial that began for Callev
Sept 5, 1969. when he was charged with
109 murders That number was reduced in
a pretrial hearing a year ago to 102. and
the jury cut it down to 22
"Lt. Calley. it is my duty as president
of this court to advise you that the court in
closed session and upon secret written
ballot, two thirds of the members present,
at the time the vote was taken concurring
in each finding of guilty. Col Clifford H
Ford, the court president, told Calley
The charges against the young officer
were contained in four specifications The
first accused him of killing 30 South Viet
namese civilians at the junction of two
trials in My Lai; the second charged that
he rounded up 70 persons in an irrigation
ditch and cut them down with automatic
weapons fire, and the last two accused
him of two individual slayings—the child,
and a man dressed as a monk
Calley was standing at attention as the
verdict was read, and he nervously licked
his lips.
LOS ANGELES — Death in the
gas chamber was decreed for Charles
Manson and all three of his women follow
ers Monday for the savage, mindless
slaughter of Sharon Tate and six other
persons in August 1969
A middle class, mainly middle-aged
jury brought in the death verdicts for the
36-vear-old cult leader and Patricia Kren-
winkel. Susan Atkins and Leslie Van Hou-
ten after deliberating for li) hours
Manson was led from the courtroom
shouting at the judge and the jury before
the verdicts were even read
The minute the death penalty against
Manson was returned, the three women
defendants also began shouting and were
dragged bodily from the courtroom before
they even learned what their own fate was
lobe
Manson. looking like a little old man
with sunken eyes and a stubble of hair on
his head and clad in a blue denim prison
uniform, called out to the jury:
"You have no authority over me Half
of you aren't as good as I am to begin
with."
After the 27 separate verdicts of death
were read, Superior Court Judge Charles
H Older told the jurors that if it were
within his power he would give them the
Medal of Honor for service "above and
beyond the call of duty
Older then took the rarely seen step of
leaving the bench and approaching the jury
box where he shook hands with each of the
12 regular jurors and three remaining al
ternate jurors
Imposition of the death penalty was not
expected for Jiree to five years, if ever
Appeals may take that long and there has
not been an execution in California since
April 12.1967
A woman was last executed at San
Quentin Prison in 1962
Judge Older announced that he would
formally pronounce sentence on April 19
He has the authority to reduce the punish
ment to life imprisonment but it was con
sidered highly unlikely he would do so
The sensational trial was also marked
Monday by word that the body of a man
believed to be missing defense attorney
Ronald Hughes had been found in a re
mote mountain gorge about 100 miles
north of Los Angeles
Hughes disappeared last Thanksgiving
weekend
Defense attorneys took the verdict with
bitterness
"The jury has perpetuated the ver
thing it sought to eradicate." said chief
defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald
Manson began disrupting the proceed
ings within minutes after he was brought
into the courtroom He first called out to
the judge. "Hey, hey, boy
Older warned him that he would be
removed if he did not remain silent and he
was led out. still sputtering
As soon as the first death verdict was
read against Manson. Susan Atkins shout
ed out "You all have judged yourselves "
Elections code
sets limitations
on posters
Students running for student govern
ment offices will be limited to two posters
on each bulletin board set up for the elec
tion. Joel Wooten, chairman of the Stu
dent Senate Elections Committee, has
emphasized.
No posters may be placed on doors in
dormitories, except on a student's private
room door, said Wooten A resident assist
ant or other housing administrator must
initial posters placed on dorm bulletin
boards
The elections committee ruled that the
maximum of two posters per bulletin
board applies to group as well as individu
al posters Thus, a candidate s name may
appear only twice on each bulletin board
The bulletin board rules apply regard
less of the size of the board. Wooten said,
and the front and back of a board consti
tutes one bulletin board, not two separate
ones
AUP calls for revision
of grade system, Senate
By CAROL ROBERTS
Associate news editor
Revision of the current grading system,
establishment of a University Senate
while maintaining the Student Senate and
appointment of a student ex-officio mem
ber to the Board of Regents are among the
innovations called for by the Action Union
Party platform
The party was formed by a recent
merger of United Party and the Student
Representative Assembly Pat Swindall.
Joe Fowler and Pam Wooten are Action
Union s candidates for president, vice
president and secretary of the student
body, respectively
Instead of the present grading system
of awarding student A. B. C. D or F. the
platform calls for assignment of a stu
dent s exact grade on a 4 0 scale For
See platform, Page 3
example the platform states it a stu
dent had an 86 average, he would receive
that average converted to its exact quiva-
lent on the 4 0 scale
THE PLATFORM also calls for the
formation of a University Senate com
posed of an equal number of student and
faculty, and a lesser but proportional
number of administrators to replace the
University Council
The partv adds however that the Stu
dent Senate should continue to exist as a
direct liaison to students proposing legis-
laUon that would then be referred to the
University Senate
In calling for a student ex-officto mem
ber of the Board of Regents the platform
stipulates that he should represent the
views of the schools in the University sys
tem and should therefore be chosen from
the council consisting of the student body
presidents of all colleges and universities
in the system
The platform urges acceptance of a
Student Senate proposal to require park
ing registration fees of faculty, staff and
administrators, with a view toward using
the funds for a no-fare bus svstem
ACTION UNION’S platform also calls
for a study of current library policies con
cerning book reserves, faculty privileges
and student services student representa
tion on all curriculum evaluation commit
tees in all schools and colleges
The party opposes the sophomore resi
dency requirement in University Housing
as well as any type of contract without
sufficient release clauses or sub-leasing
provisions according to the platform
Residence halls should support them
selves by their own attractiveness to stu
dents rather than through forced obliga
tion. it states
Action Union also calls for establish
ment of a committee to publish a sex edu-
caUon and drug booklet for students, con
tinued expansion of the pedestrian cam
pus plan and improvement of University
dental and health services
THE PLATFORM endorses the pro
posed course challenging program. Uni
versity wide faculty-course evaluation,
improved lighting on campus and estab
lishment of a University operated day
care center for children 'if married stu
dents
Elimination of out-ol-state tuition
charges for spouses of instate students
shoud be effected, according to the plat
form
The party also pledges support to Peo
ples Park and the proposed campus radio
station
To improve the academic advisement
program Acton Union calls for full-time
advisers whose only responsibility would
be academic advising