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Ill THE RED AND BLACK
The newspaper of University of Georgia students
VOLUME 77, NUMBER 50
ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1971
Offices on the line
in Wednesday poll
Ru TCDDV CCTK1CD "
'ing efforts
•hotoby DWAIN FITZPATRICK
Student Government candidates participated in a Uni
versity Union sponsored Old-Fashioned Political Rally
yesterdav in Memorial Hall Plaza All of the candidates
lor executive offices spoke, as well as a few senatorial
Judge Bootle
for students'
candidates. Speaking for approximately one and a halt
hours, the politicians did not seem to be affected by the
sparse crowd of students. Here Glen Goodman. Apathet
ic Party candidate, speaks to students
clears way
prosecution
By TOM CRAWFORD
Assistant news editor
A federal court ruling has made it pos
sible for local officials to prosecute the
students arrested in last spring's demon
strations here
Judge William A Bootle of the U S.
District Court in Macon ruled last week
against the plea of five persons, all arrest
ed during last May's demonstrations, that
Athens parade ordinance* and Georgia's
unlawful assembly statute be declared
unconstitutional
Judge Bootle said he was leaving the
question of the laws' constitutionality up
to the state court
Macon attorney William C Randall had
taken Athens and Clarke County officials
into federal court with a plea that they be
enjoined from prosecuting his clients
under the two laws, which he said were
unconstitutional under the First Amend
ment
RANDALL’S ACTION had held up the
trying of almost 200 cases stemming from
the demonstrations. Judge Bootie s deci
sion now makes it possible for Athens offi
cials to resume the trials
University students Roger Clarke.
George Kckard and Greg (iosline were
among the 300 persons arrested last
spnng lor violating the laws
They were arrested after breaking into
the Academic Building on the night of the
May 6 demonstration which broke out
after the killing of the four Kent State
students
Although local officials can now go
ahead with the prosecutions, indications
are that they may wait until Randall has
had time to appeal his case to the I S
Supreme Court's Fifth District Court of
Appeals in New Orleans
WILLIAM GERARD. Clarke County
state court solicitor, said local action will
depend on what Randall decides to do
What if you take all these cases to
court and get convictions only to have
them overturned by a Supreme Court de
cision'* What do you do then 0 Gerard
asked
Randall said he didn't know whether his
case would be appealed or not He is now
waiting tor word from the NAACP in New
York before taking any action on an ap
peal, he said.
He has 30 days from the time the deci
sion is filed to appeal
Judge Bootie s ruling said that all of
the relief sought by the plaintiffs in this
case is denied
THE DEMONSTRATORS have tailed
to prove there was threatened any irre
parable damage or bad faith or harass
ment The evidence shows only a good
faith effort by law enforcement officers to
enforce duly enacted statutes and ordi
nances. Bootle said
Court officials in Athens had already
begun prosecuting some of the demonstra
tors when Randall, arguing that Athens pa
rade ordinance fails constitutionally,
filed suit in mid-June against 15 local offi
cials. including Athens Mayor Julius Bish
op
The case was finally heard in August
in a three-day hearing before Judge Bo<f
tie
By TERRY FETNER
Assistant news editor
Tomorrow students will go to the polls lo
vote for student body president, vice
president, secretary, senatorial repre
sentatives and five proposed constitution
al amendments The polls, located
throughout campus, will be open from 8
30a.m. to4.30p.m.
Students must vote at the polls repres
enting their respective schools said Joel
Wooten, chairman of the Senate Elections
Committee
In order to vote, a student must show
his ID If a student has lost his ID. it is
See related stories, Page 6
necessary to gain written permission to
vote from Jofui Cox. director of Student
Activities. ‘229 Memorial Hall
"WHEN A STUDENT presents his ID
at a poll, his name will be checked on a
master list according to his school, said
Wooten
Then, his ID will be punched, and he
will be given a ballot like an IBM card
which can be inserted into a vote-a-matic
machine, he explained
Once the card is in the votea-matic. a
list of candidates will show through a win
dow in the machine Using a stylus which
is attached to the vote-a-matic. the stu
dent punches through a set of numbered
holes adjacent to the names, registering
his vote
Students may either vote straight purtv
tickets or for candidates independently
The four presidential candidates are
Roger Cox. New Party Glen Goodman.
Apathetic Party; Terry Sullivan, non-par
tisam ticket, and Pat Swindall. Action
Union
Vice-presidential candidates include
Nancy Lark. Apathetic Party Hugh Rup-
persburg. non-partisan ticket, and Joe
Fowler, Action Union
SECRETARIAL candidates are Pam
Avery, non-partisan ticket and Pam
Wooten. Action Union
For a list of the senatorial candidates
see Page 6
Polling locations will be as follows
•Agriculture Conner Hall Agncul
tural Engineering Building and Livestock-
Poultry Building
•Arts and Sciences Main Library.
Geographv Geology , and Speech Build
ing. Park Hall Creswell Reed Ruther
ford. Soule Russell Memonal Hall
Lumpkin and Baxter Streets. Graduate
Studies Library, patio of the Psychology
Journalism Buildings and Sanford Street
next to the Military Building
•Education - Creswell Rutherford
Soule. Brumby. Lumpkin and Baxter
Streets. Graduate Studies Library Bald
win Hall and Memonal Hall
• Forestry Forestry Building
• Grdauate School Main Library and
Graduate Studies Library
•Home Economics Second floor Daw
son Hall
• Journalism Journalism Read
ing Room
• Landscape Architecture Environ
mental Design Building
• Law - Law School
• Pharmacy - Pharmacy Building
• Veterinary Medicine -Veterinary
Building
Students to decide
on 5 amendments
FOR CALLEY ACTION
Clark criticizes Nixon
By KEN WILLIS
Associate news editor
Former U S Attorney General Ramsey
Clark, speaking at the University yester
dav. cnticized President Nixon s decision
to intervene in the case of Lt William (.’al
ley and said that he had no personal in
terest in seeking the presidency
Clark, a long-time critic of the Vietnam
war. said he thought Nixon was yielding
to the emotion of the moment and was
University student works
for end to Vietnam war
By TOM CRAWFORD
Assistant news editor
Tim Drain, a journalism freshman is
circulating a petition in Athens and on the
University campus railing (or Complete
total immediate withdrawal of all Amen
can forces, not just in Vietnam but in
the entire Indochina (emtorv
When he has compiled enough signatures
he will send copies of the petition to con
gressmen in order to start putting on
pressure ' to end the war. he said
Because of the war in Indochina, this
country is falling to piece. Drain said
He added that Amencan troops should be
pulled out now and pul to work improving
America
THE AMERICAN effort in Vietnam is
tutile he said, because if vou can l do
it i win the war in 17 vears. how the hell
are you going to do it in the next 17’’
Drain said he got the idea to circulate
the petition Irom listening to a I’aul Harvey
radio program last week in which the
conservative commentator called lor
withdrawal from Idochina
He started sending out the petitions last
Fndav afternoon giving copies to several
Athens merchants He also went to Pied-
signatures
I don i think of it as a policial active
ty." he said of his efforts I don t even
want to become politically involved
He is merely trying lo improve the
stale of the country he said, calling his
petition drive a responsibility
Drain said he was doing it entirety on
his own with no help from anyone else He
is not sure it will do any good but said
I d like to say that it will work
He said the war would probable drag on
because President Nixon will build up his
populantv by releasing Arms Lt William
Callev
THE PETITION reads in part
The precepts of \his petition are as
tollows Complete total immediate with
drawal of all Amencan forces, not just in
Vietnam not just in Cambodia not just
in Ijos but in the entire Indochina tern-
lorv
We are sick of this unholy unjust,
undeclared war which has dragged on lor
12 vears and has cost (ar too many Amer
ican lives
No longer are we willing to sit quietlv
while our Inends husband- and sons are
sent off lo endure the hell of this war and
now even to the point of having lo endure
the hell of possible death or life imprison
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inherently disrespectful of the law
when he announced Saturday that he
would determine the final military verdict
in the Galley case
The President as commander-in-chief,
has ultimate review of military trials
Usually, though, the review ends with the
Secretary of Defease Nixon promised his
own personal review in the Galley case
because of widespread public interest
A SPOKESMAN for Nixon denied that
the President would be intervening in the
military judicial process, since the Army
will give full review to the case before it
reaches his desk
But Clark had different leelings I
don't know how in a government of laws,
he said, you can have an executive indi
eating his intention to intercede while the
system must proceed with the case
He said the President s statement
troubles me and might undermine the
effectiveness of the appeal courts which
will hear the case before it goes to the
White House
(.’lark said he believed the case, lastead
of uniting the Amencan people as many
have thought, would perhaps deepen the
division, hut said he thought there was
no alternative but to proceed with the
case
There are a range of reasAMis why peo
ple have disapproved of the (’alley convic-
tion. and some of them are poles apart
he said You II find a (ieorge Wallace and
a Benjamin Spock both reaching what
might be called the same conclusion, hut
they got there by quite different routes
ONE OF THEM says he did nght -
and this is absolutely unsupportable
and one says the real culprit should be
punished
Asked about the proposition that the
entire country is respoasihle for the My
Lai incident Clark said It vou really sav
that the country is responsible lor the My
l^ai incident then vou v •* got to stop it
You can't sav it and then keep doing
it. can you° If vou sav there s no differ
ence in bombing and shouting helpless
people in a ditch then vou ve got to slop
Clark said the enormity o! change today
has made us wholly interdependent upon
one another and because of this interde
pendency we must strive toward peace*,
improving quality of life and maintenance
ot human dignity
By CAROL ROBERTS
and TERRY FETNER
Five proposed amendments to the stu
dent body constitution will be included on
the ballot in tomorrow's student govern
ment elections
The amendments concern reapportion-
ment of the Student Senate, election and
duties ol the Senate treasurer and duties
ol the student body vice president and
secretary
The amendments must be ratified by a
majority of the students voting before
they can be put into effect
THE AMENDMENT to reapportion the
Senate would change each school's repre
sentation to one senator for every 300 stu
dents Representation is now one senator
for 200 students
A remainder of at least 151 students
would be counted as an additional senator
under the proposed amendment Each
school would have at least two senators,
as under the present system
The Student Senate will be reduced
from 89 to 63 members if the amendment
is ratified The amendment will not effect
the 1971-72 Senate
A second proposed amendment would
require the Student Senate treasurer to
have served at least one term in the Sen
ate prior to taking office. The Senate pres
ident is now required bv the constitution
to have served one term
“THE ORIGINAL reason behind re
quiring the president to have served one
term was that he had to know how the
Senate works, explained Tom Hamhv.
present Senate treasurer In the past two
years this has become evident of the
treasurer s office, too You can't jump
into it and do a good job without experi
ence in the workings of the Senate and al-
l<xatons rules
The amendment concerning duties ol
the Senate treasurer would require him to
• Keep account of matters involving
allocation and use of Student Activities
money
• Serve as chairman of the Senate Allo
cations Committee, which has the* power
to review requests lor Student Activities
money and allocate the funds with the
approval ot the Senate
• Suspend use* ol allocated tunds when
he suspects misuse of the money The
amendment would require the Student
Senate to file a formal complaint against
the organization within 14 days after the
suspension Use of the tunds would be res
tored if the complaint were not tiled with
in the allotted time
• Inform groups that acceptance of
Student Activities money binds them to
the jurisdiction of the Senate and Student
Judiciary regarding use of the funds
The coastitution now lists the treasur
er s duties as keeping account of Senate
finances and serving as chairman ol the
Allocations Committee
Hamby said the amendment was pro
posed because the duties weren't well
defined before This would also give the
treasurer more power in cases of misuse
of funds
He said requiring the Senate to take
action agaiast an organization accused of
misuse was included in the amendment
so that the Senate would have to take
action - it wouldn l be just the treasur
er s action
An amendment to make the student
body vice president a member of the Allo
cations Committee also would remove
him from the office of vice chairman of
the Student Government Elections Com
mittee
MIKE WILLOUGHBY, present vice
president, said the amendment would
make official the* traditional appointment
of the vice president to the Allocations
Committee
It is a tradition that the student body
president appoint the vice president to the
committee along with the minister to
business and finance, he said The pro
posed amendment would make the ap
point a constitutional requirement
The linal amendment would make the
student body secretary vice chairman ol
the Student Government Elections Com
mittee
It also would abolish two secretarial
duties now included in the constitution
preparation of the student government
budget request to the Allocations Commu
te** and management of all SGA financial
matters
Willoughby said preparation of the SGA
budget request will be a function ol the
student body president if the amendment
is ratified
Congress split over Galley
WASHINGTON - Members of Con
gress. crossing parts lines split sharply
yesterdav over the case of 1st Lt William
E (.’alley Jr and President Nixon's plan
to make the final decision on his punish
ment
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott
praised Nixon's announced intervention in
the case, but his GOP colleague Sen Ja
cob K Javits of New York, said Amen
cans were wrongly bang encouraged to
honor the convicted murderer
Sen Adah E Stevenson II. D-lll said
if Galley is guilty ol slaying South Viet
namese civilians at My Lai as the court
martial determined he must pay the
penalty
But in the House. Hep Ed Edmondson
IHJkla introduced a resolution calling
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on Congress to urge a full pardon lor ('al
ley who was sentenced to life in prison
At a news conference, a psychiatrist
who examined Galley said the officer was
not guilty of any crime in the M\ l-n kill
mgs because he was not willfully and
knowingly committing a wrongful act
Dr Wilhor A Hamman of Alexandria
Va , who appeared as a defease witness in
Galley's court martial, said I don't be
lieve he was guilty of any crime except
had judgment
NEW YORK Demonstrators, led bv
two mules marched on Wall Street Mon
dav to demand withdrawal of all US
forces from Indochina by summer estab
lishment of a 96500 guaranteed annual
income and release of all political pns
oners in America
We are assembling here in the midst
of hank power , brokerage power corpo
rate power hut there is no greater power
than people power the Rev Ralph David
Abernathy chairman of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference told the
crowd of 4000 gathered in front of the Old
Treasury Building
A large number of police were on hand
possibly because construction workers
had attacked and beaten antiwar demon
stratum last spnng in the financial area
But the onlv incident yesterday happened
when the marchers reached Maiden l^ane
and Broadway
Construction workers on scaffolding
high above the street threw several can
vas bags filled with a white powder on
them but no one was in lured
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court
Yesterdav unanimously upheld the contro
versial 190 Gun Control Act. rejecting a
claim that it violated the Constitution s
guaranta* agaiast self-incrimination
The dn ision in the case ol two Calilor
mans charted with nnsxesx'na imrem-
tered hand grenades, also reversed a low
er court's ruling that the indictment was
ineffective beeaused the accused did not
know the weapons were not registered
The court ruled that mere possession of
such weapons is not self-incriminating
because it is the traasfemng party not
the recipient who must register the fire
arms and pay tax And it said in the Cali
fornia case that not knowing the weapoas
were unregistered was no defease since
the public could he expected to know gren
ades are illegal
The law requires registration of certain
firearms and their transfer with the
Treasury secretary
CHICAGO Mayor Richard J Daley
leader of the nation s last great citv politi
cal machine coasted to the wire vesterdav
while his Republican challenger Richard
E Friedman, turned «ki a racehorse finish
in their Chicago mayoralty race
An estimated one million voters will
decide Tuesday whether to give Daley 68
and one of the most powerful Democrats
in America, an unprecedented fifth con
secutive four-vear term or replace him
with Friedman 41 a Democrat turned
Republican and crusading former head of
the Better (iovernment Association
Friedman on a marathon 40-hour se
ne* ol campaign stops that was to cam
to midnight Monday maintained hope
that a coalition of Republican and in
dependent Democrats would cam him
to victory over Daley s arms of precinct
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