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THE RED AND BLACK
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30601
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 59, 1975
Committee dance halted
State rejected
dam drainage
MAN, W. Va. A coal mine official said Monday
offers to relieve pressure on a dam which collapsed killing
66 persons were rejected by the state because spillage
would pollute nearby waterways.
Ben Tudor, assistant superintendent of the Buffalo
Mining Co., said his firm attempted for a year to get
permission from the West Virginia Department of
National Resources to drain water from the dam.
“They were too concerned about the trout
downstream,” he said. “It either had to be the people or
the trout, and now both are gone.”
The mile-long dam, swollen by three days of heavy
rain, collapsed Saturday and cascaded a 30-foot wall of
water and sludge throughout an 18-mile long valley.
In addition to the mounting death toll, ten persons
were injured, and nearly 300 others were missing,
although many may simply have left the area.
Berrigan informant testifies
HARRISBURG, Pa. FBI informant Boyd Douglas Jr.
testified Monday that the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan told him
that the destruction of heating ducts he had inspected
beneath federal buildings in Washington, D.C., would have
“the utmost impact” in disrupting the national
government.
Guarded by six federal marshals as he testified,
Douglas said Berrigan told him he posed as an electrical
engineer to inspect personally the heating ducts that he
and six codefendants allegedly conspired to destroy.
Douglas said the disclosure was made while he and
Berrigan were inmates at the Lewisburg Federal
Penitentiary.
Strike strands LA. commuters
LOS ANGFLES The nation’s third largest mass
transportation system was shut down Monday by a bus
mechanic's strike, stranding 400,000 commuters in the
Los Angeles area and slowing traffic on the world's largest
freeway network.
The 2,500 drivers of the Southern California Rapid
Transit District refused to cross picket lines of the 650
mechanics.
Some bus commuters were unaware of the strike and
waited in vain at bus stops in Los Angeles, Orange and
Riverside counties. Passing motorists rescued many of
those stranded.
Weather stops Pioneer launch
CAPE KENNEDY The Space Agency made a second
attempt Monday to launch Pioneer 10 toward Jupiter, but
spaceport weather again was a matter of concern.
The countdown aimed toward a launch at 8:45 p.m.
EST and project officials reported the 565-pound
spacecraft and its silver and white Atlas-Centaur rocket
were ready.
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Nationalist China hits trip
TAIPEI Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist
Chinese government said Monday that Asian and Pacific
nations will suffer the consequences of President Nixon’s
visit to China, it called upon them to cooperate in
resisting the Chinese Communists.
A communique issued by the Nationalist Chinese
Foreign Ministry reitereated the Nationalist aim of
reconquering the Chinese mainland from which Chiang
was expelled by the Communists in 1949.
asm.
Carter backs anti-blocKbusting
ATLANTA Gov. Jimmy CMter attacked Monday
opposition to an anti-blockbusting bill and said it was
aimed at protecting "a few unscrupulous companies ”
Carter displayed at a news conference a letter from a
committee of the Atlanta Real Estate Board urging
senators to vote against the bill which passed the House
last week.
By MARK N1CKELSON
Associate news editor
Intersect and the Committee for
Gay Education staged a brief sit-in
in Director of Student Activities
John Cox’s office yesterday when
they learned Cox had cancelled a
ballroom reservation for a gay
dance.
Cox had made the decision, he
said in a letter to Intersect President
Rick Gilberg, because he learned
that the Memorial Hall ballroom,
reserved by Intersect for the night
of March 10, was not going to be
used by members of that club.
INTERSECT HAD made the
reservations because the Committee
for Gay Education is not a
recognized student organization and
cannot reserve use of University
facilities.
The unplanned confrontation in
Cox’s office ended with Cox
directing his visitors to Dean of
Student Affairs O. Suthern Sims.
Some 15 to 20 Intersect and gay
education members had participated
in the sit-in.
Sims and Student Judiciary
Advisers Bill Bracewell and Jan
Summer met with Intersect and Gay
Education representatives at 3 p.m.
after the 1 p.m. sit-in.
Bracewell told the students the
University’s facilities are assigned to
departments to be responsible for
preservation of the facilities.
University regulations, he said,
control behavior after the fact in
the instance of making an incorrect
reservation for University property,
but to prevent a violation requires
an administrative decision.
SIMS UPHELD Cox’s decision.
• “In my opinion the only place
the issue (of permitting use of
University property by a group of
homosexuals) can be settled is in
court,” Sims said, “and not in an
educational institution.”
Sims and Bracewell referred to
Section 26.801 of the Georgia
Criminal Code which makes aiding,
abetting, condoning or soliciting the
practice of sodomy an offense, and
said they were not sure the
University could not be held liable
for holding the dance.
Sims said the
get into trouble
side;” from people who
dance shouldn't be held.
University could
from “the other
felt the
THE ADMINISTRATORS
advised the students to go to court
and get a temporary injunction to
keep the University from cancelling
the reservation. Sims said Intersect
would probably win any court
decision on the issue, but he said
the court, not the University,
should make the decision.
Gay Education coordinator Bill
Green said the dance would meet a
University criterion of educational
usefulness. “Our purpose in holding
this dance is to have a large number
of gays turn out, have a nice
evening, and leave; and for the
world to look at it and realize the
world hasn’t come to an end,” he
said.
SENATORS AND GAY LIB MEMBER TALK WITH ADMINISTRATORS AFTER SIT-IN
(L-R) Sens. Miller and McLarty; Bracewell, Green; Deans McBee and Sims
Ga. squeaks
by Miss. St.
Spro-i-i-ing ???
University Health Service officials arc concerned
about yesterday's outbreak of the dread disease,
spring fever. Its symptoms arc the shedding of
articles of clothing, forgetting of textbooks, and
lying supine on any grassy area. When asked what
they planned to do to combat the spread of this
ailment, a Health official said, "I don't know. We
all have it too.’’ Weather officials at Athens Airport
say the cause for the disease, warm weather, is not
here to stay. At least not for a while. “It's too early
to say there won’t be any more cold weather. We
usually gel outbreaks (of cold weather) for another
month," a weather official said.
Photo, by STE VF. WOODFORD
Netters win tourney
The University of Georgia almost
made it two in a row at the
Princeton University Intercollegiate
Invitational indoor tennis
tournament this Sunday when the
team of Danny Birchmore and Bob
Tanis won the doubles event,
beating John Adams and Larry
Loeb of Pennsylvania 6-2. 6-4.
Danny Birchmore made it to the
finals in the singles competition by
defeating Harns Masterson of
Harvard in a hard-fought match 6-4,
7-5.Incumbent champion Birchmore
lost in finals competition to John
Adams 6-7, 6-3. 6-4.
Adams and Birchmore are old
acquaintances across the net
Birchmore beat Adams last year for
the singles championship here 6-1,
7-5; but lost to him in *70.
'I'M REALLY pleased with the
boys performance,” said Coach Dan
Magill **B'»b lanis really came
through for us.”
“Our regular season opens up
this Saturday at 2 00 p.m. against
the Athens K-nms ( Itlb M CRN
biggesi match of the season will be
Monday against SMU. SMU is
probably the best team we’ve ever
played here
“The match between Birchmore
All candidates
need forms
Petitions for nominees for
student government office, now
available at 229 Memorial Hall, are
required for all candidates, contrary
to a notice in last Friday’s Red and
Black which said only independent
candidates need petitions.
Senate candidates need to collect
100 signatures or 10 per cent
(whichever is less! from the school
or college they hope to represent.
Candidates for executive office need
300 signatures.
and SMU’s John Gardner should be
a must see for all tennis fans."
This >car’s tnp to Princeton was
Bob Tanis* first, and Danny’s third
Tams, filling the spot created by the
graduation of Norm Holmes, had a
big job cut out for him, according
to Coach Magill.
BIRCHMORE and lanis reached
the finals in doubles competition by
defeating Robert Binns and Rick
Fagel of Columbia in a close match
7-6, 6-7, 6-4.
Adams, who beat Birchmore in
the finals of the singles competition
is a left-hander and all-America
soccer star.
“Danny lost to a great athlete,”
said Magill. “he has nothing to be
ashamed of.”
Magill has called Georgia's
chances for repeating last year’s
SEC tennis championship as
“good,” calling it a five-way net
between Georgia. Tennessee.
Alabama. Mississippi St. ..nd
Florida.
By BOB GILLETTE
Assistant sports editor
What was supposed to be a dog
fight didn’t become so until late in
the last half when Georgia blew a
17-point lead but got by the
Mississippi State Bulldogs. 87-82.
Georgia controlled the game for
the entire first half, never
relinquishing the lead.
Georgia drew first blood on a
hook shot by Dick Toth.
Mississippi State tied the game
2-2, but that's as close as they got
the rest of the half
Hogue was unstoppable in the
first half, coming through with 19
points. Dick Toth added six.
At the end of the half Georgia
led 39-32 with Toth and
Gianfrancesco in foul trouble with
three apiece.
The second half began about as
slow as the first had been. Hogue
and Fraley teamed with some fine
shooting to stretch Georgia’s lead to
17 points with 7 S4 Ilf)
The complexion of the game
changed with the loss of Tim Bassett
and later Dick Toth, both with five
fouls.
With 2:28 left, State pulled to
within five points of the ’Dogs
behind a rugged full court press.
Georgia got cold from the field
and with 1:30 left in the game
State shortened the lead to three
points, 77-74.
Georgia’s sinking lead was
bolstered by Hogue’s free throw
shooting, but State pushed their
way to an 82-82 tie with 20
seconds left.
The hero of the night was Gino
Gianfrancesco whose driving layup
with four seconds left put the ’Dogs
ahead to stay.
The final three points were
added by Fraley and Hogue at the
free throw line.
The tempo of the game was held
down by some close officiating. But
that didn’t bother Ronnie Hogue's
running game as he paced the ’Dogs
scoring with 34 points.
The tension in the Coliseum was
electrifying as a result of a collision
between Ronnie Hogue and Taki
Koroneos. When Ronnie got up off
the floor he stepped in the middle
of Koroneos’ back, and Takiwrithed
in mock pain No foul was called.
“We need to work on our free
throws,” said Georgia Coach Ken
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Kosemond. “Tension has a lot to do
with the sporadic free throw
shooting because muscles tighten up
and don’t flow as well.
“I was real pleased with the job
Chip Vaughn did coming off the
bench for us late in the game.
Hogue played an excellent defensive
game and played a big part in the
victory tonight.”
Georgia was 59.6 per cent from
the floor and hit 64.1 per cent of
the charity shots.
Dick Toth seems to have done
the impossible by out-scoring John
Fraley 16-15.
Georgia’s record now stands at
8-8 in SEC play with the Florida
’Gators coming here next Saturday
R&B nabs
top awards
in Georgia
The Red and Black Friday swept
four out of six award categories at
the Georgia Collegiate Press
Association’s annual awards
banquet, and also won the award
for general excellence
In addition to the four awards
for sports, photography, features
and news, staff members of The
Red and Black won four individual
awards, including The Atlanta
Journal’s Impact Award for the best
collegiate editonal cartoonist in
Georgia
CARTOONIST Andrew Hamilton
won the Impact award for his
cartoon of last year depicting a
couple ir. an extremely run down
apartment. The man is holding a
newspaper which reads, “Married
housing up 20% in cost.” The
caption reads “Thank goodness we
never mained, honey!”
Bill Lee won the award for the
best sports story for his pre-Auburn
story, “Who-o-o’s nervous?”
Ken Willis was a double winner,
winning both the best feature and
the best news story.
Willis, who is currently The Red
and Black's managing editor, won
the feature award with his story, “R
and B abortion ads draw response,”
which was run last winter.
HE WON the news category with
his story “Discovery may prove
profitable,” which reported a
possible conflict of interests on the
part of Provost S. W. Pelletier.
Junior division honors went to
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College as they won five of the six
categories as well as the award for
general excellence.
Individual competition in the
junior division was dominated by
Kennesaw Junior College, however,
as their Sentinel won three of the
four awards.