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House votes to
expand Atlanta
ATLANTA The Georgia House voted 103-40
Tuesday to expand Atlanta’s boundaries, reducing the
city s black majority to a minority. The measure now
goes to the Georgia Senate, where it faces an uncertain
fate.
The House-passed measure was much like one
proposed by Atlanta’s liberal Mayor Sam Massell. It
would annex into Atlanta, without a referendum, the area
along the city’s northern suburban borders.
It would raise Atlanta’s population from about
450,000 to just over 500,000 and increase the city’s size
from 135 square miles to 305 square miles.
But the ratio of blacks to whites would change from
52 per cent black to 47 per cent black.
Redistricting passes House
ATLANTA — The Georgia House of Representatives
approved, 152-28, a new congressional rcapportionment
measure Tuesday giving Atlanta’s Fifth Congressional
District a black population of 43.8 per cent.
An earlier redistricting, which reduced the Fifth
District's black population from 39 per cent to 38 per
cent was rejected by the Justice Department, because it
diluted black voting strength.
The House rejected an amendment which would have
made the Fifth District 47 per cent black.
Chou invites Mansfield, Scott
WASHINGTON President Nixon gave congressional
leaders lacquered Chinese boxes Tuesday, assurances he
was not abandoning Taiwan and word that Premier Chou
F.n-lai had invited Senate leaders Mike Mansfield and
Hugh Scott to visit China.
After Nixon briefed members of Congress and the
cabinet on his just-completed China mission in three
hours of meetings, the White House announced that Chou
told Nixon in Shanghai Sunday that “he would invite
both Sen. Mansfield and Sen. Scott to visit the People’s
Republic of China” at a mutually convenient time.
Letter implicates informer
HARRISBURG, Pa. A mysterious letter releaseu
Tuesday at the trial of the Rev. Philip Berrigan and six
others indicated the government’s star witness was being
paid as an FBI informer while an inmate at the Lewisburg
federal prison.
The letter, dated Oct. 3, 1970, was signed “Pete,” the
name used by Boyd Douglas - an ex-convict who
testified for the second day at the trial. It was addressed
to “Molly" whom the defendants said later was FBI agent
Delmar Mayfield of Lewisburg.
“Thank the bureau for the reward,” the letter said.
“This will be used for a new car soon.”
Davis juror not excused
SAN JOSt, Calif. Judge Richard Amason ruled
Tuesday that a prospective juror in the Angela Davis
murder-kidnap trial could not be removed solely because
he didn’t like communism.
Arnason refused to excuse William E. Hotaling, a
middle-aged IBM supervisor who said he had an “adverse
opinion” of Communists but felt he could give a fair trial
to Ms. Davis, who is one.
Hotaling could still be removed for other causes or the
defense could use one of its peremptory challenges to
remove him without giving any reason if it so desires.
Meanwhile, on the second day of Ms. Davis’ trial on
charges of furnishing guns for the 1970 Marin County
shootings, all four of the under-21 veniremen on the first
group of 12 prospective jurors had been excused.
More flood victims sought
MAN, W. Va. - Officials Tuesday sealed off the
Buffalo Creek Valley, devastated when a dam collapsed
and sent a wall of water down its narrow confines, to
permit an unhindered search for an estimated 20 to 25
more victims.
At least 70 persons died when they were unable to
scramble to high ground before the 30-foot high wall of
water swept away hundreds of miner's homes which
dotted the valley
National Guard troops were posted at the bottom of
the valley just outside this community, where most of the
survivors have been provided shelter, food and medical
care.
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Photo b* STEVE WOODFORD
Phys-ed culture trip
Earning a credit hour and meeting the physical
education requirement can be a culture trip instead
of just 40 minutes of exercise twice a week. The
music comes from a phonograph instead of a real
fiddler and the setting is the Memorial Hall
ballroom instead of somebody’s new bam on a
frontier farm. All the same, fourth period coed
square dancing (PED 017M) looks like an American
culture flashback. Maybe that’s due to the length of
the male dancers’ hair - just about the same now as
then.
RHA plans handbook
revisions challenge
By HOLLY WEAVER
Assistant news editor
Proposed student handbook
revisions dealing with open house
hours are in for a challenge by the
Residence Hall Association at
tonight’s Student Senate meeting.
The RHA will present an
amendment to the proposals by the
Senate Committee on Housing and
has circulated letters to senators
presenting its response to the
revisions drawn up by the
committee, RHA President David
Bell said.
Steve Patrick (Arts and
Sciences), who is also Russell Hall’s
RHA delegate, will present the RHA
proposal, which objects specifically
to articles designating all dorms as
either closed, restricted open house
(Maximum 10 a.m. to 2 a m.) or
halls with free determination.
This designation would result in
students having to choose their
dorm on the basis of open house
hours instead of by the type of
people in the dorm, friends in a
certain dorm, dorm location, or its
physical facilities.
By STEVE STEWART
Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Slowly,
Congress is processing a
higher-education bill that would
increase federal student-assistance
spending to about $1.3 billion
during the 1972 fiscal year,
according to Nixon administration
estimates.
In his fiscal 1973 budget,
President Nixon proposed a
supplementary appropriation for
fiscal 1972 of $259.5 million
That amount, administration
sources said, is what would be
added to student-assistance spending
if the higher-education bill passed in
a form that can be reasonably
anticipated now.
The $259.5 million would be
According to the RHA proposal
this leaves students with the choice
of either a certain dorm or open
house hours Once in a dorm the
student would have no opportunity
to change his hours except by
moving out.
As an alternative the RHA
would like a dorm or dorms with
neither room nor lobby visitation
privileges. All other dorms would be
able to determine hours by secret
ballot of their residents. This would
give all residents some control over
their hours.
Under this system the student
would indicate his general open
house preference on his housing
application and whether his open
house or dorm choice should receive
first consideration.
The proposal ran into opposition
when the RHA met with the Senate
Committee on Housing last Friday.
The RHA did not present its
proposal but only tried to convince
the committee that there might be
something wrong with its original
proposal, Bell said. The committee
decided to stick with its original
added to $1,079 billion the
administration already expects to
spend during the 1972 fiscal year.
Most of that money would
benefit students during the 1972-73
academic year. It would increase the
number of grant and work-study
recipients from 803,000 to
1,280,000 during that academic
year, according to estimates.
Direct loans to students and
loans from private sources with
federal guarantees would bring the
number of students aided to almost
2.7 million about 400.000 higher
than the total for the current
academic year.
“I believe that no qualified
student should be denied a college
education because he cannot afford
to pay for it,” President Nixon said
in his budget message to Congress
Jan 24
proposal. "We couldn’t seem to
communicate,” Bell said.
“We don’t object to the ends
which the housing committee is
trying to reach, but only to the
means they’re using,” Bell said.lt is
a question of "how much student
input is involved” in the question of
open house, he said.
Bell claims support from at least
some senators for the RHA proposal
but doesn’t know how good the
chances of its acceptance arc. “The
question is whether the Senate will
take a strong stand on behalf of the
students,” he said. “I can only hope
that they will.”
Weather
The Athens weather Bureau is
expecting rain this afternoon,
ending Friday afternoon or early
Saturday morning. The extended
outlook calls for variable
cloudiness this weekend, with
highs Friday in the upper 50s.
He had said that at least twice
before, in education messages
delivered in 1970 and 1971. Two
years ago he proposed an extension
and revision of federal
higher-education programs, but
Congress has yet to pass such
legislation
In the budget message this year,
Nixon said “most Ame.icans and
most Congressmen” agreed with his
goal of making college education
accessible to all eligible students.
“I have proposed the legislation
that will make this a reality,” he
said. “I am ready to sign that
legislation. But there it sits, in
Congress, while thousands of young
people miss their chance.”
ACTUALLY, Nixon’s own
proposal was discarded long ago hy
Congress The House and Senate
By CLAUDIA TOWNSEND
Student body President Pat
Swindall and Vice-president Joe
Fowler will meet Saturday with the
Athletic Association’s Board of
Directors in an effort to add a
voting student member to the
Board.
“Our chances of success are
good,” Swindall said. “We’ve talked
to President Davison, who is
chairman of the board, Dean
McWhorter, and Coach Eaves, and
they all seem to feel things are
favorable, mainly because there are
student members on every other
University board, including Health
Services. The Athletic Board is the
only place we are not represented.”
Swindall said student
participation on the board is
important because “intercollegiate
athletics are played primarily for
students, or at least they should be.
Also, students pay a four dollar
athletic fee each quarter directly to
the Athletic Association.Where
student money is involved, we feel
there should definitely be some
student input in decisions regarding
that money.”
Swindall and Fowler plan to
present the board Saturday with
this argument, and to request the
addition of a voting student
member to the board. But Swindall
said one student with one vote
would obviously not have a
tremendous impact on board
decisions.
“His primary influence would be
the same as student influence on all
other boards; to provide direct
student input where previously we
have been on the periphery,”
Swindall said. “He will be there to
persuade and enlighten the Board
APhiO names
belles, beasts
Alpha Phi Omega released last
night the top runners in the Beauty
and the Beast Contest after the first
two days of polling.
In the beast category, candidates
sponsored by Delta Gamma, Sigma
Chi and Russell Hall lead the field.
Front running beauties are
sponsored by Alpha Gamma Delta,
Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Chi.
Project Chairman Tom McBrayer
said the leading contestants are not
listed in any significant order.
Unwilling to release premature
figures on the amount of money
collected for the Amencan Cancer
Society, McBrayer said, “It’s going
good, and I guess we can bless the
pretty weather for that.”
Final results will be announced
before next Tuesday’s basketball
game with Georgia Tech.
passed different higher-education
bills last year, each with major
differences from the
administration’s plan.
Nixon wanted to extend the
Educational Opportunity Grant and
work-study programs. But he
wanted to limit the total any
student could receive from both
sources to $ 1,000.
His plan emphasized private
loans with government guarantees
instead of outnght government
loans. It proposed an initial
subsidized loan of up to $400 for
each low-income student, plus
another subsidized loan of up to
$ 1500 if the cost of education
warranted it.
Nixon wanted to abolish direct
federal loans under the National
members on the student view.
Students obviously won’t l e a
majority force on any board, nor do
I think they should be. We’re not
qualified or expenenced enough for
that role.”
“I think it is bAlieindy
important, though, to have the
student viewpoint presented,
because we are almost always the
ones being directly affected by
whatever actions are taken. The idea
of being a majority is not all that
important 1 think on any clear
issue the student member will be
able to persuade board members to
take student views into account.”
Saturday’s meeting will be the
culmination of an effort begun by
student government officials last
quarter. "This is the first time we've
actually asked for a hearing,”
Swindall said. “We talked first to
President Davison, then sent a letter
to Coach Eaves, requesting a
meeting. We were later notified that
we would be able to appear before
the board, and have just recently
sent letters to all the board
members to let them know we’ll be
there on Saturday.”
Vandals hit
official's
apartment
The home of Joyce Taylor,
area-coordinator for Brumby Hall,
was vandalized Monday. According
to the Clarke County Sheriffs
department nothing was stolen but,
“the interior was a total shambles.”
The vandalism occurred
sometime between 10:20 a.m. and
6:30 p.m. No arrests have been
made but the sheriffs department is
continuing investigation.
Ms. Taylor said she ieels the
vandalism is a result of her work
with the housing department. “I
feel sure it was someone who was
against what 1 stand for.”
The vandals wrote on the walls
and ceiling and damaged every item
in the Taylor apartment at the
Sussex club. Ms. Taylor said that to
the vandals’ credit “They didn’t
harm our animals.”
On one ceiling was a drawing
resembling the embryo figure which
appeared on the housing
department’s growth group
literature.
“It’s disheartening because I’m
hardly one who stands on a
soapbox and tries to make people
believe what I believe.” Ms. Taylor
said.
bill
Defense Education Act (NDEA),
however.
In contrast, the bill the Senate
passed last year would add a new
program offering any qualified
student a federal grant of $1400 per
year, minus the amount his family
was expected to contribute. In no
case, though, could the grant exceed
50 per cent of the cost of his
attending school.
In addition, the Senate's bill
would continue the Educational
Opportunity Grant program by
allowing grants to students who
were in “exceptional financial need”
and unable to attend college
without the grants. These grants
could supplement a student’s $1400
grant.
(See AID. Page 5)
$1.3 BILLION
Congress considers student loan