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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS. GEORGIA 30601
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1972
•From United Press International wires-
Policy confines
Marijuana use
WASHINGTON - The National Commission on
Marijuana and Drug Abuse Wednesday recommended
removal of federal and state restrictions against the
personal possession and private use of marijuana, but said
pot is not harmless and its use should be discouraged.
“Throughout the commission’s deliberations there was
a recurring awareness of the possibtity that marijuana use
may be a fad which, if not institutionalized, will recede
substantially in time,” the 13-member panel said in the
first of two scheduled reports to President Nixon and
Congress. It will report next year on drug abuse in
general.
The report, ‘‘Marijuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding,”
recommends a policy of confinement of marijuana to the
home and official discouragement of its use.
Singles obtain equal rights
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Wednesday
declared it unconstitutional for a state to make it a crime
for single persons to obtain birth control devices that are
available to married couples.
In striking down a Massachusetts law, Justice William J.
Brennan said in the majority opinion: “Whatever the
rights of the individual to access to contraceptives may
be, the rights must be the same for the unmarried and the
married alike.”
‘‘If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right
of the individual, married or single, to be free from
unwarranted government intrusion into matters so
fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether
to bear or beget a child.”
AFL-CIO members quit
WASHINGTON - Declaring the Pay Board was stacked
against the working man, the three AFL-CIO members
resigned Wednesday with the hope labor’s other two
members would also quit. President Nixon passed the
word that they would not be allowed to sabotage the
fight against inflation.
The walkout was staged by George Meany, 77-year-old
president of the AFL-CIO, Floyd Smith, president of the
International Association of Machinists, and I. W. Abel,
president of the United Steelworkers Union.
The 35-member AFL-CIO Executive unanimously
approved the walk-out and issued a seven-page statement
which said the Pay Board was “nothing more than a
device to make the average worker and consumer both
the victim and the goat, while the banks and big business
pile up increasing profits.”
Explosion rips luxury hotel
BELFAST - A bomb explosion blasted the rear of the
12-story Europa luxury hotel into glass and concrete
wreckage Wednesday, tore the roof off Belfast’s main
railway station next door, and demolished two empty
trains. The station itself was evacuated only moments
before.
A British army spokesman said at least 70 persons were
injured in the 3 p.m. explosion in a booby-trapped truck
in a parking lot separating the one-year-old hotel and the
Great Victoria Station.
The spokesman said the toll may rise because “there
are lots of shops and offices in the area.”
asm,
Senate Pres,
vote change
defeated
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Assistant news/feature editor
In its final meeting of the 1971-72
term the Student Senate defeated a
motion which would amend the student
body constitution to let the Senate
President be elected by the student
body.
Also at the three-and-one-half hour
meeting last night the Senators approved
a constitutional amendment giving the
senate the power to make
recommendations on issues relevant to
the general welfare of the student body,
to make statutes governing campus
organizations and to allocate all monies
received through Student Activities Fees.
THE SENATE restricted itself from
reducing funds to The Red and Black,
the Pandora, the Agriculturalist, the
Impression or the campus radio station
without the approval of the Board of
Student Communications. However, the
Senate can override the Board’s veto
with a two-thirds vote.
The senators made three
recommendations encouraging
improvement of the Black Studies
Program by employing a black educator
as the Coordinator of Black Studies in
the History department, increasing
University funds for the hiring of black
educators and by having all departments
which include Black Studies courses to
actively recruit qualified black
educators.
The Senate defeat of the motion to
make its president popularly elected was
influenced by arguments that executive
officers as well as the top legislative
officer being elected together would kill
the separation of powers which is
afforded by the present method of
allowing the senators to choose the
Senate leader.
IT WAS FELT by those against the
amendment that the popular election of
the Senate President would cause that
position to be chosen along with a slate
of executive officers, thus making both
the executive and legislative branches of
student government automatically
controlled by the same slate.
Another argument against the motion
was that the Senators are more familiar
with a potential Senate leader’s
qualifications than would be the general
student body. Popular election, they
stated, would choose the Senate
president on the basis of his party rather
than his individual abilities.
“It is we who are elected who should
decide who should be our leaders,” said
Sen. Ann Porterfield.
THE SENATE presidential change was
originally suggested several weeks ago by
SGA President Pat Swindall.
PSC breaks long tradition
ATLANTA - The State Public Service Commission
broke tradition Wednesday and held its first open
executive session
Acting in accordance with a pending open door or
"sunshine law,” the PSC voted to open up immediately
rather than wait until Gov. Jimmy Carter signs the bill
next week.
"We saw no reason in waiting,” Chairman Ben Wiggins
said.
“We knew we were going to have to open up these
meetings.”
Inadequate records
charged by audit
Two-bit genes
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Photo by TOM HILL
Students are used to seeing many vending machines around the campus,
but in Memorial Hail this week there arc some that are really different
including a “sperm-o-inatic” for do-it-yourself artificial insemination.
Despite its realistic appearance, the machine is a model, as some curious
students who put a quarter in the coin slot have found out. It is the
result of an Art 240 class project in which students designed new types
of vending machines for the future. Margarite Nather and Susan
Hamrick, two of the students involved in the project, said that the
machine was meant to be “a comment on the cold, impersonal nature”
sex seems to be developing.
Women's rights bill
passes Senate 84-8
WASHINGTON (UPI) - By a
resounding roll call vote of 84 to 8,
the Senate Wednesday approved and
sent to the states for ratification a
proposed constitutional amendment
guaranteeing women equal legal
rights with men.
AFTER defeating a series of
weakening amendments offered by
Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C., who
complained in a voice breaking with
emotion that his colleagues would,
“repeal the handiwork of God,” the
Senate endorsed this language to be
the 27th Amendment to the
Constitution:
“Equality of rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any state
on account of sex.”
THE AMENDMENT is subject to
ratification by three-fourths or 38
of the states. Its election-year
approval by the Senate after a
feminist campaign of nearly half a
century makes it the first
constitutional amendment affecting
women to clear Congress since
women were guaranteed the right to
By CLAUDIA TOWNSEND
News/feature editor
The Board of Student
Communications met yesterday to
consider an audit report charging
that The Red and Black “suffered
monetarily” last year through
inadequate maintenance of
accounting records.
In answering the report, prepared
by the University’s Internal Audit
System, the board adopted a
recommendation that the director
of student communications be given
direct control over the paper’s
business operation, but took no
action on the charges of fiscal
irregularity.
A two-page introduction to the
audit charged that advertising
salesmen had been paid commission
more than once for the same ad, and
that staff members had been paid in
amounts not agreeing with actual
salary or commission due. Mention
was also made of a staff member
receiving salary in advance, a
violation of University policy and
Georgia law.
NO NAMES or amounts of
money involved were specified in
the report. “The dollar amounts
involved were not all that
significant,” Audit Director W.L.
Cook said, “approximately $500.”
“Some of the people involved
have already left the university, and
it was not our intent to embarass
those who are still here. The records
are so poor that it would be
difficult - though not impossible -
to prove that the discrepancies were
not accidental.”
“The main point we were trying
to make is that the records just
weren’t adequate to safeguard the
money.”
The auditors felt that the
problems with the accounting
system stemmed from a lack of
continuity in the business personnel
and from a lack of qualified
business advice for the staff. The
report recommended that
responsibility for the business
operations be delegated by the
Board to Director of Student
Communications, a move that Cook
said would compensate for the high
turnover rate of the student staff.
IN ADOPTING the report’s
recommendation, the board
“reaffirmed the fact that the
Director is not just an adviser he
is responsible for these student
media,” Board Chairman John
Albright said.
Albright described the role of the
director as “the eyes and ears of the
board. He’s there to make sure that
the publications are financially
healthy so they can get on with
their editorial business.”
Discussion at the board meeting
indicated that the Director would
be playing the same sort of
controlling role in the business
operations of the Pandora and the
campus radio station.
THE ACTUAL motion adopted
by the board read: “The Board of
Student Communications adopts the
recommendation of the audit report
for The Red and Black that the
director of student communications
be given the responsibility for the
business operations of The Red and
Black and of the other student
media under the direction of the
board.”
Albright said the adoption of
this motion “answers the audit
report to the satisfaction of the
Internal Audit Department.”
“As far as I’m concerned now it’s
all water under the bridge. The Red
and Black is on sound financial
ground now where it hasn’t been
previously.”
The board also voted yesterday to
recommend an allocation of
$40,000 for the Pandora next year.
This allocation would finance a
book similar in format to this year’s
book: a hardcover volume including
a pictorial essay and a section on
classes, Greeks, and organizations.
“They were doing the job that
needed to be done recording a year
at the University,” Albright said.
Nine hurt
in wreck
on Baxter
Nine students were ir\jured
Tuesday night, one critically, when
the Ford Pinto in which they were
riding hit & telephone pole in front
of Saint Mary’s Hospital on Baxter
Street.
Randy Mozley, 20, of 1055
Prince Avenue, was still in critical
condition at Saint Mary’s Hospital
yesterday afternoon. He was a
passenger in the Pinto driven by
George Daniel Henderson, also of
1055 Prince Avenue, when the
accident occuned at 11:19 p.m.
Tuesday night.
THE OTHER passengers were
Jeffrey Smith and Christopher
Cornwell of 1055 Prince Avenue;
Robert Akins, Mat Mitchem, Marcus
Stewart, and Steve Beard of Russell
Hall; and Jan Montgomery of
Brumby Hall. They were treated for
minor cuts and bruises and released.
Athens police stated that
Henderson has been charged with
driving under the influence, driving
too fast for road conditions and
leaving the roadway.
vote in 1920 with ratification of the
19th Amendment.
The House approved the equal
rights amendment in each of the
past two years, the last time by a
vote of 354 to 23, but Ervin almost
single-handedly blocked Senate
action on the measure for years.
The eight senators who voted
against the amendment were Ervin,
Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah; James
L. Buckley, R-N.Y.; Norris Cotton,
R-N.H., Paul l annin, R-Ariz.. Barry
M. Goldwater. R-Ariz.; Clifford P
Hansen. R Wyo.; and John C.
Stennis. D-Miss
Sat. parking
The Traffic Safety Department
has announced that all parking
zones on campus wiU be enforced
Saturday, March 25.
Marvin Van Vleck, Manager of
the Traffic Safety Department
said that the zones will be enforced
during classes just as they arc on
normal class days.
South campus clinic
tooto oy DAV1U MAKRISO*
Barbara Roper, R.N., staffs the University Health
Services’ new satellite clinic located in room 223B of
the Graduate Studies Research Center. The clinic,
which opened Wcdnesd • /. will have one nurse on hand
from 8 30 a.m. to n*on, Monday thiough Friday.
She will be empowered to evaluate cases and to
dispense some medication. The clinic is designed to
relieve some of the parking problems at Health
Services, and to provide a medical facility closer to
South Campus.