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RED AND BLACK
VOLUME 78, NUMBER 85
LIBRARIES
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHLNS, GEORGIA 30601
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1972
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U.S., S. Viets
halt peace talksj
PARIS - The United States and South Vietnam
Thursday cancelled all regular meetings of the Vietnam
peace conference and said they would meet the
Communists only if they show in advance their readiness
to hold meaningful talks.
The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations
immediately rejected the move as an unacceptable
“ultimatum'’ that would unilaterally allow the Americans
and the South Vietnamese to decide when a meeting
should be called and what subjects they would be
prepared to talk about.
The U.S. and South Vietnamese decision and its blunt
condemnation by the Communists precipitated the worst
crisis in the conference since it opened three years and
two months ago.
U.S. negotiator William J. Porter and Saigon’s
ambassador, Pham Dang Lam, indefinitely suspended the
conference 24 hours before the return to Paris of Madame
Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister and
chief negotiator at the conference.
Coed enters
exec office
campaign
A 28-year-old University coed
has announced her candidacy for
student body president.
Brooklyn native Ellen B.
Schlosser decided Wednesday at
about 11 a.m. to run for president
and collected the requisite
300-signature petition by 4 p.m.
the same day.
Ms. Schlosser has not yet drawn
up a formal campaign platform
but said good communication
between students and the
administration, and good rapport
between the student body and the
Athens community are basic
principles of her candidacy.
“My greatest personal goal is to
increase voter turnout in this
election by 10 per cent over last
year’s election figures," she said.
Ms. Schlosser is a transfer
student from the University of
Florida where she matriculated
1960-62. In he interluding time
she has worked as a secretary to a
Civil rights groups
endorse Coalition
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CANDIDATE ELLEN SCHLOSSER
“Better communication”
federal judge, political research
assistant on Chet Huntley’s New
York NBC news staff, singer and
model.
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Assistant news/feature editor
Two campus civil rights groups
have endorsed planks in the
Coalition ’72 platform for the April
5 Student Government Association
elections.
The Black Student Union has
decided to support Coalition.
W.O.M.E.N. (Women’s Oppression
Must End Now) endorsed women’s
rights planks in platforms of both
Coalition and Evolution at a
meeting last night, following the
release of the Evolution platform.
Members of W.O.M.E.N. are on the
executive tickets of both parties.
Coalition ’72 is supporting David
Alonso. Linda Chafin and Connie
Brown for the top three positions in
SGA.
Ms. Chafin is a member of
W.O.M.E.N. and Ms. Brown is a
member of the B.S.U.
Although the two groups give the
fact that one of their members is a
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Nixon urges boost in benefits
WASHINGTON President Nixon called on Congress
Thursday to speed passage of a 5 per cent increase in
Social Security benefits, rejecting the argument of critics
that the proposal is too stingy.
Nixon said the Social Security boost, coupled with
other administration programs to build an income floor
for the elderly, would permit Americans to grow old
“with grace and pride and dignity.”
In a 24-page message to Congress, Nixon also promised
prompt implementation of a $100 million program to
provide nutritious, hot meals for the needy elderly. The
President signed legislation authorizing the program
Wednesday night.
Nixon said a S per cent increase in retirement and
disability benefits would boost the purchasing power of
older Americans by $2.1 billion a year and would mean
“that Social Security benefits would be one-third higher
after this June than they were just 2 years ago.
“This represents the most rapid rate of increase in the
history of the Social Security program," he said.
candidate with Coalition as a major
reason for support, the Coalition
platform also draws black and
feminist approval.
The Coalition platform calls for
increased emphasis on the role of
blacks and women on campus.
CONCERNING WOMEN, the
platform, until last night the only
one released from any of the three
campus political organizations, says:
“Sex considerations in student
admissions policy must be
abolished. Efforts must be made by
Student Government to recruit
women faculty members and
administrators, and to eliminate
discriminatory practices against
women in salary and promotion
policy. This applies to student
employees and non-academic
employees as well.”
The women plank also calls for
women-related subjects in the
academic curriculum, student
activity fees for women’s athletics
and elimination of restrictions on
freshmen women.
JUDONN ADAMS, chairman of
the BSU, said of the Coalition
platform, “We reviewed their
platform and found that it was
geared to black people."
The Coalition plank concerning
blacks says that “attempts will be
made at the student level — to
increase black enrollment; to recruit
black faculty members,
administrators, and athletic coaches;
to examine courses currently
offered at the University for
accuracy and fairness in regard to
black heritage, and to support black
efforts to communicate their ideas
and opinions to campus and
community through such
publications as ‘Pamoja’."
THE BLACK STUDENT Union
has about 300 members and has
three members running for Student
Senate with Coalition while
W.O.M.E.N. maintains around 40
members on its roll and has two
members on the Coalition ticket for
the Senate.
Coalition also claims the support
of the Vietnam Veterans Against
the War. VVAW Coordinator Chuck
Searcy is a Coalition candidate for
the Student Senate.
Support is also expected from
workers’ and environmentalist
groups, both from campus and
community, whose interests are
represented on the Coalition
platform, Alonso said.
Try it, you'll like it?
Photo by TOM HILL
An old house at the corner of Millcdgc and Prince
avenues is decorated with the sign shown above
among other things. The house is inhabited not
to say infested - by half a dozen male University
undergraduates, a clique whose approach to life
earned it the accolade “The Zoo" and more or less
necessitated its migration from Oglethorpe House to
its present location. None of the occupants were
available for comment on the significance or
accuracy of the sign.
ATLANTA Gov. Jimmy Carter
signed a record $1.3 billion
appropriations bill Thursday and
praised the General Assembly for
providing for new programs and pay
raises for teachers and other state
employes without a tax increase.
But he said the legislature had
made “a serious mistake” in shifting
funds away from county youth
detention homes to finance other
functions.
The governor took time out from
the signing ceremony to level a
blast at President Nixon’s school
busing “moratorium," which he said
would mean “no nationwide
application.” He called it “a serious
blow to the South.”
CARTER ALSO proclaimed next
week as “a week of concern” for
prisoners of war and servicemen
missing in action in Southeast Asia.
Court kills Ga. language law MINORITY RECRUITER
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court declared
unconstitutional Thursday a Georgia law prohibiting
“abusive language" which tends to cause a breach of the
peace, calling it vague and too broad.
In a majority decision which drew vigorous dissent
from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justice Harry A.
Blackmun, the court said Georgia state courts had not
sufficiently narrowed the meaning of the law so that it is
in conformity with a line of U.S. Supreme Court opinions
on free speech.
The high court ruling upheld a ruling by the 5th U S.
Circuit Court of Appeals which had affirmed a 1969
ruling by U.S. District Judge Sidney O. Smith Jr. of
Atlanta.
The case involved Johnny C. Wilson, a former worker
for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC), who is now serving time in the Federal Youth
Correctional Institution at Tallahassee, Fla.
Pharmacy has black teacher
Drug usage higher in cities
ATLANTA - Georgia’s typical high school drug user is
“a white, urban male of middle class background" whose
parents likely use drugs also, the state Health Department
reported Thursday.
Alcohol, classified as a drug, is taken more than any
other “mood changing substance” by the typical student
user, the health department said in a statewide survey
“He has some marijuana usage and has experimented
with some other drugs as well, the report said “His
parents would probably be using drugs also.
The survey included some 72,798 Georgia students in
the 8th through 12th grades It showed that one out of
four high school students admitted using alcohol and one
in eight had used some drug at least once.
She’s a friend to her students.
She’s an able professional to her
colleagues. And she’s the University
to many black high school and
junior college students across the
state
In a professional sense, she’s
Joyce Story, instructor, doctoral
student and director of minority
recruitment for the University’s
School of Pharmacy.
The petite pharmacy instructor is
one of only about 100 women on
pharmacy school faculties in the
nation and one of only eight black
women in pharmacy education
nationally.
IT FOLLOWS THAT one of her
prime functions now is to draw
more blacks, women as well as men.
into pharmacy related careers
“Most black people think just of
medicine when they look into
★ ★ Pay Board ★ ★
ordered to proceed
WASHINGTON President
Nixon ordered the Pay Board
Thursday to continue its work with
a predominantly public membership
and without replacing the three
AFL-CIO representatives who quit
in protest against its policies.
After meeting with his Cost of
Living Council, the President told
reporters tha the number of
business members would be reduced
in proportion to the number of
labor members who quit.
health professions," said Ms. Story,
who was featured in a recent
“Ebony” magazine series on
outstanding black professionals.
“Blacks are especially stagnant
when it comes to choosing careers.
They’re generally not exposed to
the various careers open to them,”
the teacher said “I’m simply trying
to open IK* uuuii io titvut. i Iry to
inform them on possibilities in
pharmacy and the related
educational requirements."
The former chemistry technician
feels she's in a good position to
counsel students. “I wish someone
had told me about a pharmacy
career when I was an
undergraduate," she said. “I regret
spending so much time before I got
into pharmacy graduate school.”
BEFORE SETTLING at the
University for graduate degrees in
pharmaceutical chemistry. Ms Story
received a bachelor’s degree in
chemistry at Spelman College in
Atlanta. With that degree she held
technician posts at Lawrence
Radiation in California. University
of California at Berkeley. Upstate
Medical College in New York and
Emory University.
She came to the Univeristy in
1969 to work on a master’s degree
in “something besides just ‘straight’
chemistry" and decided to go ahead
with doctoral work in medicinal
chemistry. Along the w iy she’s been
taking courses toward a bachelor's
degree in pharmacy that would
allow her to be a registered
pharmacist
JOYCE STORY ASSISTS
Female instructor
PHARMACY GRAD AL WILSON
is also minority recruiter
Next Sunday, he said, would be a
day of prayer in Georgia.
The budget contains provisions
for an average $900 a year pay
increase for school teachers, about
$400 more than Carter originally
proposed, 1,000 across-the-board
pay hikes for the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation and the state patrol, a
7.5 per cent pay raise for univerisity
system personnel and a 5 per cent
raise for other state employes.
Funds were included for new
heroin addiction treatment centers
and $400-a-year grants to students
in private colleges to help those
financially troubled institutions.
Money also was allocated for
improvements in the mental health
field, prisons, school construction
and in other areas.
SOME $1.4 million was also
made available to go ahead with the
early childhood development
program, one of Carter’s pet
projects.
But state participation was cut
off in the operation of county
youth detention homes. Seven
county units, along with six
state-financed and run youth
development centers, are part of a
system planned by the welfare
department to prevent minors from
being placed in common jails. When
the state built its own centers, it
was arranged for the
already-operating centers in Fulton,
DeKalb, Muscogee, Bibb, Clayton,
Cobb and Chatham counties to be
used on a regional basis
SGA prints
legal advice
for students
A book, tentatively entitled "A
Student Guide to Legal Affairs,"
designed to aid University students
in everyday legal dealings, will be
available by mid-spring quarter,
according to Student Body
President Pat Swindal'
Last fall quarter the SGA
contracted several law students to
compile the book which will be
published by the University Press.
The legal affairs book
concentrates on situations which
students are most likely to face,
such as landlord-tenant relations.
“A lot of students don't realize
what their rights aie concerning
landlord-tenant relations,” said
Swindal! He said the book wiU help
inform them of their rights and
obligations in such relations.
The book contains “a lot of
practical legal knowledge geared for
the layman,” he said. He also said
the book is written in a readable
style, and not in "legalese "
Carter signs
record budget