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VOLUME 78, NUMBER 99
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Allies discard
Soviet proposal
GENEVA - The Western allies rejected Tuesday a
Soviet proposal to immediately outlaw all chemical
weapons on the grounds it did not provide for inspection
measures to prevent cheating.
British disarmament negotiator Henry C. Hainworth
told the Geneva Disarmament Conference Communist
complaints that verification would be tantamount to legal
espionage are groundless. He said inspection could be under
international control with steps taken to make sure it is not
“abusive.”
Hainworth said both Western and non-aligned countries
would want assurances of comphances before signing such a
treaty.
Funeral ceases street fights
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Street fighting between
British troops and Irish Republican Army (IRA) agents
ceased briefly Tuesday for the funeral of Joseph McCann,
an IRA battalion commander whose slaying Saturday
touched off the worst violence in Northern Ireland in
almost a year.
Within one hour after services were completed and
several thousand mourners had dispersed, however, bombs
exploded in the Catholic Divis Street district and other
areas of Belfast and the violence was resumed.
A British army spokesman said five gunmen, presumably
IRA agents, were killed or wounded earlier Tuesday in a
battle involving 100 troops at barricades in the Turf Lodge
area, where McCann had lived.
Spurted attacks hit highways
SAIGON — Communists have knocked two Navy attack
vessels oul of action, the U.S. command said Tuesday, and
North Vietnamese troops stepped up their attacks along the
two major highways running from Cambodia to Saigon.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird said
U.S. air attacks were continuing against North Vietnam as
well as against Communist forces and supply lines in Laos,
Cambodia and South Vietnam.
Fighting spurted upward markedly in Cambodia,
particularly along Highway I linking Saigon and Phnom
Penh.
Cambodian sources said a major offensive similar to the
one in South Vietnam may be forming but it was too soon
to tell for sure.
Court upholds loyalty oath
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court, under Chief
Justice Warren E. Burger, turned another philosophical
corner Tuesday by upholding a Massachusetts loyalty oath
requiring state employees to “oppose'' the violent
overthrow of the government.
Writing for a 4-3 majority. Burger upheld a state's right
to oblige employees to swear to “oppose the overthrow of
the government of the United states of America and of this
Commonwealth by force, by violence or by any illegal or
unconstitutional method.”
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Panel instructs Go. legislature
ATLANTA - A three judge federal panel instructed the
Georgia legislature Tuesday to reapportion itself to meet
Justice Department objections to 14 multi-member
districts.
House Speaker George L. Smith, D-Swainsboro, said he
would recommend Gov. Jimmy Carter call a special session
of the (General Assembly beginning Monday and he
promised to have a plan ready for the judges to consider the
week of May l.
Great Speckled Bird' may sue
ATLANTA - A spokesman for Atlanta's underground
newspaper, The Great Speckled Bird, said Tuesday a federal
court suit may be filed to stop police from arresting the
long-haired sellers of the paper.
The spokesman, Roger Friedman, said nine people were
arrested Monday and Tuesday on peddler’s license
violations, but the charges are really an effort to supress the
paper itself.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 19, 1972
Senate study
extended
Black Moses
Ktioto by DAVID HARRISON
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Assistant news/feature editor
The senate committee established
to investigate allegations made by
The Red and Black concerning
off-campus influence in the Student
Government Association has decided
to continue its investigations despite
its chairman's desire to disband.
The decision came Monday night
as the group held its second meeting
to decide “whether there is sufficient
evidence to support claims made in
Wednesday's Red and Black.’*
Before the meeting Chairman
Rob Thomson, who introduced the
motion at the Apr. 12 Senate
meeting to create the investigative
committee, said that he felt the
investigations should be dissolved.
“My feeling is that the committee is
up against a fairly impossible
situation,” Thomson said.
Getting people to appear has been
a problem for the committee,
according to the chairman, because.
“they don’t want to get involved.
Then a lot of witnesses have come
and they’ve given us half the story.
They’ll say ‘we know this and this,
but we can’t tell you who told us.’
“You can’t really blame them;
our committee is composed of eight
people of varying political
backgrounds and allegiances the
witnesses are justified in being
unwilling to speak out in front of
eight people they don’t know or
trust.”
According to Thomson there was
“extensive debate” at the closed
meeting before the decision to
continue hearings. Although no vote
was taken, Thomson said, “Clearly a
majority was in favor of extending
the committee hearings.”
Thomson said that although he
knew of no written rule that has
been violated by those accused in
The Red and Black article, “the
Senate can vote to censure a member
and the Senate can vote to expel a
member” if it feels the need.
The “Black Moses” Isaac Hayes bids a soulful farewell
to the crowd at his Monday night concert, the closing
event of this year’s Black Awareness Week. Hayes,
recent winner of an Academy Award for his
composition of the theme music for “Shaft,” ended
an observance that included appearances by educator
Benjamin Mays, SCLC leader Hosea Williams, poet
Ebon Dooley and Black Women's Liberations! Flo
Kennedy This year’s Awareness Week was planned
and financed solely by black students, with the
exception of the Hayes concert which v is sponsored
by the Union.
Police seek
fourth rapist
A rape attempt Monday night has
been reported by the University
Police. It wasthe fourth sex-related
incident this quarter and the twelvth
sex-motivated assault on campus
since July 1, 1971.
According to the University
Police Department a coed art student
was attacked at about 9:50 p.m.
the South Thomas Street Building.
The victim suffered minor scratches
her body, but escaped without
serious injury.
Ten dollars was also reported
taken from the student.
The campus police are
investigating the case but have no
information leading to the arrest of
the assailant.
Also under investigation by the
Police Department is a reported
exhibitionist. Two women reported
observing a nude male near the
women’s dressing room adjacent to
the track field at approximately
p.m Monday night
Applications decide
Dialogue's future
Applications for the planning
committee of Dialogue ’72 are now
available in 229 Memorial.
The number of students applying
for committee positions will
determine whether the Dialogue
program will actually be held,
according to David Fletcher,
associate director of student
activities
Completed applications must be
returned by Monday, April 24.
A committee had been
investigating various possibilities
concerning Dialogue ’72, Fletcher
said, ranging from abandoning the
program altogehter to lessening the
frequency of meetings or changing
the program’s structure.
“The final decision was that if
students were mterested in having
Dialogue again, the program would
Methodists ponder
controversial policy
ATLANTA (UPI) A lengthy
statement on social principles, taking
up such traditionally taboo subjects
as homosexuals in church nd
abortion, was presented Tuesday to
the United Methodist Church general
conference.
The 1,000 delegates, repre
senting 11 million members, took no
immediate action on the
controversial document other than to
send portions to various committees
before tackling it later on the
convention floor.
Bishop James S. Thomas. Des
Moines, Iowa, chairman of the
commission which drew up the
statement, said he knew it would
generate disagreement but he felt
“the urgency” of the times made
necessary an attempt to “speak the
word of the GosnH” to a secular
generation.
The proposals, dealing with such
issues as homosexuals in church,
drugs, racism, war resisters, abortion
and death, plus a new statement on
sex, constituted by far the most
potentially explosive step in
Methodist leaders’ attempt to
modernize their church
THROUGHOUT the opening
days of the two week quadrennial
conference, leaders have cmphasi/cd
the need for change to bring the
church up to date. There have been
no major changes in doctrine since
1939
In line with this, a proposed
rewritten doctrine for the church was
presented earlier. It offered a
“framework of constructive guide
lines” rather than a set creed which
members would be expected to
follow, and will come up later for
floor debate.
“While we know any statement of
this type will always face differences
in point of view,” Thomas said of the
social principles proposal, “we
believe that the urgency of social
issues and the desperate state of the
world demands some clear word
from United Methodists
“OUR recommendation is not an
attempt simply to speak the world’s
language, but it is an attempt to give
dear meaning to the crucial area in
which human beings struggle It is an
attempt to speak the word of the
Gospel to a secular generation.”
The 4,000-word report prepared
by the social principles study
commission called on the church to
“declare our acceptance of
homosexuals as persons of sacred
worth and that we welcome them
into the fellowship of the church.”
UNITED Methodists were urged
in another section to make “a
determined effort to understand
human sexuality more completely.”
It said marital sex was “most clearly
to be affirmed in the marriage bond”
but added “sex may become
exploitative within as well outside
marriage.“ which some have
interpreted to condone sex among
unmarried men and women
be continued. If a lot of folks apply
for the positions, it will be taken as
an indication of continuing interest
It’s up to the students to decide,”
Fletcher said
Chairman of Dialogue ‘71 Nick
Curry said there had been some
feeling smong committee members
that there were not as many
sigmfleant issues on campus now as
there had been three years ago when
Dialogue was first proposed
Curry said he personally disagreed
with this attitude. “People often
have looked at Dialogue as a
problem-solving conference, but its
real importance is as a conference
where people of the three estates
faculty, students and administrators
can communicate more freely than
under everyday circumstances,” he
said.
The positions open at this time
are chairman, secretary, treasurer,
participant selection chairman,
programs chairman, facilities and
materials chairman and notebook
and summary chairman
Dialogue is tentatively scheduled
for September at Camp Rock Fagle
near F.atonton. Ga.
FOR HOR 201
Pholo by TOM HILL
FAYE CHITWOOD (LEFT) AND EMILY BRADLEY MAKE BASKET
Hor 201 class will display work in main library
Marigolds make money
By VELMA SMITH
For most people on campus,
gardening and earning money may
seem to have little connection, but
for the 67 students in horticulture
201 growing mangolds could be
profitable at the end of this quarter.
A mangold growing contest is
part of what Dr. Jacob II linga, who
teaches 201. calls “painless education
aimed at giving the student
confidence and practical experience
tn gardening.”
Stressing visual results over
theory and oftenng monetary prizes
for students promoting the course.
Dr. Tinga has seen his class
enrollment nearly triple since last
year
“We give people the basics and
make sure they are successful.” said
Tinga.
The basic course taught as 201 in
the spring is in its second quarter of
existence as a course feu
non-agnculture majors Or. Charles
II. tlendershott Jr , head of the
horticulture department, explained
the difference between this and
another basic course taught in the
fall pnmarily for students in
environmental design saying,
“Horticulture 201 offers something
of practical interest to students in a
wide variety of majors.”
“WE FEEL gardening can make a
very good contribution to a person's
life,’’ said Tinga, “and on the other
side of campus a lot of people seem
to be missing out.” I)r. Hendershott
added. “If this catches on we’ll
initiate more courses like it.”
Students in the course this
quarter come from such varying
background as pharmacy, agricul
ture, home economics, education,
arts and sciences, journalism,
business and landscape architecture.
While a number of these students are
taking horticulture to satisfy a
curriculum requirement for a lab
science, many more choose the course
as an elective.
linga defined the purpose of the
course as “enjoyment” at the
beginning of the quarter, and several
of the students said they were happy
with the relaxed, informal
atmosphere of the class.
“I’ve learned a tremendous
amount and none of it has been
forced,” commented one student in
landscape architecture. Another
student, an education major, said she
found the course “a lot more
practical and interesting than the
other lab sciences.”
In addition to the mangold
growing contest, other class projects
include making hanging baskets,
growing turf, orchids, or geraniums
and raising tomatoes and beans.
Students were given two lab
^signments each week, but many
projects vaned with individual
interest and initiative
Work of the class, including
plants students have grown and
specimens they have studied, has
been on display at the science library
for the past two weeks and will be
put on exhibit this week at the main
library.