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VOLUME 78, NUMBER 101
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS. GEORGIA .10601
FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1972
-From United Press International wires-
A polio 16 crew
finally on moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston Astronauts John W.
Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. landed safely hut nearly six
harrowing hours late in the volcanic highlands of the moon
Thursday night, Their fears of a scrubbed mission traced to
a harmless instrument fault.
“Ole Orion is finally here, Houston," reported
Carolinian Duke after he and a trajectory-correcting
computer steered their landing craft to a near-perfect
touchdown at 9:24 p.m. EST on the boulder-strewn Cayley
Plains north of the great Descartes crater.
“Hats off and a case of beer to FIDO," cheered Duke,
referring to the flight dynamics officer at Mission Control
who helped guide their 13-minute, automatic pilot descent.
Davis prosecutors use letters
SAN JOSE, Calif. Judge Richard E. Arnason ruled
Thursday Angela Davis* love letters to George Jackson
could be used by the prosecution in her murder-kidnap trial
to try to prove she helped plot the Marin County
Courthouse kidnapings.
Arnason said five letters from the 28-year-old militant
and Communist to the slain black revolutionary, along with
an 18-page “diary” found in Jackson’s cell after he was
killed at San Quentin Prison, could be used as evidence.
Tangled ITT inquiry ends
WASHINGTON The Senate Judiciary Committee
voted Thursday to end its tangled ITT inquiry after failing
to pry new information about the case from White House
aide Peter Flanigan.
On a 7-7 tie vote, a Democratic motion to continue the
hearings was defeated and the committee reaffirmed its
previous decision to finish Thursday and file a report in one
week on the nomination of Richard G. Klcindienst to be
attorney general.
Nixon's panel urges tax credits
WASHINGTON President Nixon’s panel on nonpublic
education Thursday proposed income tax credits and extra
welfare benefits to permit poor and middle-class parents to
send their children to private schools.
Making its final report, the panel said financial help to
students and their families would meet the financial crisis
of private education while avoiding the constitutional
pitfalls of direct aid to church-connected schools.
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State funds follow education
ATLANTA - The State Board of Education has decided
that no matter where a child attends public school the state
funds for his education will follow.
The ruling has wide implications for parents who seek to
transfer their children out of predominantly black schools.
The ruling is part of a new board policy allowing
transfer of students across county lines
The decision that the funds follow the child is expected
to eliminate arguments over which school system will
receive the state money for the child s education.
Railway unions end slowdown
LONDON - Bntain’s railway unions said Thursday
night they would obey a court order to end their crippling
work-to-rule slowdown giving the Conservative government
its first major victory under the new Industrial Relations
Act.
“We accept the decision to call of the work-to-rule." Sir
Sidney Greene, general secretary of the National Union of
Railwaymen, said after meeting other railway union leaders.
The unions' acceptance of the court order marked the
government’s first major victory in a labor union dispute
since its Industrial Relations Act went into force in
February.
The act was introduced in an effort to curb wildcat
strikes and other disruptive labor union practices in Britain.
War protest
called today
Pholo by TOM HILL
Z P C BOOTH DISPLAYS DEMOGRAPHIC FACTS AND BUMPER STICKERS
Figures project growth rales of people, jobs and food
Speech by Odum ends
Earth Day observance
By MARK NICKELSON
Associate news editor
“The action now is going to be
in economics, political science and
law *’
Dr. Eugene Odum, nationally
known director of the University’s
Institute of Ecology, was
summarizing the themes of films and
speeches at yesterday’s Earth Day
observances in Memorial Hall.
Odum said the first stage of the
movement to save the environment -
a stage of generating attention to the
problem — is over. Society has
arrived at a stage of quiet analysis
about what it is going to do to save
the planet it inhabits, he said.
What is needed now is industrial
and political leaders who grasp the
global problem. “The great
excitement now is not in ecology but
economics, political science and law
- fields where we need to be
thinking about optimums instead of
maximums," Odum said.
Odum said the natural
environment has to be preserved in
large blocks, not just thin strips of
trees here and there. For this reason
Georgia is in greater danger of
overpopulating its land than
California, he said. In Georgia seven
per cent of the land is publicly
owned; in California it’s 40 per cen»
Odum explained how it is
possible to make a profit building
automobiles or apartments beyond
the optimum or point of most
desirable volume in terms of
consumer demand and the land’s
growth capacity. The tax system is
structured to stimulate growth of
production beyond the optimum
point, he said.
Other lectures in the Earth Day
Teach-In covered scientific, political
and geographic facets of ecology.
Professors Lloyd Dunn and Howard
Daugherty and State Rep. Kil
Townsend delivered the talks.
Besides the films and speeches,
the five groups sponsoring the Earth
Day observance pamphleteered from
booths in Memorial plaza and
solicited contributions to finance
their movement in exchange for
helium balloons and bumper stickers.
By HOLLY WEAVER
Assistant news/feature editor
Congressman Robert Stephens’
office will be picketed all day today
in conjunction with a national
student strike against the war in
Vietnam and an anti-war rally
sponsored by the Student
Mobilization Committee at Memorial
plaza.
The picket is sponsored by the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
the Congregation for Service, the
United Free Press and Coalition ’72.
The National Student Association
is sponsoring a strike against the war
today, but Chuck Searcy, a
coordinator of the VVAW, says he
knows of no group on campus
advocating the strike here. “Instead
we’re advocating something a little
more symbolic, yet practical,” he
Library
closed
Saturday
To the anticipated chagrin of the
diligent and the desperate amongst
University scholars, the main
library will be closed all day
tomorrow, a Saturday during spring
quarter. A library spokesman said
the library will be closed so the
electricity can be shut off to
connect wiring in the new annex.
said, in reference to the picketing of
Stephens office.
THE PURPOSE of the picket is
“to focus attention on Stephens and
his role in Congress, which is
nothing," said Searcy.
“He has voted against every
measure in Congress which would
end the war or set a definite date for
withdrawal or cutoff funds or in any
way limit the clearly unconstitu
tional actions in Vietnam," he said.
"We don’t expect Stephens to be
in his office, because he’s seldom
here," said Searcy.
The VVAW will be circulating a
petition at Stephens’ office. Voters
signing the petition will pledge not to
vote for any candidate for President
or Vice President of the United
States who does not pledge to
withdraw all troops and stop all
military operations within 30 days of
his inauguration,or else resign.
SEARCY SAID the VVAW will
urge all those who have *not
registered to vote to do so. They will
also be handing out leaflets and
information on the war.
The Student Mobilization
Committee will be sponsoring the
anti-war rally at noon today in
Memorial Plaza, instead of the
VVAW, which was reported
yesterday to be sponsoring the rally.
The VVAW. W.O.M.E.N., the
Committee for Gay Education, and
the Young Socialists for Jenness and
Pulley are endorsing the rally. The
four speakers planned are Don Sersfc
from the SMC, Bill Green from the
CGE, Linda Chafin from
W.O.M.E.N., and Chuck Searcy from
the VVAW
Students to call for ~« -
end to activity fee
By STACY MCDANIEL
The Committee for a Voluntary
Student Fund is trying to abolish the
mandatory $7.50 activity fee paid by
each student every quarter.
The committee is currently
circulating a petition calling for the
change in policy. They hope to
collect 500 signatures, said
spokesman David Rosingcr, and then
plan to present the petition to
University President Fred C. Davison.
“Our main gripe is that we don't
like the arrogance of a few students
thinking that they can best tell the
majonty of students how their
money should be spent. I’m sure a
lot of students would rather spend
that $7.50 on something else, but
because of the mandatory fee, they
are not allowed to. We feel that
college students are mature adults
and don't need the Union to tell
them how their money should be
spent," Rosinger said.
"A BIG ADVANTAGE to our
system is that you would virtually
wipe out the corruption present in
the Student Government Associa
tion. You wouldn’t have the great
sums of money to be allocated each
year as you do now," Rosinger said
“We object to the SGA taking
students' money and having a small
committee hand out money as it sees
fit.”
“I know of one case where an
organization had to promise to
support a certain political party in
order to get money for the following
year." said John Vinson, a member
of the group. “Student money
shouldn't be a factor in campus
politics."
Rosinger said that under his
group's plan, the University Union
would be operated like a private
corporation. The Union would
continue to provide the services it
now provides, but the student would
only have to pay for the services he
used.
M)R EXAMPLE." said Rosin-
ger. "the Union would still bring
entertainment to ;ampus, but it
would have to rely on ticket sales to
get its money, not student funds "
In reference to clubs and
organizations that use Union office
space, printing facilities and other
Union materials, Rosinger said,
“These clubs will (under the group’s
plan) have to pay for the facilities
they use. After all, why should the
majority of students pay for and
support organizations they are not a
part of?"
According to Rosinger. campus
publications such as The Red and
Black and the Pandora, which are
funded with student money, should
be thrown out to "sink or swim.” “If
the students didn’t buy the
publications, then that would be an
incentive for the publications to
improve their standards," he said.
Sidewalk philosophy
Photo by TOM HILL
Students traveling in and out of Memorial Hall arc
coming across a little bit of inspiration these days,
courtesy of Trisha Smith, a University art student.
Trisha has been adorning Memorial plaza with a
different quote each day this week because, she says,
“the space is available and there arc a lot of things
that need to be said that people won't sec otherwise.”
Her quotes come from various sources, she said,
including a calendar and the booklet “Another
Mother for Peace.” Response to her work has so far
been favorable “Nobody ever says much while I’m
putting it down," she said, “but I really enjoy sitting
off the side and watching people react. Sometimes
they smile and say nice things, but a lot of times they
just look bewildered. They don’t know how to take
it.” She plans to continue providing the campus with
a new quote every day until the end of the quarter. “I
don’t know what I’ll do if the calendar runs dry
before then guess I’ll have to start being original,”
she said.
By ROBBI BLANTON
Peers hassle
interracial
couples
According to students interviewed
here, the trend toward black and white
interracial dating on the University
campus is increasing but continues to be
kept secret because of peer group
prevsure.
Because the idea of interracial dating
has not been totally accepted here, most
of the interviewees asked to remain
anonymous but were willing to talk freely
about the subiect.
As one black student said, “We need to
put it out in the open and let people
realize that interracial dating is a growing
thing.”
Many transfer students from northern
schools agree that interracial dating is
prevalent in the North but has been slow
to come to this campus because of
opposition from both races.
ONE BLACK STUDENT said that he
had dated many white girls in the North
but “wouldn’t do it down here because it
is not the thing to do."
All students agreed that interracial
couples “got more hassles from the blacks
than the whites.”
A white student recently involved in
interracial dating said that he rccicved
“mostly curious stares” from white
people when he and his black date were
seen around Athens. However, he said he
received “outnght resentment" from
blacks because he was dating a black girl.
Another black student summed up the
factors against interracial dating.
“THE MAIN REASONS against it
include the fact that people involved are
usually ostracized by their peers. Another
factor would be the upsurge of interest in
black racial pride. A final reason is that
on this campus there are six black women
for every black male," she said.
According to Tony White, assistant
director of admissions, the black male to
female ratio here is “pathetic."
White said he has been concerned
about this problem and expects the
situation to improve soon.
When asked why more black men
aren’t admitted to this school. White said
black women usually have higher grades
and S.A.T. scores which make them
better students. He repeated all efforts
will be made to get more black male
students here.
"We have the best black students in
the state,” he said.
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