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The Red and Black, Wednesday. April 26, 1972
THE OPINIONS OF THE RED AND BLACK
Housing solution
The question ol open house
hours, heightened this year by the
traumatic experience with Carl
Savage, will come before the
Faculty Executive Committee and
ultimately the University Council
before the quarter is over.
In makinq their decisions, the
two bodies will have to consider a
number of options with at least as
many opinions about which one to
take.
The first question iri the broader
question of open house hours
concerns self determination of the
hours. There is little disagreement
that the residents should determine
which hours their dorms will be
open to members of the opposite
sex. The problem comes in deciding
how the residents will decide.
Some, the housing committee of
the Student Senate and the dean of
student affairs included, favor
pre sell determination. Would be
residents would indicate a
preference on their application for
no open house or a specific time lor
open house and would be placed in
dorms accordingly. This is better,
they argue, than being placed in a
dorm and beinq voted down by a
matonty of the residents. Any
individual’s right to privacy, they
stress, must not be infringed upon
by the matority
Others, the Residence Hall
Association in the lead, maintain
that freshmen (a large part of the
dorm population) do not
understand the choices when
deciding — in their parents'
presence, away from campus. Once
the freshmen arrive on campus, the
proponents of post sell deter min
ation argue, they will find a
different situation than they
imagined and be unhappy with
their choice.
We have devised, in
conversations with most of the
proponents and opponents
involved, what we believe is the
most feasible system.
Why not settle' on
post self determination, with two
"pre options” — no open house and
open house. Under this plan, those
who have chosen no open house on
their applications would be placed
in a dorm with no open house.
Those who have chosen open house
would participate in an insured
democratic decision on hours,
which could run to as much as 24
hours a day. However, participants
in both plans would be allowed -
in the following quarter - to switch
to a dorm with the other plan if
they find their original choice
unsatisfactory. II a student wanted
some open house but not 24 hours
for instance, he could transfer to an
open house dorm that had open
house but with restrictions, il there
is room, however, he would be
guaranteed a place in a closed
dorm. Those who become
dissatisfied with closed housing
would have io take their chances on
positions opening up in open
housing.
Perhaps a better plan, but not
very practical, is pre self determin
ation on the same optional basis.
Under this plan, residents would be
able to transfer after the first
quarter too, but the number of
options necessary to make this plan
acceptable (i.e , 10 2,
noon midnight, 24 hours, closed
house, 8 2) would mean that too
many dorms would have to be set
aside lor purely open house
purposes, consequently, other
considerations, such as location,
si/e of dorm, air conditioning, etc.,
would be ignored.
The second question concerns
the length ol hours to lie allowed
those dorms with any open house
hours. No one is quite sure where
the administration stands. Perhaps
they prefer to stick to the 10 a.m.
to 2 a.m. restriction of this year.
Many students, however, believe
the Council should approve an
option for 24 hour open house.
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Black, 130 Journalism
building, University of
Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30601,
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We believe the post sell deter
mination plan we have offered will
provide the most students with the
most Ireedom possible without
creating excessive confusion.
Dean Cowen
We're sorry to hear that Dean
Lindsey Cowen of the Law School
is planning to announce his official
resignation in May.
Cowen has been the motiviating
force behind the many
improvements made in the
University's School ol Law since he
came here in 1964. And he is the
main reason the Law School has
gained a higher reputation in recent
years.
It's a shame the University
hasn't made an offer to Cowen that
would induce him to stay on But
we wish hint luck in his new
position at Case Western Reserve.
We hope the University is
successful in hnding a competent
successor. The continued
development of the School ol Law
and its future reputation depend on
it.
ftl'IlK HKD AND BLACK
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No country to go
t very body, it seems, is going back to
the country Trouble is there’s less and
less country to go back to.
John Fogarty, albeit always a bit
country, has taken the big jump. He
bounced on stage
Monday night
sport.ng u turquoise
velvet cowboy suit,
Stetson hat and
white bandanna lie
unleashed an electric
banjo, an addition
for his new album
and his well-rehears
ed and maintained
twang made Tony Joe White sound like a
Bostonian.
l ogarty is far from alone, of course.
The country has always presented a
unique mystique, and now that the true
country citizen is fast becoming an
extinct species, the fascination
surrounding him is growing.
I left my blucjeans at home when I
first came to Athens four years ago. Now
it’s country not to wear them. There’s
something outrageously out of place
about bluejeans and blue denim shirts
prancing around bright, shiny 10-story
buildings much like a tuxedo at the
Grand Ole Opry but when everybody’s
doing it, it’s the thing to do.
I remember the talk along the
sidewalks at home when a stranger would
pull up in a new Pontiac and swagger out
with his coat and tie and briefcase.
“Wonder what he’s selling,” they would
say. “Long way from home, ain’t you?”
they’d snicker.
But now everybody in the country is
getting with it. Those sideburns are
DAVID ALONSO
Administration
pushing again
There is some disagreement on the
question of the impending “dorm
crackdown The R II.A. and other
student leaders are concerned about what
they see as an imminent change in
housing policy,
while administrators
say there is no
evidence to
substantiate such
concern A few
facts, however, must
not be ignored in
determining if,
indeed, the Housing
Department is
reversing its present
policies in the dorms:
(1) Bob Krause (Associate Director of
Housing) has resigned from his position
for the express reason that he could not
go along with the direction being taken
by the Housing Department
(2) All six of the C R.K.’s have
resigned from their positions because of
the “crackdown” and a redefining of
their roles
(3) Dean Sims ha:s stated that dorms
should seek to train students for real life
and part ot the real life situation is
learning to follow rules and appealing to
authority.
1 he Red and Hljik stated in its Apr.
20th editorial that the housing rules are
made by the residents of the dorms. I
would simply ask that the Red and Black
wake up and look at the facts. Granted,
the Student Senate labors in two
meetings specifically on handbook
revisions, but any changes made to
Benefit the student population, rest
assured are veti>ed the University
Council. And housing is one area which
exemplifies this farce better than any
other area of student life.
Two years ago. I served as chairman of
the Senate llouMng Committee. Our
committee attempted to strike down the
freshman women’s curfew, the
sophomore residency requirement, the
open house limitations, and most
importantly to obtain
self-determination tor each dormitory.
All of these' changes wen denied, and
they will probably be denied again this
year.
Concerning the role of R.A.’s. the
administration under Dr. Charles
Kozoll is working to redefine the role
of the R.A. Reportedly, “discipline” is
one of Dr. Kozoll’s favorite words, and he
gnmaces at the thought of an R A being a
friend to the people on the hall. I was an
R.A. last year in Milledge Hall and 1 can
safely say that unless you arc the friend
of the people on your hall, you will never
be able to do your job and have the
respect of your fellow students.
On July I, the age of majority bill will
become law. Students, who will legally be
adults on that date, should not have a
curfew, should not be forced to live in a
situation they don’t want, should not
have to live under limitations on the
openness of their dorms, and should not
be denied autonomy or decision-making
power concerning how they want to live
their lives.
The administration makes the rules
and defines the policies under which
dorm residents must live. Student
Government pays about $6,000 for the
printing of these administration rules.
First. S.G.A. should refuse to print the
Handbook until students get full control
over the making of rules, and secondly,
the administration must realize that rules
are only words on paper unless people
obey those rules. When students refuse to
obey rules which they had no real voice
in determining, then those rules become
meaningless.
The question I ask the administration
is this How long do you think we will
continue to put up with years of refusal
to permit housing changes, and continue
to put up with an administration that so
blatantly disregards the opinions of
students'*
There is a serious problem in housing
Six positions for housing coordinators are
open and many positions for R.A. need
to be filled. This situation opens the way
for the administration to initiate a policy
change without really changing the
wording of present policy. The
administration surely won’t do it now
not in the middle of the quarter. They
won’t show their hand until the summer,
when many students are gone and the
issue is not so volatile Remember the
statement by Dr. Armstrong (Director of
Housing) concerning the change “It will
not be a slight alteration, but an
enforcement of regulations as opposed to
emphasis on the individual.’
The administration is pushing again.
zooming down. Respectable married men
wearing flare-bottomed pants in public,
and three-time mothers are try ing out hot
pants.
all of it is part of the disaffection and
disenchantment we feel for a world that
offers us fewer and fewer real choices for
our life.
So the signs of the country have
changed. The backwoods redneck of
today is the super-frat of a year ago. The
gap between the two is closing, and
pretty soon we’ll all be the same, with
one big city stretching from sea to shining
sea and with everybody catching on to
everything at precisely the same time.
And yet it all seems to be happening
despite our wishes. Our oldest cities have
long since become unlivable. Two-thirds
of all television commercials tell us the
quickest way to get away from it all
“Frog Forest just you, your family and
nature and all just 30 minutes from
downtown Atlanta.”
It’s not modernity that’s so bad in and
of itself. It’s just that we can select only
between modernity and nothing. Ah, to
have been coming out of college two
generations ago, when the country was
the country and the city was the city and
the twain seemed never to meet!
More and more as graduation day
nears, the fancy of my very own little
cabin on the Oconee appeals to me - the
seclusion, the peace, the drowsiness. But
I’m already too far gone, too committed
to a stab at success on other terms. And,
even if I could bring my self to break
away, that little Oconee cabin will
probably be neighbored by a factory and
shopping center before I ever get there.
And our generation, the first actually
raised in the mass communication world
of modern America, is turning away from
it fastest of all. Bluejeans. Stetsons,
communes, Canada, nostalgia movies
So, like everyone else. I’ll resort to
bluejeans and the careful cultivation of
my swamp accent as my only tangible
means of rebellion against that inexorable
cycle seemingly bigger than all of us. It is
to cry.
Sure rock music and politics mix. Both are a lot of
sound and fury signifying nothing.’
Please help keep
High Shoals clean
TO THE EDITOR
People of UGA. At the first of this
week a fnend of mine showed me the
way to High Shoals out beyond
Watkinsville. It is a river falls of sorts with
a small pool of water and a beach at its
base for those of you who haven't been
out there. Being from the mountains, I
immediately fell in love with the place
and that is why I am writing this letter.
Monday there was not a great amount
of litter out there. Wednesday the
amount of empty beer cans and coke
bottles had more than doubled This is no
exaggeration. Please think. Don’t litter
anywhere but especially don’t litter up
such a beautiful place to swim and
sunbathe. I’m not really a nature freak so
much as I'm just concerned about the
future of High Shoals. It’s one thing to
worry about hurting your butt on a slick
rock and entirely another thing to get a
bad cut and possibly tetanus off a beer
can top. Please think. Don’t Utter out
there or anywhere. Take a few empty
beer cans home next time you’re there.
Apathy won’t keep the earth clean. We
have to. Please help.
HIGH SHOALS SUPPORTER