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VOLUME 78. NUMBER 111
BED AND BLACK '
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30601 WEDNESDAY. MAY 10, 1972
From United Press International wires «
Viet Cong defy
Nixon's blockade
PARIS Hanoi and the
Viet Cong will continue the
offensive in South Vietnam in
defiance of President Nixon’s
blockade of North
Vietnamese harbors,
Communist diplomatic
sources said Tuesday.
They said the President’s
decision to mine North
Vietnamese harbors may
create very grave
international complications if
a ship from a non-committed
nation failed to comply with
U.S. orders to clear out of North Vietnamese waters
within the three-day time limit and ran onto a mine.
The presidential decisions raised a new question about
the future of the Paris Peace Talks, suspended once more
last week by the U.S. delegation after the collapse of both
public and private efforts to strike a bargain with the
Communists, observers said.
Warplanes seed six harbors
SAIGON Acting on orders from President Nixon,
American warplanes Tuesday seeded six North Vietnamese
harbors with heavy mines and began air raids on rail and
highway links between Hanoi and the Chinese border.
But the Communist offensive in South Vietnam pressed
ahead with relentless attacks in the Central Highlands and
north of Saigon.
The mines will not be activiated until 6 p.m., 6 a m.
I DT Thursday in order to allow time for the ships in port
to leave safely.
U.S. officials in Washington estimated 25 ships are in the
largest port of Haiphong. 55 miles east of Hanoi, at all
times many of them Soviet vessels.
President Nguyen Van Thieu told the people of South
Vietnam in a radio and television address the nation “is in
grave danger” and asked his countrymen “to sacrifice
whatever you can including your blood" to save South
Vietnam from defeat.
China issues attack protest
IIONG KONG China’s Foreign Ministry Tuesday
issued a protest against alleged U.S. attacks against two
Chinese merchant ships. Radio Peking said early today.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that U.S. warships
and planes continuously attacked Chinese merchant ships,
Honqi 152 and llongoi 116 which were anchored off Yu
Tao island of Si An province of North Vietnam Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday.
Nation reacts to U.S. mining
Antiwar protesters rioted
in Berkeley, Calif.,
temporarily blocked major
highways in Chieago and
Colorado and mixed with
police in cities across the
nation Tuesday in angry
reaction against U.S. mining
of North Vietnam harbors.
Most of the demonstrators
were young persons and
many of the confrontations
with police grew out of
protest rallies on college
campuses. Many of the rallies
were peaceful but some
erupted onto city streets and
went on for hours. NATIONAL NEWSl
Some 1.000 University of
Colorado students and “street people” flocked back and
forth through Boulder. Colo., for 12 hours At one point
several hundred of the demonstrators set fire to debris on
the Boulder-Denver Turnpike and police closed the
highway.
Two firebombs were thrown at the main transformer of
the University of Rhode Island in Kingston but burned out
without doing any damage. College students blocked two
bridges and halted traffic for 30 minutes in the Amherst.
Mass., area.
Fifty-one persons, most of them students from the New
York State University it Binghamton, were arrested when
they blocked entrance to the Federal Building.
HHH, McGovern scraps plans
Voting was bnsk Tuesday in presidential primaries in
West Virginia, where Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey was a slight
favorite over Gov. George C. Wallace, and in Nebraska
when; Humphrey was the underdog to Sen. George S.
McGovern.
Humphrey and McGovern had planned last-minute
campaigning in Nebraska, but both scrapped their schedules
and returned to Washington after President Nixon
announced Monday night his order to mine North
Vietnamese harbors.
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WORLD NEWS
Piper's son
These actors are among the University students and
eight children who will be performing in "Tom. Tom,
the Piper's Son," the fifth and final production of the
University Theater season. Unlike most University
Theater productions, the play will be performed on
one night only, with the rest of the performances
being matinees. Season tickets will be valid only for
Photo by HICK DUNN
the performance Friday, May 12. at 8 p.m. There will
be matinees on May 11 and 12 at 3 p.m. and May 13
at 10 a.m. Tickets are 50 cents for matinees and $2
for evening performances for adults, 50 cents for
children. Reservations and information may be
obtained by calling the University Box Office,
2-2838.
Housing sets
closed
The Department of University
Housing has designated space in five
dormitories as areas where, as of next
fall quarter, no open house or
visitation privileges will be permitted.
The no open house areas are:
Russell 10th floor west and north,
Reed 4th floor east, Creswell ^th
floor. Brumby 4 >th floor, and South
Myers 4th floor.
Designation of the no open house
space, according to Jerry Studdard,
associate director of housing, came as
a result of surveys of residents’ and
prospective residents’ desires to live
in closed housing areas.
THE SURVEY indicated
approximately 45 women and 40
men who are now residents and
approximately 40 men and 150
women prospective residents who
would desire no open house
The housing department move
came before the meeting next
Monday, of the Faculty Committee
on Student Affiars at which Bat
Swindall, former president of the
student body, will present the
Student Senate proposal for open
housing, which includes a request for
optional 24-hour open house
The housing department did not
wait for the decision of the
committee because “it’s pretty much
of a known” that there will be such
closed areas, especially because of
“all the publicity" concerning open
housing, Studdard said. “As long it
was known," he said, the housing
department could go ahead and
provide for such areas
IF THE committee approved the
24-hour open house proposals,
Studdard said, residents would
decide in the fall what their hours
would be
“We didn’t just pull these areas
out of a hat,” said Studdard "We
felt like the top floors would be
best.” The housing department also
provided some areas for those who
would like to live in small dorms, he
said.
“If the need for closed halls
exceed*- the capacity," Studdard said,
“we’ll just have to say you’ll have to
wait awhile." It is anticipated that
some students who requested the no
open house space will later change
halls
their minds. Studdard said, and this
would provide extra space.
RESIDENTS who wish to live in
one of these no open house areas or
residents who live in the restricted
areas now and want to move out
should go to the housing office
before May 17 and make a request to
transfer.
Any student wishing to reserve
the space he now occupies for fall
quarter may sign up and pay a $50
deposit on May 15 and 16 Sign up
and deposit for students who want to
reserve a different space in their same
hall will be May 17.
A "Request to Change Residence”
form should be on file in the housing
office by May 15 if a student wishes
to move to another hall. In case a
change cannot be granted, the
housing office will guarantee space
fall quarter.
A STUDENT who has reserved a
space is obligated to pay fall quarter
rent unless the reservation is canceled
before the August 1st deadline, when
$25.00 will be refunded
If the University excludes the
student for academic or disciplinary
reasons, or he is drafted, then the
whole deposit will be refunded. The
entire deposit will also be refunded if
a student moves into a sorority or
fraternity house and cancels before
the deadline.
Current occupants will have
priority when signing up.
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Gas leak empties
pharmacy building
A leak in a tank of toxic gas sent
all the occupants of the University’s
School of Pharmacy out for a
breath of fresh air around noon
yesterday
The tank of hydrogen bromide
was being used in a research
laboratory in the pharmacy
building when a valve on the
cylinder developed a leak.
The student*, luculty and other
personnel in the building were
evacuated. Then Public Safety
officers donned oxygen masks,
entered the building and replaced
the leaking valve
The building was re-occupied
three hours later when the officers
determined the gas had been
completely cleared There were no
injuries. I
PLANS STILL UNSURE
Dialogue heads
Open house proposal
goes before committee
By MYRA POWERS
Steve Patrick, president of Russell
Hall and member of the Student
Senate, has been named chairman of
the Dialogue Planning Committee by
the University Leadership Board
Adnena Sims was named secretary
of the Planning Committee and Cindy
Fryer was named treasurer
Rounding out the committee.
Harold Miller chairs the facilities and
materials subcommittee and Marty
Yanuck. assistant professor of
history, will be in charge of
programs.
Last week. the University
Leadership Board named Nancy
Cline and Susan Parker to the
planning committee.
APPLICATIONS for Dialogue ’72
are available in room 22 1 ) Memorial
Hall, and in all dorms. Deadline for
applications is May IK
Dialogue ’72 is the latest in a
senes of annual conferences between
students, faculty and administration
It is planned for just prior to fall
quarter at Rock Eagle. a camp near
Madison. Georgia.
Last ycai the 200 participants
spent most of their time discussing
specific problems in small groups
Most students had the opportunity
to talk with faculty members and top
administrators in their groups, in
addition to other students with
different interests. Spare time was
spent in more casual groups
TOR THE moment Dialogue is
planned for next tall, but it may be
cancelled at any time if the
administration does not feel interest
justifies holding the conference.
Patrick feels Dialogue is especially
necessary this year He was involved
in the demonstrations on the alleged
housing crackdown.
“This wdl provide an opportunity
to discuss some of the problems with
housing," he said "Too much has
happened for us not to think we
need Dialogue "
Nancy ( line, participant selection
chairman, said Dialogue could be
cancelled if not enough people
applied
She is encouraging applications
from as many people as possible.
Former student body president
Pat Swindall. who sits on the Faculty
Committee on Student Affairs,
revealed new student proposals for
open housing on I uesday.
The proposals will go before the
committee at its meeting Monday
afternoon.
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“We’re not just looking for people
who are in a lot of things," she said.
“We’re looking for a cross section.’’
She is especially concerned about
applications from foreign students,
blacks, graduate students, athletes
and married students, in addition to
average and active students
"WE WANT to pull as many
people together as possible
different kinds," said Yanuck
He said one of the big selling
points of Dialogue was the fact that
it allowed individuals with different
interests a chance to talk
He said he didn’t realize what an
emotionally charged thing football
ticket sales wa* until he participated
in his first Dialogue.
The Dialogue planning committee
meets this afternoon to establish
procedures for selecting applicants,
and to discuss changes in the
program
The committee is seeking student
comments and suggestions for this
year’s Dialogu Suggestions can be
left in room 229. Memorial Hall, in
the university leadership box.
“First, we’re going to try our best
to get 24-hour open housing
approved But frankly, I don’t know
if it has much chance, what with the
developments in the housing
situation since last year," Swindall
said.
"We’ve got some alternate
proposals ready, just in case First,
we’re going to try to get at least a
24-hour open lobby in all dorms.
“Next, we’re going to try to get
some sort of preference sheet
approved, in which a person has the
option of stating whether he would
prefer to live in an open house dorm
(and if so. which hours he or she
would prefer), or in a closed dorm."
SWINDALL declined to comment
on the possible outcome of the vote.
Swindall was involved in the
original 24-hour open house proposal
last spring quarter. Ihe plea for
24-hour open house was defeated in
a secret vote by the committee of six
faculty members, three students and
one administrator.
The committee did approve a
change in open house hours at that
time.
“It was a moral victory,” Swindall
said. “We didn’t get the 24-hour
open house we wanted, but at least
we got an extra hour. We weren’t
stopped cold completely, and we
weren’t forced back a step."
HE DISCUSSED the alleged
housing crackdown, and agreed that
it might have an adverse effect on the
adoption of his proposals.
“They will proably refuse for two
reasons. First, the Carl Savage
allegations haven't helped our case. A
person like Savage could probably
find something he didn’t approve of
in even a strictly regulated, closed
and locked dorm.
“Second, one of the major
arguments against 24-hour open
house has always been that we just
don’t have the proper facilities, like
bathrooms, to work it properly," he
said.
“The Residence Hall Association
has really been working hard for the
adoption of a 24-hour open house
policy. They asked for permission to
present their case to our meeting
Monday, but we had to refuse.
Prof quits
hopes for
Congress
Dr. Steve Maloney, assistant
professor of English at the
University, has decided, contrary to
earlier indications, not to run for the
Tenth District Congressional seat
now held by Rep. Robert Stephens.
Maloney had earlier stated that he
was giving senous consideration to
seeking the post. He made his
decision not to run after
“consultations with citizens highly
informed about the political realities
of this district," he said.
Maloney said he had chosen
“reluctantly" not to run, since
"modern political campaigns for
federal offices are frightfully
expensive, and I believe it would be
impossible for mt to raise enough
money to wage an effective
campaign.
Maloney plans to continue
teaching at the University and to
remain politically active. He will
“continue to give whatever assistance
I can to the National Action Group"
and has volunteered to work in the
campaign of Rep. Fletcher
Thompson in ha spare time.