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Married housing
units phased out'
The Red and Black, Thursday, May 11, 1972
Page 3
DOVER KLAM
by Phil Sonderlin
By MARY SWINT
Ten prefabricated housing
units, now serving as “home,
sweet home” for the families
of 55 married students, will be
phased out June 9 to make
way for the new ecology
building.
The ecology building will be
located there since it will be
near the related science
buildings, the science library
and other Ag Hill facilities.
A grant from the National
Science Foundation stipulates
the building must be begun by
August 28.
The maintenance for the
single story units, most
containing seven apartments,
costs the University more than
the rents can cover, while the
overall condition of the
buildings is “almost pathetic -
a fire trap really,” according to
David Lund, assistant director
of campus planning.
RESIDENTS don’t want to
move, though. “The rent is
lower and the rooms are bigger
than University Village
Apartments,” one young
mother said.
University Village on East
Campus Road will be the only
available on-campus housing
for married students until a
new apartment complex is
completed sometime in
October.
Starting at S35 monthly for
an efficiency apartment, the
prefabs are the cheapest
housing in Athens. Three
bedroom apartments,
unavailable at University
Village, are $42.
Rates at the University
Village Apartments range from
$85 for a one-bedroom
unfurnished apartment to $109
for a two-bedroom furnished
apartment.
The apartment complex
under construction will have
rates $ 10 higher.
LUND SAW “almost no
hope” for trailer courts built
and operated by the
University. He said trailer
courts were inefficient on land
that could support multi-story
apartments, which give a
greater return for
maintainance, too.
ti Trailer courts were
originally slated for the area
now containing new tennis
courts.
The families living in the
prefabs, when the decision was
made early in 1971 to build
the ecology building on the
site, were given top priority in
finding places in the University
Village Apartments.
New residents agreed to
temporary leases with the
understanding they would
move this June. No
assignments were made after
January, resulting in 10
spring-quarter vacancies
The off-campus housing
office is helping relocate
students who are on the
waiting list to get into
University Village or who
prefer not to live in University
housing.
THE OF I-ICE provides a
bi-weekly list of available
accomodations which include
apartments, trailers and houses.
On the revised edition for
May 1, the average rates for
furnished apartments, with at
least water provided and open
to couples, range from $82
(efficiency) to $136
(two-bedroom).
Unfurnished apartments are
slightly higher. The lone
efficiency was $ 8 2.
One-bedroom apartments
averaged $135, and
two-bedroom apartments
$155.
There were very few
three-bedroom apartments on
the list, and no mention of
restrictions on children.
Another alternative is low
cost public housing, arranged
through the Athens Housing
Authority. 932 low cost
apartments are available to
families or the elderly or
disabled.
A scale is set for maximum
incomes allowed for residents,
depending on family size. For
instance, a family of four can
make up to $4700 a year. Rent
is based on income, rather than
apartment size.
THE MAXIMUM rent is $75
and the minimum is $7.
Apartments range from
efficiency to six-bedroom.
Students living in the
Athens housing average $46 in
rents, more than the rent for
the prefabs. 825 people are
currently on the Village
waiting list and some will not
get in, according to a housing
authority spokesman.
The doomed prefabs were
moved to the University from
Drew Field near Tampa, Fla.,
in 1948, when the Navy
declared them war surplus,
according to John Story of the
family housing office.
Plans originally called for
demolition in 1956, but the
University made improvements
such as rewiring and adding
electric appliances.
Two years ago, the
apartments received new
insulation and asbestos siding.
Recently, in order to build
the new education building,
the Unive-sity tore down the
last seven of 34 units that had
been brought from Oak Ridge,
Tenn. All the prefabs were
originally called “veterans
housing” since the first priority
went to veterans after World
War 11.
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Hover ualk> to Admissions Office (A). They send him to Housing
Office(B) for room assignment. At B. he is sent to Reed Hall ((.).
At (.. he’s told thare's no room for him. so he goes hark to It.
There he is re assigned to Tin ker Hall(l>>. He walks over to I)
hut onee again, there is no room. Lonfused. Dover phones A.
He is told there is no record of his admission. He runs to A. Once
there, his acceptance letter is found, lie walks bark to R. and is
sent once more to I). At D, b‘* is told a rail from A has just
arrived and he is to return to C. On way hark to C, he remembers
he left luggage at \. and collapses, sobbing and hysterical, at
point E.
’War and War' attack on your senses
By BAMBI BERRY
"War and War,” Frederick
Barthelme. Doubleday
Projections Books. 190 pp.
$3.50.
“War and War” is an attack
on your senses and sensibilities.
The thirty-year old author,
Frederick Barthelme, who
smokes Salems and wears blue
jeans most of the time or a
jock strap that has never left
him since his high school days,
is a con man.
He cons the reader, whom
he has to call “Dear Reader" at
least once, into a maze(ment)
of verbal and sometimes
intellectual ramblings.
Energetic at the outset,
Violin concert
at 8 in Chapel
Karrell J. Johnson, violinist,
and Margaret Strahl, pianist,
will present a concert tonight
at 8 p.m. in the University
Chapel. The performance is
part of the Thursday Evening
Concert Series of the
Department of Music.
The duo, both members of
the University Music faculty,
will perform two
compositions: “Kaddisch,” by
Ravel and the sonata
“Arpeggione” for viola and
piano by Shubert. The
University Student String
Ensemble will perform the
“Concerto for Viola and String
Orchestra,” by Telemann.
On Friday at 8 p.m. pianist
Eloida Grace S. Whitehead will
present her graduate recital in
the Chapel.
Ms. Whitehead, a native of
the Philippines, is working
towards her Master of Fine
Arts degree as a student of
professor Despy Karlas.
She will perform Scarlatti’s
“Sonata in G Minor,” and
“Sonata in G Major;”
Beethoven’s “Sonata in F
Minor; Ravel’s “Sonatine” and
Liszt’s “Transcendental
Etudes. Nos. 9 and 4.”
Barthelme pellets you with his
industrious outline for this, his
second book. Proceeding
rapidly through a sexual “how
to” manual for sadists and a
farcical discussion of science -
Information Theory,
Synergism, and “Scientific
American,” he strains your
patience to the point of
wanting to dispose of the book
as rapidly as possible.
BUT JUST as soon as you
reach such an irrational
decision, he changes the
subject to launch into some
mundane digression about his
big suit being at* the cleaners
because it had prairie dog
blood on the lapels and you are
forced to read further. Maybe
this will be important to the
plot, you muse optimistically.
No. You have been conned.
This is Barthelme’s
approach: change the subject
often enough and the reader
will not get bored. “Boredom
is you and you are boredom,”
he explains. “Die (not really
die, just die in your head), and
boredom is gone. Live again,
and boredom is still gone.” But
parts of his book are boring
and parts are very funny and
other parts are complete
nonsense
The book is one continuous
monologue, often didactic.
When Barthelme writes long
convoluted passages about
phenomenology and solipsism,
he mocks traditional
philosophical jargon. His
circuitous statements and
refutations are a joke.
TO REMIND the reader of
this, he sandwiches in such
pithy ditties as “things revealed
are all things as they appear to
use for ourselves,” “as long as I
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can remember, I have been
limited to the things 1 can
think of,” and “the good thing
about a bowel movement is
that you always know what to
expect.”
Lazio has to be the central
character, if indeed there is
anything central about the
book at all. A sometimes
scientist who has a thing about
raincoats and highly polished
shoes, he is never actually
active in constructing a plot.
Rather, remembrances of him
and a few random
conversations with the author
(plus a postcard from
Switzerland) are his only
introduction. “He is always
pending,” describes Barthelme.
The symbolic description of
him as both puppet
and puppeteer parallels the
author’s earlier description of
his “self” being detached from
his mind and body.
CONTINUITY, venerated in
traditional literature, is
glaringly lacking from “War
and War.” But this is not a
traditional book. Its series of
disjointed conversations,
dream-like digressions, charts,
photographs (irrelevant to
most of the content),
miscellaneous letters collected
by the author, and other
similar trivia present a sketch
of the author which would be
more effective as a multi-media
presentation complete with
“feelie box” attached to the
wrist.
Distillation. Unjoke.
Essences. Simplifications.
These are the weapons of
Barthelme in his novel whose
role is “in my life, as it is in
yours, to occupy the time.” It
will occupy approximately one
hour and twelve minutes of
your time, and unless you are
willing to suspend your
sensibilities and succumb to a
mental massage it will be one
hour and twelve minutes
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