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VOLUME 78. NUMBER IIS
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA .10601
WEDNESDAY. MAY 17, 1977
■ From United Press International wires-
Wallace wins
Md. primary
Cicorge C. Wallace, lying
paralyzed in a hospital from a
gunshot wound inflicted in
his quest for the presidency,
defeated Hubert H.
Humphrey and George S.
McGovern in Maryland’s
primary Tuesday night and
held a lead in the first
fragmentary returns from
Michigan too.
Humphrey and McGovern
were in a tight race for a
second-place Maryland finish
behind Wallace, whose totals
may have been swelled by
sympathy votes.
Returns from 33 per cent NATIONAL NEWS
of the Maryland precincts
showed Wallace with 48 per cent, McGovern with 22 per
cent and Humphrey with 21 per cent, with the remaining
votes scattered among eight other candidates listed on the
hallo!
Wallace was leading for 41 of the 53 delegates at stake
and McGovern for six. The others were not yet assigned.
From Michigan, returns from 1 per cent of the precincts
awarded Wallace 51 per cent of the vote, McGovern 23 per
cent and Humphrey 18 per cent with the remainder
scattered among four other candidates on the ballot.
Laird- blockade 100% effective
WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird
expressed confidence Tuesday that the mining of North
Vietnam's harbors could lead to a breakthrough in Hanoi’s
willingness to stop its invasion of the south and end the
fighting in Indochina.
Noting that the first eight days of the mine blockade of
Hanoi’s seven ports had been 100 per cent effective, Laird
vowed. “I can assure you that we will take those steps that
are necessary to see that the interdiction of supplies to
North Vietnam is carried on as effectively as possible.”
Cruisers head to S. China Sea
WASHINGTON Three or four Soviet guided missile
cruisers have been seen in or heading toward the South
China Sea and one of them, accompanied by destroyers,
was holding a position only 300 miles off the North
Vietnamese coast, military sources said Tuesday.
The sources stressed that none of these ships were mine
sweepers and that U.S. officials were not particularly
concerned about the possibility of a Soviet naval challenge
to the American mining of seven North Vietnamese ports.
Egypt gains long-range planes
Prime Minister Aziz Sidky
of Egypt said Tuesday Russia
has supplied the Lgyptians
with long-range warplanes
capable of striking Israel’s
heartland and the battle to
regain “every inch” of
occupied Arab territory is
“not far off.”
Sidky did not identify the
type of planes but indications
were that they were MIG23s,
the fastest and most powerful
in the Soviet arsenal, if not
the world.
Military spokesman in Tel Aviv said two MIG23s flew
over the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula from the
Mediterranean to the Red Sea on an apparent
reconnaissance mission for Fgypt.
The Israelis said their jet fighters scrambled to challenge
the intruders but gave no word on whether their
interceptors made an contacts with the MIGs.
Catholics stone' British patrol
BELFAST - A British patrol ran a gauntlet of stones,
bottles and bullets in Belfast Tuesday while chasing two
youthful gunmen through the Roman Catholic
Andersonstown area, military spokesmen said.
Other British troops also were pelted by stones as they
smashed a Catholic attempt to fence off a self-ruled
preserve in Belfast's Ardoyne area and a bomb wrecked a
building in Londonderry.
A British army spokesman said that although Northern
Ireland as a whole was quiet Tuesday, in Belfast “you can
sense the hatred. It’s so thick you can cut it with a knife.”
WORLD NEWS
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WEATHER
Senate grants less
than board asked
Photo by GF.ORGF. WILLIAMS
Appreciate spring
This swinging student in front of Reed Hall knew it was Spring just by
walking outside, but the Union believes that some may have their minds
on other things. For those who might not have noticed the signs of Spring,
such as bodies stretched out over every free inch of ground, baseball
games, and frisbee throws, the Union has decided to help out. This week
has been named Spring Appreciation Week just to give the season an extra
boost. Activities are scheduled daily from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Memorial
Plaza. Thursday will be Balloon Day and Friday will bring the week to an
end in a way Lawrence Welk would appreciate, with the selling of Bubble
Blow.
The Student Senate approved an
allocation last night for the Pandora
that fell $10,000 short of the
amount requested by the Board of
Student Communications.
The $30,000 allocation also
undercut this year’s yearbook
funding by $9,400.
At the senate’s first session to
allocate next year’s student activities
budget of $470,000, the senate also
approved allocations committee
recommendations to reduce funding
below communications hoard
requests for the Georgia Agriculturist
and the student communications
director’s salary.
Consideration of the allocations
committee’s proposal to cut The Red
and Black’s communication board
request by nearly $10,000 was
postponed at printing time, pending
an opportunity to question the
newspaper editor.
UNDER A constitutional
amendment passed in the last student
government election, the reductions
of allocations requested by the Board
of Student Communications must
return to the board for its approval.
If the board does not approve the
allocations reduced below last year's
amounts when it meets today, the
senate must pass the allocations
again, with a two-thirds vote.
The vote on the Pandora funding
was 29 in favor, 24 against. The 24
votes against the allocation came
following arguments that a more
extensive cut should be made in the
Pandora’s budget. The senators
voting against the budget proposal
said the Pandora did not have enough
For RAS, GR s
Criteria to be defined
By JIM CORBETT
Assistant news/feature editor
The Selective Criteria Committee
of the Housing Department meets
this afternoon to define the job
criteria of Residence Assistants and
Graduate Assistants in University
housing, according to SGA President
Joe (Bubba) Fowler.
“I feel satisfied that there will be
no changes that can smack of a
housing crackdown,” Fowler said.
Charges of a crackdown in
enforcement policy were made by
the Residence Hall Association,
which presented petitions to Dean of
Student Affairs O. Suthern Sims
demanding that RA’s serve only in an
advisory capacity.
Referring to the alleged
dormitory crackdown as a
“breakdown of communications,”
Fowler said a sub-committee making
recommendations to the full
committee today is “going to follow
the same procedure that we did last
year with some minor change related
to drug abuse.
“WHAT WE will be looking for is
consistency among dorms," he said.
The sub-committee has accepted
Graduating class votes
for officers tomorrow
Flections for Senior Class
officers will be held tomorrow from
8:30 to 4:30. Candidates for
president are Chicken Little and
Danny Amos. Anne Porterfield is
the unopposed candidate for
secretary.
Students classified as juniors
(with a “3” on their ID or a “4” in
Environmental Design) will be
eligible to vote. Students whose
ID’s are marked “2" but who will
be seniors in the fall should go by
229 Memorial and get a note
venfying their junior status.
The “s” on he student activities
card will be punched as students
vote. Students whose cards have
already been punched in that space
must go by 229 Memorial before
Thursday to verify their eligibility.
Polling places will be the
Psychology-Journalism complex,
the Main Library, the
Livestock-Poultry Building.
Graduate Studies. Park Hall.
Memorial Hall, and Aderhold. All
environmental design students must
vote at the Main Libiary. All others
may vote at any polling station.
Academic affairs
minister quits post
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Avsistant News Editor
Roger Cox announced his
resignation from his position as
minister to academic affairs
yesterday in a letter to SGA
president Joe Fowler.
In the letter Cox said that his
resignation was with “a personal
sense of loss” from his associations
and friendships in student
government. Ills retreat from the
ministerial position came tor “many
personal reasons.” Cox said.
Cox had been appointed to his
second term as minister to academic
affairs two weeks ago and approved
by the Student Senate on a
reconsideration vote after his
appointment had been initially
denied.
On the first ballot Cox fell four
votes short of the two-thirds
approval required.
According to Cox the fight in the
senate tor approval did not influence
his decision to resign.
Fowler said that a replacement
for Cox will be presented to the
senate at its meeting tonight for
consideration along with several
other ministerial appointments.
Cox has worked in the Student
Government Association for the past
two vears first as a student senator
on the academic affairs committee
jrtd last year as minister to that area.
interest from the student body to
justify a $30,000 expenditure.
LASY YEAR the Pandora
received $39,400 in student activities
allocation. This year the Board of
Student Communications requested
$40,000 for the yearbook.
The senate approved the
allocations committee’s
recommendations for all other
campus media except The Red and
Black last night.
The senators held off voting on
the allocations committee’s proposal
Besides allocations,
the Senate conducted
routine business last
night. For details see
story on page 3.
to cut the newspaper’s funding by
more than $5,000 from last year’s
allocation and nearly $10,000 from
this year’s Board of Student
Communications request.
A $1,000 increase in the Georgia
Impression’s allocation passed the
senate, meeting the communication
board’s request.
The Georgia Agriculturist
received $1,262 more than it got for
this year. The $3,9b2 the south
campus quarterly was awarded fell
short of the communication board’s
request for it by $1,238.
Granted to the University’s
newest medium, radio station
WUOG-PM, was $13,067, the
amount the board of
communications requested. Next
year’s allocation fell short of htis
year’s by $123
THE SENATE approved all
recommendations from the
allocations committee for funding
for competitive, performing and
special interest groups at last night’s
session.
Most allocations passed with little
debate. The senate is the final
authority on allocations in these
realms of activity.
At tonight's allocation session,
the senate will consider allocations
for service groups indluding the
Student Government Association,
the University Union, Black Student
Union, Residence Hall Association
and others.
The senate is also expected to
consider The Red and Black
allocation and act on other media
allocations if the communications
board rejects the senate’s proposed
funding.
a report, “A Staff Approach to
Working With Students,” which
along with the job criteria of the
Housing Department, defines the
responsibilities and role of the RA.
The 12-member committee of
students and administrators will be
asked to accept the
recommendations of the
sub-committee.
The job criteria will be made
public, according to Fowler, after the
committee adopts the explanations
of the RA’s and GR’s roles.
The criteria committee is chaired
by Director of Housing Dr. Richard
C. Armstrong.
SGA seeks
tax break
on tuition
A Student Senate resolution
passed unanimously, before budget
hearings were begun, requesting that
the Federal Government make all
tuition up to $500 tax deductible,
according to SGA Vice President Jim
Cline.
The appeal was first passed at
another university, Cline said. That
school requested the University of
Gerogia and other schools adopt the
measure also.
“I’m in correspondence with state
and federal senators and
representatives,” he stated, “ and
they haven’t told me anything
definite.
Predicting wide support in the
Senate. Cline said, “I don’t sec any
big competition for it because it is
good for •.•vervone involved.”
THE MEASURE will be
brought up when the Senate floor is
opened for new business, according
to Cline.
Under the title of “University of
Georgia Higher Education
Encouragement Act of 1972,” it
resolves “that The University of
Georgia Student Government
•"■'V'iit’on and The Student Senate
recommend to the Congress of the
United States, the tax deductibility
of tuition fees up to the amount of
$500.00 in any tax year, applicable
to Federal Personal Imome Tax.
Photo by RICK DUNN
GREEK STUDENT WORKS IN 1FC CLEANUP OF PEOPLE S PARK
They were rewarded with a Panhellenic picnic yesterday
Apartment zoning
may disturb park
By TODDY HORTON
A class of landscape architect
students have recently adopted a new
project, redesigning People’s Park
But park officials have a problem to
face. Two lots on Hall Street,
directly in back of the park, are up
for rezoning to build apartment
houses.
“If an apartment house were built
in that location, it would adversely
affect the scenic value of the park,
and it would bring a lot more people
into what is now a quiet area,” said
Walt Munnikhysen, president of
People’s Park.
“If apartments are built, what is
now a comfortable residential
section, perfect for a park, will be a
busy apartment area with a negative
impact on the soil and vegetation,”
Bill Mann, a faculty member in the
landscape architect department said
“If more people come, they will
automatically bring litter and
dranugc problems to the park site.”
Fortson. Bcntly, and Griffeth is
the company that has requested the
Board of Appeals to allow a variance
in zoning (trom residential to
multi-family dwelling). The request
has been denied once, but it will be
appealed at the next meeting,
Tuesday May 23, at 3 30.
The idea for a park originated
three years ago when some students
objected to the University's plan to
dear the heavily wooded area and
replace it with a paved parking lot.
Since then the park has been the
students' responsibility, but no
comprehensive plan for improvement
has yet been initiated.
Several energetic students, in an
effort to help, have raked up the
underbrush, but it has caused
extensive eroding of the natural day.
Landscape architect students have
noticed this erosion and they feel a
workable design would be helpful
and would have a definite impact on
the park’s progres.
In redesigning the park, students
are working to heighten the natural
effects and incorporate the needs
into the area. Scenic views, wildlife,
student acce», public access, and use
will be considered when the
prospective designs are critiqued at
the tnd of the quarter.