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VOLUME 78. NUMBER 119
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
MAY ij, 1972
■ From United Press International wires-
jArms limitations
likely Friday
MOSCOW - President
Nixon and Soviet leaders
appeared likely to sign an
agreement on Friday limiting
strategic offensive and
defensive nuclear weapons
after 2 l /i years of hard
negotiations, official U.S. and
Soviet sources predicted
Tuesday.
The forecast was made after
Nixon and Leonid I.
Brezhnev, the Soviet
Communist party general
secretary, met privately in the
Kremlin for two hours in an
afternoon session devoted
entirely to the subject of the Strategic Arms Limitation
lalks SALT, which still are being held in Helsinki.
Viet negotiator criticizes Nixon
WORLD NEWS
PARIS North Vietnam’s chief negotiator at the Paris
peace talks criticized President Nixon Tuesday as a man
who could not be trusted, called the President a “war-like
bcllicist. and said he could not bomb North Vietnam into
the Stone Age.
Lc Due Tho, the seventh-ranked member of the North
Vietnamese Communist politburo, made his remarks soon
after the Hanoi and Viet Cong delegations demanded for
the second time in a week that the United Stats and South
Vietnam return to the conference table. They wanted
negotiations to resume Thursday.
Bremer indicted in Wallace case
BALTIMORE Federal
and Maryland grand juries
today indicted Arthur
Herman Bremer, a
21-year-old blond busboy and
ex-janitor from Milwaukee,
on charges connected with
the May 15 shooting of
Alabama tiov. George C.
Wallace.
A Maryland grand jury
charged Bremer with four
counts of attempted murder.
One of the counts in the state
indictment carries a
maximum penalty of death.
Two anonymous callere MATIDNAI NEWS
claiming to belong to the Ku INCVVO
Klux Klan threatened Monday to blow up the Baltimore
County jail unless authorities stopped protecting the
accused assailant of Alabama Gov. George Wallace. The FBI
said the two callers telephoned Baltimore area radio station
WKTK-FM.
Wallace bid called 'serious
SILVER SPKIN(i, Md. The Democratic national
chairman visited Gov. George Wallace in he hospital
Tuesday and pronounced him a serious candidate for the
party’s nomination. The Alabanan later ate his first full
meal since being seriously wounded eight days ago.
After visiting with the 52-ycar-old Wallace at Holy Cross
Hospital. Lawrence F. O'Brien said “I would say that any
candidate that has several hundred delegates is a serious
candidate.”
Carter outlines reorganization
ATLANTA Gov. Jimmy
Carter out lined objectives of his
proposed reorganization
program for local
governments in a meeting
Tuesday with key department
heads.
Calling it a “very important
project.” Carter said detailed
work would begin next
month and he hoped the
overall plan, touching many
aspects of local government
operations, would be ready
for early introducation in the
1973 (General Assembly.
He indicated he felt it might
take as long to perfect and
pass the plan as it did his state government reorganization
program which dominated the 1972 session.
STATE NEWS
WEATHER
Showers
Partly rloudy with a
chance of showers or
thunderstorms
Wednesday and
Thursday. Mild nijdits
and warm afternoons
both days. Probability of
rain 20 per cent both
days. High* near 80 and
low Wednesday night in
the upper 50’s.
2 students indicted for protest
By LINDA BEASLEY
and
TODDY HORTON
David Alonso and Steve Letzsch,
two of the 33 students arrested May
3 on charges of criminal trespass in
the offices of University President
Fred C. Davison, were bound over
from the City Court of Athens to he
State Court of Clarke County for
trial yesterday.
Presiding Judge Grady C. Pittard
indicted the defendants separately
after hearing testimony from
prosecuting witnesses.
Albert Jones, assistant to President
Davison; Ms. Connie Penley,
secretary to the President; Director
of Public Safety Edward Kassinger;
Sgt. Robert Lowe of the University
Police Department and Major William
Dean, commanding officer of the
University Police, testified for the
prosecution.
HEARINGS to determine if the
remaining 31 student-defendent will
be bound over to state court will
begin at 1:30 p.m. today.
The charges were filed against the
33 students when they were arrested
for their sit-in protest against a
crackdown in housing regulations for
next year which they alledged was
being planned by administrators.
The sit-in at Davison's office came
after a rally at Phi Kappa Hall against
the alledged crackdown. The rally
was held as a part of the Residence
Hall Association’s “May Daze”
celebration.
In testimony against the students
Ms. Penley testified that about 40
students came into the reception
room and asked to see the President.
When told that he was out of town
they said they would wait, according
to Davison’s secretary.
MS. PENLEY said that about IS
students went into the President’s
office while the rest seated
themselves on the floor of the
reception room.
“The students were highly
disruptive as they moved around the
offices,” said the secretary. “I was
trying to type some confidential
material; people were leaning on my
desk, the phone was ringing and it
was impossible to concentrate.”
Kassinger told the court that he
had received a call at about 10 a.m.
that some students were occupying
the President’s office.
“When I got there the reception
area and the main office were filled
with students,” Kassinger said.
JONES HAD earlier warned the
protestors that they were trespassing
and subject to arrest unless they
vacated the premises. Kassinger said
when he arrived Jones said he felt the
purpose of the visit had been
satisfied. Kassinger tried
unsuccessfully to convicne the
students to move into the hall, he
said then gave them five minutes to
make a decision on whether to leave
or to be arrested.
Several students left, but the33
remaining protestors took a vote and
decided to stay. All those who
remained were arrested and charged
with criminal trespass.
Steve Patrick, Keith Melton,
Letzsch and Alonso were taken
directly from Davison’s office to the
Clarke County Jail. The others were
taken to the University Public Safety
Division to be identified and then
processed into the county jail
Lowe reported that he took photos
of the arrested students under the
direction of Major Dean.
Dean reported that he was
responsible for searching both men
and women, but that the men were
searched more thoroughly than the
women.
RA job changes
relate to drugs
Is this page relevant?
Photo br STEPHEN JACKSON
If you haven’t gotten your copy of the 1972 Pandora
(complete with picture of George Wallace) yet, keep in
mind that this week is the time to pick it up. Books are
being distributed to sophomores today, to freshmen
tomorrow, and to anybody who doesn’t have one yet on
Friday. Distribution will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in
Memorial Hall ballroom. Students must come in person
and present their own ID's to receive the publication.
SPEAKERS TOO LIBERAL
CCC claims Union bias
By JIMMY JOHNSON
Associate news editor
The Ideas and Issues Division of the
university Union has come under fire
from the right-wing Campus
Conservative Club. The criticism
stems from what the conservative
organization’s president, Martin
O’Toole, calls an “unbridled bias in
their selection of speakers.”
O’Toole charged that the Union is
unresponsive to the desires of the
student body in its choice of guest
speakers. “In the past year the Union
has sponsored such speakers as
Police seek
assailant in
coed attack
A university coed was attacked
Monday night by an unidentified
assailant in the women’s restroom on
the third floor of the Journalism
Building.
Campus plice said the victim was
not injured in he incident, which
occurred between 8 and 9 p.m.
The investigation is being
continued.
Rides available
for vote today
Students who want to vote in
today’s consolidation referendum
and need transportation to the polls
should call either 2-5383 or 2-8051
for a nde, C oalition party chairman
David Alonso said. Rides will be
available as long as the polls are
open.
Wayne Morse, Pierre Salinger,
Norman Mailer and Joseph Cisco,”
O’Toole said. The conservative leader
said the Union should provide “some
degree of balance” in its speakers.
The last conservative speaker to be
sponsored by the Union, said
O’Toole, was Sir Alec Douglas Hume,
former prime minister of England
and member of Parliament, who
spoke two years ago to University
students.
“The Union apparently feels that
the students are interested only in
the wildest variety of kooky
left-wingers and washed-up liberals,”
he said.
ACCORDING TO O’Toole, part of
the problem is that the Union receives
a large cut of student activity fees to
provide speakers for the whole
campus. The money is not divided
among independent organizations
which would bring speakers to the
University, he said.
“In the past the tendency in
funding organization has been to
centralize all financial powers in the
Union or in Memorial Hall,” O’Toole
said. “The effect of this has been to
eliminate the former diverse and
universal interests in subject matter
which independent organizations
were able to give to the University.
“This is a repudiation of the trust
between the students anJ the people
who are leeching their money to
provide speakers representative of all
political viewpoints,” he said.
The Ideas and Issues Division of the
Union will receive S9.000 .n student
fees for the 1972-73 school term. No
other campus groups w hit h would be
involved in the presentation of
speakers have been allocated funds
except the Black Student Union and
the Residence Hall Association.
Suicide
tries...
By JIM CORBETT
Associate news editor
Job requirements of dormitory
Resident Assistants as defined by last
week the Selective Criteria
Committee provide for essentially
the same program as last year with
minor changes relating to drug use,
according to SGA President Joe
Fowler.
The role of the RA has been a
major issue in allegations that a rules
crackdown was impending in
University housing.
“It was obvious from the work of
the committee that there wasn’t
going to be a crackdown in housing
as such and that it (the allegations)
was just a breakdown in
communication,” Fowler stated.
However, Steve Patrick, a
Residence Hall Association member,
said the criteria did not insure that a
housing crackdown could not come.
How strictly rules are enforced
depends on the type of people that
fill the positions, he said.
THE JOB criteria descriptions were
received by RA’s recommended for
rehiring next year as well as
applicants Tuesday, according to
Fowler.
As adopted by the Housing
Department committee, the job
descriptions included a report, also
from within that department, ”A
Staff Approach to Working with
Students,” he said.
Letters accompanying the report
told of a possible Housing Department
budget cut which would reduce the
number of RA’s hired, Fowler said.
DEAN FEELS that there is a
decided difference between the
person who is calling attention
to his problems by attempting
suicide and the person who
really means to die. “In one
case”, he said, “a lady got up at
three in the morning, walked
three miles and jumped off of a
telephone tower, hitting a chain
link fence which cut her in two.
There was no doubt that she
really meant to kill herself.”
The suicide rate for the
University is, “pretty close to
normal for a population of this
size,” said suicidologist Dr.
Leonard Linden. Statistics citing
suicide as a leading cause of
death among college students are
rather misleading, he said,
because “college student die of
very few of the things.”
By MICHELLE GREEN
Assistant news/feature editor
The student who is unable to
resolve his problems may, in
desperation, turn to suicide.
“Most people who attempt
suicide are asking for help,” said
Captain S. G. Jordan of the
Campus Police. "If you really
want to kill yourself you can
usually do it.”
“A few months ago a guy
called the police and said he was
going to jump off of a telephone
tower,” said Major Bill Dean.
“He had been in trouble before,
but only on minor offenses. He
ran through the police station nd
told them he was going to jump
before he even went to the
tower. He obviously wanted
help.”
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There have been no confirmed
suicides on the Georgia campus
this year, according to Dean.
There have been three deaths on
campus all of which have been
ruled accidental. “We have
investigated a traffic death, the
death which occurred in the van
parked in the Russell lot, and
the death of the student in Joe
Brown in March,” said Jordan.
Stanley Haddock was the Joe
Brown resident whose death was
at first thought to be suicide.
“We don't believe he intended to
kill himself,” said Dean, who
was in charge of investigating the
death. “It appears now that the
death was accidental
strangulation,” he said.
Unfortunately, suicide
The reduction could as much as
double the present student load for
each RA.
“THERE IS a possibility that the
budget will be cut and the level of
RA’s would be reduced. But we
won’t know this until the Regents
act on it in June,” Fowler said.
The RA, says the statement,
“interprets, supports, and helps to
enforce the University’s policies,
procedures, and regulations in the
area of student conduct.”
The staff approach report, which
was adopted as part of the job
description, defines noise, open
house and drug use as areas of
concentration for RA’s.
“RA’s are expected to tell residents
that they as staff have the
responsibility to make CRL’s
(Coordinators of Residence Living)
or GR’s (Graduate Residents) aware
of situations that involve illegal use
of drugs in their residence hall,” the
report says.
“WHEN THE RA has suspicion of
illegal use of drugs in the residence
halls, the RA is expected to
communicate this to the GR or
CRL,” it states
Stating that RA’s and GR's should
attempt to counsel students, the
report says, “When the level is one of
knowledge of drug use in the
residence halls, i.e. knowledge would
involve having evidence of a concrete
nature, or a case of repeated
suspicion, the CRL is expected to
make a decision to inform the Pubth*
Safety Division.”
attempts and successes
sometimes overlap. "The person
may miscalculate a drug dosage
and die when he had not
actually intended to do so,”
Campbell said. If a roommate
does not come back in time or if
the troubled student fails to
realize the effect of a drug, he
may become an u.ihappy
statistic when he was actually
only making a gesture for help.
According to Dean, the most
common method of attempting
suicide is by drug overdose.
“You have to have empathy
for these people. The former
police philosophy was to be
sympathetic towards those who
succeeded in killing them selves.
Now we give sympathy to those
who attempt suicide because we
realize that they need help,”
Dean said.
(See PROBLEMS. Page 2)