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VOLUME -HT, NUMBER U*
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1972
Agnes hits coast
ATLANTA, Ga. - Tropical storm Agnes, with at least 16
persons dead and $15 million in damage behind it,
floundered through Georgia Tuesday sending flood
warnings as far north as New York and New England.
Three minor mudslides were reported on highways in
North Carolina as Agnes, a hurricane when it struck land in
the Florida panhandle Monday, moved northward.
The weather bureau issued flash flood warnings for
portions of Gerogia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West
Virginia, Virginia, New Jersey, southern New York and
Connecticut. r~
The highest sustained winds remaining in Agne
around 25 miles an hour, mainly along the Carol!
Georgia coasts, and most of the danger was posedf
storm’s heavy rain. Up to five inches fell in thd
Carolina mountains.
The storm killed seven persons in Cuba and at liast nine
more in Florida. The discovery of a body in a clnaF ncltr
tornado-ravaged Okeechobee brought the toll in
to five, and two others - an 11-year-old boy and a
104-year-old woman - were still missing.
Demo. Party bugged
WASHINGTON - The FBI Monday took over the
investigation into a mysterious break-in at Democratic
Party headquarters by five men, including the chief security
officer for both the Republican National Committee and
President Nixon's re-election committee.
The five were arrested before dawn Saturday inside the
Democratic National Committee's suite of offiges. Before
the FBI moved in Monday with a cloak of secrecy,
metropolitan police disclosed that at least one more suspect
was being sought in the case.
Police said the men had cameras and bugging equipment
with them.
Amongi those arrested was James E. McCord Jr., a
former agent for the FBI and the Central Intelligence
Agency who was hired in January at a salary of
$l,029-a-month to serve as security coordinator for the
Committee for the Re-Election ofthe President.
The GOP National Committee said McCord’s consulting
firm also provides security services for the committee's
headquarters on Capitol Hill.
Echoing other Republican disavowals of the incident.
Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott Monday called it
“unconscionable and inexcusable.” He said it was also
“unconscionable and inexcusable for the media to tie this
to the GOP ”
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Bookstore botches bill1 ^ y® ar degree
. . . and bugs Bailey ma y hel P some
BY LESLIE THORNTON
Assistant feature editor
Richard Bailey wishes he had
never been bom Richard Bailey.
His name has gotten him stuck in
the red-tape bureaucracy of the
University of Georgia.
It started two years ago on
June 7, 1970, when some other
Richard Bailey wrote a check at
the University Bookstore for
$4.33. You guessed it - the check
bounced.
The bookstore sent a letter to
an innocent Richard Bailey in
forming him of the “oversight”
which he did not commit. Bailey
:d “some secretary in
ucracy” and thought
ling was cleared.
Bombing resumes
SAIGON — U.S. pilots outwitting radar with strips of tin
foil and decoy beepers destroyed more than 140 pieces of
North Vietnameseanti-air craft equipment including 76
Surface-to-Air (SAM) sites in record raids Sunday, the U.S.
command reported today.
The U.S. command said the air war against North
Vietnam resumed full blast today with the departure of
Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgomy, but military sources
said bad weather forced the cancelation of nearly all of
today'sstrikesin the Hanoi-Haiphong area.
The record strikes against North Vietnam's air defenses
came on the last day of Podgorny’s visit to Hanoi,
destroying a big chunk of Russia's multimillion dollar
military aid to Vietnam. None of the strikes was near Hanoi
— the U.S. command put the area off limits Thursday when
Podgorny arrived.
Radio Hanoi in its first comment on the Podgorny visit
said tonight the Soviet president had promised "all
necessary assistance" to North Vietnam in the war.
Statements on both Hanoi and Moscow Radios called for an
end to the U.S. air strikes, an end to the naval blockade of
the ports and a return to the Paris peace talks.
Pilots end strike
A worldwide strike of pilots for 24 hours to demand
strong measures against air piracy ended Tuesday with its
leader declaring he was "absolutely convinced the action
will achieve its aim.”
But one objective of the strike - a meeting of the U.N.
Security Council to agree on international sanctions against
hijackings - appeared doubtful.
The return to normal operations Tuesday was so smooth
at airports on every continent that one airline spokesman -
for Lufthansa in Frankfurt - said "It’s as if nothing
happened."
Forabcrg said the pilots now looked to all nations which
are party to international air agreements to start
implementing stricter security measures at airports and on
planes and to adhere to the proposed ICAO convention.
OKSTORE sent the
lailey more and more
|m higher and higher up
liversity’s pecking order
isin^ worse and worse things.
They took action in September,
« 1970, when at fall quarter regis-
tration, Bailey was informed that
his grades had been flagged.
Beginning in that September,
Bailey’s grades were flagged six
£ times, the bookstore insisting that
Whitehead,
Artau tell
retirement
The University is losing an admin
istrator and a school dean by the end
of summer quarter. After 44 years of
service, Ms. Dolores Artau, director
of International Student Affairs, is
retiring effective Sept. 1. Dr. Thomas
H. Whitehead, dean of the graduate
school, will be retiring effective June
30.
Richard Reif will take Ms. Artau’s
place, pending approval today by the
Board of Regents. Discussing her
retirement, Ms. Artau said, “I was
really going to do it last year. I had
tenure, but my assistant left and I
couldn’t leave them.”
Ms. Artau said that she plans to
travel as much as she can. “I want to
see the alumni we have abroad. 1
have already seen some of them from
Greece and Scandinavia and other
countries. This is something that
needs doing for the University.”
Whitehead’s replacement will be
announced sometime today by the
Board of Regents who will make the
selection from a list submitted by
University President Fred C. Davison.
Whitehead hopes that the nomina
tion will be made from his staff to
continue the present rapport among
the staff. Also, he feels that a
nomination from his staff would be
more effective in the continuance of
present activities than would be with
the introduction of a new faculty
member.
At the age of 67, Whitehead is
complying with a Board of Regents
rule requiring retirement at that age.
Whitehead has been dean of the
graduate school since 1968. His
future plans include serving as
secretary of the Kiwanis Club, ana
several trips including a visit in
December with his son who is an
instructor at Oxford University in
England.
Fall kills
student
A University student died Satur
day night after an accidental fall on
the plaza of the journalism-
psychology complex.
Joseph Charles Crosthwait. 19, of
a Decatur address, was found by
campus police around 10 p.m. He
was taken to University Health
Services for treatment. Later he was
transferred to Athens General Hospi
tal, to the intensive care unit.
From Athens General, Crosthwait
was sent to DeKalb General Hospital
for neurosurgery. He died on the
operating table there. Skull fracture
was given as the cause of death
he pay the check, Bailey swearing
that he didn’t write the check.
Said Bailey, “The check was not
even drawn on my bank. It was
drawn on First American, and 1
bank at C & S.”
“AFTER EACH TIME they
were flagged,” he said, “I would
go to the business office on Broad
Street, and they would tell me it
would be straightened out.”
In March, 1972, after his grades
had been flagged again, a disgus
ted, but still innocent Bailey
wrote a letter to the Office of
Accounts Receivable. “I received
no answering letter from them,”
said Bailey.
“I stormed back in there and
threatened them with a lawsuit.
They had threatened to send the
check to a credit agency, and that
is almost impossible to get off
your record.”
Thinking that the problem had
finally been solved, Bailey went to
register last Monday at the Coli
seum. Yes, his grades had been
flagged.
“I WENT UP TO talk to John
T. Dickerson at the Accounts
Receivable,” he said. “He pulled
the check out of his files and
asked ‘Do you recognize this?’ ”
“1 pointed to the big, red
letters at the-^ottoin of the check
that said DO NOT CONTACT
THIS INDIVIDUAL AGAIN and
asked him ‘Do you recognize
this?’ ” I think he got the
message.”
Bailey said he asked Dickerson
how many department heads have
there been in the last two years.
“Dickerson told me that there had
been five or six,” he said. “This is
part of the problem.”
“I asked Dickerson why spend
the taxpayers’ money to take care
of a S4.33 check,” he said.
“Dickerson said that they had
$18,000 worth of back bills. They
can’t write it off as a business loss
because there is a state law against
that.”
“I told The Red and Black
about my problem with the check
because I wanted people to be
aware of the law so that it could
be changed,” he explained. “The
law gets people harrassed who
shouldn’t be harassed.”
Asked what he was going to do
about his flagged grades this time,
Bailey said, “I’m giving up. I’m
trying to graduate in August, but 1
told the accounts receivable office
that I’d see them in September.”
I
By SAkAH SUE INGRAM
Despite rumors, it is highly un
likely that the University will make a
complete changeover from a four-
year bachelor’s degree program to a
three-year program.
Yet, courses exempted duringthe
1971-1972 school year saved parents
and Georgia taxpayers over $300,000
last year, according to Dr Lothar
Trcsp, head of the Honors Program.
Last year 1,829 University courses
were exempted with credit and 4,266
were exempted without credit. This
marked a 24 per cent increase
over the previous year.
These exemptions saved the costs
of lodging, books, meals, tuition and
other expenses. Parents saved more
tha $100,000 in tuition alone, and
taxpayers saved $200,000 since state
appropriation is more than twice
tuition cost.
THE IDEA of the three-year
degree program was examined at the
May 18 Harvard Conference co
sponsored «by the College Entrance
Examination Board. Tresp
represented the University at the
conference.
The conference was based on the
book published by the Carnegie
Foundation titled “Less Time, More
Options.” The book’s primary focus
was on shortening the bachelor's
degree to three years.
Tresp is in favor of the three-year
degree program only when it is
applied individually, because dif
ferent students are striving for
different educational goals.
“THE THREE-YEAR program
would only help those who know
very well what they want to do. It
would not be beneficial to undecided
motors,” he said.
Tresp proposes letting under
graduates take courses that will
count toward both their under
graduate and graduate degrees.
Students would still go four years,
but they would take graduate courses
in their fourth year which would also
count as undergraduate hours.
“That way the students would not
be going to school a shorter period of
time, but they would be going
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further academically,” Tresp said.
Tresp thinks the proposed struc
ture would be less flexible, and he
suggests being more innovative with
in the present system.
“Reducing the time unilaterally
which a student would spend in
college is not going to resolve the
problem. The problem is the quality
of education and the amount of time
in which the goals can he reached,”
he said.
THE IDEA of the three-year
program is not new. A student can
take overloads, attend summer
school and graduate in three years
anyway, according to Tresp.
“Any student who is goal-oriented
can reach his goals earlier if he has
the competence *o do so under the
"The three-year
program would only
help those who know
very well what
they want to do."
—Lothar Tresp
present system," Tresp said.
Students may also challenge
courses to exempt them with credit.
This policy became University-wide
May 1971, after originating in the
Honors Program.
Dr. Charles James, assistant dean
of arts and sciences, attended the
June 11 Southern Regional Educat
ional Board Conference which also
examined the time-shortened under
graduate degree
(See THREE-YEAR, page 5)
8,900 to be called
Joe Spear
Joe Spear, associate of the internationally syndicated columnist Jack
Anderson, will visit the campus tomorrow and speak tomorrow night at 8 in
the Memorial Hall Ballroom. Spear, who has been with the Anderson staff since
March 1969, previously served as an associate editor for the Civic Education
Association. Presently he is working on a major series dealing with FBI and
Secret Service Surveillance of citizens.
WASHINGTON (UP1) The Se
lective Service System announced
Tuesday it will call up men born in
1952 with draft lottery numbers
through 75 to supply the Army with
8,900 draftees in August, the highest
monthly draft call in more than a
year.
It also announced that men liable
to the draft next year, those born in
1953, who hold lottery numbers 101
or higher can consider themselves
free from the draft for all practical
purposes.
Those men will be reclassified 1-H,
an administrative holding category.
“This action assures these registrants
UHS help confidential
By CAMILLA HOWE
News editor
Drug abuse is not new to any
University student, but drug abuse
treatment that is confidential and
helpful may be new to some.
According to Jim Williamson,
Student Government Association ad
visor on drug abuse, the University
Health Services offers completely
confidential drug abuse treatment in
both the mental health andphysica!
health divisions.
“Students who have a drug piob-
k*m or know a friend with a problem
that they want to help should seek
aid from the Health Services,"
Williamson said.
“I don’t encourage drug abuse,
naturally, but if a student will follow
some precautions, the chances of a
bad trip, or other problems can be
avoided.” he continued.
Williamson advises that if a stu
dent is going to abuse drugs he
should follow these precautionary
measures:
• Know what you are taking;
know from whom you got the drug;
know what the drug is, and know
what it is supposed to do.
• If you get a drug that is not
what the pusher said it was, do
everything you can to put him out of
business. Williamson suggests that
of mouth is the most effective
method of putting a bad pusher out
of business. He also suggests con
fronting the pusher As for going to
the police about the pusher, William
son says, “Ratting is a moral choice;
word of mouth is the most effective
method.”
m If you are taking heavy halluc-
enagenics or barbiturates, don’t take
them alone. Trip with a buddy, or
have a friend around, it’s safer. If
anything goes wrong, a friend can be
a life-saver, literally. Make sure that
your buddy knows what you are
takini*.
• Avoid walking outside alone,
driving or other activity that involves
time-spatial relationships. According
to Williamson, most drugs distort
time-spatial relationships, and most
drug users become disoriented.
• Don’t hesitate to call the
University Health Services if any
thing goes wrong. Whoever is on duty
can help you or even arrange
transportation to the Health Services.
When you are in their care, be
honest, tell them what drug you have
been doing The will not tell your
parents, police or anyone else. They
are there to help you.
• Don't mix one d>ug with
another, or drugs and alcohol. This
mixing can cause permanent damage
or death.
• If you are pregnant, don’t abuse
drugs.
• H you contract an illness that
you think could be related to drug
abuse, don’t hesitate to tell the
University Health Services’ doctor
about that abuse
that they will not be actively
processed for induction unless there
is a major change in expected
military manpower needs,” draft
headquarters said.
LAST YEAR’S lottery number
cutoff was 125, and the ceiling is
dropping as draft calls decrease in
anticipation of a phasing out of the
draft by June 30, 1973, when it
expires under law.
Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird
already has announced a draft ceiling
of 50,000 men this year, the lowest
annual call since before the Korean
War and a little more than half of last
year’s 98,000. No men were drafted
in the first three months of the year,
an average of 5,000 were drafted in
each of the next three months, and
7,200 with lottery numbers up to 50
are to be called in July.
WITH 8,900 scheduled for induc
tion in August, an average of no
more than 4,725 men a month could
be drafted in the September-
December period if calls stay within
Laird's ceiling.
While the August call was the
highest since the 10,000 each called
in May and June last year, it still was
substantially below the Vietnam War
peaks that reached 49,200 in Oct
ober, 1966.
Officials were unable to predict
the highest lottery number to be
called this year because of a new
regulation expected to go into effect
in a few weeks which allows men to
sign up for six months’ duty in the
National Guard or Reserves after
they receive induction notices.
In the past, the only way a man
could avoid the Army after receiving
his draft notice was to join one of
the other services for three years’
active duty.
The goal of the new option is to
induce more men to join the Guard
and Reserves, which have dwindled
as draft calls have fallen.