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THE RED AND BLACK
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1972
Senators condemn
Sims' budget veto
UNIVERSITY’S GAY LIBERATION FRONT
“Gay Pride Week” in Atlanta
Gays plan dance, forum
By FRAN FULTON
Assistant news editor
The University Committee on Clay
Education is back at work again, planning
a gay dance and a forum on
homosexuality for July. The group was
formed last year to serve as both an
outlet for gay students and as a means of
educating their “straight" counterparts.
Last March, the group went to the
Clarke County Superior Court to win a
restraining order which would allow them
to stage a gay dance on campus. Although
the order expired the night of the dance.
Bill Green, executive director of the
group, expects little trouble this time
around.
O. Suthern Sims, dean of student
affairs, also expects the dance will be held
without a hitch. Although the group is
not yet officially recognized, it will be
given all the privileges of a recognized
group. Unlike last winter, the
Committee’s application is awaiting
approval. It has been passed by the
Student Senate and awaits action by the
Student-Faculty Committee on Student
Affairs.
“We don’t deny the group the right of
doing anything a recognized group can do
as long as their application is under
consideration," the dean said.
The administration had previously
come under fire from the gays because
their application had not been included in
the agenda of the June IS Committee on
Student Affairs meeting.
The Committee is free to use campus
facilities and to raise money by charging
admission at the dance. Legion Field has
already been reserved for the dance,
slated for Friday, July 7.
A forum on the “gay problem" is
planned by the group Thursday, July 13.
The Committee hopes to feature Dean
Sims as a speaker, along with a minister, a
social worker, a psychologist, and
committee representatives.
The Committee begins its work on
campus fresh from last weekend’s “Gay
Pride Week" in Atlanta. The ^hens
contingent joined with Atlanta’s Gay
Liberation Front and several college
groups to mark the third anniversary of
the New York “Stonewall Uprising," the
first m*jor gay demonstration.
A crowd estimated at about 200
gathered for a dance Saturday night. The
next day, some 75 sign-toting gays met at
the Civic Center and marched to
Piedmont Park for a rally. The parade
even had its own float. The “grease
sisters,” drag queens adorned with
feathers and parasols, sat atop a pickup
WOMEN SEEK POWER
truck and waved at the Sunday crowds.
“We managed to hit every church on
Peachtree Street just as the people were
getting out,” commented one gay. “They
looked just horrified when they saw us."
(See GAYS, Page 3)
By FRAN FULTON
Assistant news editor
Five of the allocations made by the
Student Senate last spring were rejected
by O. Suthern Sims, dean of Student
Affairs, and the entire allocations
proposal is back in the lap of the Senate
for revision.
The dean stipulated that funds for the
student lawyer must be cut, while some
55 thousand dollars are to be added to
boost the budgets of Cultural Affairs, the
University Union, the Pandora and the
student handbook.
The decision, announced last week,
came as an abrupt reminder to student
leaders that the administration has the
last word in allocation proposals. “We
thought whatever the Senate said went,"
said Joe Fowler, student body president.
“But by a statute of the Board of
Regents, the responsibility for allocations
lies with the president. He can delegate
the power to whomever he wants to.”
THE STUDENT PROPOSALS must
get a green light from the dean of Student
Affairs, the vice-president for Business
and Finance, the Provost, and finally the
President, before they go before the
Board of Regents. Yet, last week’s
decision marked the first time since the
Senate began handling allocations that a
proposal has been vetoed by the
administration.
An allocation of 17 thousand dollars
earmarked for a student lawyer was
Rhetoric won't open doors'
Grad student
V
council planned
There will be a meeting of the
Planning Committee For A
Graduate Student Council tonight
at 7.00 p.m. in room 141,
Memorial.
This will be an organizational
meeting to make plans for the
formation of a council to represent
the University graduate student
body.
All interested graduate students
and graduate faculty members are
invited to attend. Further
information may be obtained by
calling Steve Saunders (2-2736) or
Larry Weiner8-1068).
MMM
By ANNE MATHER
"When I came here today, my husband
said, ‘There aren’t many husbands that
would let their wives go to this thing.' ”
"This thing" was the first state-wide
session of the Georgia Women's Political
Caucus (GWPC). Today was Saturday,
June 24. at the John F. Kennedy Center
in Atlanta, and the speaker was a
middle-aged mother, whose statement
was greeted with the "that’s what he
thinks” laughter of over 100 Georgia
women in a workshop at the session,
which over-all. drew twice that number.
GWPC’S "first call" was to inform and
obtain women's membership in the
Caucus, a unit of the National Women's
Political Caucus. The caucus is a
multi-partisan group which engages in
political activism, lobbying, and initiating
and changing legislation, particularly on
women's issues.
The Caucus promotes a very grass-roots
Senate sets
budget meet
The administration-imposed changes in
student allocations top the agenda for
Thursday night's meeting of the Student
Senate.
The proposal must be revised to meet
the specifications set by O. Suthern Sims,
dean of student affairs, who sent the
allocations back to the Senate unsigned.
The Allocations Committee met
Monday night to draw up a
recommendation that would put the
proposal in line with the stipulations sent
down from the administration. The group
will include a condemnation of the dean's
action in its report to the Senate.
The changes will produce a 39
thousand dollar deficit, according to
Senate Treasurer David Burch. Although
17 thousand dollars will be freed when
the provision for a student lawyer is
struck from the budget, the allocation
increases required by the administration
will cost the student close to $55,000.
The Allocations Committee will
propose the .difference be made up by
drawing money from the coffers of
student organizations, Burch said. “At
the end of the 1971-72 fbcal year the
organizations had money in their bank
accounts that, according to the University
budget, we could have called back.
The group, evicted from the law
auditorium for alleged beer drinking
during the sessions, will meet at the
chemistry auditorium (room 3) at 7:30
p.m.
type of activism. Representatives are
elected from each of the state’s
congressional districts to interest women
in local, state, and national politics and to
give them the “know-how" to wield
political power.
Two Athens women, Linna Barnes, a
senior at the University, and Reita Rivers,
a secretary were elected tenth district
representatives.
WRY-WITTED Marilyn Noe, secretary
for the past four years to state Rep.
Julian Bond, acted as convener
“When we go home we won’t be able
to say, ‘Wow, I’m through with coffee
and stuffing envelopes. Because today all
we’re doing is making policy. Rhetoric
doesn’t open doors anymore than pouring
coffee does. We’re out for ballot box
clout," Noe said.
(While we’re on the subject of
envelopes. Marge Thurman, Atlanta
criminal lawyer and the first woman in
the state to run for federal circuit court
judge, let leak that she had personally
licked over 1,080,000 envelopes in her
years in politics.)
Attendees of the 11-hour program of
workshops, study sessions on politics,
speeches, and elections defied
stereotyping. There were no “little old
ladies in tennis shoes;” but there were
many elderly women, black and white,
who spoke with dignity and concern on
women’s issues.
ONE SUCH woman volunteered, “I am
a liberated woman. I have not done this
hating men. I have worked for 50 years
for women, and 1 want to tell you one
thing: base your life on something within
yourself. And I might be old-fashioned,
but I want to say this too, base it on a
supreme being." (It was later learned that
the speaker was Mamie K. Taylor, head of
the state Commission on the Status of
Women since its inception.)
There were airline stewardesses, high
school students, law school and graduate
students mothers (one of whom has six
children and is planning to run for public
office soon), teachers, even a female
coach of a basketball league for boys.
The programming defied categorization
as well. The keynote speech was given by
Atlanta school board member June Cofcr,
a hefty, charisma-off-the-cuff speaker
from a low-income section of the city.
(See WOMEN’S CAUCUS, Page 3)
McWhorter to head
SEC Commission
struck down by Dean Sims. A Georgia
law prohibiting state organizations from
employing legal counsel would make the
proposal illegal, the dean said in an
interview Friday.
Passed in 1966, the law reads “The
Department of Law (the office of the
Attorney General) is hereby vested with
complete and exclusive authority and
jurisdiction in all matters of law relating
to the executive branch of the
Government .... (Every) agency of the
State Government is hereby prohibited
from employing counsel in any matter
whatsoever, unless otherwise specifically
authorized by law."
The dean said he had expressed his
doubts about the legality of the proposal
to Fowler while the issue was before the
Senate.
“EVERYBODY I ASKED said that
they weren’t sure," said Fowler when
asked if he knew # that hiring a lawyer
would break the law. “Dean Sims said to
go ahead, thinking that it was a statute of
the Board of Regents and not a law. I
recommended that the Senate go ahead
and pass the thing and do the research on
drawing up a contract later."
Dean Sims noted that two colleges in
Georgia have accomodated themselves to
the law by hiring a lawyer to serve in an
advisory capacity only. The lawyer is
available to help students out of their
legal problems, but is prohibited from
arguing a case in court.
The Student Senate ran afoul of
another legal point by not honoring an
agreement made during the 1968-1969
session concerning an increase in funds
for the Cultural Affairs division of the
University Union. In a decision later
approved by the Board of Regents, the
group had provided for a one-dollar
increase in the student activity fee and
had pledged that two dollars of the
money assessed each student would go to
Cultural Affairs.
The fee went u p
accordingly, to the $7.50 now charged
each person. But the Cultural Affairs
division never saw its money. “It was
purely a subjective question," Fowler
commented. “The Senate justified the cut
by saying that the programming wasn't
up to par."
David Burch, Senate Treasurer,
1800 AFFECTED
Dr. H. Boyd McWhorter, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences for the past
four years, announced last week that he
plans to leave the University to become
commissioner of the Southeastern
Conference (SEC).
He is quitting the University and the
academic profession only because of the
great challenges offered by the SEC post,
the 49-year-old dean explained
“My decision is based almost
exclusively on the job over there, and not
on any frustrations with the job here It
has taken an awfully challenging job to
persuade me to leave the University.”
A native of Cochran, who was
graduated from the U S. Naval Academy
and received his M.A. from Georgia. Dean
McWhortei joM ttn iu*.uit> of the
English department in 1949. A true
“McWhorter,” he has worked also with
athletics, serving as the faculty chairman
of athletics and as secretary of the SEC.
The dean will be the fourth
commissioner of the 10-member
association of southern universities. He
believes himself to be the first SEC head
pulled from the ranks of the academic
reported the money allotted for Cultural
Affairs will be boosted from 75 to 125
thousand dollars.
The other divisions of the University
Union will also receive more money as a
result of the dean’s veto. Burch added.
The allocations, approved as a lump sum,
will be increased by ten thousand dollars,
he said.
Fowler reported “Dean Sims didn’t
want the program cut because it is one of
the few that offers something for every
student on campus."
ALLOCATIONS FOR the Pandora will
be upped to the 36 thousand dollars
requested as a compromise by the Board
of Communications. An original
allocation of 40 thousand dollars had
been asked by the board. The Senate had
pared the money allotted for the
yearbook down to 30 thousand.
Although it was Dean Sims who vetoed
the Senate proposal, Fowler reported that
the stipulation that more money be given
the Pandora originated with Provost S.
William Pelletier. “The provost suggested
that the Senate go back to the original 36
thousand dollars because they couldn’t
put out a quality yearbook with 30
thousand," Fowler said.
The student leaders interviewed were
in general frustrated because there
appeared to be little they could do about
the forced allocation changes.
“IT SEEMS like the power is being
pulled out trom under us," said Burch,
who serves as chairman of the Allocations
Committee. “The committee worked
from four to eight hours a day .for three
and a half weeks. Now it seems like all
the time we spent hashing it over was
wasted."
The group met Monday night to draw
up the following statement condemning
the action of the administration:
“It is the opinion of the Allocations
Committee that the money that was
student activity money was allocated to
the organizations in a manner in which
the student body would have benefited
most.
“Therefore, we have found the new
proposals concerning the budget to be
u n a
(See SENATE,
CO
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Page 3)
EOG prog raPnl Cut
profession. “They usually come out of
the trenches,” he commented.
As commissioner, he will coordinate
the athletic programs of the member
schools and will be charged with
enforcing the SEC policy as determined
by the presidents of the institutions.
“The challenge is a tremendous one,"
he said of his new job. “There are a lot of
real problems facing intercollegiate
athletics." His job will be to build the
public's “confidence" in the athletic
programs, he said.
“It’s a matter of maintaining an
intercollegiate program in an academic
community. We’ve got to make sure
everyone sticks by the rules."
The dean cited the revision of the
curriculum, the work of the college's
self-study committee, and the
establishment of a faculty advisory
committee as some of the most important
changes in . the College of Arts and
Scien&s dunng his four-year term.
“I’ve spent over half my life here. The
people of Athens and at the University
have been nothing short of wonderful to
me."
By CAMILLA HOWE
News editor
Approximately 1,800 University
students will be affected by substantial
cutbacks ithe Education Opportunity
Grant Program next fall, according to
Ken Phillips, director of student financial
aid.
The cutbacks came as a result of
Congress’ recent passage of Nixon’s
education bill.
According to Phillips, the University
applied for $220,000 in EOG money,
which was approved by a regional panel
of college financial aid officers. Only
$47,714. however, was approved by the
Department of Health Education and
Welfare
The legislation passed by Congress
provides for a $1,400 grant, minus
whatever the parents can provide, for
every college student in the United
States. The bill which was attached to the
controversial anti-busing proposal was
signed by President Nixon Friday
“The money for this bill," Phillips said,
“has to come from somewhere. I think
they (HEW) took money from elsewhere
to anticipate funding of the higher
education bill."
The higher education bill has not been
funded by Congress yet, and even if it is
funded before the end of the summer,
Phillips said this does not give financial
aid officers enough time to get the money
to students before school begins in the
fall
“We got only 22 per cent of what we
requested," Phillips said, “University of
Tennessee got $9,000. and Mississippi
State University got $400."
“The cutbacks in the EOG money is
going to hit poor kids. I mean hard core
poverty kids who cannot afford to come
to college without this money.**
“I have already made tentative
commitments for $120,000. and I’ve got
only $48,000 to cover it," Phillips
continued.
“There is help, however,” Phillips said,
“Congresswoman Edith Green sponsored
a supplementary allocation for EOG, and
it passed. Even this added money is not
enough."
“The group hardest hit is the new
freshman students from hard core
poverty homes, and usually from
minority groups," Phillips said.
“I have two alternatives, I can go by
high school grade point averages and fund
students by grade point. This is not good
because it would eliminate the students
who need the money the mort," Phillips
said.
‘The other alternative is to take all the
kids who qualified for the money, and
divide that number into the available
funds and give every student an equal
share," he said.
(See FINANCIAL AID. Page 8)
