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ITT THE RED AND BLACK
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
VOLUME 79, NUMBED
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1972
Opinions vary
on allocations
By MARK BRANNAN
The role of student government in the
allocation of student activity fees is,
according to the administration, “Up to
the students now.” In an interview
yesterday, Dean of Student Affairs O.
Southern Sims said, “We don’t really
know what the role of the Student Senate
or student government will be next year.
It’s up to them.”
Student leaders are planning various
methods to regain what they feel is their
right to allocate student activity fees
without University administration
interference. Among the ideas discussed
are a law suit, a boycott of the fee,
establishing a seperate committee of
students and faculty to make
recommendations of allocations to the
President of the University and keeping
the Student Senate in an allocations role.
Asked about the possibility of the
Student Senate making allocations as
before with the concurrence of the
administration as to whether the
recommendations are needed, Dean Sims
said, “I wouldn’t object to that.”
On July 12 a group of student senators
went to Atlanta to discuss with President
Fred C. Davison the problem. He urged
the students to meet with him in Athens
later and according to the students who
were there Davison promised that
“changes would be made in the budget.”
The students met with Davison
Monday. Present were Joe Fowler,
student body president, Frank Gilleland,
Jim Cline, David Burch, Lee Cook,
Barbara Haddle, Steve Patrick and
Rosemary Shade. From the
administration were Alan Barber, William
S. Pelletier, provost, Albert A. Kleckner,
acting vice-president for instruction, and
Dean Sims.
At this meeting Rosemary Shade said,
“President Davison said the budget
couldn’t be changed.”
Davison said the group “Went over
reasons for action up to this point.”
Davison said that no formal action or
understanding was reached. He also said,
“I had not promised anything except we
would continue to explore ways of
working out this thing.” He said that the
group decided what the issues were but
they “are complex” and no role was
taken about what should be done.
Dean Sims said that nothing was
accomplished in the meeting Monday
except to air the issues. There was no
understanding reached and Sims said,
“We don’t know what the role of the
Student Senate will be next year.”
Joe Fowler said the one hour meeting
discussed the issues but nothing was
determined. He said ideas presented were
the establishment of a joint
student-faculty committee separate from
the student government to make
recommendations on allocations directly
to the President, and keeping the Student
Senate in the role it has. been playing
before, with the approval of the
administration.
Fowler admitted later that there is
nothing much the student government
can do.
In an interview Tuesday about the role
of the Student Senate in the future to
allocate funds, Davison said, “That’s
putting me at a line of operations that
I’m not in. Ask Dean Sims.”
Dean Sims said the role of the Student
Senate is to recommend allocations to the
administration. “This year the Student
Senate didn’t honor its commitments so
we had to reject their recommendations.”
The commitments Sims said were to
Cultural Affairs, the student handbook,
the University Union, the Pandora and
rejection of the establishment of a
student lawyer.
Sims said because the Pandora money
recommendations come from the Board
of Student Communications, “My past
has been to support the Board of Student
Communications because they have the
delegated responsibility from the
President of the University and because
the Board is made up of students as well
as faculty members.”
About the establishment of a student
counsul or lawyer both Davison and Sims
were firm in saying that it is impossible
for any part of a state agency to have a
lawyer because under state code the
Attorney General has the only authority
to be a counsul.
Rosemary Shade, student senator, who
was present at the meeting with Davison,
said, “We do all the work, but it’s their
decision. You can go in there and talk
with them till you’re blue in the face.”
She said that David Burch, treasurer of
the Student Senate and on the Senate
Allocations Committee with Senator
Shade, claimed that he had a letter stating
that the Senate was in trouble if it didn’t
allot Cultural Affiars the $ SO,000 it had
promised. She said that Burch never
showed the committee the letter, but
mentioned it during the committee’s
work. “Burch told us that if we didn’t go
along with the agreement, we wouldn’t
have the power to allocate money.”
In reference to the Student Senate
stopping the work of the Senate
AllocationsCommittee this summer in
reaction to the administration veto of the
Senate-passed budget, David Burch said,
"The students will be getting hurt if the
fall Senate does the same thing the
interim Senate did. The students will be
just putting a tie on themselves.”
Burch also said, “Students are going to
have to research this Cultural Affairs
thing and the funding for the Pandora.
The administration has no idea what
students want because just a small group
- the Senate — has something to say.”
Davison was asked if he thought the
Student Senate was a fair representation
of the student body and its wishes. His
answer was, “You will have to ask the
student body that. Remember, only a
certain percentage of the whole student
body voted in the past elections.”
73 calendar
rearranged
By CAMILLA HOWE
News editor
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Joe da Roach will feature bluegrass and country rock at their Reed Quadrangle
Concert July 26. The band is made up of two guitars played by Gary Raines and Ned
Briages, a bass played by A1 Obert, and Scott Fuller on banjo. They play music from
the Byrd, Purple Sage, Merle Haggard, Earl Scruggs and the Carter family as well as
original material. This Athens group has performed at the Twelvth Gate Coffeehouse,
Atlanta, and in Undergraound Atlanta. They played at TK Hardy’s Station the second
week of July. The July 26 concert is sponsored by the University Union.
The University will probably get a new
academic calendar fall quarter, 1973, that
will bring the University's schedule more
in line with other institutions of the
University System of Georgia
In a July 7, meeting of University
deans. Dr. Thomas MacDonald of the
Chancellor’s office of the Board of
Regents proposed an academic calendar
based on a study of the 26 units of the
University System.
According to Dr. Albert A. Kleckner,
acting vice-president for instruction, his
office has been working on a calendar
revision for several years, and has devised
a calendar that is similar to MacDonald's
proposal.
BOTH CALENDARS propose that fall
quarter start early in September, and end
before Thanksgiving, that winter quarter
begin after Thanksgiving, and students be
given about ten days for Christmas
vacation.
In both calendars winter quarter ends
after Christmas, and students are given
Student goes to court;
Registrar had enough'
Some Transfer students
can lose from a few days
... to even a whole
quarter." —Kleckner.
about ten days for break between winter
and spring quarters.
According to Kleckner, in the calendar
By FRAN FULTON
Assistant news editor
Debra McCoy, the sophomore from
Springfield, Va. who was turned away
when she tried to register to vote last
March may cut her summer vacation
short to come back to Athens and take
her case to court.
But Clarke County Registrar Ms.
Richard Carteaux will be viewing the
procedures from the sidelines. After eight
years at the county courthouse, she has
announced her plans to resign the day
after the August 8 primary.
The American Civil Liberties Union,
which is backing the student, has tapped
an Athens lawyer, Sandra McCormick, to
argue the case free of charge.
MS. MCCORMICK isn’t sure yet which
court will hear the case, or when it will be
scheduled. "I haven’t notified Debra, and
the complaint hasn’t been drafted yet,”
she said. “But I hope to file the
complaint within a week.”
At issue is the registrar’s stand that a
prospective voter must show his “intent”
to become a resident of Clarke County
before he can vote. Georgia tags and
driver’s licenses are used as evidence of an
individual’s intent to stay in the area, Ms.
Carteaux said. Ms. McCoy could produce
neither, and so her initial application was
turned down, in addition to a subsequent
petition to the Board of Registrars.
“SOME PEOPLE THINK that merely
being here is enough,” the registrar said.
“They may be right. Others think that a
person has to show an intent to be a
resident, and this is the guideline we’ve
been given.”
The ruling, issued by the office of
Secretary of State Ben Fortson, has not
been followed uniformly throughout
Georgia, she added.
“I had hoped the case would come up
earlier,” she said of the student’s
upcoming case, “so we’d have some
definite guidelines.”
CHUCK SEARCY, a student who
spearheaded last year’s voter registration
drive, saw the insistence on the part of
the registrar that Ms. McCoy show an
intent to become a resident as a denial of
her right to vote.
“There’s no other place where she can
claim residency,” he said. "The girl can’t
vote simply because the local residents
decide arbitrarily that she’s not a
resident.”
Begun last February, the voter
registration drive pushed the number of
student voters in the county to 1300,
Searcy reported. There are no official
statistics, available as of yet, but Ms.
Carteaux estimate was similar. She placed
the number of registered students in the
12 to IS hundred range, adding that
before the drive, this number had
averaged a little under one thousand.
“WE’VE BEEN finding that a lot of
them that transferred here during the
drive have transferred back home this
summer,” she said. “It’s legal, but it’s a
lot of paperwork.”
Ms. Carteaux said that she would leave
no advice for her successor, to be named
by Clarke County Superior Court Judge
James Barrow.
“I’ve had enough. I’m not
recommending anything. I’m just getting
out.”
SHE ADDED that she was still
opposed to the idea of delegating
students /flr-bla^fcsto serve as deputy
registrar^, however*]Yhe Mtue was a major
point of contention during last year’s
drive, resolved only when the county
commission turned down the idea.
"She basically did a good job,” Searcy
said of the registrar, “but she was under
pressure from the county commissioners,
two of which are up for election in the
primary.” (Commissioners Jim de la
Perriere and George bullock are both
running for separate state representative
seats.)
Student voters will be more welcome
once the local elections are out of the
way, he added. “I think that some of the
barriers will come down. And there’s no
question that whoever replaces Ms.
Carteaux will be more oriented towards
service to the voter.”
proposed by the University, spring
quarter classes will end May 15, 1974 and
graduation will be May 25, 1974.
Summer quarter will begin June 11.
According to Kleckner, the calendar
proposed by MacDonald is almost
identical, the difference being a few days
variation on the starting dates for each
quarter.
ACCORDING TO MACDONALD the
reason for the calendar change is to bring
the college calendar in line with those of
the public school system which has been
in the process of changing to the quarter
system from the Carnegie unit system.
With the two working in line,
MacDonald said, it would be easier for
public school teachers to attend the
University for needed courses during any
New law protects
insurance buyer
By LESLIE THORNTON
Assistant feature editor
contacted said that they would not be
affected.
On August I, Georgia will become one
of a few states to enact comprehensive
regulations covering the financing of
premium's on life insurance policies.
Apartments
People's Park
According to Johnnie L. Caldwell,
state comptroller general, the regulation
will seek to protect the interests of the
public by setting rules of conduct for
insurance agents to observe and by
requiring the disclosure of policy
payments and premium financing.
“This regulation is designed to protect
ail consumers,” Caldwell said. "We feel
that every Georgia needs to have full
disclosure of his financial obligation, if he
purchases a premium-finance life insur
ance policy.”
People’s Park has been saved from the
threat of encroaching apartment
complexes, the result of an early summer
decision by the Athens Zoning Appeals
Board.
The park had been endangered by a
proposal that apartments be built directly
above the park on Hall St., Steve
Kendrick, minister to Community
Affairs, reported last week. “The eroded
land and the gravel would have washed
down on the park,” he said, adding, that
the apartments, once built, would bring
noisy families into what is now a quiet
area.
The request, pending since last spring,
was denied by the board because the lots
lacked the street footage required for
apartments, Brice Bishop, Athens housing
inspector, reported. “We denied them a
building permit, so they petitioned the
Board of Zoning Appeals to grant them a
waver of the requirement.”
A ruling on the appeal was slated for
May 23, but, because of absences at
board meetings, the hearing was not held
until June 28.
The several acres of heavily wooded
land that constitute People's Park were
saved from the bulldozers three years ago
when students stopped an attempt to
expand the parking lot behind Russell
Hall.
As Minister to Community Affairs,
Kendrick, a rising junior, is an advisory
member of the City Council. He also
attends the meetings of the group’s
finance committee.
A comparison of the prices in Athens
to those of non-college towns is on tap
for the fall, he said. “When the students
come back, the prices are going to be
jumped up, especially on clothes. The
students can’t go anywhere else.”
THE REGULATION requires notice
on any transfer of the note in holder-in-
due course transactions. It also stipulates
that the agent must explain to the
consumer how the policy is financed,
with whom it is financed, the interest rate
and other necessary information.
“If any company or agent violates this
regulation or misrepresents the contract,”
Caldwell said, “the policyholder may
return the policy to the company with a
signed request for release. The policy will
then be cancelled and the applicant
released from any liability. A refund of
any downpayment will be made.”
Caldwell commented that the concept
behind the regulation is to give better
protection and better information to an
insurance policyholder, so that he can
make a more knowledgeable selection.
A representative from Mutual of New
York said that his company would be
affected, but not adversely. “We’re not
quite sure how it will affect us,” he said.
“We’re waiting on a complete explanation
from our Atlanta office.”
“Our company is glad to see the
regulation come. Our life insurance policy
is already a good type, but there are other
types around that other agents and I feel
may be unfair.”
Life Insurance of Georgia said the
regulation does not affect them, however,
they are “flat against it.” “We don’t do
any financing of premiums,” said the
Georgia agent. “We encourage students to
buy term insurance which is a low cost
plan involving low monthly payments
rather than encouraging them to buy the
type of insurance that requires premiums
to be paid at the end of theircollege
education.”
THE RED AND BLACK made an
informal survey of Athens insurance
companies to determine how the compan
ies would be affected Most of those
quarter instead of being restricted to
summer quarter.
According to Kleckner. MacDonald is
representing the University System, and is
seeking responses from each institution
about the calendar he proposed.
“The idea,” Kleckner said, “is to get all
units to consider a calendar close to
MacDonald’s. This will eliminate many
transfer problems and add uniformity to
the system.”
HE SAID transfer problems arise when
a student is transferring from a junior
college to the University, and the last
quarter he attends at junior college does
not end until after the next quarter at the
University begins.
“Some transfer students can lose from
a few days, to a few weeks to even a
whole quarter,” Kleckner said.
“It was a coincidence that the
Chancellor’s (George Simpson) office was
working on academic calendar revisions
the same time we were,” Kleckner said.
“The calendar MacDonald showed us
was not a proposed calendar, it was a
suggested guide that we could use. The
Board of Regents doesn’t make up our
calendar, we do. I think our calendar is a
pretty good one,” said Kleckner.
KLECKNER SAID that the feedback
he has gotten on the University calendar
has been favorable. “Most faculty
members prefer starting fall quarter
earlier. I don’t think the faculty will be
hampered by the short time between
summer quarter and fall quarter (about
two weeks). Only a small percentage of
our faculty is in summer school and 1
don’t believe this will cause any undue
hardship.”
“Any faculty member with school-age
children will have to be in Athens by the
first part of September anyway,” he said.
Sentiment about the University
proposed calendar may have been
favorable, but some faculty members
don’t like the calendar proposed by
MacDonald.
The faculty of the School of
Journalism voted unanimously to reject
the MacDonald calendar with one
member terming the changes as “backing
into the future.”
THE SCHOOL OF HOME
ECONOMICS faculty is in favor of the
idea of consistency of quarters within the
University System, according to Dean
Emily Quinn.
However, there are things which the
home economics faculty object to in the
MacDonald calendar. “The maximum
vacation a faculty member can get, if he
is on a 12 month contract, is two weeks,”
Quinn said.
“The division of winter quarter
precludes students from working during
the Christmas vacation, which is
shortened,” Quinn continued.
“Some faculty objected to the idea of
students having to travel so close to
Christmas day They don’t like the idea
of the students in all the holiday traffic,”
she said.
Meetings of the deans will be held
Monday through Wednesday to hear
reaction to MacDonald’s calendar
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COASTAL STATES claims that they
will not be affected either. “We have been
following regulations like this all along,”
said the agent. "Often, a customer only
buys what he wants to hear, and some
agents will not always tell the customer
everything.”
The Equitable Life Assurance Com
pany feels that they will not be affected
either. They offer students a “young
professional” insurance plan. Equitable
picks up the premium payments for a
specified length of time. When the time
period is up, the student is obligated to
pick up back payments, “sort of like a
back loan.”
Equitable explains, “We require the
student to sign a statement saying that he
understands fully the policy and pay
ments.”
The Selective Service System last week
announced that the draft lottery ceiling
will remain at RSN 75 in order to meet
the September call of 4,800 men. Lottery
number 75 was announced earlier as the
ceiling for August inductions.
September induction, orders will be
mailed beginning Adgust 1 to all available
men with lottery numbers 75 and below
who are classified 1-A and 1-A-0. These
men will receive at least 30 days notice of
their induction date. Conscientious
objectors, classified 1-0 with lottery
numbers 75 and below, will be issued
orders to report to alternate work in
civilian jobs at the same time. These men
serve two years.
Acting Draft Director Byron V.
Pepitone explained that sufficient
numbers of men to meet the September
call will be available in the manpower
pool at lottery number 75 and below.
These are men who will become fully
available following the issuance of orders
for August inductions. September’s
inductions will bring the total of men
inducted into the Army in 1972 to
36,000. The Defense Department has
requested Selective Service to deliver
50,000 men for the entire year.
