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The Red and Hlark. Friday. Oct. 13. 1972
CAROL ROBERTS
A move for quality
When the Board of Regents
informally approved a $66
million increase in the 1974
University system budget Wed
nesday, they included funds for
lowering the retirement vesting
period for faculty members.
It was a move we supported
when the proposal for lowering
the vesting period was first
presented to the Regents, and
we’re glad to see they are
londing their support.
Basically, lowering of the
retirement vesting period will
provide more equitable retire
ment benefits for faculty mem
bers. The move will mean
faculty members can receive
benefits from the state after
serving at the University five
years, instead of the 20 years’
service required before.
Faculty members will receive
other boosted benefits if the
Regents' budget goes through,
including a salary increase,
increased state contributions to
faculty health insurance pro
grams and a standardized basic
life insurance program.
It seems the Regents had the
faculty in mind during their
meeting this week. We’re glad to
see the number of increases in
faculty benefits the board is
asking from the state legislature.
An increase in faculty benefits
would have a positive effect on
faculty morale at the University
and would encourage a rise in
the quality of faculty here.
As students, we’re concerned
about that quality. And we’re
glad to see any move which will
improve it.
Exodus
As classes end today — and
probably even before they end —
the University campus is likely
to experience its first mass
exodus of the year.
With the exception of the
weekend following the first full
week of classes, the coming
two-day break is the first time
this quarter when a football
game has not filled Athens and
the campus with an overflow
crowd.
This week it’s likely to be the
III THE RED AND BLACK
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SubecrlpUon rate U Sniper year.
Testing the nepotism rule
I was very interested even excited —
to hear that a complaint had been filed
with the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare against the
University's nepotism policy.
Bui I'm afraid the
complaint was lod
ged against the
wrong institution
and with too little V
intensity.
For those of you
who are unfamiliar
with the nepotism
question, such a
policy prohibits the
University from hiring relatives —
hushandsand wives, brothers and sisters,
parents and children — in the same
department.
At first reading, such a policy seems to
be backed by valid reasoning. Difficult
situations might arise in a department
where a husband w ife or brother sister
team was employed Even if favoritism
or discrimination did not occur, other
employesmight imagine they existed.
Especially in cases where one or
another of a related pair was ina position
to grant promotions, raises or special
privileges to the other, great problems
could arise — among them favoritism,
faculty morale problems and family
friction.
Bui if we read a little further in the
nepotism policy used here, we find where
the catch comes in Relatives can be
employed in different departments of the
University, buf tenure must be denied to
the “second member of an economic
unit."
That's the clause that seems a little
lishy. How do you define which of the
pair is the "second member" of that
familial unit? Does it mean the second of
the pair to apply for a teaching position
with the University? Or does it mean
second in importance?
If the first interpretation of the policy
were used, it might be fairly simple to
decide which member of the pair was
"second." When one member of a related
pair already is employed by the
University and the second then applies
for a job, the obvious decision is to deny
tenure to that second applicant.
But what if they apply at the same
time? Then, obviously, the second
criterion would come into effect. The
University would have to decide,
probably on the basis of "importance to
the economic unit" (the family) which of
the pair should be denied tenure
And in a husband-wife situation, society
has defined who is more important. The
FRANKLY SPEAKING
wife would be denied tenure, and the
privileges that go with it, because society
has said the husband must be the major
breadwinner of the family.
Taken to its logical conclusion, then,
the nepotism policy would deny a
qualified woman the right to work toward
tenure — and even in some cases the
right to employment -- no matter what
her qualifications or experience in her
field.
Pascal Reeves, associate to the
provost, told me during an interview last
year the the University has been forced
to turn away some very qualified
applicants because of the nepotism
policy.
Somehow it doesn't seem right. The
University's affirmative action plan,
which it has submitted to HEW and
which was approved by that department,
states very clearly that the University
hires and promotes its personnel on the
basis of qualification and not on the basis
of race, sex. creed or national origin.
The nepotism policy prevents the
University from living up to that ideal.
But it isn't the University's fault. The
nepotism policy is not one which was
implemented by this institution, but by
the Board of Regents of the university
system.
The point of attack, therefore, must be
the Regents — not the Univeristy The
by Phil frank
opposite. It’s been almost a
month since classes began, and
it’s time for students who live
near enough to take that first
homeward trek of the year. The
first installment of money is
running out, the clothes are all
dirty, and the parents are asking
to see us.
From the indications we’ve
gotten, we’re willing to bet the
campus will be relatively empty
this weekend. But we’ll probably
never know. We won’t be around
to see.
'WHV SHOULD r 6ET A JOB OVFR CHRlSWA-
vacation if m not going to get a
DOB AFTER. GRADUATION ?'
Greco was magnificent'
r«> THE EDITOR:
Every once in a while the University of
Georgia seems to come up with a
completely surprising and unexpectedly
magnificent event of the highest caliber
Wednesday night, at least for us. was one
of those events
Reading Wednesday afternoon in The
Red and Black that Jose Greco, probably
he world’s [ormost and most famous
Spanish dancer, and Nana Uorea. equally
proficient and famous, would appear on
ampus that evening. I couldn't believe
it. I phoned Atlanta and my wife couldn't
believe it either, but hustled right over
just in case it was true Perhaps we just
missed out on all the promotion Our end
of campus is a bit isolated, for sure
Jose Greco, who is about as fluent in
English and French as he is in Spanish,
with performed and also explained the
different dance forms of Spain the
regional dances of the proven •> - tn
Flamenco ol the "gitanos" of Andalucia,
and the classical Spanish dance In just a
short time he and Lorca — through
dance, explanation and a variety of
different Spanish costumes — produced a
vivid spectrum ot Spanish dance, custom
and history
In addition the highly acclaimed
pianist Maestro Hogelio Machado accom
panied the dances and gave a short
recital Proving that a master can
transcend his medium. The maestro
made a small upright piano sound like a
Grand I something like hearing Lena
Horne singing Carmen with a tennis ball
in her throat, and not really noticing the
dilference i
Greco also presented an excellent new
talent. Spanish guitarist Pablo Marchena.
who played well and proved his abilities
of concentration to be superb under
unusually difficult circumstances.
We sincerely hope that the Student
Union continues providing this quality of
exciting performance We also hope that
the facilities can be improved as much as
possible in order to encourage the most
inspired performances possible A grand
piano, a dressing room, a floor from
which the wax has been removed and a
better amplifying system would be
w elcome
Nevertheless. Wednesday night proved
to be an exciting, enlightening, and
memorable experier e for "Romans.
Goths, and Visin' .Its" alike (I hope
Greco's allusio- was not totally lost on
the audience i. Jose Greco and Nana
Lorca will be in the Atlanta area with 20
or more of their full dance troupe
sometime next winter It's not likely to
be free again, but don't miss it!
ANNE AM> TERRY RETTIG
Slotin shows
sexist humor
TO THK EDITOR:
Marc Slotin s editorial in the Oct 6
issue was especially insulting His
interpretation ol the (iarden ol Kden
myth is a fine example of a new breed of
sexist humor, degrading to women, to
say the least Any empathy he
supposedly shares with women is lost.
His failure is compounded as he throws
around obnoxious, superficial. bra-
burning phrases throughout the entire
editorial
To answer his question women will
certainly free lhem>H <•> hut liberated
women, as liberated men. wish to prove
themselves human to the fullest
capability without concern for traits
stereotyped as ‘masculine ' or “femi
nine”
What truly liberated people cannot
understand is why any people would want
to allow themselves to be repressed into
narrow ly del lin'd sex roles
IIM \\li f 1C It l \ i.imhiu in
Today is tomorrow
Challenge my claim and see that today is tomorrow.
Wake in the morning and outstretched arms reach
for warmth only to grasp cold unused sheets.
Thoughts of what should be torture the thoughts
of a mind wanting sanity in a body needing comfort.
Eyes that perceive in two's and four's never see one.
Resignation to a fate that denies acceptance into
the fold of cardigan, pigskin, white or black.
Condemnation of surrounding emotions, logic and
whatever feasible demean the purpose of belonging.
Challenge my claim and know that today is tomorrow.
End the day of your mortality and defy existence to
the soul longing to escape into a desired plurality.
Cast me down and enslave yoursei/ to a day that is
tomorrow and a day after yesterday that is today.
This fall The Red and Black will
carry a poem on the editorial page
to add a little spice. This will give
all students who like to write
poetry an opportunity to see their
work publivhed. If you have written
a poem or would like to write one
lor The Red and Block, eubmit
mike mason
your writings along with your name
and address to The Red and Black
office. 130 Journalism building.
There is no certain format
concerning content or style as long
as the poems are interesting,
original and have something to say.
administration here has no choice in the
matter of nepotism; it is bound to act in
accordance with the policy set by the
Regents.
For that reason, the complaint filed
with HEW by Karen Hanson isn't likely
to have any effect on the nepotism policy
here.
Hanson, who filed her complaint after
being denied employment in the political
science department where her husband
was employed, is likely to lose her case
because her complaint was filed against
the University HEW probably will find in
favor of the University, since it was
following a Regents policy by refusing to
hire her.
Reeves told a Red and Black reporter
Wednesday, in fact, that the University
has won cases of this nature in the past.
So women faculty members who are
concerned about the nepotism policy
must wage their war against the Board of
Regents. And that they’re likely to do —
sometime, soon, I hope.
It's fairly simple to prove that the
policy does in fact discriminate against
women, forcing university system schools
to hire on the basis of sex rather than
qualifications. All that's needed now is a
test case, a formal suit filed against the
system and the Board of Regents
charging discrimination.
Let's hope it's coming soon
JON HAM
Saying R s
will defeat
Thompson
Fletcher Thompson, through no fault of
his own, really hasn't got a chance of
being elected to high public office in
Georgia.
It’s not because he tried to be pen pals
with every voter in
Georgia. And it's not
even because Geor
gia voters have liked
Republican candid
ates for governor
and senator about as |
much as boll weevils
since Reconstruction
that he will never
occupy the Russell-
Gambrell seat in the Senate
What will keep Fletcher Thompson
from celebrating a victory Tuesday
night. Nov. 7, is his insistence upon
breaking one of the cardinal rules of
successful political candidacy in Georgia.
He pronounces his R's.
Never, in my lifetime anyway, has a
political candidate, Republican or Demo
crat, been elected to the state house or
the Senate if he pronounced his R's. Just
take a look at the recent past.
Richud Brevahd Russell spoke in his
resonant tones about the greatness of
"Jawja." And he led many a "filibustuh"
against causes that might be disagree
able to his “Suthuhn" constituency. (As
John Stennis and James F:astland will
attest, you don't get powerful committee
chairmanships by pronouncing R's.)
This is probably why Sam Nunn's
supporters try to liken him to Russell.
The young lawmaker has removed any
vestige ot an R from his speech. His
supporters wonder what Thompson could
in the Senate without being able to say,
"My dear Senuhtuh, nevuh have I huhd
such a ridiculous argument "
It is almost unforgivable that
Thompson did not see the need for this
invaluable campaign device. Why, just
two yeahs, er years, ago Jimmy
Cawtuh was elected governor over Hal
Suit, who was hampered by good diction
as a result of too many years as a
television newsman.
One notable exception to this rule is
Lester Maddox Somehow or other,
Maddox managed to sneak into office
even though he occasionally mispro
nounces "welfayuh," held to be one of the
most electable words a candidate can
utter But Maddox did have a tough time
getting elected, which supports the
theory
The list of "senuhtuhs and govuhnuhs"
who knew how to talk to a Georgia voter
goes on and on. Russell’s junior senator,
who could have taken speaking lessons
from him, Huhman Talmadge, has
"suhvcd” us for years. And then there
are the "fawmuh" governors who had the
knack Mahvin Griffin, Uhnest Vandivuh
and Cahl Sanduhs all had it down pat
So, how can Thompson beat odds like
that’’ As long as he keeps talking about
welfare instead ol welfayuh, and Ramsey
Clark instead of Ramsey Clahk, he hasn't
got a chance So c'mon Fletchuh. watch
yoah P’s and Q’s and mispronounce yoah
Ah's like a true Jawja politician
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