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VOLUME 79. NUMBER 23
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
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TUESDAY, OCT. 17, 1972
■From United Press International t
Court again
claims War legal
WASHINGTON - The Su
preme Court by a 7-2 vote
turned thumbs down Monday
on another legal effort to
have the Vietnam War
declared unconstitutional.
With justices William O.
Douglas and William J.
Brennan Jr. dissenting, the
Court refused to hear an
appeal by three Californians
who claimed that Congress
illegally delegated its power
to declare war to the
President in a 1961 military
aid bill
NATIONAL NEWS
Reapportionment earns review
ATLANTA - State officials
were pleased Monday by a
decision of the U S. Supreme
Court to hear Georgia's
arguments against applying
the 1965 Voting Rights Act to
state legislative reapportion
ment.
The state had appealed a
ruling by the U S. Attorney
General’s office throwing out
the reapportionment plan for
the State House of Represen
tatives, saying the federal
government didn’t have the
authority to do so.
The Voting Rights Act
requires that prior federal
aproval must be obtained
before certain states and other jurisdictions with past
records of voter participation can make political changes
that might affect minority political rights
Constitution endorses Nixon
ATLANTA — Declaring Sen George McGovern has
displayed a "woeful inability" to even run his own
campaign, the Atlanta Constitution Monday endorsed
President Nixon for another term.
"McGovern has exhibited a woeful inability to deal either
with his own campaign staff, his vice presidential
candidate or the necessary fund-raising to wage a
campaign," the Constitution said
"If a major portion of the president's job is management
— and it is — the public has been unable to determine that
McGovern has any of that kind of talent."
STATE NEWS
Law school study continues
By MARK MCKELSON"
Stale affairs editor
While the American Bar Associa
tion is studying ways to absorb an
unprecedented number of law school
graduates into the profession, the
University System is studying a
proposal to open another law school.
Administrators at Georgia State
University, where the system's
second law school will probably be,
have said they are getting “innu
merable inquiries” about the possi
bility of an accredited, state-
supported law school offering night
courses in Atlanta, from people who
would like to go to law school while
holding regular daytime jobs
It is precisely for the benefit of
these people, career workers in
Atlanta who can enhance their
careers with legal training, that the
law school was conceived.
University System Chancellor
George L. Simpson envisions a law
student populace mainly springing
from Atlanta’s business offices,
enrolling because they have the
inclination, ability and money to
earn a law degree if the courses are
offered at odd hours of the day
THE GEORGIA State College of
Business already has students who
schedule a class at 8 am. and
another or two after 5 p.m.,
sandwiching a traditional 9-to-5 work
day between classes, the chancellor
said.
Within the last three years, Emory
University has gradually phased out
its night classes in law. Emory was
the only American Bar association
accredited law school offering night
available for nearly everybody who
wants it.
PROFESSORS AND administra
tors at the University usually don't
admit it. but some of them think
State doesn't deserve a law school
and the University doesn't deserve
the competition for faculty, students
and money a State law school would
pose.
And some of the Regents, who just
asked the state legislature for $67
million more for next year than they
got for this year, wonder if they'll be
News analysis
courses in Atlanta.
Several questions essential to the
decision to establish the law school
have reared their heads since the
proposal surfaced in Regents meet
ing in June.
The dean of the law school at
Emory wonders if the state is
obligated to make law school
able to continue to make the
University System budget's ends
meet with a major qualitative
addition like a new law school.
But with the current ratio of
applications to acceptances in the
University law school at six to one
and similar proportions at Emory
and Mercer, nobody doubts that
another law school could enroll to its
full capacity, at least for the next few
years.
ENROLLMENT IN accredited law
schools nationally shot up 20 per cent
in 1970. in the largest single year
increase since World War II. At an
enrollment of 82,000. the 146
accredited law schools came within
650 students of capacity. Only 16 law
schools could accomodate any more
students at all.
But students pay only about one
fourth of the operating costs of the
University System, with the rest
coming from state legislature
appropriations. So a law school at
Georgia State would ultimately
represent an increased financial
burden.
The chancellor said the proposed
Georgia State law school reflects no
lessening support for the University
law school, nor any change in the
relationships of the two universities.
BIT TIIE SECOND law school,
even if it doesn't bump the
University law school down on a
budget priority list by any obvious
gesture, has to strain the fiscal
Sigma Nu pulls
housing warning
support for the first law school
simply because it represents another
item that must be assigned a
priority.
The second law school must
receive its fair share of the budget
and must be fought for in budget
presentations and appropriations
committee hearings, splitting the
effort the Regents could once devote
to obtaining support for a single law
school.
Nixon aide
to talk here
Herb Klein, White House director
of communications, will address a
joint meeting of the professional and
campus chapters of Sigma Delta Chi
journalism society at the Georgia
Center for Continuing Education
Thursday beginning at 5:30 p.m.
WEATHER
Chance of showers Tuesday
morning. Clearing and cooler
Tuesday afternoon Fair and
cooler Tuesday night. Partly
cloudy and continued cool
Wednesday. High Tuesday in
the mid 70s I-ow Tuesday
night in the upper 40's.
Probability of precipitation 30
per cent Tuesday morning.
By LESLIE THORNTON
Assistant news editor
The University Public Safety
Department has recommended that
the Sigma Nu fraternity house on
River Road be closed by June 30 if
the fraternity does not meet a
schedule of repairs and reconstruc
tions drafted by Associate to the
Provost James Kenney, according to
Art Stringfellow, Safety Service
Division manager
"We can only make recommenda
tions and we recommended that the
Sigma Nu house be closed because
the University couldn't accept the
responsibility any longer," String-
fellow said
Stringfellow said, the house is in
violation of the University life-safety
code which was determined by
guidelines contained in the National
Fire Code and the Georgia Fire-
Safety Law.
"THERE ARE two categories of
violations,” he said. "The first are
housekeeping violations and the
second, and most serious, are
construction violations."
Sigma Nu is not the only Greek
organization which has received a
warning from the University. A
meeting was held in the Office of
Student Affairs about one month ago
to notify on-campus fraternities that
many of their houses did not meet
the specificantions.
Jamie Reynolds, Sigma Nu presi
dent, feels there is no danger of the
house being closed. "We have
already met the requirements forthe
Oct. 20 schedule," he said.
"We were caught in the middle of
safety codes that have changed.”
STRINGFELLOW SAID Sigma Nu
has already corrected some of the
minor housekeeping violations such
as putting electrical plates around
the light switches and removing
combustible material.
"The most severe construction
problem is the open stairwell," he
said. "It is open on every floor, and
if there were a fire it would flow
from floor to floor.”
In addition to the closed stairwell,
Stringfelow said he had recom
mended installing fire escapes, exit
signs, an addition exit to The Pit, an
underground party room; bedroom
doors at least one and three-fourths
inches thick and protective walls and
ceiling in the mechanical room
WUOG-FM
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signs on
WUOG-FM. the University's non
commercial radio station, began
broadcasting at 90.5 Mgc. Tuesday.
Broadcasting from offices on the
fourth floor of Memorial Hall, the
station will offer mixed program
ming Their broadcast day w ill begin
at 6 am. and end at 1 am
weeknights and 3 a m weekends
Dogs take Ole Miss
sun photo by STEPHEN JACKSON
Cheerleader Bill llayne exhibits the spirit of the moment
building up to the Bulldogs defeating the University of
Mississippi in Jackson Saturday The flier is spotted by
Dan Runion and Elizabeth Presley The Bulldogs
squeeked hy the Rebels 14-13 after trailing 13-0 at one
point in the game Dick Conn, who has been named the
Defensive Player of the Week by The Atlanta Journal,
blocked Mississippi's second extra point attempt When
the Dogs finally made their move,Conn's block made the
difference
HOMECOMING KING ?
Male grad tries for crown
Nunn campaigns
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draws ever nearer Georgia senatorial candidate Sam Nunn paused nerr-tff jo
Athens Friday to officially open his campaign headquarters in the citfM to .
spend a few minutes talking with supporters Nunn told reporters he would, if
if elected, seek appointment to the Senate Armed Services Committee, a post
formerly held by the late Senator Richard Russell, whose Senate seat Nunn
hopes to fill.
B> V\N HUTCHINSON
Associate feature editor
If 'he Interfraternity Council’s
homecoming judges hadn't elimin
ated Randv Ascher from the
finalists, there might have been a
homecoming king this year
jRandy Ascher. a graduate student
in political science, was chosen as
(Klethorpe’s representative in the
pmpus wide competition for home-
foming queen.
Yesterday at 3 p m. in the Kappa
Delta Sorority House, approximately
40 women and 1 man. Ascher. met
with the IFC homecoming judges
Chosen as the IFC judges were Dean
McBee. Dr. William Powell, director
of student activities, Dr Wilder P
Scott of the Romantic Languages
Department, James W. Peacock, Jr.,
assistant to the director of admis
sions. and Robert Chambers of the
Athens Banner-Herald
The homecoming contestants were
divided into groups of five for
interviews with these judges
"During these interviews, 1 seem
ed to get the impression that the
judges asked me different questions
than the questions which were
directed to the other contestants,"
Ascher said "The questions directed
toward me seemed to provoke more
mental thought. " he said
The judges asked each contestant
questions like. "Where are you
from'’" and “What's your major?”
However the judges asked Ascher
what was his purpose for running
”1 thought this was a provocative
question," said Ascher The judges
neglected to ask any of the other
contestants this particular question
and Ascher feels that it was one
which should have been answered by
each contestant.
Ascher's main purpose in running
was to make the selection process of
the homecoming queen more hu
manistic and less subjective than it
has been in the past
"The judges are too subjective,”
Ascher said "They can't possibly
remember each contestant's person
ality The very idea that each
contestant must put down their
physical measurements is ridicu
lous." he said.
"The contestants also have to
react to the judges in the way they
think the judges want them to
react,” Ascher said. "I think it
really comes down to physical
attractiveness, false personality, and
false poise! In a way. homecoming is
nothing but a beauty contest. It's like
a cattle show The contestants are
similar to cattle with government
inspected Grade A stickers on their
bodies," he said.
Those chosen as Homecoming
finalists were Kay Barton, Merrill
Talbot. Stephanie Watkins. Cindy
Mercer and Beth Dekle