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m THE RE]' AND BLACK
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Sims, Davison reject
financial aid appeal
By SUSAN WELLS * "
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That's a lot of bull!
The University’s Block and Bridle Club offered thrills and chills
for Athens area roping and riding fans for the second year in a
row last weekend with a genuine, true-Lo-life rodeo. A little
excitement was also provided for the participants also, as can
be told from this photo. The rodeo sponsors covered the floor of
the Coliseum with enough dirt to start grazing the bulls on to
provide an authentic corral atmosphere lalso it wouldn't help
the floor any to have bulls stomping all over it). For those who
didn't make it over to the gala affair (and even those who did
attent>. The Red and Black has set aside page nine of today's
paper for a photo essay of the event.
By SUSAN WELI.S
Associate news editor
Dean of Student Affairs O. Suthern
Sims and President Fred Davison have
upheld the decision to suspend the
financial aid eligibility of 21 students who
participated in the sit-in in President
Davison's office last May.
The administrators also recommended
that the students not appeal to the Board
of Regents, but go instead to the
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare.
The decision was made in December by
the Administrative Hearing Committee.
The aid eligibility was denied for a two
quarter period.
The students appealed the decision of
the committee to Sims. Their appeal was
in part based on the decision of the
federal district court of northern Illinois
in the case of Jeanne Rasche whose aid
was cut off through a similar statute that
applied here.
THE ILLINOIS court ruled that the
statute was vaguely worded and “facially
invalid."
The letter notifying the students taht
their appeal was denied stated taht
"While recognizing and appreciating the
effect of this case (Illinois) it is not
believed that the University of Georgia is
in a position to apply an Illinois District
Court Case to is jurisdiction."
The letter, in stating that a court
decision such as this is out of the
University's jurisdiction, recommended
that the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare would be the next
appropriate avenue of appeal for the
students since HEW deals with
institutions directly.
I n teg ration ordered
Fort Volley discrimination denied
By SUSAN PARKER
State affairs editor
Both the president of Fort Valley State
College and the chancellor of the
University System issued statements
denying discrimination at Fort Valley in
view of the recent Federal court order to
come up with a plan to integrate the
formerly aII-black school.
The Regents have 20 days to file an
appeal with the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals Harry, Murphy, Regents Public
Information Officer, said the board is
studying that possibility.
University counsel Andy Owens said
that such a decision would require the
action of the board at their next meeting.
The court order, issued Thursday
afternoon by Judge Wilber Owens of the
Fifth Circuit Court in Macon, requires
that the Regents come up with a plan to
integrate Fort Valley State within 90
days.
EARLIER, in a meeting with Regents
chairman W. Lee Burge, the judge
indicated that the board would have to
come up with a plan to desegregate the
college.
Burge told the other members of the
board at their March meeting that the
judge had not indicated how this
proposed desegregation should take
place.
The Regents took no action at that
meeting.
In the 20 page ruling, Owens outlined
the academic standings of Fort Valley
State and examined the problem from a
historical viewpoint, according to Regent
Sam Way of HawkinsviUe. •
“I thing Judge Owens summarized the
heart of the problem in a very learned,
very thorough decision,” Way said.
WAY SAID the Regents should have no
problem correcting the segregation at
Fort Valley.
In his decision, Judge Owens cited the
low college board scores and high fail
rate of students taking the rising junior
t*»st (the literacy exam given University
students at the end of their sophomore
vear).
Davison urged to
look into problem
By MITCHELL SHIELDS
News editor
Coalition's presidential candidate Steve
Patrick yesterday sent a letter to
President Davison urging him to
personally investigate the resignation of
Dr. Calvin Brown, head of the
comparative literature department, and
the firing of Dr. Martin Yanuck,
associate professor of history.
Patrick also urged Davison to "make
every effort" to induce the two teachers
to remain at the University.
Davison could not be reached for
comment
Brown submitted his resignation as
department head last Thursday, report
edly due to the failure of a colleague he
supported to be promoted. Although
resigning as department head, Brown has
net indicated he intends to leave the
University. Yanuck had his contract
terminated obstensibly because he failed
to complete his doctoral requirements in
time
In his letter Patrick claimed the
resignation and firing were not just
isolated incidents but rather "just the
latest examples of how acaderflic
excellence at the University has been
relegated to a lower priortiy than
adherence to rules and regulations.
"OTHER OUTSTANDING teachers
have been removed from the University
on previous occasions, or have voluntari
ly resigned, because they were not
willing to lower their academic standards
or to sacrifice their convictions," said
Patrick Patrick did not, however, name
any specific teachers
As a result, said Patrick, there is
concern among students and faculty that
the academic quality of the University is
being "severely compromised” by admi
nistrative "ineptitude" and the "inflexibi
lity" of departmental policies and
procedures.
Investigation into these incidents by
Davison would help to "reverse this
trend," said Patrick.
"A strong commitment to educational
excelence from the head of the
University is necessary," said Patrick
"I urge you to make that commitment. I
urge you to review the pertinent policies
and regulations concerning these cases
and, where necessary, to revise those
policies so as to remove any doubt that
arbitrary rules and regulations will not
restrict academic excellence at this
University.”
Patrick volunteered to assist Davison
'in any way I can" and said other
students have shown an interest in
retaining Brown and Yanuck
Owens, however, had no suggested plan
to desegregate the college. “All he asked
for was a plan to be implemented by the
Board of Regents within 90 days,"
federal clerk John Bell said.
Bell said that 99 percent of the student
body and most of the faculty members of
the college are black.
Fort Valley State College, surrounded
by a high barbed-wire topped fence in a
predominately black section of Fort
Valley in south Georgia, has a student
body of 2100.
Coliseum site
of Bridal Fair
What is billed as the largest and mosi
extravagant bridal fair in the world will
be held at the Coliseum today from noon
until 10 p.m.
Featured at this year’s fair will be two
fashion shows of bridal wear, exhibitions
of china, silver and other household
goods and a talk by Elizibeth Post,
granddaughter-in-law of etiquette expert
Emily Post. Post will speak at each of
the fashion shows.
More than 20 door prizes, including a
honeymoon trip, a queen-size mattress
and box spring set. and a 50 piece setting
of stainless flatware, will be given away.
There will be no admission charge and no
restriciton as to who may attend.
This year's fair, the fifth annual one
held at the University, is sponsored by
several University organizations and
Modern Bride magazine and coordinated
by two University students, Debbie
Abernathy and Mary Ann Lang
THIS REPRESENTS a 300-student
drop from last year — a drop which Fort
Valley spokesman C. W. Moore attributes
mainly to the federal court suit.
Moore said the students are "quite
bitter and insulted” over the court
decision. He said that the college
community resented the implication that
the education of Fort Valley was inferior.
Fort Valley was founded in 1939, out its
history as a black institution goes back to
1895.
At one time, most of the students at the
institution were in education, but now
education majors represent only 35
percent, according to Moore.
Moore attributed the drop in education
majors to the increased opportunity for
blacks in other fields.
NOW, Moore said, Fort Valley State
participates in an exchange program
with a Minnesota university. He said that
such programs might be expanded
enough to fully integrate the college.
Waldo Blanchet, president of Fort
Valley State, had previously announced
his retirement and the Regents have been
interviewing prospective replacements
Murphey said the decision would
probably affect the sort of individual
chosen for the job.
Sims said. "We didn't feel it was our
place to rule on a case outside our
jurisdiction.”
THE NORMAL sequence of appeals
followed by the University is to Sims,
Davison, the Board of Regents and then
watever federal agency the students
chose, according to A1 Bragg, member of
the Law Student's Civil Rights Research
Council and one of the law students
representing the case.
Sims said that the recommendation of
the appeal to H E W’ was designed to
help the students in their appellate
process. “This is also why the President I
decided this together.” Sims said. (The
letter was signed by both Sims and
Davison.
Bragg said that he was told the normal
avenues of appeal would be followed.
"We are now informed by this action on
the pa.t of Sims and Davison that we
should not go to the Board of Regents.”
he said.
Bragg said. "We expected a decision
by Dean Sims alone. We thought Dean
Sims would decide it, then Davison. That
is the normal sequence.”
In addition to the Illinois case, the
students’ appeal was based on the
complaint that due process of law was
denied them
THE BRIEF prepared for the defense
of the students stated, "The manner of
selection of the panel denied the students
the right to an impartial tribunal.” The
defense went on to say that since Ken
Phillips of the Financial Aid Department
had already made a decision to cut off
the financial aid eligibility of the students
and since it was Phillips who chose the
members of the hearing committee “the
panel was an extension of Phillips,” and.
therefore, biased.
The letter sent to Bragg in anser to
these charges stated. "In hearings at an
educational institution which may result
in sanctions against an individual,
proceedings must be fair but do not have
to meet all the technical requirements of
legal or judicial ‘due process’.”
The letter stated also that the charges
against Phillips and the administration
"could stem from emotional immatur
ity.”
Whin asked to comment on the
administration's decision Bragg said, "I
was not surprised that the appeal was
denied, but I was truly surprised that
Sims and Davison decided together. Our
avenue of appeal to the Regents was all
but cut off
Bragg said, however, that it is still
possible to appeal to the Regents.
“Whatever action we do or don't take
will be subject to the opinions of 21
undergraduates and five law students.
Simply because the letter says that we
should appeal to the Atlanta branch of
H E W’, doesn’t mean that we will,” he
said.
SIMS SAII). however. "If the students
decide to go to the Board of Regents then
the Board will have to decide if they will
hear the case since it plainly states in the
letter that the department of Health.
Education and Welfare would be the next
avenue of appeal.”
Bragg went on to say that if an appeal
was made to H E W., it would go to the
from H E W. in Washington wou.d be
binding on the University. "It would be
an instruction on the way the
appropriations act (the one under which
the financial aid was denied) should be
interpreted.
“However, how we pursue this is up to
the students.” Bragg said
David Rigby, one of the students whose
financial aid was cut off said that he
intended to pursue the case "to its fullest
extent and sue for punitive damages "
All of the students have not met or
made a decision.
KILBY SAID that he felt it was
necessary to exhaust all the avenues of
appeal necessary in order to set a
precedent for later cases. He said that in
this respect *he felt the proceedings to be
worth while.
Bragg said that the students and their
representatives would meet within the
week to decide on their next step in the
appeal proceedings.
At last !
Although yesterday did nothing to help convince anyone that spring is wittr us, you
may res^ assured that it is Trees are budding and some flowers are blooming —
sweet fragrance of love! so long have we waited.
Faculty series
begins today
Today's inside contains the first article
of a four part series by Michelle Green
on the campus chapter-of the American
Association of University Professors
AAl'Pi and faculty attitudes toward the
University administration
The articles discuss what many people
feel is a growing indifference on the
administration's part to faculty opinions
Green who has oeen working
extensively on the series, interviewed
University President Fred Davison and
top officials in the AAUP Green said the
series is intended to clarify the often
misunderstood relationship between the
faculty and administration
Senate candidates chosen
by political parties
From staff reports
Two University student parties have selected senate candidates
for the student government association spring elections on
Wednesday. April 11.
Coalition has selected 45 students to run for the senate seats
No list of candidates was available from the Progressive
Student Alliance (PSA) by Monday night, but according to
P art >' presidential candidate Danny Hughes between 45-50
people are running for office under that party's label
Coalition candidates were selected in a March 6 political
caucus along with the party's executive slate. Senate
nominations were taken from the floor, and each nominated
candidate was voted on separately by the whole floor. Some
new candidates have been added since the meeting
PSA announced their candidates 'or the student senate at a
Thursday night meeting last w eek . ne party chose most of the
candidates through caucuses of students in the University's
schools over the past weeks Other candidates were signed up in
schools that did not have caucuses
ACCORDING TO Hughes, nominations were open to all
students who wished to run under the PSA banner Most of the
candidates are new people, and not former Action Union
senators. Hughes said
Deadline for filing senate and executnv pi-tiumis
Wednesday, but only seven students out of the 90 to 95 listed by
the two parties had turned in their petitions as of Monday. It is
unknown how many independent senate candidates are running
for office No exeeu» ; ve office petitions had been turned into the
elections committee either.
Candidates for senate must have either the signatures of 10
per cent or of 100 of the total number of students in their
respective schools, depending on which number is the smallest
Graduate student candidates require 50 signatures.
Elections Committee Chairman Randy Hansen said that
completed petitions must be turned into the Student Information
Booth in Memorial Hall by 5 p.m , Wednesday, March 28.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE candidates must have 300 signatures
from students in the University All candidates must have a 2.0
cumulative average.
Posters have begun appearing for the April election and
Hansen warned that these posters must be restricted to the
identified campaign boards
No political materials may be placed on telephone poles on
campus, and the city has an ordinance against placing
materials on city telephone poles, Hansen said.
The elections committee has ruled that no posters may be
placed on doors in dormitories except on student's own private
room door. Also, candidates are restricted to placing
maximum of two posters per campaign board which applies for
croup posters as well as individual posters
••MV COMMITTEE is too small to police the campaign
boards for violations." Hansen said "We will rely on each
political party to report violations and then we will investigate
and take the appropriate actions "