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Regent Way sees
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This is on«* article in a series oil the regents of the
Universit> System.
By MARK NIC KELSON
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga. - Educators across the
country have been speculating that growth in
higher education is due to level off or decline
Regent Sam A. Way III disagrees when that
speculation concerns Georgia. A big businessman
in a small town in Middle Georgia. Way has
studied the potential for economic development in
rural Georgia at close range.
Way believes the University System of Georgia
can stimulate development throughout the state.
What that means, in practical terms, is that Way
wants to see the system establish another
four year college in South Georgia.
"We need to develop the state geographically.
Except for the Okeefenokee Swamp, there’s no
place that won’t support something
I’VE LIVED here all my life, and I know the
crying need of the area." Wa} said during an
interview at his office in Way Brothers
Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge dealership in Hawkins-
ville. 50 miles south of Macon.
"The area’’ is an expanse of South Georgia
dubbed "the Macon-Brunswick corridor’ by
Board of Regents Chairman W Lee Burge. Ringed
by senior colleges at Valdosta. Albany. Americus.
Fort Valley. Statesboro. Milledgeville and
Savannah, the corridor boasts only a couple of
junior colleges.
Could this stretch of rural South Georgia
support a four-year school? "There’s no question
it can." Way said. Way is chairman of a
committee of regents studying the feasibility of
locating a four-year college in his area.
One possible location, mentioned by Gov.
Jimmy Carter in a recent appearance before the
regents, is Cochran, nine miles from Hawkinsville
Middle Georgia College, a state two-year school,
already exists there MGC could presumably be
expanded into a four year school cheaper than
building a whole new college from scratch.
“The area’s needs can be far belter served by a
four-year school than a two-year school,” Way
said.
WAY BELIEVES the economic stimulation
South Georgia needs is more likely to follow with
the location of the college than if the college was
to be located in a flourishing region, he said That
was the sequence of growth around Americus and
Carrollton, both sites of recently established
four-year state schools, he said
Since Gov Carter appointed Way to the board
last spring, the automobile dealer has spent four
or five days a month on Board of Regents
business, he said.
"When the governor called me about the
appointment. I told him it WdS an honor I could ill
afford financially.” Way said. Regents earn $2<) on
meeting days, or less than they would make for a
day’s work at their jobs, typically as doctors,
lawyers and business executives. They are not
paid for extra committee meetings, hearings,
visits to colleges, etc.
Way. 46. shares with his brother the
management of the dealership their father started
in 1917. The only way he felt he could justify
taking away the time the regency demands was to
get involved and make a useful contribution, he
said.
“I MADE it a project to learn as much as I
can.’’ he said "By constitution the regency is an
awesome responsibility, limited only by the
constitution; it’s not actually answerable to the
legislature or the gove r nor ” Wav «aid
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Regent Sam A. Way III
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VOLUME 79. NUMBER 91
THE UNIVERSITY OK GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA, 30602
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 28. 1973
To be or not to be?
Pnoto Dy MINLA LINN
Future brides were greeted at the "world’s largest" bridal
fair by advocacy literature from WO M E N. The women's
rights group was protesting the image of women presented at
the bridal fair Helpful hints from W O M E N told the
visitors how to be a wife and a liberated woman. In addition,
the women's liberation group gave inside information on how
HIGH LEVEL SWINGER
a future bridegroom can find a wife. It's hard to tell from the
photographs if the two women might not like to change places.
The bridal fair featured two fashion shows, bridal wear,
displays of china, and talks on bridal customs by Elizabeth
Post, great-granddaughter-in law of Emily Post One lucky
cniiole received a honeymoon trip among other door prizes
11 LLVLi.
orilla joins prexy race;
ipes to be top banana
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By ARNOLD Pl'NARO
News editor
Campus politics are sw inging into high
fashion with the entrance of the latest
(and only female) presidential hopeful
Mathilda Gorilla promises to "throw
her weight around" to capture the post of
"Top Banana," according to her
campaign manager, Raphael Semmes
.otherwise known as Penelope L.
Prendergasp. Charwoman of the Gorilla
partyl.
Depicted as a "high level swinger."
Gorilla promises to "swing softly and
carry a big banana," Semmes said.
Semn.es claims Gorilla has a number
R&B seeks
new writers
All students interested in writing lor
The Red and Black this quarter are
urged to attend a 7 p.m. Thursday
meeting in the paper's office. Room 130
Journalism building All areas of staff
writing are open to any University
student regardless of his mav—
ot good ideas she will try to implement
Semmes said. "Mathilda realizes that the
best way to get some real leverage in
student government is to use a monkey
'wench.' "
ACCORDING TO Gorilla, the burning
question in this campaign is the lack of
adequate piping in dorm showers which
is a "hot question with many students "
Semmes contended that Gorilla entered
the race since "Fowl-joke Bubba has
never gotten off his seat and done
anything for the students who elected
him "
Gorilla also believes that President
Davison and Dean Sims are "going in
circles trying to keep up with the
increasing awareness of world problems
on the part of students Gorilla contends
that Davison and Sims should spend one
quarter living in a "University residence
hall." Gorilla admits, however, that
"many rooms are too small for both
Davison and Sims.
"Mathilda feels that Davison and Sims
lose sight of student problems since they
are never faced with them.” Semmes
said
MATHILDA REALIZES that the
mandatory $4 per quarter per student
athletic fee will have to remain
Students urged to send
letters protesting cut
According to Gorilla. "Every government
gotta tax the people How else are the*;
gonna keep on being the government,
instead of the itoverneft
By MITC HELL SHIELDS
News editor
If students at the University now on
financial aid don't begin besieging their
congressmen with letters, they may find
themselves without funds next year,
according to Director of Student Aid Ken
Phillips.
The letter writing campaign, according
to Phillips, is necessary to show the
people in Federal government that the
National Student Direct Loan (NSDL)
and the Supplementary Educational
Opportunity Grant program (SEOG) are
necessary to students.
“In his budget proposal to congress
Nixon has eliminated these two
programs." said Phillips, “and as a
result financial aid offices around the
country are worried.”
Phillips said that the proposed cuts
could effect up to 3,000 students at the
University.
“These programs are awfully critical
now — some aid offices are even drafting
letters and having students copy them
and then sign them. I don’t like that
personally, I want the student to sit down
and write and tell the people what these
programs mean to them,” Phillips said
Phillips said that a good person to send
letters to. other than your congressman,
is the President.
"Students have been Cold to work
within the system, ar.d this is a chance
for them to do that. The President needs
to hear what the people who are utilizing
these programs think, not what
professional financial aid people think."
Phillips said.
According to a release from the
National Association ol Student Financial
Aid Administrators, the committee that
is considering the President's budget
proposals was to have made their
recommendation by March 1. but Phillips
said the committee is still deliberating
The budget a^ proposed by the
President would, according to Phillips,
effectively kill NSDL and SEOG for next
year in favor of the Basic Opportunity
Grant »BOG » The BOG. while considered
essentially good by the NASFAA. is
though by them not to be sufficient to
Two coeds assaulted
in seperate incidents
By KEN ELKINS
University Police have charged a
24-year-old with two counts of simple
battery in connection with incidents
involving two coeds on campus Tuesday.
The man is being held as a suspect in at
least four similar incidents
Marion Thomas is being held under
$1,000 bond in the Clarke County Jail
after being charged with the misdemea
nors
Thomas allegedly approached two
women in two separate incidents and
grabbed or "touched them in the pelvis
area." according to University Police.
The tirst incident nappeneu near the
intersection of Baldwin Avenue and South
Thomas Street and the second happened
in the Memorial Gardens on north
campus Tuesdav morning
Thomas is also a suspect in similar
occurances over the last several months
including two "assaults” happening last
month, according to police records
He was apprehended Tuesday in front
of the Law School shortly after the
second incident
Thomas has been arrested earlier on
simple battery charges in connection
with another incident, police said.
cover all the needs of students who could
no longer turn to the NSDL or the’ SEOG
"If those programs (NSDL and SEOG)
are not maintained, the total federal
dollars available to any one student,
particularly if from an economically
disadvantaged background, will be
lessened rather than increased The
program aimed at increasing opportunity
will have the opposite effect." a booklet
prepared on the subject by the NASFAA
concludes
The problem with the BOG according
to the report is that it carries fewer
restrictions than the earlier programs.
As a result, the report says, more people
will get money but fewer people will get
all the monev thev need.
"They result." said Phillips, 'would 1m*
a student at the University getting only
half the money he needs to go to school.
In such a case I'd probably advise the
student just not to try "
According to Phillips, the demand for
more aid caused by cutting the NSDL
and the SEOG is intended by those
supporting the President’s budget to be
met by a Guaranteed Student laoan
"In this instance the loans would not be
coming Irom the federal government but
local banks." said Phillips He indicated,
however, that he did not think the hanks
could stand the sudden shift.
"The problem is finding lenders."
Phillips said "Collateral is not re
quired."
Capsule news
Doctors acquitted in suit
The longest trial in the history of Clarke County ended Monday with a jury ruling
that Athens General Hospital and four local doctors are not liable for brain damage
suffered by a patient in 1968
The plaintiff. Ms Linda Hill, claimed $3 million in damages for the permanent brain
injuries she sustained in the operating room of Athens General after forming a blood
clot She had reported into the hospital and was under the care of physicians, other
than her regular doctor, when given a caesarean section and then a gall bladder
operation to stem developing jaundice
Sam Lowe, attorney for the plaintiff, has not yet issued a statement on his plans for
appeal
WUOG hosts political debate
WUOG-FM will broadcast the first in a series of programs featuring stuuent
government candidates tomorrow at 6 p m The 30 minute presentation will allot 15
minutes to the executive stales of campus political parties coalition and Progressive
Student Alliance
All major candidates will speak during a broadcast tentatively scheduled for April
A The third tentative program will interview the two major presidental candidates
April 10 in a format comparable to NBC's Meet the Press
Registration begins today
Academic advising tor summer and tall quarter uegins today Summer school
registration must be completed by April 23 and fall quarter schedules must be
completed by May 9
Summer and fall timetables are now available at the University bookstore and
dormitories
Student will be assigned an incomplete schedule if they can be scheduled for a
minimum of ten hours. This new system will not reject a student’s entire registration
il al least len hours can be scheduled
However a student who receives a partial schedule cannot attend walk through
registration but must add additional courses on the first day of classes. (Drop-Add
period i
Registration Schedule
Summer
Fall
March 27-April 23
May 2
May 25
March 27-May 9
May 21
Sept 5
Academic advising and registratioi
Walk through at Coliseun
Fee payment deadlin
Academic advising and registratio
Walk through at Coliseur
Fee payment deadlin
