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The Ked and Black. Friday. March 30, 1973
PHIL KENT
THE OPINIONS OF THE RED AND BLACK
Communication
The faculty members of the
University Advisory Review
Committee for Faculty Promo
tions for the 1972-73 academic
year have done the University
community a great service by
first, revealing their identity and
second, expressing their general
support for the present promo
tion system.
Complaints and protests have
been fast and furious during the
past few weeks both against the
promotion operation and the fact
that its composition is unknown
to the University at large.
By revealing their identities.
Professors Donald Burkhard,
physics; Mark Greene, insur
ance; Walter Harter, extension
farm management; Aubrey
Lane, history. W. J. Miller, dairy
science; George Newsome, edu
cation; W. J. Payne, microbiolo
gy; and Merle Prunty, geogra
phy have cleared away the
notion that members of the
promotion system must be
faceless and unapproachable.
In taking a stand in favor of
the present system, the profes
sors have made it possible for
members of the University
community to form an opinion on
the very important matter of the
promotion operation based on
viewpoints from both sides of the
fence.
Everyone concerned will profit
from an open exchange of ideas
on any issue. This is especially
true of an issue such as we have
here — one that affects every
individual at the University both
now and in the future.
We understand that some
members of the advisory com
mittee have already been criti
cized as being tools of the
administration in their general
support of the promotion system.
In talking with the committee
members we are convinced that
this is untrue. Each of the men
publicly announced general sup
port of the present policies
because of a sincere belief that
the system is beneficial to the
University and its future, not
because of any arm-twisting,
threats or pleading.
Even if administrators had
asked the professors to express
support of the promotion guide
lines the same end, that of
informing the public of one view
on an important issue, would
have been served.
We hope this precedent o'
expressing all views on issues
concerning the University will be
followed in the future.
An improvement
We are very glad to see the
announcement by the Registrar’s
office that in the future students
who can be assigned at least ten
hours of their requested sched
ules in computer registration will
get those ten hours and be
allowed to pick up any other
courses at drop-take. The previ
ous computer registration policy
had been to throw out completely
any schedule that could be
completed, and to require the
student to go through registra
tion to construct a new one.
So while many of us were
rejoicing in the convenience of
early registration handled large
ly through the mail there were
always quite a few folks who
were struggling with late regis
tration, trying to repair the
damage done when they lost
everything because one course
couldn’t be scheduled. (And as
often as not this one course
wasn’t particularly important to
them — which made the whole
situation even harder to take.)
This new policy should go a
long way toward ending these
difficulties, and that’s a good
thing.
No loss
The newly-announced end to
Saturday classes at the Univer
sity will undoubtedly be greeted
with joy by students, faculty, and
administrators alike. Attempts to
hold Saturday classes in the past
have been a headache to all
concerned because of the battle
between the desire to forget the
whole inconvenient thing and the
need administratively to meet
accreditation requirements,
which include a fixed number of
class hours each quarter. The
effort has usually wound up as a
sort of halfhearted compromise,
and its abandonment will be no
loss. And besides we sure do
need that extra morning’s sleep!
niTHE KEI) AND BLACK
A Pacemaker newspaper
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Jim Thompson Jimmy Johnson
Business manager Executive editor
Arnold Punaro and Mitchell snietds. news editors; Leslie Thornton and Susan
Wells, associate news editors; Fran Fulton and Ann Hutchinson, city editors;
Susan Parker, state affairs editor. Kay Boss, sports editor. Mike Blum, associate
sport' editor; Frasier Moore, consulting editor, David Hartin. conv editor;
■Stephen Jackson, photography editor; -a Parker, wire editor. Stacy AicDaniel.
production manager; Brad McColl, art director.
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U. S. allows forced repatriation
The business ol forced repatriation is
always ugly, and it is natural that those
in power do not want to talk about their
involvement in it Yet forced repatriation
has occurred under the aegis of the
American govern
ment in both World
Wars, the Korean
War. and now, it
appears. Vietnam
It is interesting to
note that the "Liber
al Establishment"
media (you know,
the ones who are in
favor of your "right
to know") has worked for months to
suppress stories on the forced repatria
tion of North Vietnamese back to the
Communists. With the Kissinger "peace"
still managing to kill people in Vietnam
and with President Nixon and the Liberal
Democrats in Congress trying to outdo
each other with offers of millions to
North Vietnam, the issue of forced
repatriation of people to the Communists
is embarrassing, to say the least.
In an effort to break this conspiracy of
silence, the Chicago Tribune for Feb. 14.
1973, ran a report by its Far East
correspondent who reported that: "Un
like the Americans, the Communists in
IT happens here
many cases do not look forward to their
'return' and frequently refuse to board
aircraft flying them from prison camps
in which they have lived in relative
luxury. 'We’ve had incidents every time
we’ve tried to load the planes.' said a
young American pilot We've had to
cajole them and then get South
Vietnamese soldiers to force them onto
our planes The problem is the prisoners
don't want to return.' said the pilot At
the least, they can expect thorough
reindoctrination.' said an American
source. At (he worst, they may be
severely punished for having been
captured '
This Tribune report was generally
ignored — until an incident the other day
further pierced the silence. According to
wire reports, over -IK) North Vietnamese
POW's at Bien Hoa airbase staged a
demonstration, screamed, and waved
crude banners proclaiming “We don't
want to go back." The POWs were being
shipped lo quang Tri where they would
be turned over to Communist “welcom
ing committees." This repatriation is in
full accordance with the Kissinger
"peace" agreement. "Peace" as defined
by Dr. Kissinger. Mr. Nixon, the Council
on Foreign Relations, and the, bi-partisan
toy
Hanoicrats in Congress apparently
means the absence of opposition to
Communism and the forced repatriation
of Ihousands to their death
This outrageous betrayal of Asian
non-Communist patriots and former
Communists who want to defect could
well turn oul to be another "Operation
Keelhaul ' Keelhaul, if you remember,
was the forced repatriation of millions of
Central and Eastern Europeans after
World War II. Under this operation.
Dwight Eisenhower arranged for up
wards of six million people to be turned
over to the mercy of that well-known
humanitarian Joe Stalin Some even from
the United States! Consider this report of
the Arizona Republic; “In June. 1945,
military authorities at Fort Dix, N.J.,
drugged some 200 Russian prisoners and
allowed them to be taken unconscious
aboard a Russian ship in New Jersey.
Many of the refugees committed suicide
rather than return to the brutal death
SCOTT McLARTY
If students want new directions,
abolition of SGA would be a good start.
Organizations would still he funded. This
funding would be openly by the
administration and remove the facade of
student power This
would eliminate the
secret committees
and would force the
administration to
account for their
actions instead of
blaming students
and SGA for their
changes. The admin
istration would still • *•
get student input through the school
councils already set up. But SGA would
no longer be the facade of power or the
mt»dium for corruption that it is now.
If students really wanted control of
student activities funds, they could form
a non-profit corporation exactly like the
Athletic Association. Refusal to give
funds to this corporation would be a
violation of the "equal protection" clause
of the U.S. Constitution. The Athletic
Association completely controls the
athletic fee.
New directions should include solutions
to realistic student problems. For
instance, high prices and "rip-offs"
affect every student A student book
co-op could be helpful in lowering prices,
creating jobs, and shaking the monopoly
the University has. Other student co-ops
could drastically reduce the cost of
living. That leaves more money for fun
An enterprising student or organization
could form a student Consumer Board to
"fight the ripoff." This hoard, with only
the cost of postage and telephone, could
provide a "hot line” for consumers. They
could investigate contracts, landlord
disputes, high prices and other consumer
problems. They could publish the names
of bad businesses and warn students and
consumers of shady contracts or unfair
prices. Other campuses that have done
this find it a big success, and have a
they knew awaited them. Others sank to
their knees and begged U.S. soldiers to
shoot them."
There have been few crimes in history
more brutal and extensive than the
forced repatriation of anti-Communists in
Operation Keelhaul — and all the excuses
in the world cannot absolve Dwight
Kisenhower from his guilt in the affair.
Dragging the honor of America in the
mud and convincing anti-Communists
that those who are ruling and ruining
America will not help them were the
crime objectives then.
Are we to see again the forced
repatriation of those who. if returned to
the North Vietnamese, will be lucky if
they are not butchered? While Americans
are relieved over the ending of our
manpower involvement in the Vietnam
war — and for the return of our POW
sons — can we turn our backs on the
betrayal by our government of valiant
people whose only desire is freedom”
column in the student newspaper to
answer consumer questions and expose
bad business practices.
With a little more expense, a unlit
Interest Research Group could be
formed. A Nader-endorsed organization.
PIRG is operating at colleges in 14 states
and others are being formed This
organization, voluntarily funded by
students (with a voluntary fee assess
ment of about $2 per quarter) employes
students and professionals to research
student problems, from pollution to
illegal practices by the University. It can
then obtain legal aid to prosecute law
violations. Some PIRG's employ a
lobbyist to help change laws that are
against student or consumer interests.
These organizations could be openly
given or denied funds by the administra
tion without the manipulation of student
politicos and secret committees. There is
no need for student government. There is
certainly no "government/'
My decision to withdraw from student
politics was due primarily to the overt
manipulation of student politicos and my
realization of the facade that has been
created. Another factor was a growing
realization, by myself and others, that
SGA divided students so severly that
positive action within it was impossible. I
felt then, and now, that any realistic
direction will come only after SGA is
dead, the facade is removed, and
administrators deal honestly and openly
with students. Ask someone who was in
SGA and got out. They realize the
problems, as most students do. and more
than likely have seen through the
facades.
We need some new directions. Right
now. while this University is in a crisis,
while changes are being made (rumor
has it Sims is looking elsewhere for more
"sunny" employment), is when we need
the new direction. But it requies student
unity. This is the year to do it. while the
crisis is great, while the need is so dire.
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New directions:
alternatives to SGA
offended feminists'
TO THE EDITOR:
This letter is in reference to the two
pictures entitled "To be or not to be?"
which appeared on the front page of
Wednesday's lied and Black We. as
members of WOMEN (Women’s
Oppression Must End Now), were
extremely offended by the juxtaposition
of the two pictures involved one of a
woman dressed in bridal clothes, and the
other of two members of WO M E N,
protesting the Bridal Fair at a table
where they were passing out literature.
We were also offended by the
accompanying copy which suggested that
the two women might like to change
places with the bride Such editorializing
on the front page of the paper
demonstrates an incredible lack of
journalistic ethics on the part of The Red
and Black staff. Even more offensive
than this breach of ethics is the apparent
attempt to make light of the Feminist
Movement on campus and the legitimate
protest being made at the Bridal Fair by
members of W O M E N.
The protest was made by members of
W.O.M E N. in order lo awaken Georgia
women to the current legal discrimina
tion against women in the institution of
marriage We were protesting the
attitude of American merchants who
have reduced marriage to a commercial
bargain and reinforced the prevalent
image of the wife as a dependent and
easily exploited consumer
Finally, and most importantly, our
motives for (quietly) protesting the
Bridal Fair did not arise from revulsion
at the idea of marriage itself We saw the
Fair as an opportunity to combat the
notion that a women's existence
culminates in that magic moment when
she marries the man she has "caught"
and henceforth, enters on making him
happy — thereby living merely as a
reflection of his desires and ambitions
Little wonder that her last day as a whole
person should be a glorious linale!
The Red and Black has not only
trivialized the aims of the protest by
ignoring the reasoned arguments »( the
available literature, but implied that the
Feminist Movement is dishonest and
hypocritical In light of this, we demand
an ajmlogy
JENNY KOUUY
BETH SIEGI.EK
LINDA IHAEIN
MARTHA BREWER
DOTTI I.EE
ROSEMARY SHADE
JO BROWN
Editor's note: The pictures and cutline
which appeared in the March 2H Red and
Black were nut intended In cast
aspersions on either the gnats ul the
Feminist Movement or on the indie idual
members of W.O.M.E.N. who chose to
participate in the protest of the Bridal
Kail'. We regret any offense that may
hace resulted from drawing these
conclusions frunt the feature.
Men's glee club
deserves support'
TO THE EDITOR:
Where is the Men's Glee Club going
next year? Nowhere, unless the Senate
decides to allocate the funds needed to
run this organization in a fashion fitting
such an outstanding group of young men
After the unfortunate incident concern
ing travel expenses for the club, it has
been implied lhal there will be no such
funds available next year How is this
club going to travel if you let the senate
take their well-earned money from them?
Just what does our senate think they
are toying with? This is no ordinary
group It is a highly professional
organization with the skill and finesse
that tops many of the country's recording
stars.
Music is a vital part of the American
way of life It is a form of culture that
these voung people are trying desperate
ly to keep alive Yes. they keep it alive
here on campus, bul they are also eager
lo represent our school throughout
Georgia and the surrounding states. Can
we rightfully deny them this pleasure?
Though not a member of the club
myself. I feel a responsibility to these
people to see that they can continue to
perform, particularly on tour
The fact is that with no money, there is
no place to go. and with no place to go,
this group will dwindle in in state, local,
and out-of-state prestige and importance,
they will lose their interest and pride that
have followed them for many wonderful
years in the world of music.
Let's get behind the Men's Glee Club
and support their need for money
They're a credit to you and the school, a
credit we cannot afford to lose! Please,
talk to your senators and give them your
support for our Glee Club
CHARLES M. REINMAN
Childish praise
unwarranted'
TO THE EDITOR:
I hope that in making a few comments
on Ted Kassinger's letter on March 22
("Attack on Davison Unwarranted"), I
will not be attracting attention to it that
it does not deserve. However, his childish
praise of President Davison was
unwarranted (though not surprising), and
I believe such erroneous aggrandizement
o( character should not go unchallenged
Rather than comment specifically on
each of Kassinger's distortions, it will
suffice to point out that, while it is true
that Georgia has enjoyed some of the
progress that has benefited other
campuses, it is likewise true that little of
it emanated from University administra
tors. nor was it directed by Dr Davison.
The general apathy over the housing
petitions of the last three years is another
indication that most administrators do
not share the perpetual concern voiced
by sell-styled benevolent despots such as
Sims or his brother Davison To quote
Fred davison as if he were an authority
on anything except veterinary medicine,
then or now, is absurd.
Despite Kassinger's contentions, the
record shows that Dr. Davison has
consistently defended his career and
position, even though this has sometimes
coincided with the best interests of
students That there existed an "invalid
concept" and that Davison finally
recognized it as such after a great deal of
student protest is not exactly something
to praise him for — rather he would he
guilty of gross negligence had he not
recognized that “in loco parentis” was an
"invalid concept." However, if "in loco
parentis” no longer exists, where does
the administration obtain the authority to
force students to live in dorms and Ihen
to force regulations on their lives because
they do live there. Without question Dr
Davison is the one responsible for this
policy of authority by fiat
Too, no one can deny the dynamic
defense of students by Dr Davison last
year before the legislature, which so
discredited Carl Savage For had he not
defended students, thousands of parents
might have requested that their sons and
daughters be removed from the dorms as
described by Saveage Or worse, they
might have requested an investigation of
dormitory conditions leading to a severe
case of embarrassment for those who
built and main tain the dorms
Dormitories without residents and dorms
under an investigation could lead to the
early termination of a fat position. The
list of similar such stands is very long,
and not exactly a credit to both President
Davison's character and competence
How often we hear the cry that this
University is stymied at the door of
excellence How true. It is only because
ol the spiritual parasitism exercised by
an aimless few (except to retain their
positions) that this institution is slowed in
crossing that threshold I hope the
majority of the University shares my
contempt for those few, and will continue
to seek their removal
KEN DEATON